Iron Man

Hm, apparently the last post still went to Thursday...I guess the starting time is what matters, not the publishing time...? Hm...

Anyway, I went to Iron Man at midnight, and it is simply amazing. I can't think of any complaints, except maybe less of a certain scene or two at the beginning. The storyline was awesome, the action was well played out, and there was a great balance of action and plot development. And Stan's scene was awesome. :D I can't say too much more without going into spoilers, which I'd rather not do, so I'll just say I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. Definitely the best superhero movie to come out in a long time. 4+ Stars!

Oh, and my friend bought me this awesome Iron Man shirt. He's blasting out of the ground. Very cool. :)

Rings

So this morning I had to get on the later bus (I try for the one a little after 7, but the one a little after 7:30 gets me to school on time too), so while I waited I went into the gas station to get out of the cold (it snowed again...sheesh...). I went over to scan chips and stuff, when suddenly I heard the "be-da-lee" of Sonic getting a coin. It came from over by the checkout counter, so I looked over to see if someone's phone was doing it, since I've seen someone have it as their "new text" sound, but no one pulled their phone out/had it out/was putting it away. I figured it must have been one of the people buying stuff, and they were being polite and not checking it while they were talking to the clerk. But then I heard it again. And again, and again. I couldn't see any source of it, unless there was some toy on the shelf by the counter or something, so I circled around to the other side. Everyone but me left, and the sound didn't go again, so I figured I just missed whoever was doing it. I looked at DVDs for a little while (nothing worthwhile), when there it was again! I looked back at the counter and it happened again. It had to be something behind the counter now, no way the customers at the counter just happened to have the same ringtone/toy, so I slowly walked across the store while watching what could be doing it. Then I saw it. The cashiers had some new touch screen cash registers, and every time they "confirmed" or anything, it would make the Sonic ring sound! I couldn't believe it - first that it would make noise at all, since that would pretty quickly become annoying to both the cashiers and the customers, and second that it would actually be the Sonic sound! I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but that's just funny.

That was everything I intended to post at first, but when I wrote "Rings" for the title, it first reminded me of 'Rings" the movie, and therefore "The Ring" and "The Ring Two" too, then of The Lord of the Rings, so I'll write about each as well.

The Ring is awesome. It's definitely one of my favorite horror/thriller/whatever you prefer to call it movies. Every time I think about it and go look at the cursed video and whatever else, I always get a little obsessed with it...it's definitely very cool and very creepy...I really want to see "Rings" though...I never really knew what it was until I read a synopsis a little while ago, which of course made me want to see it. The Ring Two definitely didn't measure up, but it was still pretty good.

I'm about...4? chapters into The Hobbit. In fact, that's what's keeping me from finishing The Hobbit the videogame...I want to read it in the book before I play it in the game...whatever that case, I need to watch the movies again, and I need to do it some time when I'm very awake and able to pay close attention...

Battle for Middle-Earth is an amazing game by the way. I need to get it from the library again, then the second one again too.

By the way, adding The Ring and LOTR stuff delayed me a day, sorry about that. I should be doing a couple more today though.

ZӘӘ Gaming

Alright, I made a new blog. It's called ZӘӘ Gaming. It's where I'll post an occasional update on any gaming accomplishments/progress I've made. I'll be working on getting that all set up today, so I doubt I'll get anything else up on this one. Click the title or the link on the sidebar to visit me there!

O

Well...I broke my O key this morning...which really stinks...

So I was thinking about what I could do, and I decided I have three options...

0ption 0ne:
Use zer0s f0r all my "0"s. This c0uld be p0ssible, since the zer0 key isn't that far 0ff fr0m the 0 key, but I w0uld m0st likely start getting it d0wn right bef0re I g0t it fixed, s0 I w0ld just mess myself up...

pti n tw :
Either replace them with spaces r simply leave ut all the " "s (f r this paragraph I'm using the spaces). This is definitely the least c mprehendable, plus the spellchecker is putting red lines all ver the place. I d n't actually have any m re t write, but I want t keep g ing s that I can write like this s me m re. :P I think I'm d ne n w th ugh.

