Blog Number 400

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

OK, not to harp on this point but in 4 days I will be 40.  Lately I have been dealing at work with users in the Asia-Pacific region (Singapore and Australia mainly).  This requires some adjustmens / sacrifices on my part (and on the part of a co-worker also here in Indiana).  Mind you the AP folks come in a little early as well but hey, we are the Americans so of course it is more of a sacrifice for us!  Next week we will likely have a meeting every night (morning the next day for them) and this will start on Sunday (their Monday).  I did manager to avoid any meetings on Monday night since it is my 40th birthday (did I mention that already?) and we are going out for my birthday dinner.  After this morning's weigh in I might even be able actually to celebrate with a real meal and finish everything on my plate (instead of saving half for lunch the next day).  I mean, come on, you only turn 40 once.

• The Ring Two: I was able to get the wife to watch the first The Ring movie somehow.  She very much dislikes scary movies but it had enough of a plotline to keep her going.  Also, there are more suspense type scenes than actual gore / scary scenes.  This move carried on in the mode but try as I might I could not convince her to watch it with me so I caught 20 minutes here or there over the past week while she was gone or asleep.  I did break a rule of mine (like I did with The Fog) in that this dvd was full screen mode (what can I say, I am a purist and like only dvds in the original wide screen versions).  Anyway, plenty of good scary tense like scenes and you get a glimpse more into the background story of the Samara character.  If you liked the first one then you will like this one.  I did see where The Ring Three is in pre-production (though not with the main female character).

The son is with my mother tonight so it is just the daughter, wife and I.  I don't know what we are going to do since we only watch Little House on the Prairie as a family and as tempting as it is to pop in disc one of The Muppet Show Season One (I just got this from eBay fo $15 shipped in almost new condition - note to self, remember to leave positive feedback for seller).  Since it is already 7:20 and she is not even in the shower yet and she needs to be in bed in just over an hour, I imagine that it will not be an issue anyway.  I am up to 80 "friends" now on Facebook (does that mean I am too loose with who I am "friends" with?).  I guess I better head over there and see what's going on.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon