Well, ok. I don’t really have a punchline for that one 🙂 But, if anyone does, let me know. hehe.

Chillin’ at the ‘rentals, watching the Cubbies take on the Pirates. Cubbies have won 6/7 this week. They’re back up to .500, so maybe they’ll start to take off–if they don’t, then alas the season is lost. Cry in your beer.

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night, which was uberly entertaining. Johnny Depp played a very smashing Wonka, the Oompa Loompas weren’t quite as chilling as they were in the original (thank goodness), and their musical numbers were equally cheesy, though not quite as acid trippy 🙂 The end was also very awesome; definitely better than the ending of the original. I saw a trailer the for Corpse Bride, which looks like a very interesting flick–it’s almost as if Tim Burton is going back to his roots.

I also saw War of the Worlds again with my brother in the afternoon. Frickin awesome movie 🙂

It hasn’t been too hot around here this weekend. Today it’s around 84, although there’s an uber good bit of humidity–feels like 92. Hurricane Dennis didn’t leave much in the way of super nasty weather, just a lot of rain.

I went to the Huntsville Museum of Art with Ruthie and a couple of other NASA people. I literally haven’t been there in years, and I think it’s been a couple since I went to Big Spring Park. Thing’s have really changed around there. They’re starting to build like crazy. Maybe the town has finally woken up from it’s stagnant slumber (ppppppfffffttt.. yea, right)

I’ve found the Holy Grail, or at least I feel like I have. I have been tinkering with it on-and-off for years, but I have finally gotten WiFi working under Linux!! w00t!! This is just so frickin cool that it’s unbelievable. Interesting thing, though.. WPA is only supported with major config file tweaking. This isn’t so bad, I guess. It might be one of those things where I downgrade to WEP and settle with it for now *eyes WEP suspiciously* Oh, this is a major geek day, indeed.

In other news..

It’s been rather dreary in the skies around here, mainly because of Dennis. I don’t know when/if the rain will arrive here. I’m assuming the hurricane will thrust north inland and then head east. The big stuff might miss us altogether, I don’t know. I’m glad that Dennis didn’t visit the beach last week while we were there.

Cubbies are on a little winning streak after being on a 7 game losing streak. This is just going to be another flat year, I think.

Went to a little soda fountain place called Payne’s in Scottsboro yesterday. It was so cool. They make Coke there. They pour in the syrup and then pour in the seltzer. They had an awesome turkey sandwhich, too. Scottsboro, at least the downtown portion, is chillingly like a town I saw in a Twilight Zone episode–the one where William Shatner stars; his character and his wife stop off in a little cafe in a town where they end up sitting at a table where a fortune-telling napkin holder tells them what is to come. It was quite strange.

Anyhoo, off to play with Linux some more *drool*

So I saw this on w00t.com today (if you see this over the weekend, it’ll probably be gone). It looks like a very awesome & spiffy device. The only problem is that I believe it uses WEP for the Wi-Fi. I’m not going to downgrade from WPA just for this device of coolness, no matter how spiffy it is. Am I being too uber paranoid about my network security to not have this device of utter uber awesomeness? I mean, other than the WPA.. I would soooooo get it *drool*

So there are still quite a few fireworks going kablooey out there at the moment. Today was fairly overcast, and a storm even came through, but the night ended quite nice and certainly clear enough for some fireworks awesomeness. There’s nothing better than celebrating the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it 😉

I went to the beach with Ruthie and a couple of other people. It was a really nice time, although I did get a little burned–nothing major, though. I caught up on War of the Worlds, which I am still trying to finish–I’ve been reading snippets here and there, and the most I read consecutively was on the beach.

I saw 3 or 4 sharks while I was there, or at least I think they were sharks. I know that on one of them I saw vertical tail and dorsal fins, so I know for certain that I saw at least one. Needless to say that I didn’t venture any further out than up to my shins.. Even that was probably too close for comfort.

Grr. Back to work tomorrow. It won’t be so bad; good project going on, and the week is only going to be four days. w00t! 🙂

I am most definitely going to have to see War of the Worlds again this week.

