08.07.05 - Life Update and 1 more review

My dear sister is a writer and a pretty nifty one at that. Do me a favor and stop in at Among the bees of the invisible... and drop some comments. You won't be disappointed. Of course, she may well strangle me for the advertising but then hell, what are big brothers for?

School is done until the 22nd. Thank goodness. I got all A's in music and it looks like I'm going to take a D in Biology. At least it's over. I still need two science credits for my degree. I'm thinking geology and anthropology or something like that. If any of you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them. That I've been a bit stressy this week, I'm certain my wife, kids, and friends will attest. I've got to learn how to take school in stride.

I've made recent updates to both the photoblog and the audioblog so check those out when you get a chance. I am actually paying to blog now. Yay! I wanted to upload the song I played for my piano final and found that I had to pay www.audioblog.com to upload mp3s. It's not too hideous a deal at $50/yr but it's still expensive. Stay tuned as I'll have to use it to get my money's worth out of it.

I got an obnoxious letter in the mail from CU this week saying that they were hiking tuition 28% this year because of State budget cuts. As I understand it, this is after they lobbied the State of Colorado to provide an incentive to Coloradoan's for higher education which the State did, in fact, do. So, the state gives out a bunch of money to the people of Colorado for higher education which the people already paid in in taxes and CU then steps up and takes most of it to cover their budget cut. I'm talking from second and third hand sources here so don't quote me but if this turns out to be the truth, I'm gonna rant!

***!!!Warning RANDOM late night thought processes at work!!!*** I think might be cool to install a urinal at my desk so that I don't have to get up for anything other than food, though I suppose I could train my kids to bring me food, and the occasional bowel movement. I've got my computer, my desk, my guitars, my camera, and hopefully soon my new keyboard all within reach. Something tells me my dear wife wouldn't find that at all amusing - which leads me on a tangent.

After my divorce, I moved in with Paul. Paul and I rented a house from his mother. In typical geek fashion, we moved our piles of computer crap into the front room setting up four eight-foot folding tables around the perimeter of the room. This room was right next to the kitchen which didn't stop us from burning the Toll House cookies or our lunch on more than one occasion. It got so that we would instant message each other to converse despite being three feet apart. Spoken words were simply outmoded. I had the better sound system so I was generally in charge of the tunes though that often proved a bit annoying for dear Paul. After all, who doesn't like Thomas Dolby!? Anyway, this brief time of bachelor craziness lasted until I met Cher and Paul met Jenn. I loved living with Paul but married life has perks that living with Paul thankfully didn't offer.

Well after that you've probably tuned me out and, as my eyes are crossing as I squint to wrap this up, I'm thinking I should probably crawl in bed. It has just occurred to me that I saw another movie that I failed to review. Crap. Well here you go:




The Life Aquatic

This little ditty was amusing and quite a bit of fun. It was quirky and felt almost European. It reminded me a lot of the type of humor used in "Lost in Translation." However, it was not as well executed. It flows smoothly from scene to scene and Bill Murray's character is surprisingly tender at times. I'd probably wait for rental on this one but it would also make a fine matinee.

RCS