Option three:
Just do the "O"s with the nub. Obviously this is the one I'm going to do, but this is definitely going to slow down my typing...programming too...dangit. Guess I'm visiting the IT room...

Slipping

Yeah, it's another "removed content" one...well, it had to do with something that really only one person truly understood/needed to see, and while I like how I wrote it, it probably shouldn't be kept up here. As always, I'll probably tell you more about it if you talk to me, but here where I have no idea who sees it (why won't you comment, people??), I'm not keeping it up.

Closure - Updates

Alright, apparently some of these posts need updates...I don't really remember any besides "respect" needing it, so we'll see as we go!

Let's start from the oldest...oh dreams...I wish I could remember more dreams...I've had a few more "vivid" [Whoa, my "V" key wasn't all the way on...] dreams, usually when I take a nap or wake up in the morning then go back to sleep, but I only remember one well enough to write about it. However, I will wait until I get to the other post where I wrote about dreams ("Various") to write about it, since the situation is more similar to that one.

Alright, the important one...Respect: The situation in that post left me not especially happy with my team leader. But as the quarter went on, she definitely earned my respect back. She was excellent at leading our group and she didn't do anything offending again. Before I wasn't sure if I could call her anything more than an "acquaintance," but now I can definitely call her a friend.

Hmm...Minesweeper...well, I still haven't beaten Expert...in fact, I'm now taking a short break to try a couple times more. :)

Grr...still couldn't do it, though this time I got down to 4 left. :/ Ah well, I'll keep trying and eventually I'll get it...

OK, now we're to the dream. I'm not going to write the actual dream, for reasons of my own, but I'll write the stuf before it and resulting from it. So, it was a Friday. I had unfortunately stayed up quite late the night before, so I was very tired and could barely comprehend what my Sets teacher was saying. So I laid my head on my arms and went to sleep. I had a dream which...while somewhat odd, made me realize even more than I had before that I needed to fix something. I...well, ultimately failed at fixing it, but I did try...:/ That dream was amazing though. It wasn't especially long, but it created the most feeling I've ever felt in or even about a dream...

I don't think I've had any more thoughts on laughter, though I have considered emotions and some of their effects (mainly the less obvious ones)...but that's a subject for another post, plus it isn't thought out enough to write about yet anyway. So that's it for this post! That's probably it for the day too, I need to do some homework...:/ Darn Algorithms....

Closure - Hilarity 1

I know, I know..."A new post!? AAAH! It's a sign of the Apocalypse!!!" Well, at least you can die reading my words. :D If that doesn't appeal to you, I suggest you do something else so you'll die happy. I don't want a "Caused an unhappy death" keeping me out of heaven. :P

So, let's wrap up that filler post, no? I still haven't remembered what "Hilarity 2" is, but I'll write number 1 anyway. By the way, these are things that I laugh about every time I think about them.

Imagine, if you will, a line of people, waiting to take pictures for Prom. In the middle or so there are a group of four, in a square. In front, on the left, is me. Next to me is my date, Allyson. Directly behind me is my best friend, TJ, with his date, Emily, beside him. There is a wall to Allyson and Emily's right, which has a light switch (flipped "on") a couple feet in front of us.

Seeing the light switch, I pointed it out to Allyson and said, "What do you think would happen if I turned that off?" She laughed and said, "Only you would think to do that." I replied, "Nah, I think TJ would do it..." Allyson turned around, looked at TJ, and said, "Yeah, I guess TJ would do it." TJ, who heard nothing before, as he was talking to Emily, gave a confused "Wha...?" I told him, "Yeah, you'll do it." He asked, "Wait, what am I going to do?" I said, "If I tell you, you won't do it," and Allyson said "But you'll do it." I told her, "We should turn back around so he can do it." She agreed and we did, leaving TJ confused, but he just said "OK, whatever..." and shrugged it off. Not more than a second later, he pointed at the lightswitch, leaned over to Emily, and said, "Hey, see that lightswitch?" Allyson and I cracked up but he still finished, "What do think it would do if I turned it off?" We spun back around, grinning and laughing and said "That was it!" :D

I'll post number 2 when I remember. It's archived in an IM history if nothing else, so I'll get it up eventually...

See the other "closure" posts for more exciting resolutions to the "filler" post!!!