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7:30pm – Man! I wish I could see it. The BCS championship game is on right now and I’m at work. With SC up 38-10 at the half, doesn’t look like much of a game. Still, I’d love to see the sad looks on the Oklahoma player’s faces right about now. My prediction for the final score… Oklahoma 13, USC 394.

9:18pm – Home now. So my prediction was a little off. It still doesn’t take anything away from their win. Last year they had to share the championship. This year it’s all USC. Everyone knew they were good, but I don’t think anyone (including myself) knew exactly how much better than Oklahoma they actually were. Hope Leinart is back next year.

Has everyone seen the satellite images of Indonesia and Sri Lanka before and after the tsunami? It’s quite breathtaking how powerful the Earth can be when it wants to.

I’m on this high of trying to see all of the movies I’ve missed over the last month or so because of some reason or another. I have a list and am checking them off one by one. One this weekend was The Life Aquatic. It’s nothing to write home about and I’ll prove that right now.

The other I just came back from was Closer. I’m not sure where to begin with this one. It’s a story of two couples in love and the drama that’s created when the man from couple A gets involved with the woman from couple B. The thing that’s great about this flick is its characters. They cover the spectrum in personalities and you’re bound to related to at least one of them. Some of the things they do are strange to down right disturbing, but it never seems out of place. It perfectly captures the feelings that go through your mind during a lover’s quarrel and that’s why the things they do feel so real and are completely forgivable.

I have a new flick to place into my top ten for 2004. Closer is a brilliant movie with very mixed emotions and not seeing it would be a great injustice to your heart and mind.

I don’t know about you, but I’m very glad to see crappy 2004 go away. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for 2005. From all of me to all of you, have a happy new year.

I’ve been waiting for this movie for a while and it was finally released on this Best Buy Tuesday. Garden State is definitely on my top 10 list of movies for 2004. Zach Braff makes his first big screen writer/directorial debut and, although it’s not perfect, it’s definitely very good and just makes me can’t wait to see what’s more to come from him.

The flick is about a guy named Andrew who’s eking by life as a struggling actor. Then with one phone call, he’s forced to go back home and deal with a lot of internal conflict head on that he’s ignored for many years. In the end, Andrew just might begin to find there’s a lot in life worth enjoying and living through.

Not that anyone cares, but I think I might put together a top 10 2004 movies list. If no one else enjoys it, at least it’ll be something that keeps me busy through the night at work.

I did find time to watch a little TV this weekend. There was this great program about string theory on PBS called The Elegant Universe and based off of a book of the same name. String theory is the “theory of everything” in that it brings unification to two very opposing ideas, gravity and quantum mechanics. If there was ever a program called “string theory for dummies”, this would be it and it’s absolutely engaging. You can actually watch the entire program online before you buy the DVD which I plan to do.

Normally, I would love the weather we’re having here in SoCal. It’s very windy with a slight drizzle and suppose to turn into thunder storms and heavy showers later. Yup, normally I’d love it, but not this week. It’s just adding to the frustration at this point. This is easily the most stressful week I’ve had since the last time our server took a dump which was two years ago and it seems there is more to come.

So some things about this holiday weekend. Well, celebrated Christmas with the family over at grandma’s house, exchanged gifts, and ate way too much. My parents got me my motorcycle jacket. Go figure, now I have everything but the motorcycle. That’s coming next month for sure. I’m looking at the naked sport bikes (ie. Honda 599 or Suzuki SV650) and the lower end fairing sport bikes (ie Yamaha YZF600 or Honda F4i).

I was able to get my traffic school done online. It’s the first (and hopefully the last) time I’ve done the online thing with traffic school. Let me tell ya, it’s way better than the classes and you can cheat your ass off with it. The 4 hour course took me about 15 mins. Nice.

Anything happen with you this holiday weekend?

Another fun filled night at work. We’re gonna take a break tomorrow and pick it back up Sunday morning. I’m still gonna be here until midnight or so tonight. I guess I’ll track Santa and listen to A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack until then. Fun times.

When all of this stuff at work happened earlier in the week, I thought to myself that I’d have no problems sitting in here all weekend. It’s not like I’m gonna feel bad for missing the holiday weekend. Well I was wrong. I most definitely would like to be sitting at my parent’s place right now with my family than here in this dark, cold, and lonely office building. :(

Can you seriously believe how quickly the year has gone by? I mean it’s Christmas in another 2 days. That’s just ridiculous. I’m sure a lot of people have this holiday weekend planned already. Want to hear my plans? I’m going to be at work until midnight tonight. Tomorrow, I work from noon to midnight. Xmas Saturday I get a break. Then I get to work again Sunday from midnight to noon. Then I get to do that again for the next couple of days after that. Sounds like fun, right? We had a bit of an emergency this week and now a bud and myself get to spend the rest of the weekend and through next week restoring a server. Yup, I get to play the role of “dumb tape loader”. To tell ya the truth, I really don’t mind at all. I probably would have been doing nothing anyway. Now I have something to keep me occupied. I guess since I am here by myself for the next couple of days, I’m sure I’ll be posting a lot of early morning nonsense.