In all the websites that I have mentioned I missed a good one, WebMD. For me WebMD is like getting to ask a doctor all sorts of questions, without having to pay the co-pay. Recent good articles include "Are You Sleeping Enough -- or Too Much?" and "10 Tips to Get Better Sleep."
Saturday was the 3rd semi-annual 2nd Floor LAN Party. The group was pretty much the same as last year, minus one. Things got started around 2PM when Lloyd, Chris, Jimmy, and Jerry arrived. We started with Unreal Tournament Deathmatch then decided to lower the twitch factor with a round of Age of Empires 2. After ordering pizza in the early evening, we went with some Unreal Tournament Capture the Flag until the food got there. During dinner we had Nuremberg on in the background. Not exactly your normal background movie, but it was in HD and actually is a pretty good movie/mini-series. After dinner we went back to Age of Empires 2 for another round this time a little more balanced. Around 11PM Taylor showed up and we decided to try out Rogue Spear. After a few rounds of one shot one kill we tried the mission mode and that got interesting. Let’s just say I am happy we are not in charge of this country's counter terrorism/hostage rescue division. And to top the evening off, we played BF1942 until around 4AM. It was a good night.
Wikipedia is a free online encylopedia and more importantly is what I spend the previous four hours of my life reading.
This audio commentary is for those who have been to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum but still don't consider themselves Texans.
On Tuesday I worked from home, which, since there isn't much going on at work right now, meant I sat on the couch in my pajamas watching daytime television with a laptop on the couch arm. The last time I watched daytime television, Dr. Phil was still just on Oprah and the average age of the cast of Days was a lot higher. I quasi watched a few soaps. I think there was some plot line on one of them where three girls and an old lady were in a room where "time stands still." Seriously, the lady said that, and not in the metaphory type way. And let me tell you, the people on Dr. Phil aren't all that bright. First off they go on the show with nutty problems, then Dr. Phil says common sense things, and the people are all like, "I never thought of it like that. It makes so much sense now." Something just seemed off. And the ads, oh God. Daytime TV ads are the worst. All the ones on during Dr. Phil were all diet and self help and bad ones to boot. One of the guys actually said, "My wife and I lost 65 pounds and now she is hotter than this fireplace." I was swept off my feet.
For a few years now I have made a point of seeing all the best picture nominees before the Oscars. To that end Melissa and I went to see The Last Samurai today at Alamo. Strangely enough the last movie we went to see was Cold Mountain so the timeline matched up pretty well considering the movie started with talk about the Civil War. Melissa has not been much of a fan of Mr. Cruise ever since he broke it off with Nicole Kidman, so I was a little worried if she could put that aside. I knew it had been a good movie when she liked the movie, even though he was in it. The first two thoughts I had as I left the theater were: Did the story have any basis in fact? and What would someone from Japan say about the movie? With the power on Google and little to do at work, I should have a least the first question answered in a few days. Though I doubt it was the director's intent, I left the movie with a strong desire to shout out my New Orleans roots, something like, "I am a New Orleanian, like my father before me." Then again, anything I think about these days makes me think of moving back to New Orleans, so maybe that just says more about me than the movie.
