Month: August 2003

Skipping work

Entertainment day. Since my stomach went totally crazy from the early morning, I had to skip work. Lots and lots of reading in the small, white, stinky room. Then, I felt a bit better so I could use some computers. Working remotely is fun. Especially if you have some music shouting in your ears to mute the boiling noises from the stomach. Updated my MP3 (and now partially OGG) collection with lots of new staff freshly ripped by Hazard: Evereve, Evanescene, Battlelore, Jean Michel Jarre, Tenacious D, Tiamat, Boney Nem, and something else I don’t remember. I’ve also configured a small script to generate full directory listings every week, so that diffs could be done – I might need that later on. :)

Closer to evening, I felt good enough for a short short short trip out of the house. DVD rentals this time (the ones which are close to the Pharmacy). I’ve picked up “Dungeons & Dragons“, which we somehow missed in the cinema and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider“, which we also missed, but wanted to see. Croft’s sequel is coming soon, so we should be prepared. :)

A fridge apart

We found out that the fridge is no good anymore, since the cover of the upper part (where you keep meat and other highly frozen staff) was broken. I forsee fridge shopping in the nearest future. Meanwhile, me and Olga had an interesting discussion about what to do with the old one online casino. Olga was more on the side of “let’s get rid of it”. I was more on the side of “let’s keep it and I will keep all my beers in it”. Mentally moving the fridge around the flat we couldn’t stick it anywhere, except for the balcony. More long discussions, but no final solution. I guess we’ll have to buy a new fridge first.

A man apart

Exprompteous trip to the movies to see “A Man Apart” (with Vin Diesel). The movie was nothing like all his previous ones and I guess was supposed to show good and serious acting. It was as ugly and cheap as five billion other films of this type, but I wouldn’t give Vin an Oscar for the best man role, if you know what I mean.

Overall, the movie was kind of boring. It’s a usual plot along the lines of: successfull cop fights drug mafia, they kill his wife, he gets pissed off and nails down the whole organization. The only thing which can make this kind of movie entertaining is LOTS of action. Loads of it even. But, for some reason, “A Man Apart” didn’t have that much of it. Long pauses, serious looks, etc. Body count is low and blood wasn’t floating as it was supposed to. It’s good to see Vin getting serious about serious roles, though.