Ok I've had some problems with my computer lately. The kind of problems that would force lesser computer users to through out their computers in disgust. Not I however. A little PC surgury never hurt anyone with a desire for pain and I was game. But I'm not going to relate some techno-fantasy of man versus machine. I am not going to regale you with boring stories. No sir, I intend to talk about nothing of importance and about nothing in particular.

So I was having the PC computing blues and in just another week or so I was going to be taking my final exams in school so I wasn't really having the PC computing blues but just a watered down version of computer angst and a full case of final test anxiety. It's not that the tests were going to be strenuous or taxing but I like getting myself worked up for these tests cause it gives me something meaningful to complain about.

As all things Finals came and went and I did fabulously except in my Calculas exam where I did only great. (I know if I had studied I would have done fabulously but tradition is tradition and who am I to argue.) I did good on the semester as a whole, good enough anyway to raise my cumulative GPA but as to what it was or what it is now I won't tell ya so it's all relative. I am feeling more and more attatched to school as time goes on so I suppose I am going to have to take this all much more seriously. Maybe.

But I still had the bum computer at home and I was receiving pressure from higher up that I should get my web site operational or bad things could start happening. Well, I did manage to get my computer mostly operational but no sooner had that happed than I was packing up my worldly and otherworldly possesions and moving exactly 116 feet to my new room. I was real excited about this cause I finally get a place all to myself. (Well, mostly to myself.) I was getting in with an old roommate of mine and he is not such a bad guy. (For a bald-headed, drug-dealing, computer pimping, rave dancin', computer science guy. He couldn't figure out how to operate a Brita water filter and works at JPL. -go figure-)

Along came CAX and I was doing the stress portion on that as well. All in all CAX wasn't as terribly trying as I had worked it up to be. In fact it was almost a vacation compared to working at ASC. Ah, but ASC is another story altogether. It's actually Leitch ASC now and is going through quite a few changes. Operationally, managerially, and practically we are still just as screwed up as we have always been but now it's for bigger, better reasons than before so it's OK.. It seems that ASC is one of those jobs that always has future potential but little present payoff. I dunno.

Also got to visit my brother out is Yewtah. Had a great time while I was out there doing all sorts of wacky, irreverant things but that's just the kind of guy my brother is. Speaking of Yewtah, I attended my best friends wedding thingy. Uh, you know the part of it where you stand in a long line and shake hands. Hmmm. The name of it eludes me at the present but I managed to go to it. I had a great time but unfortunately I didn't get to spend much time actually with my best friend but I'll forgive him since he did get married which takes more guts that I have right now. But that's a differant story.

I got to head up to my grandmothers place for a bit as well. That was a lot of fun and if anyone if cruising through Central Point, Oregon had best drive by her house and check out the perfectly manicured hedges out front of it. Yes, I cut her hedges and they are truly a sight to behold. Speaking of manual labor my sister also made it out that way and will be spending the Summer with my Grandma dearest. Hope she's having a good time.

So I'm just getting into the Summer grind and looking forward to the time when I can complain about working too much at ASC. (Actually I've been working eleven hours days here at good ol' ASC so that point is not too far.) You know it's Summer when all the good movies start coming out and they are out in full force.

I'm managed to see a few good ones. I liked The X-Files quite a bit but at the end I wasn't sure if I had gone to the movies or left the television on. Don't get me wrong it was great X-Files and I loved them not revealing all but it didn't quite break from the feel of the television show. I guess that's a testament to it's success at the box office right now.

I saw Mulan as well. This was a movie I had wanted to see for quite some time which is unusual for a Disney Inc. movie but it looked like they were trying to tell a story as well as just cash in on the fat Disney cow. For the first time there were non-derogotory Asians in a animated flick, (Well mostly non-derogatory.) but I just couldn't get past the english and anglicized voices coming out of ancient chinese characters. What can you expect though. The heroine was strong, free-willed, and completely out place. Pretty cliche in that sense, but that is was people like nowadays so Disney is just playing on what the market wants to see. What I did like about the heroine was her goal was not to fall in love or get saved by the hero but she was only trying to save her father's life and do what she felt was right. She didn't rely on her beauty or feminine wiles to save herself but rather her resourcefullness, courage, and determination. Normal Disney villians are stupid, dopey, or just plain unconvincing. The bad guy in this film was cold, mercilless, and more threatening so it makes his defeat by the heroine all the more meaningful. The focus of the movie wasn't on show stopping musical interludes and had the talking animals to a minimun so maybe things are really getting better. (I thought Eddie Murphy was hilarious though.)

I write more on Mulan than I do The X-Files. Well, one was good and the other was different. I also got out to see Out Of Sight. I had originally planned on not seeing this one simply cause the ad campain for the movie turned me off. But I started reading good review after good review and that was enough. I thought the movie was really good mostly for it's characters and the forbidden romance of Clooney and Lopez. All the characters seemed real or at least fully realized and had some great cameos from Samual L. Jackson and Micheal Keaton. I was not really a George Clooney fan and I might not be one now but he does this character justice and is great in the title role. He carries out the smooth talking bank robber with an almost early Cary Grant ease and Jennifer Lopez is amazing. Besides being a gorgeous actress she manages to put all the strength and intelligence into her role that is also believeable.

Well, the movies keep rolling on but my strength does not. It is getting later and later and I need my beauty sleep. Really I do. That about wraps up the story but the epic continues.