So Moe's Southwest Kitchen....or whatever...is like Chipotle, except quirky, and a little more expensive, and not satisfying.

Early tomorrow I fly back to the homeland for Thanksgiving, then I'll be back here in DC working a job I'm glad I don't do all the time.  Tedious stuff.

Review: Zombieland, UP, The Proposal

ZombieLand
Hilarious.  Vulgar and crass, but hilarious.  Dave and I laughed throughout the movie.  His comment remains true: vampire movies are for girls, zombie movies are for guys.  Recommend it for non-children.

UP
Mix a kids movie with a chick flick and computer animation, and you get this.  Amusing, a few funny parts, but other than how depressing it is, relatively unremarkable.  Recommend it if you like kids movies that don't necessarily have to be funny (Incredibles was a kids movie but was hilarious), safe to pass by.

The Proposal
Fairly funny.  I guess it's a romantic comedy?  Much more focused on the comedy though.  Take it or leave it, good if you're bored, don't choose it over something productive.

Headcase: Unplugged

Lots to talk about.

After a few weeks of building frustration with my xbox: lagging online gameplay (confirmed via MW kill cam, and that when I was host I annihilated in a FFA game), 5 minute sign-ins (should take about 20 seconds), lack of playing with friends (everyone has different games) and an overall disatifaction with video games, I finally lost my temper and crushed my xbox.  Completely destroyed it.  I'm more annoyed that I lost my temper than I am about the xbox, I had been considering selling it.  Anyway, so now I'm w/o xbox and don't plan on getting a new one soon.  I put my games up for sell and most of them are sold already, at reasonable prices.  Now I have a TV w/ no reception sitting in a corner.  I also called and cancelled my internets, so I'll be chilling in the HyVee with my lappy to stalk facebook.

I haven't gotten bored yet while w/o xbox, so, as I said, I don't really miss it yet.  I spend slightly more time at the Y, and get movies from Red Box and play them on this laptop (review post inc).  I also cooked an actual dinner: fried zuchinni, tomato, and garlic (good).

In other news, one morning I tried going to the Y before work.  It was fine, came home and decided to make an omlette before work.  I pulled the garbage over for the shells, cracked an egg, put it in the fry pan and threw away shell.  Cracked another egg, threw the egg away, and.....frick.  So I had a three egg omlette instead of four.

In other news, this morning another guy at work and I were called in by our boss(es) and were told we'd be heading to DC to help straighten out our pig, money-losing division.  We fly out early this Sunday, fly back Wed (me to Minneapolis, him back to Omaha), return to DC (fly to Baltimore) early Sunday after Thanksgiving, then return Friday 12/4 (me to Omaha, him to a trip to...Atlanta?).  Yeah, so today we booked flights short-notice around a holiday, when we only are together for 1 of the 4 flights, but had to get similar times to share a rental car.  Exciting stuff.  I have to pack for two weeks basically, since I won't be back to my apt for the whole time.

Uhh, that's pretty much it for now, at least all I can think of.  Peace out.

Heartburn

YMCA and xbox after work everyday is getting boring.  I have mild heartburn a lot.  My diet has changed so much since I'm the only one buying food.  I don't eat all that often, and I drink like 4 cups of coffee everyday at work (hey, it's free).  I'm hoping my neck stops bothering me too.
Bleh, all complaints aside, things are still good.  Got Modern Warfare 2 for xbox, it's fun but nothing too exciting.  They tried hard to do things in the story that you wouldn't expect, and they did so, but in doing so they make some things kind of stupid, and by the end you can easily predict what will happen by guessing what what they think is unexpected.
That's about it for now.  Month end stuff is pretty much done at work.  Still learning everything.
And that's about it.  See ya later.

Y?

I stopped going to the YMCA right after work.  It's always too crowded then, and I don't like walking around people, waiting for machines, etc.  Plus the concept of rotation is completely beyond these people.  I always rotate about three different lifts until I'm done with them, then move on to three more.  These people are completely oblivious to the concept, or the fact that me leaving a rag and spray right next to the machine means I'm coming back, since they've seen me moving to and from it a few times already.
So now I go later in the evening.  Last night was great, as there were no little kids and there were about five different moderately good looking girls there.  Nice bonus, considering they tended to not be in my way.
Today at work the crew was going to get "gourmet burgers" at one of the local restaurants for lunch. I asked if that's an every Wednesday, weekly thing. Today is Thursday.  Even with work, I still don't pay attention to days.  I don't remember Tuesday at all.
Payday tomorrow.  It may go entirely to credit cards.

