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When Jason and I went to see Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on
opening day, we got interviewed in the theater by a reporter from the
Lowell Sun. I just remembered it today, and checked to see if we got
into the article. As it turns out, I got quoted, but Jason’s name got
misspelled. The article is available
here.
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Not a terribly exciting weekend, but a mostly good weekend. Saturday,
Andrea went into Boston with her mother, which left me with the whole
day and nothing terribly important to do.
Dave and I had agreed upon
having a small LAN party at SimPro, but by the time I got to SimPro and
called Dave, he claimed to have forgotten about the whole thing. In case
you haven’t been following this journal, this sort of thing seems to
happen to me fairly often, so I’m getting used to it. I ended up going
over to Jason’s house and watching
Stargate instead, then I wandered home and watched TV till Andrea came
home. She brought me cheesecake from a place in Boston. Chocolate chip
cookie dough cheesecake to be exact, and it was tasty.
Sunday was a sit around the house and do nothing all day long sort of
day. Andrea and I did approximately nothing. I went out and rented 3
Die Hard movies, we watched the first one and part of the second one
before getting tired and going to bed.
Today we went over to my parents’ house for lunch. Ralph, my
step-father, is in Australia on a business trip, so it was just my mom,
grandmother, step brothers, and their family. We had suvlaki (no clue on
spelling), spaghetti salad, sunshine salad, and beans. For dessert, we
had lemon meringue pie (one of my favorites), and chocolate brownie pie.
It was all very tasty. Most people left around 5, but Andrea and I stayed till about 9, just talking to my mom. It was nice.
It’s also been raining since about 6 or 7. It’s thundering pretty bad,
and there’s plenty of lightning. It’s probably not too smart to be on my
computer, but oh well.
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It’s been an interesting week since my last post. Andrea graduated
from the University of New Hampshire yesterday, and the ceremony was
last night. After she received her diploma (actually, and empty folder,
she gets the real thing in the mail) we went to dinner with her
parents and grandparents. Her parents bought her a huge zebra
painting, but it was damaged during shipping, cracking the wooden
frame it was on, and tearing part of the canvas. They’re going to try
and have it repaired, I think.
At work, I got the new mail server up and running. I’m using Postfix
with Courier-IMAP and MySQL to do virtual mail accounts, Squirrelmail
for web access, SpamAssassin for spam filtering, and AMaViS with McAffee
VirusScan for virus scanning. It’s working out pretty well so far, all
of SimPro and IronCastle’s mail have been switched over to it. The only
really big user of the old server is Valvcon.
Hmm… other than that, not much going on. I beat Metal Gear Solid 2
in Easy mode, now I’m going to replay in Normal.
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Yay! As planned Jason and I went to see
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones last night (or rather, early this
morning) at 12:01am, the first showing on opening day. We went down to
Lowell around 7:30ish, picked up the tickets and then had dinner at the
Outback next to the theater. Around 10 we went to get in line. By that
time the line had just started to go out the back doors of the theater.
We ended up being in about the middle of the line. Around 11:15 they
started letting people in the theater. We managed to get some fairly
good seats, kindof far back and toward the right side.
Around midnight the trailers started, and there were a bunch of them,
including The Matrix Reloaded, which looks pretty impressive (due out
in 2003.) The movie itself is great. Much much better than Episode 1.
Jason thinks it’s nearly up to the level of Empire, but I’m not so
sure. It’s definitely good, but I still think I put the original 3 above
it. It was considerably less happy than the first one, with a lot more
fighting and plotting and stuff. I’ll have to drag Andrea to see it with
me sometime soon, probably once the crowds die down a bit.
In other news, work is going well. Finally sorted out a very annoying
problem I was having today, which makes a pretty good milestone in the
project. We’re headed over to the hydro plant in a little bit to update
the software. Should be good stuff.
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I’ve been fairly busy for the past week getting ready for a product demo
that took place this morning. On the plus side, everything went well,
and the people seemed interested in the project, though not everything
is working yet. Spend most of yesterday working on it in addition to the
past couple of weeks. Ended up working till about 3am last night on it,
so I’m a little out of it today. Without a pressing deadline, I don’t
really feel motivated to work on anything more right now. Perhaps
tomorrow will be more productive.
Last Friday, Andrea and I went to the Milford Drive-In to see
The Scorpion King and Panic Room. The former was a terrible movie. It’s
basically just Dwayne (aka The Rock) running around killing people. It
really has next to nothing in common with either of The Mummy movies. It’s
pretty good as a bad movie though, if you like that sort of thing.
Panic Room wasn’t much better, it’s just boring. We stayed for maybe the
first half-hour, at which point I decided I didn’t really care what happened
in the movie anymore, so we went home.
Saturday, we went into Concord to do some shopping, and she went out to
dinner with her parents and grandparents. I would have gone, but I was
expecting to go to Boston with Jason
to see Escaflowne. Problem was
twofold however. Firstly, Jason didn’t return my calls till about 9:12
(showtime was expected to be 10), and secondly, the movie had stopped
playing on Thursday. Ah well. Poor planning. I ended up playing
Counter-Strike and Metal Gear Solid 2 instead.
Currently I’m looking forward to seeing Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on
Wednesday night. I ordered by tickets online on Friday. Supposedly Jason is
going with me, but we shall see.
Also, I’m trying to gather information about when everybody is coming
back to Milford. My plan is to try and get everybody together sometime.
Josh is leaving on the 27th to go to Microsoft for the summer.
Matt’s getting back early next month.
Nick is apparently already around, just hiding.
Dave is back Tuesday after next.
I doubt everyone will be able to get together due to various schedules, but
it’s worth a shot anyway.
Also, Paul gave me the AIM
name of my old friend Dan. I havn’t talked to Dan in ages, since he
moved to Texas. He’s the one who introduced me to all sort of wondrous
movies and stuff. Hopefully he appears online soon.
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Was just working on adding a Tomato Rating from
Rotten Tomatoes to
Showtimes, when I noticed that the
Brattle Theater in Boston is showing
Escaflowne: The Movie. Might be worth a trip into Boston this weekend
to check it out. It’s the same theater where I saw Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Anyone interested in going?
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In a burst of spending brought on by the arrival of my federal tax
return, I purchased Metal Gear Solid 2 last night. It’s fun fun fun.
Great game. I’m just wondering why after playing though the first
chapter, they start treating you like a moron again at the start of the
second chapter. “Press Action to open doors.” Duh, I had to do that
before. Oh well.
I told myself I wasn’t going to get anymore games till I beat Final Fantasy X,
but I decided to go ahead with MGS2 since FFX was
beginning to annoy me with the boss I could not beat. Also, it seems
that FFX is a lot shorter than I was led to believe.
Ah well, back to work.
