Well, I spent the past few days up at my mom’s house in Maine celebrating Thanksgiving. I drove up on Wednedays, and came back on Saturday. Mom prepared a great Thanksgiving dinner, including juicy turkey, mashed potatoes, lima beans, stuffing, and the like. It was all great. The turkey was a free government turkey, which my mom got from the place she was working. We had some doubts about how it would turn out, but it ended up being one of the best turkey’s I’ve had.
Pretty much the entire time I was up there, Ralph tried to find a moose for me to take a picture of. I’m led to believe the moose are equipped with some sort of camera detecting radar system, as they all managed to hide for the 2 days we were looking. About the closest I came was seeing a deer on the way back on a highway off-ramp. Ah well, maybe next time.
Speaking of pictures, I took another bunch of the cabin while I was up there, and got the uploaded to my gallery.
Overall I had a good time, it was relaxing to get away from the apartment and work for a few days and not really have anything to do. I’ve got a ton of leftovers that I was sent home with in the fridge. Those should last me about a week, I think. Now I just need to start planning my next trip out to Indiana and Michigan later this month. 
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve made a few changes to my journal page. Recently I’ve been playing with a bunch of plugins for MovableType, and decided to use some of them here. The book image and my new book page use the MTAmazon plugin to grab the image links and book information directly from Amazon. The book collection itself is managed using the BookQueue plugin, which let’s me scan most of my books in using my Cuecat barcode scanner, which is pretty slick. For some reason though, paperbacks don’t use the same barcode scheme as hardcover books, so they can’t be scanned. The Netflix info is gathered by part of the Netflix Suite of plugins.
I’m also working on a couple of new plugins based on the Netflix Suite to pull information from my game and DVD collections on IGN and DVD Aficionado. I’ll write more about those once I get them working. The game collection plugin is half working at the moment, and I hope to get it together by the end of the week.
Andrea and I went to see Master and Commander this afternoon. For a movie that’s getting so many good reviews it seemed rather mediocre. I went into it expecting an action film, and while the action was good, there were only 2 good action scenes, and they were seperated by about an hour of drudgery. It wasn’t that it was bad, it’s just that is was paced way too slowly for my liking. Ah well, can’t win them all.
Guess I’ll go back to watching The Perfect Storm from Netflix, though it seems like there’s a conspiracy that keeps interrupting me everytime I sit down to watch it.