I saw War of the Worlds last night with Ruthie. Now that was a frakking kewl movie 🙂

possible spoilers and stuff

Today is the release day for War of the Worlds. Normally, I wouldn’t be so excited about a Tom Cruise/Steven Speilberg movie, but this one is just going to automatically kick ass. There’ll always be a place in my movie library for that ’53 version, though, with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

Anyhoo, I believe I’m going to go see it tonight. Review to follow 🙂

So there I was, just chillin out, dreaming.. When I had the oddest dream. I was actually in War of the Worlds. It was certainly a very odd dream; the only detail I remember of it is that I saw the “cylinders” that crash on Earth–I don’t know if the cylinders really exist in the movie or not, but they were in the dream. After that, the only thing I really remember is a lot of running. The movie comes out Wednesday. w00t!

This weekend was a pretty groovy one. I chilled for most of it. Ruthie and I got a bit further in Tomb Raider–it’s pretty awesome, playing that game again. The PS2 version of it certainly does the original PC games justice.

Cubbies are taking on the Sox today. The Sox are really suckin’ it, thank goodness. I knew the Cubbies would have their come-uppance sooner or later 😀

Oh, and I watched a lot of DS9. I’m finally into 7th season. I just watched the episode where Nog has to deal with losing his leg in the previous Jem’Hadar episode. He chills on the holodeck with Vic Fontaine for a little while, feeling sorry for himself.. And then he eventually comes to terms with things and all is right with the galaxy, once again. Overall, it was a nice episode. I don’t think I’ve seen it since the first time it aired.

I’m pretty much over the tonsillitis and ear infection, although I have a bit of a trace cough and my ear is still plugged up. The cough is kind of annoying because the only thing that triggers it is a little tickle in my throat–I never actually cough anything up. Very annoying.

I have the sudden urge to go read some War of the Worlds. I think I shall indulge that urge 🙂

Still a wee bit sick, but certainly better. I don’t really have a sore throat anymore, although it does get a little raw with all of the coughing I’m doing. It has gotten to the point where I really don’t cough anything up, but the cough is just a reflex reaction to a tickle in my throat. The ear infection may have spread to the other ear, but there hasn’t been any pain with all of the pain killer that I’ve been on. I definitely have diminished hearing, which kind of sucks majorly–especially since I don’t know when I’ll get it back. Kind of scary :\ I’m headed back to work tomorrow, though, ready to troop through what I think is the last bit of this.

Batman begins is one awesome flick.

So, I’ve been a bit under the weather for the past few days. It finally all came to a head yesterday afternoon. My ears were starting to plug up sometime just after lunch. I didn’t really think about it much at the time. I popped my jaw a few times, trying to clear it out. All it did was get worse. I started feeling pressure around the end of work yesterday. Still, I didn’t think all that much about it.

After getting home, the pressure was starting to get a good bit stronger. I was starting to get a bit worried about it. My doctor’s office was closed by that time, so I needed to find a medical clinic of some kind. I found one that was covered by my insurance and started out on a pretty agonizing journey.

As I proceeded down Hughes and Wal-Triana (two arteries of road in Madison), the pressure started turning into pain. The pain escallated quickly in-transit and by the time I got to the medical clinic, my left ear was literally burning. I was also suffering from a good bit of diminished hearing–maybe about half.

After signing in and waiting for a little while in the waiting room, I finally got my blood pressure & temperature taken and was given a room. The pain was getting worse and worse, and it got so bad that I paced around over and over. I felt a bit like a caged animal. My throat had been hurting the past couple of days, so I was being hit by a double whammy of pain (with a pretty vicious cough to go with it). It was getting truly unbearable.

Finally, after about 45 minutes to an hour, the doctor came in. He asked about my symptoms, checked out my throat and ears, and came to the conclusion that I had tonsilitis and an ear infection.

I haven’t had an ear infection since I was 11, and that was pure torture. Not only did I have it in both ears, but I was also relatively deaf for about 3-4 months. This time, it’s a bit better because it’s only in one ear, but I still have some deafness in that ear. It’s strange because it makes things sound like I’m either underwater or that the Borg are speaking to me on the TV.

I’m a good bit dizzy, perhaps because of the combination of medication and the ear infection. Taking today off of work and maybe tomorrow, depending on how I feel.

This sucks. I haven’t been sick in a long time :-\

I still think Michael Jackson is a weirdo 😛