Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).
The next installment of Ant-Boy wasn’t ready for posting this morning but I hope to have it up before midnight tonight (no guarantees).
Sony Memory sticks are amazingly resilient. I have one that made an accidental trip through the washer (and dryer!) and survived with all the data on it intact.
The more observant of you might have noticed that Twilightners has been showing up on my side bar as one of the books I’m currently reading for a while now. Well, the short version is I’ve already read it once but will need to read it again to review it.
The long version is I started reading it before going on my Japan trip and had intended to continue reading it on the plane, but I forgot to take it with me. After two weeks of mind-blowing traveling, I came back picked up the book and started reading it again where I’d left off. Then I sat down to write a review of it and my mind went blank as to what it was about or who the characters were.1
Was this because the book was bad? Not at all! I was just so wasted with jet lag that I didn’t absorb the book like I normally would and couldn’t think of anything to say about it. I plan on rereading it soonish and will write up a review of it afterwards. I apologize for the inconvenience.
1 Note to self: Reading with the intent to review afterward while suffering jet lag is just plain stupid.
Grrr, yesterday I twisted/pulled/crunched/whatever something in my back. It was annoying me all day yesterday and for extra fun it made sleeping last night a waste of time. I didn’t wake up rested even though I went to bed early1. I woke up with my back still feeling cranky and without feeling the joy of having a full night’s sleep. *grump*
I’m feeling cranky today. You have been warned.
1 Ok, it wasn’t early by many people’s standards but any night I make it to bed before 11 is an early night for me.
This afternoon Ariesna and I went out to see The Bourne Supremacy. As I expected it was mostly a fast paced action movie with just a hint of drama tossed in to spice things up. Was it good? Well… it would have been better if they didn’t use such jerky camera work for the action sequences, particularly the car chases. I have a fairly strong stomach for such things but even I was starting to feel a touch of motion sickness by the end of the movie. Poor Ariesna was downing some Dramamine to try calming her stomach and fight off the severe motion sickness that she was feeling. Still if you can get past the motion sickness issue; there are some other disappointments in store for you:
So am I saying that I hated the movie? No, I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was a fun film that allowed me to have some mindless entertainment for an hour & 48 minutes. Given I woke up exhausted and was in a sleepy haze all day that was probably for the best. I give the movie 3 and a half out of 5 cups of coffee. It’s worth seeing if you can catch it at a matinee or at a cheap-seats movie theater.
1 Though I have to admit, I did admire Bourne’s character for locating the girl and apologizing to her for what he’d done in the past.
I’ve been back in the States for a few days now and I’ve been meaning to1 write a little something reflecting back on the trip; however with jet lag and what not2, I’ve been a bit too tired to write anything up. Since I received a friendly reminder about it from AWelkin; I figure I better hurry up and write something. First off, let’s get the gushy fan-boyishness out of the way. Going to Japan was an amazing experience and something that I am very glad that I had the opportunity to do. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, here are some of the impressions that I’m left with from my visit to Japan.
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