I wonder if they close it on policy or because the two theater workers were women? Either way, it was pretty irritating.

I don't remember everything but she also said something like "since I'm having such a bad time today, can today not count?" The dad just kept on saying her name in a defeated/fed up sort of way and trying the "I've had enough" approach. It was reaaaaaaaaaaaally awkward. I can only imagine what it's like when the mother is around. Possibly divorced? Or possibly just that the wife treats the husband like this too? I have no idea, but it was awkward, kind of disturbing and almost frightening to watch.

The good/fun thing about the movie is that Sam Raimi would often do the lead up to the scare and maybe the fake out and then the big scare. BUT he'd then continue for several more moments just hitting you over the head with it relentlessly and it worked! Lots of times in scary movies after the first initial scare you're into the action and it's not scary anymore, but every scene managed to take things further and still be scary and intense throughout. The movie also had some elements of humor and a few very Evil Dead-like moments without ever fully going for comedy.

Highly recommended (if when you're reading this it's still in theaters go see it!) I'll probably do some more comics about the people who were in the audience at my screening...

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was a very fun game albeit fairly easy. It's definitely the easiest of the three Metroid Prime games, but still a heck of a lot of fun. Some of the set pieces in the game are really great to play through, it's just not a very punishing game. In the other games the boss battles with Ridley, Meta-Ridley, Omega-Ridley etc were always very hard to the point of getting sweaty controller hands, but I beat that battle in only one try in this game. The hardest boss battle wasn't even the last one either. I'm not sure if I should blame the game design or if the better controls just made it that much easier. I suppose playing the originals with Wii controls might help answer that, but I'm not sure if it's worth the investment considering I already own the first two already.

Shortly after the game came out I had set it aside because some other game distracting me (possibly Final Fantasy XII I don't remember) plus I was in one very annoying section of the game. So the past few weeks I've been playing nothing but Metroid Prime 3 at home because it was a travesty I've let it sit for so long. After I finished it though I realized just how long it's been since a good Wii game came out. Last good one was probably Super Smash Bros Brawl. Kind of sad really that it became something of a joke system in a lot of ways. Maybe the Wii motion plus will make it more appealing to developers and it'll get more unique games a la the Nintendo DS.

If it doesn't then I guess we'll just have to play Xbox while waiting for the next Nintendo game sequels.

The local news anchors like to banter with the weather man saying stuff like "When is the rain going to end?? Give us some good news for once Bob!" or something like that. I don't know if they really care or they just need some good material to fill the time.

When I put the computer in sleep it's ridiculous how much quieter the room becomes. Thing is that I really can't justify an upgrade of any kind because for all intents and purposes it's totally fine, the fan is just REALLY REALLY LOUD.

Anyway, when I got home I was up for a while but ended up crashing pretty early and waking up at 6 AM without an alarm. I went back to sleep, but when I was still okay at 7 I decided I might as well get up. Plus I hadn't done my comic the night before so I needed the extra time.

So after my first Facebook thrashing I was talking to some of my other friends and one mentioned the dictionary tab which has a well organized list of all the two letter words in the dictionary. Of course I slapped myself for not seeing it in the first place. I think I'm past the point where I click on every button and menu in a piece of software or something. This is where I discovered a wealth of two letter words that don't seem like words at all.

I know that you can't use abbreviations in Scrabble but apparently you can use shortened versions like "AB" for "abdominals" , or "AG" short for "agriculture." Also apparently lots of interjections in the dictionary like: aw, ai, eh, hm, ho, lo, mm, oi, oy, sh, uh, um, and yo.

I did better in my second game (still currently a hundred points behind) but I just don't like using the two letter word tactics, it just feels cheesy to me. Plus I have enough distractions at work as it is so I don't think I'll be doing much more of the Scrabble after this.

I know it's not cheating, but it just struck me like in a multiplayer video game when someone uses something that isn't quite a game bug but it's cheesy when you're faced with it. I had never played Scrabble like this before and this whole strategy centered around two letter words kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

More on this later.

Anyway, the film stopped no less than FOUR TIMES. The people at the theater said something about the people who previously had the print not splicing it correctly or something. We ended up with about half an hour of downtime if you combined all the delays together. Fortunately it was never during a fight scene, but it was still very irritating.

Anyway, they gave each of us two complimentary passes which can't be used for sold out shows. I think what they meant was that it had to be traded for a ticket and that you couldn't just walk into a movie as if it were a ticket.

At one point the stylist asked me if the length of my hair in back was okay, I asked if it could be a little shorter. Turns out it wasn't a real question because he had already gone as short as he could without it being a tapered back which isn't what he was going for. Like I said, not much you can do. But it all worked out, I'll probably just stick with this guy now since for so long I've just been having a random person at the same salon cut my hair, and it'll be better to have one person. Plus this person didn't ask me to pick a style from a magazine which I never know what to do with.

An hour and a half later or so I had passed the written test with flying colors. No really, I saw that I got 100%. Now I have a permit and a road test later and I'll have my shiny New York license. A friend told me to take the test on Long Island because it'll be one billion times easier, I'll probably end up doing something like that because there's no way I want to test in a crowded area.

When I took my road test 11 years ago all I had to do was drive out of a parking lot, turn left into traffic, turn right into a dead end street where I did a three point turn and then drove back to the parking lot. It all happened in an area smaller than a city block.

Well we finally got some new filters, so I decided to do a test. I poured a glass of water using the current filter, and when the new one was ready and cold I poured another glass. I put both in front of my girlfriend for her to try out. She took two tastes of each glass and picked the filtered one. I was almost disappointed, because up until then I had apparently been fine drinking not so filtered refigerated water. Still though, I tasted them afterwards too and could tell the filtered one tasted cleaner, whereas the other one almost seemed drier or something.

Granted, New York City is supposed to have some of the cleanest drinking tap water so I don't think drinking it is as bad as some other places. I imagine there are places in the country where the difference in water is much greater in difference. Off the top of my head I always remembered brushing my teeth at a family friend's house in New Jersey and how strong the chlorine flavor was.

Then after that he proceeded to pick his nose in just about the most explicit way possible. You'd think he was trying to reach his brain. He wasn't even using his pointer finger, it was his middle finger! He looked like Quaid in Total Recall with the huge bulge in his nose from taking the bug out of his head. *shudder*