Double-stuffed post, now with sprinkles.
Well, it’s been more than a week since I wrote my last update, imagine that. But it’s not quite a week since I last posted one, so if this goes up the same day I’m typing it, we should be on track a bit. It’s Sunday and I’ve drawn the short straw at work and am stuck working. I got a call yesterday at about 10:58 am(I know this because my 11am alarm went off while I was on the phone still) from our typical Sunday guy, asking if I could switch Saturday and Sunday with him for the next 3 weeks…mind you this is 2 hours before I’m due in on said first Saturday of this "deal." He has some kind of pre-marriage, Catholic classes that are hard to arrange, so he had no warning…*shrugs*
Sundays aren’t necessarily awful here, but it’s usually dead most of the time, a few regulars that cause us to stay open on Sundays but that’s about it. So Sunday for me is laptop day! I use my laptop all the time at home, it’s basically a second desktop for me, so I never mover it much. When buying it, I went for power over compact design on that sliding scale of cost/features, so I can’t just grab it and carry it around as well as some of them out there. Sundays are typically a very good day for the laptop because of the spare time I have available to use it, as is depicted in this very blog topic.
If I had net access at work, I would probably bring the laptop almost every day, so without that I’m mostly looking at a DVD and game machine. And I guess blog machine, much quicker than my pda. Half the plaza closes on Sunday also, so it feels very much like a holiday, with little foot traffic and a near-empty parking lot. So planning ahead for a Sunday shift includes picking the distraction that I’m in the mood for. I know that the TV season is just about to start, so I’ve copied some ancient relics from my tivo to watch and free up some space for the new stuff coming up, this season has a lot of potential keepers for me.
Overnight I transferred over 4 movies I’d tivoed over the past year or so but never got around to watching. First one I think I got was Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson, guy who did the Lord of the Rings movies(and the underrated King Kong and The Frighteners.) I know nearly nothing about this movie, but heard decent things… Next up was City of God, a Brazilian movie I believe, that I heard was an awesome guy movie, so we’ll see there also. Thirdly we have Collateral, the Tom Cruise and Jaime Fox movie. I like 2 of Michael Mann’s other movies, Heat(amazing movie) and The Insider(surprisingly good) but haven’t liked some of his others, and when this one came out I just never got up enough enthusiasm to sit down and watch it, so maybe today… Last one was recommended by a friend, a remake of an old movie, Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman. Supposed to be some good action.
Update on getting home: Watched Heavenly Creatures and Collateral today. I liked Collateral and it was pretty much what I was expecting, just not sure I'd ever sit down to watch it again. Heavenly Creatures...what an odd movie, apparently based on a true story. I thought it was interesting, but too fantastical for a movie like that to me. Needed more nudity an lesbian scenes, too... It's funny how Peter Jackson feels the need to have a cameo in all of his movies, but at least he's not writing himself in with dialog like M Night S...omething.
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Sundays aren’t necessarily awful here, but it’s usually dead most of the time, a few regulars that cause us to stay open on Sundays but that’s about it. So Sunday for me is laptop day! I use my laptop all the time at home, it’s basically a second desktop for me, so I never mover it much. When buying it, I went for power over compact design on that sliding scale of cost/features, so I can’t just grab it and carry it around as well as some of them out there. Sundays are typically a very good day for the laptop because of the spare time I have available to use it, as is depicted in this very blog topic.
If I had net access at work, I would probably bring the laptop almost every day, so without that I’m mostly looking at a DVD and game machine. And I guess blog machine, much quicker than my pda. Half the plaza closes on Sunday also, so it feels very much like a holiday, with little foot traffic and a near-empty parking lot. So planning ahead for a Sunday shift includes picking the distraction that I’m in the mood for. I know that the TV season is just about to start, so I’ve copied some ancient relics from my tivo to watch and free up some space for the new stuff coming up, this season has a lot of potential keepers for me.
Overnight I transferred over 4 movies I’d tivoed over the past year or so but never got around to watching. First one I think I got was Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson, guy who did the Lord of the Rings movies(and the underrated King Kong and The Frighteners.) I know nearly nothing about this movie, but heard decent things… Next up was City of God, a Brazilian movie I believe, that I heard was an awesome guy movie, so we’ll see there also. Thirdly we have Collateral, the Tom Cruise and Jaime Fox movie. I like 2 of Michael Mann’s other movies, Heat(amazing movie) and The Insider(surprisingly good) but haven’t liked some of his others, and when this one came out I just never got up enough enthusiasm to sit down and watch it, so maybe today… Last one was recommended by a friend, a remake of an old movie, Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman. Supposed to be some good action.
Update on getting home: Watched Heavenly Creatures and Collateral today. I liked Collateral and it was pretty much what I was expecting, just not sure I'd ever sit down to watch it again. Heavenly Creatures...what an odd movie, apparently based on a true story. I thought it was interesting, but too fantastical for a movie like that to me. Needed more nudity an lesbian scenes, too... It's funny how Peter Jackson feels the need to have a cameo in all of his movies, but at least he's not writing himself in with dialog like M Night S...omething.
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