Oh how I can't…

Oh how I can’t wait until Star Wars Episode II. And with reviews as positive as these, it’s not helping to pass the time:

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/jerseygirl/movieinfo/story?item_id=718431
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/sneak/clones.html
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=11796

In almost every review I’ve read, the writer says that this movie will be as good or better than The Empire Strikes Back (thought by many, including myself, to be the best SW movie). That’s quite a lot to say about this new one and I hope it’s all true. I just wish it’s true hype and not false hope. Either way, I can’t wait.

What a nice day…

Well, yesterday (I say yesterday because it’s past midnight now) started out to be the normal boring Saturday for me, but ended up being kind of… well… nice.

I got up around 11am which is way so late for me and took care of a couple things around town before going to my parent’s house. I was planning on watching the NASCAR race there at 4pm but it was rain delayed for at least a couple of hours, so I decided to head on over to Best Buy. It’s so hard for me not to spend money in that place and I ended up buying Bandits on DVD, Star Wars Racer Revenge on PS2, and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds on PC. Ok, so here’s where the nice part starts.

While in the check-out line waiting to put down my hard earned cash (Who am I kidding? I sleep at work.), this girl standing in front of me begins to talk to me about Star Wars and the games I’m buying. Turns out she’s a big Star Wars fan AND she loves video games. Obviously, I’m automatically attracted towards her. Oh but it get’s better. We talk a bit more outside of the store and come to find out that she’s going to the car show tonight at Fudruckers (a local burger place that attracts the white trash like myself) because she loves cars. Interesting. At this point I’m thinking “screw watching the race” and I tell her I’ll meet her there later. So the day goes on. I head back to my parent’s place for a couple more hours before heading back out to the car show. We meet up about a half hour after I’m there and start to bullsh*t back and forth. We talk careers for a split second. I tell her mine and she tells me her. Turns out she’s a digital artist for some design firm in Burbank.

“Ok, let’s lay this out,” I’m thinking to myself. She likes Star Wars, video games, cars, AND she’s a computer geek. It’s like God said, “Hmm, I’m going to make you something nice today Richie.” None of my ex-girlfriends had these interests or traits. It was usually a chore for them to deal with it anytime that stuff came up with me, but this girl would actually enjoy hearing about it?! On top of that, we made plans to talk soon and maybe see each other next week. I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking she’s on crack for wanting to see me again or maybe just imaginary all together. How weird must that have look with me talking to myself in a crowd of people?

Thanks for a great season…

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Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Kings’ season ended tonight in game 7 of the first playoff round against defending Stanley Cup champions, the Colorado Avalanche. It was an awesome series to finish off a very decent regular season and I can’t wait until they’re back again next October. The good news is that the Colorado Avs are an awesome team and I wish them the best of luck on their way to a back-to-back championship. Detroit sucks my ass!

Alright, I set…

Alright, I set it up so you can comment on anything I post. I hope I don’t regret that. If I start getting a bunch of useless nonsense instead of constructive responses, then I’ll turn the comments off all together. Please click on the “comment” text at the bottom of each post to add your thoughts.

Have I told you how cool Radio is? I’m still doing the trial and have 27 more days before I decide to buy or not, but I can’t see myself not putting down the money for it. Even though a lot of it is over my head right now, I can still see it’s quite impressive. Just set up a couple categories that all point to different ftp servers with no trouble at all and I started working on the design. There’s a lot of XML involved (which is something I know nothing about) so it’s a bit of a learning curve, but the more I mess with it, the more I understand.

Oh man, I can’t believe I’m still up. All I’ve been doing since I got home from work Friday is tinker around with Radio. I even turned down sex the other night (with someone other than myself) to play with this. Thanx UserLand for destroying even the tiny bit of social life I once had. It seems well worth it.

Dale Earnhardt Day Announced

April 29th has officially become Dale Earnhardt Day in Alabama. If you don’t know yet, I’m a big NASCAR fan and an even bigger Earnhardt fan. I mean this was one of my biggest role models growing up. He was the FIRST larger-than-life character I can remember looking up to. I practically grew up with him every Sunday morning. A true hero and champion on and off the track and now given an honor very well deserved. I’m sure you’re going to hear me rant and rave more about him this Monday and I’m looking forward to writing about it.

Quote of the Day

It’s one of my friend’s last day at work. Pretty sad stuff. Because it’s his last day and we’re all gonna miss him, today’s Quote of the Day is dedicated to him. He’s not the brightest crayon in the bunch and that will be very obvious very soon:

“Is that a dog?” – Tusong pointing, “Naw, it’s a kid!” – Alex