Weapons of Mass Randomness!
Okay, okay, so I'm not so great at keeping this updated. My apologies. :P
It was spring here for about three weeks. And then it was summer! And now it's spring again. I imagine that summer will return sometime very soon. It's finally raining -- we didn't get any all through April. Here's hoping that we have a wet May, or things might be getting very dead around July time. I really don't mind living here but the sheer desperation that plants around here display as they hopelessly cling to life without water gets really sad. I adore green when it relates to the outdoors. Unfortunately that color does not live here; it's been usurped by a kind of mottled greeny-yellow that usually fades into brown, the death-shade of plants everywhere.
Unless you're a cactus of some sort, of course. Or a mesquite tree.
I suppose that my love of outdoor plant-related life should extend to those inhabitants, seeing as they're the most common in the area, but alas, they are relegated in my mind to the same general area as weeds -- i.e. they're everywhere, and they're obnoxiously ugly.
But enough about that.
Mrs. Gonktacular turned 21 yesterday. Legality at last! Though we're not alcohol-type people, so it didn't really matter in a practical sense. I did manage to wrangle her parents into town to see her on her birthday and that made her really happy, which in turn made me really happy. I got her a sweet digital camera, the fruits of which might end up on here at some point. There's a great picture of Abby (Gonktacular dog #1) sitting on the couch with a gift bow on her head, looking at me like, "I really hate it when you people use me as a photo prop." Regardless, Happy Birthday, dear. :)
Moving on:
I got some Pepsi Blue! No kidding. Unfortunately for me, it's undrinkable. Like "out of date in November of 2002" undrinkable. See, the inherent problem with soft drinks is that they are destructive. And I'm not talking destructive in a "I drink too many so the calories are going to my waistline" way (even though they are). Do you ever wonder why soft drinks in 20oz plastic bottles only have a shelf life for a few months? Of course you don't -- but you should. After its expiration date, the soda in the bottle starts to actually break down the plastic, leeching out the carbonation. Thus, two year out of date Pepsi Blue = seriously flat. Undrinkable flat. Shame. And yeah, I tried it. Other random soft drink facts: Drinks in cans taste better than drinks in bottles because the plastic bottles absorb odors in the air and leech it into the drinks. Yummy! Also, drinks left in aluminum cans over the course of two years or so will actually eat through the can. No kidding. That stuff spends time in your body when you drink it, you know. Nevertheless, I am still hopelessly addicted to A&W Root Beer and that tropical Sprite (curses!).
And now, some random media-related comments:
It was spring here for about three weeks. And then it was summer! And now it's spring again. I imagine that summer will return sometime very soon. It's finally raining -- we didn't get any all through April. Here's hoping that we have a wet May, or things might be getting very dead around July time. I really don't mind living here but the sheer desperation that plants around here display as they hopelessly cling to life without water gets really sad. I adore green when it relates to the outdoors. Unfortunately that color does not live here; it's been usurped by a kind of mottled greeny-yellow that usually fades into brown, the death-shade of plants everywhere.
Unless you're a cactus of some sort, of course. Or a mesquite tree.
I suppose that my love of outdoor plant-related life should extend to those inhabitants, seeing as they're the most common in the area, but alas, they are relegated in my mind to the same general area as weeds -- i.e. they're everywhere, and they're obnoxiously ugly.
But enough about that.
Mrs. Gonktacular turned 21 yesterday. Legality at last! Though we're not alcohol-type people, so it didn't really matter in a practical sense. I did manage to wrangle her parents into town to see her on her birthday and that made her really happy, which in turn made me really happy. I got her a sweet digital camera, the fruits of which might end up on here at some point. There's a great picture of Abby (Gonktacular dog #1) sitting on the couch with a gift bow on her head, looking at me like, "I really hate it when you people use me as a photo prop." Regardless, Happy Birthday, dear. :)
Moving on:
I got some Pepsi Blue! No kidding. Unfortunately for me, it's undrinkable. Like "out of date in November of 2002" undrinkable. See, the inherent problem with soft drinks is that they are destructive. And I'm not talking destructive in a "I drink too many so the calories are going to my waistline" way (even though they are). Do you ever wonder why soft drinks in 20oz plastic bottles only have a shelf life for a few months? Of course you don't -- but you should. After its expiration date, the soda in the bottle starts to actually break down the plastic, leeching out the carbonation. Thus, two year out of date Pepsi Blue = seriously flat. Undrinkable flat. Shame. And yeah, I tried it. Other random soft drink facts: Drinks in cans taste better than drinks in bottles because the plastic bottles absorb odors in the air and leech it into the drinks. Yummy! Also, drinks left in aluminum cans over the course of two years or so will actually eat through the can. No kidding. That stuff spends time in your body when you drink it, you know. Nevertheless, I am still hopelessly addicted to A&W Root Beer and that tropical Sprite (curses!).
And now, some random media-related comments:
- Alias is getting better. Apparently they waited until the end of the season to start dropping the "holy crap!" type bombs. Patience is a virtue, I suppose, and it looks like it might pay off. Have to tape it tonight though 'cause Mrs. Gonktacular gets another birthday party this evening. :)
- Ocean's Twelve, which we rented last week, was pretty good. Don't know if I liked it as much as the first, which tends to be the case with sequels, though many reviewers thought it was better than the first. I think the characters didn't adhere as well -- in the first they all had specific jobs, but in this one they were all pretty much just accomplices. And the "ha! We had you fooled the whole time" thing worked ok in the original, but it was just tired in this one. Reveals have to have clues worked in, like M. Night Shyamalan's earlier movies -- this one just drops it on you and says "haha we didn't tell you."
- Minority Report was good. I have no idea why I hadn't seen it until now. My movie education is far from complete -- I really didn't start being a big movie guy until a few years ago. I really need Netflix, I think. Anyway -- I enjoyed the movie. It wasn't the best I've seen, and it was really a bit too long (2 1/2 hours!) for the story it told.
- I have never had a game that made me want to put a controller through my TV like The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age has. It's fun, it really is, and compelling, too. Until you get to Helm's Deep, which is the same problem The Two Towers game had. It's freakishly impossibly hard. The last battle consisted of orcs that got two turns for every one you had. I finally got past it after a week of random battling and leveling up. Now I'm in Pelennor Fields, and I've come up against two Mumekils (yeah, the giant elephant things) at once. After three or four rounds they get like 10 turns in a row -- easily enough to wipe out your entire group. Hello frustration. I don't really know if I want to spend another week leveling up enough to get past them.
posted by Gonktacular! at 9:22 AM
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Go here http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2157&CAT=movies&NSFW=0&rtn=search-2157&searchstring=star%20wars and watch that. You'll like it. Promise.
Kaley
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