Rolls Royce sells more cars in 2011 than any other time in their HISTORY.
Need more proof that the top is getting further separated from the rest of us? Yes they introduced a new car in their lineup, at a lower price point... a *paltry* $250,000... instead of the $350,000 Phantom. What really irks me tho, is the battle between Democrats vs Republicans... like one is completely without fault and its all solely the result of the others politics. I know I vote for a lot of alternate party members when I vote. I'm tired of the two party system, its not productive, an hasn't been for much longer than I've been alive.
But, in the end... I don't even think a 3 or 4 party system would fix anything... until the money in politics is fixed. Corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Until then... The Zombie Apocalypse is just a matter of when, not if.
In some other universe... I think I'm a Civil Engineer. As its always interested me from when I was little and building my Cities out of Legos. However, One thing that really annoys me is road construction, and my belief that they always do it wrong. It stands to reason that the largest costs in the roads built by cities is in labor... and equipment, not necessarily in supplies for the common 3" asphalt road I see built. But, when the city (or state for that matter) pushes for a longer lasting road... why is it they do it in Cement? If you couldn't tell... I'm kind of a car nut... and as one... I love driving. (In yet another universe... I'm a car racer... and a fourth... i'm racing motorcycles...) Anyway... driving on tarmac/asphalt is much more pleasing of a surface, however I feel its got a bad rap because of these ill conceived 3" thick roads. If you were to make an asphalt road as thick with as much preparation under the road as what they put into cement roads around here... I believe they would get just as much life out of them for a third the cost. Granted... I'm pulling numbers out of my ass... but the Germans build the Autobauhn out of asphalt, but they're doing 12" of asphalt. And they have less maintanance! Anyway... thats been my opinion for years... and its irritating... because of the afore mentioned percevied bias of the only lasting road being cement... just isn't true.... least not for the lower traffic city roads... I think they could double the thickness and see tripple the life expectancy of it. But I know its all comes down to the money now... not what the future will bring. I know both political parties at the moment can't seem to guide the country out of that idiotic mindset... we're like a bunch of 2 year olds... need everything now... to hell with what will come later....
Its been a while since I've written anything... not sure why really... I've been feeling quite overwhelmed lately with work and home life... so I don't think I've had much time to work on anything cool.
I should have some puppet examples soon... as when I do get a little down time at work I've been working on setting that up for a cloud environment I've been maintaining. I also need to get some monitoring figured out for windows... why did microsoft change the WMI queries between their 32bit and 64bit OS? I mean... aside from having to do the obvious and change win32 to win64... why would they make it more difficult than that? or... better yet... why did they include the bit number at all? The move from 32 to 64 bit was inevitable... just like the eventual move to 128? or whatever will come next... so... why make your API's immediately dated by including something like that...
I saw this question on one of my favourite websites, jalopnik. Since I haven't posted anything here in a while... and really need to post something non-political.. because I'm going nuts... I thought this would be a good topic... and here's what I've got. In my 11 years of driving... and 9? years of actually owning my own cars.. I'm apparently more of the type that hangs on to them... Since the Motorcycles were concurrent... and so was the Maxima and Civic.
* 91 Nissan Maxima SE * 96 Honda CBR600F3 (Motorcycle) * 98 Honda Civic EX * 06 Honda CBR600RR (Motorcycle) * 08 Subaru WRX 5 Door
However, if we add in the cars bought with my wife, I would add in: * 98 Honda Accord EX V6 * 08 Mazda 3s 5 Door * 08 Subaru Tribeca Limited
And... then you'd notice I have an affinity for both Honda's and model years ending in 8....
I could recite it... and I have over the years I've had this blog... but... straight from a well spoken individual that was raised in just such the situation. I don't care what the "bible" says about it. We aren't talking about the bible here... we're talking about real life... in a country founded on the ideas of religious freedom, which says that any one "religion" should not have any say on the matter.
So, I was doing my usual reading of my news sites and came across an article entitled: Study: Conservatives have larger Fear Center in brain. Which struck me as kinda odd. From the article, they do point out that while the scans of the brain were done on adults, it does not say its causative. Ie: its not saying that the people studied were born with the larger fear center or if it was developed over time. Which was actually the thought I had after reading the first paragraph.
Because the narrative I see when watching Fox News (which... I know... my banner says to turn it off... but I do occasionally stop and watch... tho... if anyone asks... I deny it.) is typically that of fear, fear of the unknown, fear of whats different, fear of what could be. You want me to get into everything you should be afraid of... just ask me some time... theres a lot, and I know of them... However I've chosen not to let the fear run my life, I have also accepted that nothing in this life is safe, and that there are things in this life, more important than "temporary safety".
