Not sure why I didn't post yesterday. Just didn't get around to it I guess. I did open a new savings account so I had some place to shove all this online money and point my paypal at. I won't keep much in it ya see so if PayPal is hacked what little life savings I have isn't wiped out. That's the theory anyway.

Today I didn't get a lot done either. Tried to start working on my PHP/MySQL quest again. Haven't gotten very far and most likely won't. I'm at the library now: free wifi and very quiet. The paid answer site is too distracting though. And I still have those MCSE books to get to. I got the first two, the big package of several as a set is still due. Which is just as well since I don't think I really have the room to store them.

I also found out I have jury duty. I don't know if that will interfere some how with my job seeking or not. Or receiving unemployment. Whatever. I'll find out at my unemployment class or meeting or whatever it is.

See as how I apparently have a lot of important dates to remember -- more than you'd think for an unemployed guy -- I started looking up "to-do" list type applications. Great, one MORE thing learn. I don't know what I'm complaining about, it's not like there's a list of more important pressing matters on my plate or something.

I do have to deliver the computer to the father-in-law-in-law (or whatever).

later...

One thing I haven't yet mentioned is a game for the 360 I've been playing off-and-on lately. It's called Red Faction: Guerrilla. It seems a lot like one of the GTAs to me in so much as you have kind of an "open world" or "sand box" and then accept different missions at your leisure. It's also sectioned off like a GTA. One more thing like GTA, when the bad guys get wind of you first their "aware" with a yellow alert and then their "kill you" with a red alert and all kinds of military vehicles come flying out of no where and start crashing into each other and blowing each other up, much like GTA and police cars. It also has lots of vehicles both nearby for free and randomly wandering the warzone for you to "car jack". I don't think the cars have radios though.

But everything else is different in that you're in a desert on Mars and it has this incredible physics engine when it comes to knocking down structures. You use this massive hammer or demolition charges in just the right area of the foundation and then detonate and the whole thing crumbles. Possible on top of you and/or your vehicle. Of course in one case I just crashed a big track through a building to bring it down all the more efficiently. I think that hurt some civilians but at least I accomplished the mission.

The thing is, right now, I only really play after dark becuase for some reason my land lard won't buy blinds for the only door into the condo which is a big sliding glass door that lets in lots of light for the whole day. So even though I other wise dislike fall/winter as seasons at least I can play the 360 again since it gets dark so much earlier.

Since that last posting I did do some very minor amount of work in the PHP/MySQL book but for some reason I just can't get back into it. I don't know what the deal is with that. I seem to do better when there's no Internet as an option. No paid questions to answer or anything else to distract me I guess. Same thing happened when I wrote the 50k novel in 28 days: starbucks = no internet which means more concentration apparently.

Speaking of which the novel thing is coming up in November. I hope all this blogging is effective writing practice. And that it doesn't make it worse some how.

Also, on a completely different subject, the weather here has been simply fantastic. It's always sunny and the high reaches the mid to high 70s. Which means I don't have to wait until an hour before dark to go for a walk/jog, I can go at 1:00 in the after noon if I want. Which I've been doing quite consistently for the last several days. I think I do actually feel better too.

I also watched the next episode of Dollhouse on hulu. That show's rating are already going to down after one episode and this second one wasn't exactly better than the first. I think the main problem is there really aren't any likable characters. The story lines aren't that compelling. And that chick, the main doll that once played Faith on other Weadon shows, doesn't quite seem up to the task of taking on all these different characters. She's no Jennifer Garner (i.e. Alias) in other words.

That's what's so frustrating. I *KNOW* Weadon is capable of such incredible brilliant writing and production and yet it's not coming through on this show. I was hoping at least for some kind of out-of-the-park deal with the premier episode. Something to really show the viewers how great the dollhouse can be. But It was just as pedestrian as any of the others. Same with the second. Maybe in the latter episodes, assuming there ARE latter episodes, he will finally write/direct an episode that is as brilliant as his various buffy/angel/firefly (and dr. horrible?) episodes. I just wish he wouldn't wait until the fifth or sixth episode to do that. The show really needs saving now, not later. Seriously.

It is cool how first one BSG cast member showed up then another. And there was already the one Angel cast member, now another has shown up. I imagine the picture is largely similar behind the camera as well.  ¶ 7:31 PM