God bless NyQuil 🙂

Thank goodness it exists. It has given the Conrad plenty of peaceful nights of sleep when sniffly, last night being no exception. Vicks Vapo Rub just doesn’t do it for me anymore–I think I have taken on an immunity to it or something 🙁 So, if I’m going to sleep with the snifflies and other such junk, then NyQuil is my only hope.

I don’t have anything big, I think. I had a bit of a sore throat over the weekend that seems to be rapidly subsiding, along with a smattering of congestion. The two are, of course, probably hopelessly intertwined *sigh*

Sleeping with a stuffy nose still sux0rs 😛

I got another new geeky toy over the weekend; the LifeDrive. It’s pretty rocking. I put my Tungsten E on eBay. The best part of the LifeDrive is it’s Wi-Fi capability, something that the Tungsten E sorely lacked in. I synced wirelessly for the first time yesterday evening, and it went by in a flash. Of course, Wi-Fi is a huge battery hog, so I don’t see myself doing any real hardcore surfing with it. It’s a pretty nifty little thing to have in a PDA, though. I can fit all my frickin episodes of Clone Wars on this lil thing 🙂

My bro and I accompanied my dad to his first viewing of Episode III. It seemed as though he liked it; it seemed to get the job done for him in tying things up. That’s all that the movie was really all about, anyway.

I did a good bit of gaming over the weekend, though it was only over the web. I finally played a little bit of Guild Wars after a bit of a respite, as well.

My mom is making some pizza burgers this evening. They’re really awesome and cool. Basically, it’s just a hamburger with pizza sauce and mozerella; quite tasty.

I need to get going on reserving some plane tix for Colorado in a couple of weeks. I always call these things close. Next time, I swear I’m going to reserve a month ahead of time 😛

Lost an LJ friend today 🙁 Good luck to mocha_nutt; destiny has swept her elsewhere. I enjoyed reading her entries because of her masterful use of the English language, coupled with her insights into life, the universe and everything. I wish her the best of luck as does all her other friends, I’m sure.

They still haven’t found that missing Alabama teen that’s missing in Aruba :-\ I do hope they find her alive. There are too many of these stories that end tragically. It’s been a while; one can only hope.

The rains have stopped around here, replaced by forboding gray skies. I think that it’s all over for now. Nothing violent really happened, thank goodness. We may be beyond tornado season, but you never know what mean stuff that tropical weather can create.

PS2 still rocks.

My latest eBay prize 😀

It’s 88 degrees here with a heat index of 95. I do believe summer has come. Bleh. I think I’d like to take a dip in the pool again tonight. It’s definitely a good time to stay inside and not die of heat stroke. I’ll probably do my riding in the late evenings. And probably a lot of swimming 🙂 If I continue this kickboxing stuff with Ruthie, thank goodness that’s inside 😀

I got two “new” games for my PS2: Final Fantasy X and the most recent Tomb Raider (Angel of Darkness). I got quite frustrated, trying to beat Dooku in a lightsaber battle in Episode III, so I decided to expand the game library a little. I really like this PS2 thing, and I can’t believe I haven’t consistently console-gamed since the Atari 7800 🙂 Games have most certainly come a long way.

This weekend went by like the breeze that doesn’t exist right now. I blinked and it was gone *sigh* Definitely not fun, having weekends that are gone in a blink, but it was a pretty damn good one.

On Friday evening, Ruthie and I went over to friends of hers, Chris and Cheryl. They had some guy there demo-ing cookware. We all got a free meal out of the deal. Ryan Flynn was there, a guy I know from my Computer Engineering days. He’s actually going back to UAH to finish his bachelors quite soon. He’s quite the character. Fun at parties. You have to learn very quickly not to be very sensitive around him, and take pretty much everything he says with a grain of salt.

Today I am chilling with the folks, and I will be cooking chicken for all of them shortly. It’s been a while since I’ve made some, so this should defintiely be quite yummy.