In my day job... seeing the big picture is a requirement, and seeing how little decisions along the way can put an entire company at risk from various little exceptions to policies. Since this is not an IT exclusive, the same holds true for lots of different areas of life, and one civil liberty after another is whittled away under the "threat" of terrorism by the Conservatives, yet the same crowd is up and ready to take up arms it seems over the richest 1% paying 3.something % more in taxes? really? They're fine with the government spying on *US* illegally... instantly being treated as a terrorist when traveling and all other manor of civil-liberties being taken, but when something that doesn't even affect them and has nothing to do with their "security", thats abhorrently wrong and unamerican.
It just seems like a huge disconnect with whats real. The remote possibility of danger seems to trump all in the minds of conservatives, and Fox News media bias. And with a study saying that their fear center is overly developed in the brain... seems to make sense of the otherwise sheer lunacy that befuddles me.
If you didn't know already... I'm a huge fan of Cars. Love 'em, or hate... depending on the car. With my recent trips out to MillerMotorsports Park, to watch World SBK and do a little Kart Racing. I find myself thinking about it a lot more than I ever used to. Before I never did any of it, because of the cost... Now, being older... and thinking that Kart Racing gets me most of the thrill, or all of it, if you take the kart size ratio into account. I could do that... Kart Racing is relatively cheap... but I really need to loose some weight... However... regardless of how fun Kart Racing is (and I really mean it is). Its still not "Car" racing. I would love to take my motorcycle out on the track, but I'm also weary of wrecking on it...
Enter Skip Barber Racing School. Their Open Wheel Racing school would be completely amazing. I would love to take a mini F1, or big Go Kart, out on a track and have some instructions on how to do it all right.... One day.... One day...
In case you haven't heard... My wife and I are having our first child. I haven't written about it before, not because I'm ashamed or anything. But its more about me not wanting to really share a lot of my private life on the internet for all to see. I'm actually really excited to see my baby girl. Its been a long time coming and up until 9 months ago, I didn't really know how I felt about it. But, Now... I'm honestly really, really excited, and I can't wait till December, I've been looking forward to it all summer!
I'm not sure what it is over the last couple months... but lately I don't really feel into my job. Not sure if its a result of them constantly ignoring what I say or what... All I know is that I normally would have been able to digest something I really wanted to learn, but I find myself unable to concentrate on django, and well anything else I want to learn.
I'm not really sure if its because of work or school... and to be honest... either could be doing it. As I feel that both are ridiculous and neither really feel like they would reward creativity.
Why is it that school (especially IT related) is worthless? Yet everyone requires it? If theres one thing I'm going to learn about me attending school... is that I will not make it a requirement for the people I hire to attend. As just showing an aptitude for learning on your own is self sufficient in my mind.
My Wife and I went to Las Vegas this last weekend... and It was an awesome break. We did alot in our two day trip. We stayed in the Rio, because we had tickets for Penn & Teller. On saturday we ran around seeing the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, and Bodies at the Tropicana, as well as my Roller Coaster at New York New York. Over all it was a fun trip, and a much needed break from the every day.
I never mentioned it before on here... however, I had surgery on Thursday... to had a tumor removed from my neck. Its been an interesting ride.... After the 911 call yesterday evening, its been interesting.. All is well however. Been getting caught up on my TV shows, and working on creating some MP3 mix cds to listen to in my car. Should be an interesting weekend.
wow... 14 days into the year and this is my first post... starting the year out like i treated all last year... Anyway... lots going on currently... I have school and I'm contemplating weather I'm going to transfer to a new school now or wait until after I graduate with my Associates...
I'm also thinking about a new car again... and I'm back and forth (as you can probably see from previous posts) over which car I want... The only things that have remained true are that I'm favouring cars with all wheel drive and a turbo is always cool... So.. this leads me to what I'm currently thinking... I'm thinking I can currently afford a Subaru Impreza WRX STi. So... we'll see.. probably won't get any prior notification about me buying it, as it'll probably be like when I bought my bike... however... me buying an STi... will probably also result in me selling the bike :( as much as I love it... I find I just don't have the kind of time to ride it like I did when I was single... Also with my work schedule I hate sitting in traffic on it... it just seems like a waste to have it cooped up in traffic.
