"I think I'm goin' out of my brain, I got it so bad for little miss Lois Lane"
Hey LJ, sorry I've been sorely neglecting you. I've been hella busy lately. Here's the bullet points:
- The project I'm working on at work went into super-duper overdrive for basically the entire months of November and December, so pretty much everybody (myself included) was working an assload of overtime. That finally seems to have settled back to normal post-Christmas, thank God.
- The almost-two-week Christmas break just flew by, since I had to work up until the 23rd, had Terri's family's Christmas stuff on the 24th, my family's Christmas stuff on the 25th, took off for San Antonio on the 26th, got back just in time for New Years, then next thing I knew it was the 5th of January.
- San Antonio was amazing, and not just because it was in the 70s and sunny everyday there. A great, relaxing vacation in which I ate like a king, took in a great football game (Northwestern vs. Mizzou, which went into overtime thanks to NW shanking an extra point), and, oh yeah, got engaged. Aw yeah.
- Oh yeah, and I did another feature for Anime News Network, on the upcoming anime Soul Eater. It's like this year's Bleach, only without the filler episodes and other shortcomings of infinite shonen action series (because it's finite...51 episodes). You can peep the article here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2008-12-31
- OH MY GOD IS IT COLD HERE. I know it's cold pretty much everywhere, but MAN, it's supposed to get down to 2 degrees tonight, and the HIGH tomorrow is only going to be TEN.
- I bought a spectacularly random batch of CDs at Vintage Vinyl the other day. Two George Carlin CDs (Back In Town and Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics-my 1st exposure to Carlin outside of Bill & Ted waaay back in junior high), Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere, The Roots' Do You Want More?!?!!!?! (the only one I haven't listened to yet), Uncle Tupelo's 89/93: An Anthology, and a blast from the past, Pocketful of Kryptonite by the Spin Doctors. My brother Matt owned this CD way back in the day and I remember listening to it a lot, and it supplied a long-running running gag among Los Bros Green ("What time is it?" "Four thir-tay!" "That's not late--naw! Naw!" etc. etc.), but I hadn't even thought about it in ages until one day I remembered that it contained my second favorite comic book-related song ever. I'd embed it here, but that function's been disabled, so click on the nice blue text for a blast from the past by the Spin Doctors, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues".
- The project I'm working on at work went into super-duper overdrive for basically the entire months of November and December, so pretty much everybody (myself included) was working an assload of overtime. That finally seems to have settled back to normal post-Christmas, thank God.
- The almost-two-week Christmas break just flew by, since I had to work up until the 23rd, had Terri's family's Christmas stuff on the 24th, my family's Christmas stuff on the 25th, took off for San Antonio on the 26th, got back just in time for New Years, then next thing I knew it was the 5th of January.
- San Antonio was amazing, and not just because it was in the 70s and sunny everyday there. A great, relaxing vacation in which I ate like a king, took in a great football game (Northwestern vs. Mizzou, which went into overtime thanks to NW shanking an extra point), and, oh yeah, got engaged. Aw yeah.
- Oh yeah, and I did another feature for Anime News Network, on the upcoming anime Soul Eater. It's like this year's Bleach, only without the filler episodes and other shortcomings of infinite shonen action series (because it's finite...51 episodes). You can peep the article here: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2008-12-31
- OH MY GOD IS IT COLD HERE. I know it's cold pretty much everywhere, but MAN, it's supposed to get down to 2 degrees tonight, and the HIGH tomorrow is only going to be TEN.
- I bought a spectacularly random batch of CDs at Vintage Vinyl the other day. Two George Carlin CDs (Back In Town and Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics-my 1st exposure to Carlin outside of Bill & Ted waaay back in junior high), Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere, The Roots' Do You Want More?!?!!!?! (the only one I haven't listened to yet), Uncle Tupelo's 89/93: An Anthology, and a blast from the past, Pocketful of Kryptonite by the Spin Doctors. My brother Matt owned this CD way back in the day and I remember listening to it a lot, and it supplied a long-running running gag among Los Bros Green ("What time is it?" "Four thir-tay!" "That's not late--naw! Naw!" etc. etc.), but I hadn't even thought about it in ages until one day I remembered that it contained my second favorite comic book-related song ever. I'd embed it here, but that function's been disabled, so click on the nice blue text for a blast from the past by the Spin Doctors, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues".