Dark Tower

09.16.2003

Way back when (evidently 1981), I begged and begged my Mom to get me the Dark Tower game. It was one of the early electronic games that threw in a dash of D&D. My favorite feature, being an introverted only child, was that you could play it in a one-player mode. I probably played that game for years.

As is the way of the world, you can get almost any Dark Tower part, or even the complete game, on Ebay. Right now there's a mint, in box game for $295. Even I've got better things to do with $300 than buy a 22 year old game.

I shouldn't have said 22 year old game. Now I feel ancient.

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Movie Weekend

09.15.2003

This was my weekend to catch up on watching some movies. I started off Friday by watching Avenging Angelo, a direct to video Stallone comedy (at least I think it was a comedy) that is better left unwatched. I followed that with Chow Yun-Fat in Bulletproof Monk. One part cop buddy movie, on part Golden Child. God help me but Sean William Scott is growing on me. Maybe I'm just trying to ready myself for The Rundown (gotta go support my The Rock!).

That was followed Saturday by going off to see Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Or Desperado 2. Or El Mariachi 3. It was probably a pretty good movie, but I had exceptionally high expectations since I like Desperado so much. As it was, I left the theatre feeling like I had missed something. Maybe it was the lack of a Bucho?

On the way home from the movie, Gina and I started singing "Why Can't We Be Friends", which reminds us (of course) of the end credits of Lethal Weapon 4, so we watched that next. An I ended up enjoying it, which I've seen countless times, more than the other 3 movies I had seen over the weekend.

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Remembering

09.11.2003

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Election Results!

09.10.2003

Yesterday was the statewide vote on whether to approve the governors 1.2 billion dollar tax plan. The people voted a resounding no. A 2-1 no. We're a fiesty state when it comes to taxes.

To my surprise, Athens voted to approve liquor sales in the same vote, although the margin of victory was only around 200 votes. Now I'm looking forward to seeing where the prime locations for liquor stores opening will be.At least the Applebees can finally put have a real bar in place of the ice-cream bar they have now.

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Raw Came To Town

09.09.2003

Last night wrestling came back to Huntsville as Raw came to the VBC. I had been [pardon the pun] wrestling with whether or not to go for a few weeks. The best tickets that were available pretty much sucked. My wrestling interest has been wanning the past year or so. I had decided not to go, but knew that as bell time grew near, I would start waffling, thinking about getting a last minute $15 cheap seat.

Except I didn't. At lunch I thought "Hey, wrestling's coming to town and I.... really don't want to go." After that I would think how weird it was for me to feel that way. Maybe I would end up changing my mind later?

But work would come into play. It turns out there was a demo taking place this morning, and I ended up having to work late to get everything done (well, with a lot of help from Jer & Greg). I manged to gethome last night at 10:10, which ironically enough is the usual over-run time for Raw to end up going off the air.

I've been a reformed Trekker for a few years now, maybe I'm starting the path to reformed Wrestlemaniac?

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