Also... probably going to happen before the STi, is getting some yard work done on the new house... including fixing my flooding basement problems... and getting the backyard with grass and such. So work can begin on the basement and upstairs... fun stuff...
I regrettably didn't make it down to the BYU Alternative Commencement Ceremony last Thursday. But thanks to Pete Ashdown for publishing it on his website. Also listed is a transcript of Pete's speech that he gave, and I must say it was amazing. The whole ceremony was great. I do just want to put an awesome quote from Pete's speech:
Today, insurgents, radicals, extremists, the ignorant and the insane have turned war into an entrepreneurial sport. We can no more fight teenagers using bombs and cell-phones with multibillion-dollar-aircraft-carriers and the latest jets than we can kill mosquitoes with a shotgun. If the Iraq war has taught me anything it is that our traditional methods of nation-state defense are currently useless against committed individuals. The inability to grasp this realization is what dates many politicians as dinosaurs in a modern world.
Pete also issued a challenge in his speech to Google "Iranian Blogs" as you may be surprised at what you find.
I've been doing some looking... and I find myself, surprised. They are just as Pete said. Go ahead and look for yourself, I even provided a link.
Well, I've been drooling over motorcycles since I sold my CBR600F3 back in 2002 (or was it 2003?). Which was before I got married, used the money to buy my wifes engagement ring. Anyway, she's been saying she would let me get another one and well, it was either the motorcycle or a new (to me) car. I went with the motorcycle. Overall it would be cheaper than the cars I was looking at, and I don't really "dislike" my civic. I still wish I would have bought the Si... but I like it none the less. The suspension mods I've done to it make it handle real well I think and I'd hate to have to do that all over again on another car.
Anyway, back to the subject of my post. My 2006 Honda - Tribal Orange - CBR600RR! I drove it home from Tooele yesterday and was a nice ride. Its going to take some getting used to riding again. As well as this bike handles a bit different than my old F3. I borrowed a helmet from my wifes uncle to ride it home with. And my "Pure Orange" helmet was shipped yesterday. I can't wait till it gets here! I will have pics as soon as I can find a good place to take some of it.
You have a classic style, but you're up-to-date with the latest technology. You're ambitious, competitive, and you love to win. Performance, precision, and prestige - you're one of the elite,and you know it. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
It also happens to be that: I'm a Talent!
You're a risk-taker, and you follow your passions. You're determined to take on the world and succeed on your own terms. Whether in the arts, science, engineering, business, or politics, you fearlessly express your own vision of the world. You're not afraid of a fight, and you're not afraid to bet your future on your own abilities. If you find a job boring or stifling, you're already preparing your resume. You believe in doing what you love, and you're not willing to settle for an ordinary life.
Talent: 49%
Lifer: 49%
Mandarin: 46%
Take the Talent, Lifer, or Mandarin quiz. Sorry for the personality quizes, but I thought they were amusing :)
How can the human race survive the next 100 years? thats the question... what do you think? Being my blog, I'll write what I think. My simple answer is "Same way we've survived the last X years". We humans naturally have an intense desire to survive and we will at all cost. That desire will never change.
Dr. Hawking implies that our civil unrest with each other and with nature, will be what kills us off unless we do something. Which is definately a valid point. Why we as humans insist on performing gestapo tactics on each other is beyond me. I'm not just implying tactics of the current so called "terrorists". After all they are just standing up for what they believe... Why they're so radical about it is where they cross the line, but they aren't the only ones that do such things. Most (or dare I say all? to my knowledge at least) religions perform some of these same actions, either directly or indirectly, with and without malace. These religions may not do it on purpose, but its one thing after another, people connect things that they shouldn't and it all gets taken out of porportion, and out of control. This is where we have problems, people dissagree (which is natural and a given because of circumstance), which is where things should stop. Its OK to dissagree with someone, however because you believe your opinion is "right", it does *not* give you the right to force it apon someone else. Before you become cynical with that comment wait and let me finish. As a citizen of the United States of America, I have to say I've become more and more impressed by the sheer wisdom and forethought in our Constitution. Our founding fathers where very intelligent and they added the very excellent clause as to what a persons rights are. Citizens(however I would much rather consider it as a Human Right) have the *RIGHT* to our own Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. The only time this is (or should be) overruled is by someone elses Rights. This is where you cynical people come back into play. As any of your cynical comments will usually violate atleast one of those three words which are given to every person(or should be...) in this country(and more utopian like, the World). This is a moto I'm trying to truely adapt into the way I think, that if something doesn't affect me personally? what do I care, or have any business in, what you do? As such, I don't think there should be any laws or amendments to our consitution that do anything to counter those Rights. Our founding fathers knew these things from the begining, they used history as their teacher... Now why can't we do the same?
