The Lost Realm

My New Year’s Resolution: 1680×1050.

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That joke still isn’t funny, is it?

It all started when I asked for a Bumblebee. Carolyn answered on behalf of the universe, and Bumblebee appeared:

After that, Talk Like a Pirate Day brought about the world’s first pirate herb garden, containing a pirate ship lovingly hand-crafted from balsa wood:

After the pirate ship, Carolyn secretly worked on yet another balsa project. Then, just before Christmas (because she couldn’t wait), I was given a small package that contained this:

I shall never, ever, ever incinerate you, my weighted companion cube

Last night Carolyn and I were child free. This is a fairly rare event, so we decided to go see a movie with the free tickets we had. We planned everything nicely, and went out to see Beowulf in 3D. At least, that was the original intent of the evening.

Traffic was terrible as I left work, and the 30-40 minute drive took about an hour and a half. This of course meant some bad news: we were too late to have dinner before the movie. Watching a movie on a critically empty stomach can make it a less than enjoyable experience, but this didn’t turn out to be the case. Because we didn’t see the movie. At all.

Hoyts, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that because Beowulf is a “special 3D movie”, it will cost $2 extra per ticket. This means that they won’t take “movie cash” or “free tickets” of any kind. Not even with an additional $2 in cash. Apparently it’s all just far too hard for them. Math is difficult, and we have to remember that if these people were good at math, they probably wouldn’t be employed sweeping up stale popcorn and plucking gum from under seats. It was a hopeless cause.

Given the current state of our Christmas-induced over-spending, we decided to skip the movie, grab a pizza, and watch a DVD at home. This was an excellent plan. Until we found that the pizza place we like was closed for Christmas. And we remembered that our DVD player is broken. Two and a half hours after leaving work, we’re standing in the rain, hungry and with no plans.

The evening ended up being a random drive to find a new pizza place, a wander through the nearby IGA supermarket while we waited (how romantic), and then an evening of pizza gobbling while watching TV at home until we fell asleep.

So, in summary, Beowulf 3D is possibly a great movie. Or not. At least the new pizza place was good.

I’m going to give Beowulf 3D: nullity / 5 stars

When exactly did I stop being “that guy who never updates his blog” and become “that guy who doesn’t blog”?

So it seems that the Universe listens. Well, at least Carolyn listens (on behalf of the Universe).

I am now the very proud owner of Bumblebee. He’s a lot smaller than he seemed in the movie (8cm or so) so I still had to drive my old car to work today, but he’s here, making sure I keep out of trouble.

Blogging; I think I need to do it more often to call this a blog.

I seem to rarely use this computer thing outside of work. I spend all day exhausting myself, excreting partial solutions to often meaningless problems until my brain hurts. After that, who wants to use a computer? I just want to curl up on the couch and pretend I don’t need to think about things.

Loud music seems to help. It blares at me, screaming someone else’s lyrical thoughts over the top of my own. Hail in the name of Rock and Roll! Don’t worry about the heavy traffic on the drive to and from work! You’re my main course at the chainsaw buffet. Resist the temptation to slam your car into that guy who just cut you off! I’m the Blood Red Sandman coming home. Pull in to the car park, and it’s time to turn a computer on! Yay!

That doesn’t sound very healthy, does it?

It’s time to start some projects that are worthwhile. It’s time to learn some new things, and do something fun with a computer for a change. XNA and C#, here I come.