Busy day.

I like days when I get a lot done. I don't feel so bad about playing world of warcraft for hours on end after a day of working on the house. Chapter 6 is up, its short. I considered making it part of chapter 5, but I like it better on its own.

I don't do enough cardio.

That's a fact fo shizzle. I hate to run, or elliptical, or bike, or even get off the couch. I don't mind walking the kiga, but I hate snow, and we gots lots of snow. The kiga doesn't get it, she thinks its cool to walk, and even cooler to walk in the snow. I agree on half of that.

I love to lift weights, and its not hard to motivate me to do so. So I bought a barbell set to use at home. Hopefully, this will allow me to use my 11 o clock gym time to fit in some much needed cardio.

After I carried over 300 lbs of lead up to my attic, I needed to test out the placement of everything, so I tossed some weight on and played around. Yesterday, my workout was very easy, so I figured I'd push myself and see how far I could go today. I benched 180 for reps. Wednesday, I struggled a lot with 160. This begs the question, What the fuzznuckle could cause my bench to go up 20lbs in 3 days? I don't know, but I'm happy with it.

My goal is to bench 200 for reps, so in reality, I just got 50% closer to my goal. How? I don't know.

Stupid Girl Tricks.

I'll never understand the propensity that women have towards doing stupid stuff. Instead of saying the sentence "Hey, what time are you leaving? Want to walk me to my car?", the sentence "I'm out of here, good night" comes out. Now, I'm not stupid, I know that "I'm out of here, good night" means "walk me to my car", but I don't care what it means, because "walk me to my car" also means "walk me to my car".

I figured out a lot of this a long time ago, and if I put my knowledge to practical purpose, I would probably be a pretty decent boyfriend, but as it is, I'm generally a bad boyfriend because I don't want to think about the hidden meaning behind words. To me, they're just words, they mean what they say. So I play stupid, I take every word as literal as possible, and respond accordingly. "OK, have a good night".

Now, the real sentence that was supposed to be said first finally gets said "What time are you staying till?" Problem is that I'm already annoyed at the existence of the first sentence. "I dunno, I got some things to do, I'll talk to you later."

Ladies, quit being stupid, or even better, if you have any cute friends that think the stupid things that you do are stupid, send em my way, we'll probably get along.

The messengers.

I only ask myself 1 question at the end of a movie to determine whether I liked it. Was I entertained? I don't care about actor quality, plot holes, or any other artistic type stuff. I'm the guy who walks into a theater to watch a movie and be entertained. Sometimes, I admire good directing. Manhunter(the original red dragon before red dragon was red dragon) is a perfect example of a movie that I feel had amazing directing, mixed with a phenomenal soundtrack. The final 15 minutes of that movie were a joy to watch because of those aspects. As a matter of fact, if it weren't for those aspects, I probably would say that Manhunter was a craptastic movie.

So, after the longwinded intro, was I entertained by The Messengers? Indeed. Its more of the same as the grudge or the ring. Creepy dead children and stuff that jumps at you. I had the plot figured out about halfway into the movie, but enjoyed it all the same.

That being said, the best part of the movie was the part where a little kid came running back into the theater from a bathroom break, tripped as he ran up the stairs and did a faceplant in front of the whole theater. That was laugh out loud funny for all of us. Poor little guy, I guess his parents should have taught him not to run indoors.

I've decided

that Yu will start the story at 13 years old instead of 8. I need him to be older later in the story so that his interactions with other characters are more believable, and I don't want to do a "5 years later" chapter.

Right now, I think I'm just slopping the story on paper. The rough idea is in my head and I know how it is going to progress, but the writing won't be fine tuned until the story is all out there. Spending countless hours rewriting the early chapters won't do me any good. I think its better to get away from it, so when I go back and reread it, I'll be able to read it with a fresh perspective and pick up any hiccups that might occur in the flow of the story.

Since its all in my head as i'm writing it, it all makes sense to me at the time.

crap yeah!

Vongo+Vista+xbox360=one happy matt.

I've long despared about the fact that vongo wouldn't allow me to watch movies via media extender on my xbox 360. Vongo is an awesome service, but who the begeesus wants to watch movies on their computer? Not I. Apparently, windows vista changed that, and now I can watch movies from vongo on my 360!

This is great news. Now if I could just figure out how to watch itunes mpv downloads on the xbox...

The wow starts now.

That's the tagline for windows vista. They aren't lying. The wow starts before you even install it. How so? You're like "wow, how the crap do I open this box?". Thanks microsoft, not only did I get a new OS, but I got a chinese puzzle box too.

Vista sure is pretty. I don't know if its any better or worse than xp, but I was assured that "you're computer is safer and faster than ever!".....again. If its anywhere near as safe as the DVD was inside of its box then I suppose its pretty darn safe. I almost went into mccracken engineering mode to open that box. mccracken egineering mode is kind of like when the 5 lions combine to form voltron and they bust out the lazer sword, except there's only one of me and my sword is more like a hammer.