I've updated some pictures in the Album. I've uploaded some of the pics at what we finished up on the old house and how we left it when we sold it. I have also added some pictures of the new house.
Lifes been a bit crazy as of late... if you couldn't tell by the lack of posting anything. We're in the process of moving. Moving! you might say.. yes we are moving... After a little over a year in this house, we have decided to sell it and we will be moving back up to South Jordan... The drive is killing both my wife and I, and with the prices continually going up, if we wait much longer we may never be able to afford one up in Salt Lake County again... So we did it, our house had an offer on it within 4 days of being on the market. I'll update after the move and I have an internet connection again! I will be updating the pictures we have of this house as well... so you can see what we ended with, and also pics of the new house!
For the last couple years I've been wanting to move my career towards network and systems architecture, which I think of it as "Infrastructure Architecture", and I'm just starting to figure out what type of a background do I need to beable to carry such a title. I get fairly bored when studing routers and switches to be honest, which is why I really haven't wanted to learn or study them very closely before. However, now that I have a much better understanding of my likes and dislikes, and even some (alteast perceived) understanding of the direction of the computer industry in general. Instead of learning more of the unix's I'm focusing more on network related technologies and sticking with Linux as the network OS. So my next move will be Cisco certifications. First up will be the CCNA which I've studied alot already and having some experience with cisco routers and switches so far its alot easier to remember than when I was studying originally... not sure if its because back then I really wanted my RHCE more than anything else or if I was more into becomming a Sys Admin than a Network Admin/Engineer. Either way, its making this time around alot easier ;) Next up after that will be what I'm really interested in which would be the CCDA, or the Cisco Certified Design Associate. Since, like I already said, actually administering routers and switches is somewhat of a bore to me, but networks in general I find very interesting. Designing them is definately intriguing. Hopefully that gets me off on the track I really want, and maybe I'll even go for the CCDP after that. And somewhere in the middle of all of this will be some VoIP. Anyway, thats the current plan thought I'd lay it all out for myself just because I can.
I normally don't write much about work because of the legal issues that may arise from it. However, this I do believe atleast deserves mention. As I said, I don't talk about where I work at all so, knowing which company I'm leaving and which I'm going to is not going to be part of this entry. I will say however, that I've worked for the last 5 and a half years at my previous employer, and my final day will be Monday, January 23rd. I've learned alot over that time, and I've gained alot of real world experience doing stuff that I've always tinkered with on my own. I have left for another Linux Systems Administration job, which some of the duties will be the same, others will be entirely new. Hopefully I'll be able to write about a few of them here and there as long as they won't really conflick with the interests of the company. I am leaving alot of what I knew, people mostly. And while I am sad to depart, I feel it is for the best. I fell into the mantra of "over worked and underpaid" category, which finalized my descision to leave as a company reorg along with buget cutbacks were in the works. I hope that will be all, as there was also rumor of layoffs down the road. I mean you can only cut back so much right? That was a bit of a joke on my part... and while I can't get into specifics, I do hope that those that possibly will get layed off are able to find work again as this whole process has really made me think about such things, and its a horrible (but in some cases a necessity) thing. Anyway, just to log this for future reference and posterity, there you have it.
I'm not entirely sure what it is lately... but I've been walking around like a zombie. Last week and probably the week before was because of a big infastructure change I was making at work(which didn't go as well as I would have hoped...). This week, I'm not sure whats been going on... I've got alot on my mind and I'm not sure if thats whats keeping me up at night. So to unwind at night I've been watching movies (on my newly completed 5.1 surround sound at home, it makes it more enjoyable... for me atleast. Elissa doesn't seem to care much, but shes glad I'm happy about it). Anyway I'm hoping to get some within the next day or two... depending on how badly 'kira needs to be walked.
We finally did it, we bought a house. We've been looking for over a year now... and instead of buying new like we've been looking at before, we got an old house in Orem. Since it is an old house, we are doing some remodeling before we move in. First up is the kitchen. Tonight my wife, my little brothers and I went in and we removed almost all of the cabinets in the kitchen so we could get at the walls behind them to run new electrical... Man its a big job... None of the electrical is grounded in the house and with my computer equipment, audio/video stuff for my home theater, and even some of the new appliances we bought all require grounding... So we don't really have a choice. I was really hesitant at first about even buying the house because of it... Its a really big job. However, we're going to do one room at a time and get it all completly rewired and make other improvements while we're at it. *sigh* wish me luck.
