Month: October 2007

I’m going to start this off by admitting that I don’t particularly like flying.  I don’t mind big airplanes so much, but the little commuter flights are murder on my nerves.  Yes, I know how safe it is and it’s certainly the most convenient way to get from one place to another, but all that being said I’d rather take the train.

However, I have four days to go, be in Chicago, and come home.  This precludes the train as the trip there by rail is a two day odyssey that involves a half-day layover in Washington, DC.  So I’m flying.

Otherwise, I like travelling for work.  It’s a chance to do something different, stay in a hotel for a few nights, and see a new part of the country.  I’ve only been to Chicago once and that was just a quick stop on the way to the airport.  I think we went to a Bennihanas, but don’t quote me on that.  I’m taking my laptop this time around.  I’d like to have it for the work I’ll be doing and also to provide a distraction on the flight.  So I feel like a REAL business traveler.

Anyway, I guess this is my opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Halloween and I’ll see y’all when I get back.   (If for some morbid reason that doesn’t happen, be kind to Tom.)

We had a great time watching Hot Fuzz (this year’s cop movie by the Shaun of the Dead folks).  It is a hilariously derivative send up of the action movie genre with a killer British cast.  If you’re a fan of action thrillers or comedies, get it and watch it.  A slight caution, they do not hold back on the gore factor.  Granted it’s not NEARLY as bloody as Shaun, but be warned, there are some scenes not for the squeamish.

 And it has finally happened.  Tiernen has been working so many nights that we are now on completely opposite schedules.  I realized this last night when I crashed while we were playing WoW together around 8 PM.   I was so tired from staying up over the past few weeks that I was falling asleep at the computer.  So I went to bed and he stayed up all night being quiet (poor boy).  This morning when I woke up (and remember that I am NOT a moring person) he was all bright-eyed and bushy tailed and offering me toast.  Thankfully, I’m at work all day so he can sleep in and we can spend part of the evening together.  The weekends are the trickiest part as neither of us wants to interrupt the other person’s sleep, so we wind up being rather lazy the whole time.

Oh well, this too shall pass.

Another terrible crossover idea.

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I have been going through a big music phase lately.  I’m attributing it largely to spending a lot of my commuting time mentally composing fanfiction.  I have been bitten by that particular bug and bitten hard.  So, I am pulling all of the tapes off of the shelf and listening to them until I get tired of that particular tape.  In doing so, I realize that my musical taste stalled out around 1996, shortly after I got out of college.  I like some newer songs, but other than new albums by established bands that I already liked and some soundtrack/compilation albums, I don’t have much new music.  Granted, part of this is because I am listening to tapes, as my car CD player died a year or two ago and nothing new is coming out on tape, but still it’s some kind of comment on how I’m aging, right?

In any case, I’m starting to run out of music.  I’m even considering getting an MP3 player (I already have a tape adaptor) to allow me to get music from the computer and play it in the car, but that’s all old music too.  What to do?