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I hadn't expected my thread to have such varied points of view.

I need to go to Wal-Mart today to get thermal underwear and gloves for Heinz Field.

And a large magnet.

I am in a much better mood.

Eric has reminded me that the one thing I don't have in Texas I can't replace is the Punching Bag Friend. The Danimo to my Travis. The Joe to my Ben. The drunken boozehound to my Bill Brasky.

Seriously you bastards need to get out of this crappy state and move to Texas pronto

edit: I use this icon and I forget the Rimmer to my Lister, or even the Howard Moon to my Vince Noir, i fail at this

Got to the airport, flight was delayed by about 2 hours. Plane was just sittin there doing nothing. Then magically there might have been a mechanical problem, but there wasn't. My dad's plan of setting up a 3 hour layover fell short because O'Hare is a non-Euclidian nightmare if you dare change concourses. How can an airport that big have like, half a walkway? And every slow person in the world got in front of me.

My connecting flight was delayed as dad texted me updates. This didn't matter as once we landed in Chicago, there was a bit of a mixup about where to taxi the plane. So instead of the gate right next to my connecting flight, I would up on the other side of the airport. Made a mad dash, was too late. Thankfully, the second flight out (which got delayed from 9:30 to 11 fucking 40) had plenty of spare seats to ride standby.

As many of you saw on twitter I was not a happy camper. I don't mind the actual flying parts, but getting to the flying bits was a lot more painful than usual.

All in all, I am showered, tired, should have gone to bed, was gonna type up a big entry about being home, but will do that later. At least I had a good birthday yesterday (technically 2 days ago by now) with Jessica. We went to Dan's and watched a bunch of SNL stuff on Netflix.

Okay I don't have a snappy way of endin this so I'm going to sleep

Don't really use my LJ for much, but I'm so excited about this that I have to plaster it all over the entire internet that I have accounts with!



LOOKIT MY BABY ITS GOT ALL THE BABY PARTS IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE AND IT'S A SHE BECAUSE I'M GOING TO HAVE A DAUGHTER AND YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT SHE WAS SUCKING HER THUMB AND I COULD SEE IT AND SHE HAS TINY LITTLE FINGERS AND ARMS AND LEGS AND TOES AND A CUTE ADORABLY HUGE HEAD AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S ON THE INSIDE(-ER) I COULD SEE HER HEARTBEAT IT GOES SO FAST.

*collapses into a babbling, frothing, very happy pile*

[Astyanax] like i told emily and bryan, you can join our suicide pact to never hit 30
[ShadowTherat] it's no fun when I'm the one going first!
[Astyanax] then we can be all like "man maybe this wasn't a good idea" *gets a shovel*
[ShadowTherat] ;_;
[Astyanax] "at least in the top 5 worst ideas ever. yep."

Avatar is... okay I guess.

The plot and the dialogue are utter crap. I mean I sort of expected that, but in the first half hour there are lines being tossed about like they're trying to hit the next generation of memorable action film lines. BUT not in a good way, none of the lines stick. I'm usually good about remembering things like, you know, the main characters, but at the moment I can only recall the names of Jake and Grace, the rest are just fuzzy memories.

What puts this from "fuck this movie I'm going to spend 3 hours watching something better" to "okay" is that it is god-damn beautiful. I'm a huge curmudgeon on CG and the mo-cap was solid and fluid and not at all like that shitty stuff like Polar Express/Christmas Carol. You can get a much better scope of acting with what they used. The visuals are gorgeous, and to be honest the culture of the Na'vi and the wildlife of Pandora were interesting and well fleshed out.

Also the fact there's swearing and violence and stuff in this movie makes those Avatar Happy Meal toys all the more hilarious.

In short, if your name is Aaron, you'll fucking love it.

After the movie we went to the Salt Lick, but I was starving at the Alamo so I already ate. Got half a sausage sandwich to polish off before the night is through. We watched the MST3k version of Santa Claus, which featured Satan (different from Lucifer) tryign to fuck up Santa's day and Santa's love of Christ, and somehow Merlin was involved. Also Santa has a bunch of children from around the world held prisoner as his slaves, in racial stereotype costume. After that it was Best In Show which was not as good as other Guest films but still funny regardless.

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I spent some money today. Probably too much! I wish I could get gifts for everyone but I'm being selective like I was last year, this time because the way my pay schedules work out, what I have has to last me till the 31st, and I want to have a bit left over for food and gas and stuff when I go home. But for those I was buying things for, I got some nice stuff.

However, I did buy myself some things. At Game Over I got a CD called Select Start of a bunch of orchestral/classical renditions of various video game tunes. They were playing it in the store and it was amazing. I also got a Piplup plushie because I'm a fucking manchild.

Opened up my gifts from jessfudd and got a pair of Batman boxers and Christmas Story pajamas. More awesome things to add to my tacky underwear/pajama collection. She also got Charlie a cat toy which I can only assume he assassinated and hid, and a tie which I will torture him into wearing and getting at least one picture.

Other than that, gonna sit back and do nothing until partytime.

Today's goals before Wuntagub/Movieplex party:

-shower
-light food shopping (mostly detergents/cleaning things, white russian ingredients)
-Go to mall, find a couple gifts for people
-pick up some smoke juice for my trip
-Go to Fry's for gifts I couldn't find at the mall (maybe look for a shitty movie to watch for tonight)

I feel like I have more to do today and am forgetting a few things.

I've been running through Flying Circus recently and for some reason this time around, at least when watching in order, I'm noticing so much of it being referenced in other episodes. Like the one with the soccer match between the doctors and the Long John Silver impersonators, and in an episode or two later during the overacting rehab sketch the impersonators were in the background. I have no idea why I never noticed the subtler references to other episodes before, they're everywhere. Then again, I don't think I've ever watched them in order before, or at least in more than 3-6 episode chunks.

I'm also still wondering about who the mystery man was that was pooping when this conversation happened in the bathroom with high-pitched voices:

"HEY CHARLES!"
"HEY TIM!"
"WANNA TOUCH DICKS?!"

As I am curious as to what a guy wearing proper business shoes/pants would react to this.

Aery pointed this out to me: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/jt/tattooblue.htm

I MUST CUT HIS HEAD OFF AND DRAIN HIS ESSENCE

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE

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Both God of War 3 codes I got (Gamestop voucher AND the one inside the booklet) are invalid codes. And I would have just downloaded it from Wes' account but his login apparently is invalid even though he told me the user/pass.

Fucking Christ. I just want to swing my Spartan cock around. Is that so hard?

edit: crisis averted, Wes changed his password.