Over the New Years weekend, my wife and I took a trip up to see her cousin in Tumwater Washington(just outside of Olympia). I loved it up there. Its alot different than the other places I've been (and I've driven to upstate New York). With the green everywhere, and I loved the rain. If I ever move out of Utah, that is where I want to move to. Oregon or Washington (nearer to the west coast, as their eastern sides aren't any different than Idaho and Northern Utah) I have some pictures, but they didn't nearly turn out as well as I would have liked. I'm still getting used to the camera and I forgot to bring the book with me so I could read it. I will upload a picture or two to my usual pics spot. I didn't notice untill I got home that my picture of the Space Needle is blury! :( Guess I'll have to go back again to take another :)
I haven't... My wife and I have been so busy with her finals and finishing up her families christmas present... Money's also been a factor with it not getting done yet... Its been tuff the last couple of months for some reason. However, we're working through it. I will be finishing up my families presents today hopefully. Then there is the constant "what do they need? or want?" questions that are asked. I still have no idea what to get my dad. Anyhow, such is life right?
We finally bought a digital camera! We've been thinking about it for atleast a year now, just haven't gotten around to getting one untill last friday. However, I believe it was worth the wait, the prices have come down some from last year, as before we were only looking at a 3.2 - 4 MegaPixel camera because they were in the $300 dollar range. However, I've read a bunch of reviews and seen nothing but positives for the Cannon PowerShot A95 5 MegaPixel camera. I love how the LCD flips out and rotates, and that was worth the extra $75 or so for the 5MP over the 4MP! I haven't taken many pictures with it, however, the ones I have taken have turned out really well. However they've been shrunk for web viewing :) Anyway, I hope to post more pictures soon. They should always be viewable from the link above. And I probably will make a section just for pics as soon as I get around to writing some kind of smarty template driven photo album.
I had ordered a LoveSac from a friend at work a while ago. I ordered the 5' Sac-O-Love or something like that with the microsued cover. Got it home today and puffed it up... its huge! It's going to be wicked cool as soon as it fully fills up. I laid in it for a while today... it was so cool. Its going to be really nice for watching movies :)
My wifes been saying she wants a puppy for a couple months, and saturday she essintally said "We're going to Petsmart in Orem to adopt a puppy". I didn't have much of a choice... However we did come home with a rather cute little Jack Russel Terrier Mix...(the mom was the terrier, and the dad was a mix of atleast a Australian Sheep dog? and a Blue Heeler) So, she doesn't really look like a terrier other than her size. She'll stay small, but shes kinda a fat little dog. I'm not sure what my wife has planned to name her, shes been trying to deside between two names "Akira" and "Echo". She was leaning toward Akira but couldn't deside, so I just started calling her Akira. Getting her house trained is the next big thing. I think I'm getting a handle on it however. She'll go, just have to remember to take her outside every 2-3 hours atleast. However, shes also getting alot better at going on these trainning pads we bought her as well. Locking her in the kitchen during the night seems to be working, last night she only went on the mats. Anyway, I know I still have a long ways to go with her, but I think were going in the right direction.
What is it about work sometimes that makes IT people loose all interest for doing IT stuff. I'm speaking mostly from my own experience. Its not that I'm loosing my passion for computers and IT stuff. Its just a (emotional?) drain that by the time the day is done, and I get home, I just don't feel like working on this site much lately. I just want to kick back and watch movies. (however my wife doesn't like that to much.. :) ) I just wonder if this is a sign I need a change at work or just a vacation from work. Anyway, I hope to keep this updated as time moves on.
My wife and I went shopping today, we bought a bunch of stuff for her, however I got away with a hat. I haven't warn a baseball hat in years... Its going to take a while to get used to wearing one again. However, I'm excited. Not sure why really, but hopefully I'll make good use of it and wear it out. :)
Saturday I went paintballing with my brothers saturday. It was a lot of fun. We didn't get to play alot because I had a family barbaque to be to at 6pm, so we only got like an hour and a half in or so. However, I'm planning on going back down thursday night to play some more. I really need to go get some cammo pants however, and a darker grubby shirt i can wear that won't matter.
my sister had a baby girl last monday, July 11th around 7:45?pm. She was 7lb. 1oz. and 19 inches long. I finally got a chance to go over and see her yesterday. My wife has been giving me a hard time about holding babies. She always makes me hold them when someone we know has a baby and we're visiting. I'm not really sure what it is... maybe it's because I'm scared I'm going to hurt them so I don't want to hold them. I want kids someday, I'm just not sure if right now is the best time. My wife gets fustrated with me at times about it, but I really don't know what to say... I mean, kids... I see it as a HUGE responcibility... And I really want to be a good father to my children, I'm just scared because... it could happen at any time i guess...