It looks like it’s going to be raining all day today and into tomorrow. Typical Alabama spring, I guess. It’s not so bad, though. I plan on riding in it this afternoon, as long as no tornadoes are out to snatch me off my bike or lightning comes to fry me. One thing that riding with the guys from work has taught me is that I need to get back in shape on the bike. I’m definitely getting better, though–I can do 8 miles no sweat on paved terrain. I’m getting to the point where I can do 8 miles on the dirt/hills with no sweat, either. I still have a ways to go, though. I should never have given up biking in high school 🙂 When I can go a marathon on a bike paved or dirt with no sweat then I’ll know I’ve arrived to at the point of at least advanced n00b 🙂

This weekend was totally a very spiffy and relaxing one. I spent a good bit of time with Ruthie, saw Episode III for the 4th time with the bro, and got a PS2.

After seeing Ep III four times, I can say that I still haven’t found the Millenium Falcon in there–I saw on a forum that it was in there, in some spaceport scene, but I guess they sent everyone on a wild goose chase. hehe. It was still definitely worth seeing yet again, though.

I’m watching some movie on SciFi called Barb Wire. It has the guy who played Jango Fett and the clones in Episodes II and III. I think this is the only other thing I’ve seen him in. Pamela Anderson is the star. I think I won’t be missing much if I go to sleep after this posting. haha.

I got a PS2 today at CompUSA. The only reason I got it there was because of a free controller that came with it. I wasn’t able to eBay a deal for it, at least not one of any true significance (after shipping, and all). So, in the end, I got one the easy way. lol. I got Gran Turismo 4 and Episode III for it. Ruthie and I raced a bit tonight, and she beat me once out of about 9 times.

It’s all good, though, because she beat me at chess Saturday and tonight. I came fairly close to victory on Saturday, but she completely stomped me tonight. It was fun, though–I haven’t played a human in chess since high school.. It’s mostly been computers whooping the snot out of me. hehe.

So here I am, it’s 5am and I can’t ****ing sleep. There’s some damn redneck outside honking and carrying on because some girlfriend or something won’t come out to him. Things have been going on since at least 4am out there, if not before that, and it’s really starting to piss me off. It’s probably starting to piss off half of the damn complex, too. If he comes around again, I’ve put Madison Police Dept on speed dial. Looks like he did some damage to the car of whomever he is pissed at.

All I know is that he was in a dark color Firebird (too dark outside to tell the true color yet), and that he had really short hair (shaved). Probably not enough for a frickin conviction 😛

There goes my ****ing sleep.

Well, after the weekend, I think I’ve finally caught up on sleep I missed after the mid-week Star Wars excitement. I saw it again yesterday morning with Ruthie and a few of her kewlish friends, and it certainly did not lose any of its awesomeness the second time around. Windu’s death was, by far, the most disturbing of all of the Jedi deaths. I did get a little misty-eyed when Order 66 was carried out and so many Jedi were gunned down by the Clones.

I read an interesting article on the Injuries of Darth Vader. It looks like much of the content was updated for Ep III. It basically postulates exactly what his injuries were that made him have to don the big bad suit, and why he died at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Cubs actually gasp won against the White Sox today. They’re sure having their ups and downs this season, but so it is with every other team. They’re not the worst, but they’re not in first–typical.

I cancelled WoW Friday, in favor of Guild Wars. I get pretty much everything I get in WoW with Guild Wars, and a few friends are even playing. Right now, I’m a Level 7 Elemental/Ranger and I just got some very smashing armor. I still can’t believe it’s free to play.

I’m watching Journey to the Center of the Earth right now. It’s been years since I have seen it. They cleaned it up quite nicely for DVD. I think my favorite part, by far, is when they’re attacked by the gigantic iguanas 🙂

Well.. To expound on my last post after the viewing of what is probably the coolest movie in the saga..

The flick was frakking awesome. From beginning to end, it captured everything that I think most fans have wanted to see from the very inception of this prequel sleigh ride. There are probably some things that the huge nitpickers might find lacking in the film, but as a whole it was a very fulfilling 131 minutes.

What I liked, didn’t like (spoilers)

OMG!!!!!!!!!! 🙂