Monday, November 22nd, 2004 | 12:58 am
Well, this week should be a little shorter… Where do the weekends go? Heather and I sit down for a few hours on the sofa and boom, it’s Sunday night.
We saw two movies this weekend, though, because we’ve been getting behind on movies we want to see. National Treasure on Friday, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Sunday night.
Nicolas Cage was his whiney self, but National Treasure was pretty well-done. Jerry Bruckheimer clains that they started working on this movie 8 years ago, and it is thus NOT a Da Vinci Code Ripoff, but I’m not convinced. It was the Dan Brown Formula, or at least the one used in Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they had the idea first, but the globe-trotting, clue-finding pace and pattern were ripped off. That said, good flick.
Bridget Jones lacked a good bit of the charm of the first, but was watchable and interesting. All in all, a good movie weekend.
We played racquetball today for the first time in a few years. I forgot how much fun the sport is. Hopefully we can play some more while we live somewhere with courts.
Thursday, November 4th, 2004 | 12:19 pm
How fun it is to play trivia at a bar and win money. Not only did you hang out with your friends, but you ate and drank, essentially, for free. If you’re good, you can go out once a week, drink all the beer and eat all the pizza you want, and pay nothing but cab fare. It’s high-risk, of course, but it’s a true meritocracy.
Last night it was Mellow Mushroom trivia, and we got lucky by playing at the actual bar, not at a table, because we were thus able to enlist the help of our trusty bartender with the four-part bonus question “Name the 4 original members of The Rolling Stones besides Mick Jagger”.
After a thrilling tiebreaker, and some additional assistance from our bartender with the category “70’s Rock and Roll”, we were victorious.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004 | 1:16 pm
I’m off in a few minutes to cast my vote. In the last few weeks, I’ve gone back and forth between Bush and Badnarik, but in the end, it will be Badnarik that I vote for. Bush has the state wrapped up anyway, but beyond that, he’s still the candidate with whom I agree on the most issues. It’s tempting to take a more utilitarian stance, or perhaps a more realistic stance, but years from now, I will be able to look back and really be happy I voted my conscience.
Hopefully, I will be in and out in an hour or two, but I don’t know how busy this place is going to be.
If anybody missed any of my latest entries (new car, old car, etc), make sure and read back. Livejournal support claims it was some kind of database overload that caused the entries not to show up on people’s friends pages.