Filler

Two days in a row I got caught behind this old guy with about two miles to get home.  He was going under 40mph.  Yesterday he was in a new car (bought from Deter), today an old truck.  Seriously dude, stop going 40 on the highway.

In other news, work is good.  The end.

Oh wait, went up to the homeland this weekend, which was fun.  Acquired various goods and clothes that were left behind.  Still no bed, and the TV I brought down blew up when I plugged it in.

The end.

Hellboy I and Hellboy II, Observe and Report

Skip Hellboy I.  It's got ok FX but very little amusement factor.  It's also very predictable and has no real excitment.  Just overall a feeling of blah.  Hellboy gets smacked around, the girl can explode, and Hellboy doesn't get hurt and eventually wins.  Yay.

Hellboy II, however, is good.  The best part is that you don't need to see the first one to see the second (I watched the first one just in case).  I'm not spoiling anything by saying that in the first one: the girl doesn't like being different, she and Hellboy have issues and makes their relationship have issues, Abe is a super-smart freak with psychic abilities, and Hellboy's father (the man who raised him) dies in the first movie.  None of this spoils the first movie even, so there's no point in watching it.  H2 has better action, better FX, better plot, and you actually are interested in the characters this time.  Booya.

Observe and Report
Disappointing movie, not funny.  The only good parts are the right-hand-man  with the lisp, and also the fact that the nice-girl character is ridiculously pretty (though in movies like this you know her role as soon as you see her, since they hide her hair and try to make her look average).  Other than that....meh.  It's also got constant foul language (but it's not funny, like Southpark) and more nudity than you care for.  And not the good nudity.  The fat naked man nudity.  Meh.

REVIVAL

Well, I've decided that Facebook just doesn't cut it, and email is oddly outdated for personal contact.  So I'm bringing back the blog.

Well, I'm in Atlantic Iowa now in a HyVee store for free wireless.  Should have internet at my apartment on Thursday.  I am now a corporate staff accountant for MV Transportation.  I'm between Omaha and Des Moines, which is neat.  Saturday nights in Des Moines will consist of watching amatuer hockey with Paul S (Cathy's husband).  Good times.

I have mixed emotions about getting internet.  As of today I have a YMCA membership, and w/o internet I'm kind of a gym rat, which is cool.  It'll be cool to be able to chill with Ben and Derek again though.  We'll see how things pan out.

I have a 07 Dodge Caliber, a small apartment, car insurance (I never put much importance on that before), an air mattress, and furnishings and a TV from a thrift store.  Good stuff really.  And Dave, I bought three stackable shelf/containers from WalMart.  For $36 (I didn't get the cheap ones) I now have more dresser/clothes space than I've had in...well...well crap, more than I've ever had.

I forgot what else I was going to write about, and I was all excited about it too.  Anyway, please comment, and take care.  I'll be in WI/MN this upcoming weekend.

Beauty and Strength

I first had this thought probably 5 months ago, and refined it some in my own mine while considering the nature of beauty.  I'm too tired and not nearly motivated to actually explain it, but maybe by proposing the idea you can figure it out on your own.  Let me know if you agree or not.

So here it is:  the gender equivalent of a woman's beauty is a man's strength.

Quote of the Day

By me, after Biology when I skipped the previous two class days, "I was wondering why I wasn't all that lost." Turns out class was cancelled one of the days.

Today I discovered that I have about $150 of rewards built up on my credit card's Thank-You Network account. Booya, xbox games for me. After 40 minutes of comparing and calculating, I discovered the most I can squeeze out of them ($150's worth) is by getting gift certificates, which I will then spend on games.

I also discovered I'm screwed for that half marathon in like three weeks. Treadmills suck hardcore. Running "3.5 miles" on a treadmill has my ankles sore for the next two days, but running it before on a track wasn't bad. Huh.

SC weekend is, like, really soon. As are spring holy days. Cleaning should be easy this year, as I only have one room. Booya for being homeless.

Thinking Tobago for the FoT. Who's coming with?