I’m home sick today. It feels like a cold mixed in with a delayed hangover from Saturday night. Started feeling it all yesterday evening and I couldn’t get to sleep. I need to learn the meaning of the word moderation when drinking. I’m sure it didn’t help this cold at all.

I ordered the Mighty Mouse from Apple last week. Ever since, I’ve been reading review after review about how much people don’t like it. I’ve been sitting here hoping that it’s just not as bad as everyone is saying it is. Well it came today and I’ve been playing with it for the last couple of hours now. My thoughts? The Mighty Mouse is damn near close to the absolute worst mouse I have ever used. It’s incredibly light and, therefore, feels completely cheap in your hand. I am having major problems having the mouse recognize a secondary click from me. It usually acts like a normal click. The side buttons are extremely too far forward and you have to adjust your hand position on the mouse just to use them. As cool as the track ball in the middle sounds, it’s completely inconsistent with track speed and sometimes wont even engage at all until a second roll. Lastly, can someone tell me why driver software for this stinky piece of poo is taking up about 140MB? That just seems a little ridiculous to me. The only good thing I can say about the thing is that it’s pretty and matches a lot of other Apple peripherals. Big fuckin’ deal! Apple, this is, like, what? Strike 50 for mice? Save the absolutely insulting fee of $50 you would spend on the Mighty Mouse and go get yourself a Logitech MX 518 gaming-grade mouse.

I picked up a 60GB iPod today. Simply outgrew my old one. This would be my third iPod since the original one was introduced. Now that you know the reason for moving on from the second iPod, you can go back and read about the fate of my first iPod. I still use that dead iPod screen as my buddy icon to this day.

My general rule with any mouse is the more buttons, the better. With the introduction of the Mighty Mouse, Apple has finally gotten off their ass and created a mouse that I might actually consider using. And leave it to Apple to overprice a simple mouse. $49.00? Seems like it should be closer to $29.00. I’ll still pick one up today and see if it’s worth using, but I’m still thinking you can’t get any better than a high-end Logitech mouse for my money. Oh well. The price for early adoption.

Can you believe it’s August already? This year is flying by. I had me a pretty chill weekend. Huntington Beach on Saturday. Out riding my bike all day Sunday. It was a nice (and inexpensive) change of pace from the two weekends before. Well, everything on the site is changed over now. Working on a new layout, but it’s not going up for a while. I updated my Creative Commons license from the 1.0 version to the 2.5. Also added my MySpace profile into the links section. That site isn’t as bad as I thought it was at the beginning of the year. Go click on it and be my friend. Please!

I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Friday. Easily one of the worst flicks I’ve seen all year. Tim Burton is 0-2 as far as remakes go. I’m a fan, but he needs to stick to creating original ideas instead of fucking up other people’s ideas. Oh well. He’ll redeem himself and this mess of a movie will be forgotten when I see Corpse Bride later this year.

As you can see, everything is pretty screwed up right now on my site. No worries. I should have it back to normal by the end of the weekend. I’m got a crap load of things to re-link. The bottom line is my site is now located at www.projectrich.com so please go there for all new content. I have all the redirects turned on from my old site to move people here and hopefully everyone will find their way. Good luck to us all…

I really liked Arizona when I first started visiting years ago, but I think that was only because my friend was still in college and there were blondes everywhere. Now I just hate it more and more after every visit. We probably couldn’t have picked a worse time to go than last weekend either. It was about 120 degrees and it was raining some of the time. Raining in 120 degree weather? WTF?! Wet from sweat and water. It was pretty disgusting. We stayed indoors 95% of the time. That other 5% involved a hike that only lasted about a half an hour before we realized how stupid we were. Anyway, I put up the gallery from the trip so check it out.

It’s been damn hot these last couple of days. Down near Long Beach where I work has been ok. The valley where I live, though, has been getting up towards 105. I guess summer finally decided to hit SoCal. I’ll be in Phoenix all weekend and it’s gonna be ten times worse than over here. It’s a dry heat though so you wont feel it when you die.

Comic Con was cool. Ended up spending a lot less than I thought I would. The one thing I’ve noticed over the years is the amount of hot girls there. 10 years ago it was just us male dorks. Now it’s hotties everywhere. People are starting to understand that it’s a lot more than comics and that’s a good thing. I don’t think I’m ever gonna do a Saturday and Sunday trip again. There were just too many people there to enjoy it on Saturday. Next year a Sunday day trip should be just fine.

You know how last week I talked about how much of a mess at work I am? It got so bad yesterday that I took a half a day off. My head hurt. My chest hurt. I couldn’t breathe. I just wasn’t able to function. It sucked. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope the week gets better.

On the good side of things today, the NHL and NHLPA expectedly announced the hockey lockout was over. I’ve been going into withdrawals without my hockey. Some of the proposed rule changes sound lame, but I’m still ready to watch. Bring it.