Runester

Some Movies I am Looking Forward to Seeing

• 28 Days Later ~ I wonder if this is based on Omega Man which is, itself, based on the book I am Legend

• The Hulk ~ Another class comic-made-movie, I really hope it does justice to this piece of my childhood!
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ~ Not only do I get to see some of my favourite literary characters reinterpretted, but it looks kick-ass too!

… and in other news

I finally got my inspection sticker for my truck. It was no big deal! $30 in 30 minutes. This is my first one, in Michigan they didn’t require inspections or inspection stickers. They used to require auto emissions testing, but even that stopped years ago. Now I regret having put it off for so long.

I’ve finished reading What’s So Great About America? and really liked it! I was all fired up and wanted to rush out and argue with some multiculturists / leftists / liberals. Then I realized that logical arguments based on facts and reason would do me no good at all… they tend to think emotionally. <sigh>

{ Origenally entered on 17-JUNE-2003 }
Today was a good day.

I really wanted to make some progress on this project I’ve been working on, at work. I’m the new guy and feel that I still have something to prove to my team mates and management. They took a bit of a risk on me and I want to prove that I am worth every dollar they spent.

The real break throughs came yesterday evening, I had my head phone on and I was shielded from most of the "grunt work" by my 2nd shift team mates. Concentrating for about six (6) straight hours let me solve three different, hairy, problems and complete the tool I was building. This afternoon when I got to work I showed it to my mgr, he gave me the go-ahead, and then I fired it up and let it run for about four (4) hours. All 2,200 entries got processed, with very little manual introvention.

My mgr was very impressed with the tool, and the rest of the team had a chance to see what I could do. I was well pleased with their reaction.

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I am currently one chapter away from finishing What’s So Great About America? I am looking forward to reading The Power of Full Engagement next.

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I have an opportunity to GM another RPG session with my gaming group this Saturday. It’s been several months, they have probably forgotten a lot and need to be re-introduced to both the rules and the setting. I have been reading articles on how to improve adventure writing and think that I can knock together something really nice by this weekend. It’ll feel good to play again.