Thanks for all the congrats and well wishing regarding my new job. Sadly, there hasn't been anything notable to report on that front in the past week. Yes, I need to get going on finding an apartment. I'm working on that. If you have suggestions, feel free.
We are moving into the final stages of party planning. Which is good, considering it's in eight days! Hopefully everything will go off well. There's so little that actually will require us doing anything beyond this point that I'm sure it will. I hope everyone has made their hotel reservations at this point... I think I need to release the rest of the rooms soon.
Other things that have happened in the past two weeks or so:
- We saw X-Men 3. I was whelmed. (Neither over nor under.) Effects were cool, action was fun, plot was decent, dialogue was terrible. The most interesting thing about it was the reference to the somewhat infamous X-Men cartoon dub (NSFW). I honestly can't believe they did this. I think it's the first time I've ever seen a bit of True Internet Weirdness™ referenced in an "inside joke" fashion in the mass media.
- Also saw The DaVinci Code. *shrug* I'd venture to say it was better than X-Men, but thats not saying much. I'm guessing that Cars will be the first movie I see this summer that I will really like.
- Mari's new beau Tony hosted a Memorial Day thingie at his place. We grilled chili dogs (the aforementioned kind), sat around a bonfire and talked about Doctor Who. Or at least, other people besides me talked about Doctor Who.
- The Minnesota Twins... sigh. What more is there to say? If they can get their pitching rotation in some semblence of order, things might look up. Joe Mauer has been quite the stud recently, though.
- I have finished reading all the currently published Wheel of Time books. Dear Lord, that took a long time. Yes, I think I can read anything now. To prove this, I have started reading Atlas Shrugged again. Hopefully I will finish it this time.
- My home computer now sports a new hard drive partition and a nifty Linux distribution called Ubuntu. And all this was done without completely destroying Windows XP. I'm fairly impressed with myself. I haven't had a lot of time to play around with the new operating system as of yet. But I like what I see so far.
- We have been rollerblading a fair amount. Unfortunately, we were thrown off course this week by a Village Deli ultimate frisbee game on Monday which left both of us exhausted and me with a gimpy heel. Hopefully that will improve soon.
That is all for now. I'm going to try to post more often -- I seem to have gotten out of the habit again. So, off to find more TIW™!