Comcast is supposed to be comming out on Saturday... being without internet has been killing me... don't quite feel like my self. I mean, I have internet at work and all... but I feel guilty for using it for personal stuff while I'm working. So I don't do alot of browsing while at work. Anyway, i'm going through withdrawals quite honestly... I mean, I've been on call this week for work, and we have this sprint wireless card... works like a cell phone to the internet... anyway, I haven't used a modem in more than 5 years... its now killing me to attempt at using this... its HORRIBLE... i don't know how anyone can stand dialup anymore. But I guess if its all you know... its not so bad. however... I CAN'T WAIT...
Well... ok... we just got home with our new car right... and a kid from the complex comes screaming up the hill from behind the appartments yelling "BIG FIRE, CALL 911, FIRE!!!" at first my wife and I thought he was kidding... but then I realized no kid can act as histerical as he is. So I called 911 while walking back behind the appartments to see a ton of smoke billowing up from behind a mound of dirt that blocks our appartment complex from a field and the Jordan River. Well they had lit a firework that had started a fire in the field. Anyone that says the fire department doesn't get here fast doesn't know what they're talking about. They were here within 5 minutes for us. Anyway, I don't believe any damage was done to any buildings but, it burned atleast 3 acers. It will be on the news tonight. What a week, what a week.
My wife and I got a call yesterday, my sister in law, Lindsey, who has been staying with us for the past couple weeks, was in an accident. She was rearended by another car which sent her into the car ahead of her, which then hit the car ahead of it. Damage wasn't bad to the other cars involved only ours and the car (a Chrysler LeBaron) that hit ours. Both will probably be totaled by the Insurance Companies. Both air bags deployed in our car, Lindsey, thankfully, is ok. However, I do believe the frame on our old 1998 Dodge Neon is bent. As doors were hard to open, and the dash has cracks in it, along with all of the air vents and buttons poped out of it. I'm almost certain they will be totalling it, as I believe just replacing bumpers and reloading/replacing the air bags and windows alone will be well over what its worth. Anyway, the most important thing is that everyone involved appeared to be ok. We just get to start looking at replacing the car sooner than we would have expected...
The time has come, my wife and I are finally moving out of our first appartment and into our second. I hadn't really planned on moving into another appartment when we moved here I thought we'd move into a condo or house when we did move. However that wasn't what ended up happening. With things not going the way I had hoped at work, it kinda put a halt in that plan. So, we are moving because we really don't like the neiborhood... After my stereo was stolen out of my car, and we've had packages left on our door step ripped open.... Can't really trust the people living in the complex anymore. Seems like they're all a bunch of theives... I know thats a bit extreme to classify them all as theives... but their has to be atleast two... one that stole my stereo, and an other that was going to steal our package. And why someone in the front office signed whatever waiver which made it "OK" to leave the package on our door step is beyond me. I don't like that... I asked the place we are moving to... they said that they "always" take the packages and hold them in a special room untill we would come get them. I like that... Our current place has done that for us in the past with other packages... just this one time they didn't... it confuses me why they wouldn't remain consistent. So with that in mind... I've been sending all the packages to my parents house. Because I never had any problems there with anything I had ordered over the internet. Anyway... I'm rambling and I'm tired... still have some packing to do and my dad is supposed to be here at 8am to help us move. So... looks like I'll be getting up early... again.
Well, I'm finally breaking down and reading the Harry Potter books. Seems like everyone I know has read them. My wife and her sister are obsessed with them. And with the recent movie craze about them, I figure, might as well... right?
So, I'm starting off with the first book. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I must admit when I first saw the movie I thought it was pretty good. And the second movie was even better I thought. However, the third movie... was somewhat dissapointing. I really think the director messed things up when he did it. My wife and her sister both thought it wasn't that good at all either, they complained that ALOT was left out, alot of important stuff (for the future books and all). But since I haven't read the books I can't speak on that, but I did notice that the movie moved really fast and didn't really develop any characters, no more than what the previous 2 had... just introduced more characters without much of a history or their own development. We'll wait and see how the forth movie handles this.
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The thing to remember about freedom is that it's not given, it's taken.
