Groovy Weekend
5/6/2

I�ve been busy at work. It�s environmental paperwork season and I�m an environmental paperwork farmer. To further clarify this bad analogy, I�m a generator of paperwork, a producer if you will. The analogy is not that of harvest where I collect paperwork from little droogs and keep it for myself. I want to get this stuff off to the print shop and mail it to the Powers That Are More Powerful Than The Powers That Be Locally.

Friday afternoon, Aisai and I went and saw Spiderman. That�s currently my favorite movie of the year. Yes, it was even better than the French Wolf Movie. I also further delved into the trendy by renting the Spiderman PS2 game. It is a very cool game that I suck at. Too bad Spidey doesn�t drive a car, that would take me totally out of the suck arena.

The two biggest laughs from Aisai this weekend were:

1. When, during Spiderman, both Aisai and I realize that Bonesaw McGraw, the professional wrestler which Spiderman fights to get money to buy a car, was Randy Savage. He was hard to recognize since he had that pyramid, KISS fro going. But when he opened his mouth, �OOoooooh, Spidermaain...Yoo don�t know the hurt I�ll put onya, buddy...Yeeeeeee.�

I love talking like Randy Savage. It�s a horrible vice, though I do it well. Quite well for a person who never watched wrestling and got most of his Randy Savageness from Slim Jim commercials and when he was Space Ghost�s dad.

2. Aisai and I are in Lowe�s since we went to look at flooring options and houseplants. I think we�ll probably put down some Cumulus Blue Armstrong Commercial Flooring [call me crazy, but it�s terribly cool]. Well, we had degenerated into looking at globes to replace the ones on our current ceiling fan in the great room. I picked up one that was, arguably, very horrific and said, �Hey, I really like this one.� Aisai stared at it, as it was very odd and hard to understand why anyone would really like it. Then I added, �...FOR ME TO POOP ON!� And Aisai laughed so hard her spleen fell out her nose.

The coolest thing I did over the weekend was when I got email on Saturday night. Fandango sent me an email telling me I could order Star Wars Episode 2 tickets, so I did. I have tickets for 4:30 pm on the 16th. That�s opening day. Whoooooo!

You know, people also lined up to buy Playstation 2�s when they came out. I didn�t. I bought mine online on the Sixth of June and got it on the 26th of October, two days after it came out. I breifly toyed with the idea of selling it on ebay for $800 and making $500 profit. But if I had done that I wouldn�t have been able to get one until April of the next year.

Oh, and according to some sources in the media the console war is already over, again. Seems that PS2 had plenty of units out before the Xbox and Gamecube launched. Since those launches, Sony has sold around 8.8 million PS2s, where only 1.5ish have been sold of each of the competition. Each week, 65000 more PS2s are sold where only 30000 of each of the other units are sold, so the sum of the other two systems doesn�t equal that of the PS2. Also...Sorry, Xboxers...only about 180k units have sold in Japan and now the Japanese companies don�t want to make games for it. The Nintendo has about double that in Japan, but the PS2 far outpaces it.

I don�t know if I ever mentioned this, but I�m not really a shopper. Sure, I do the grocery thing, but that�s about it. I never go buy housewares or anything. However, Sunday, I did.

And what kind of housewares does Postwood buy? Well, we actually went to get a dress shirt and a pillow. I needed another dress shirt since they gradually shrink over the course of a year or so. The pillow was because Aisai didn�t like the pillow that I use to prop my feet on the coffee table. See, the coffee table�s side will cut into my tender calves.

Moo.

And the pillow that I used previously had a Christmas tree on it. And it being May...

So, I get a really cool red silk pillow with some Chinese style dragons and plenty of gold thread. But that�s not all. There is a cool coffee mug with no handle. It wasn�t broken, it was made that way.

And then...there�s the mask. I bought some hideous Thai demon mask. I was surprised when Aisai let me hang it above the doorway to our bedroom. It�s horrible.

Mwah ha ha ha.

[Note: My mask looks like Agat-talai before he got his first coffee.]