Got to the airport, flight was delayed by about 2 hours. Plane was just sittin there doing nothing. Then magically there might have been a mechanical problem, but there wasn't. My dad's plan of setting up a 3 hour layover fell short because O'Hare is a non-Euclidian nightmare if you dare change concourses. How can an airport that big have like, half a walkway? And every slow person in the world got in front of me.

My connecting flight was delayed as dad texted me updates. This didn't matter as once we landed in Chicago, there was a bit of a mixup about where to taxi the plane. So instead of the gate right next to my connecting flight, I would up on the other side of the airport. Made a mad dash, was too late. Thankfully, the second flight out (which got delayed from 9:30 to 11 fucking 40) had plenty of spare seats to ride standby.

As many of you saw on twitter I was not a happy camper. I don't mind the actual flying parts, but getting to the flying bits was a lot more painful than usual.

All in all, I am showered, tired, should have gone to bed, was gonna type up a big entry about being home, but will do that later. At least I had a good birthday yesterday (technically 2 days ago by now) with Jessica. We went to Dan's and watched a bunch of SNL stuff on Netflix.

Okay I don't have a snappy way of endin this so I'm going to sleep

[Astyanax] like i told emily and bryan, you can join our suicide pact to never hit 30
[ShadowTherat] it's no fun when I'm the one going first!
[Astyanax] then we can be all like "man maybe this wasn't a good idea" *gets a shovel*
[ShadowTherat] ;_;
[Astyanax] "at least in the top 5 worst ideas ever. yep."

We had this for dinner last night and it was aweeesome.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Acorn-Squash-with-Sweet-Spicy-Sausage/Detail.aspx

Avatar is... okay I guess.

The plot and the dialogue are utter crap. I mean I sort of expected that, but in the first half hour there are lines being tossed about like they're trying to hit the next generation of memorable action film lines. BUT not in a good way, none of the lines stick. I'm usually good about remembering things like, you know, the main characters, but at the moment I can only recall the names of Jake and Grace, the rest are just fuzzy memories.

What puts this from "fuck this movie I'm going to spend 3 hours watching something better" to "okay" is that it is god-damn beautiful. I'm a huge curmudgeon on CG and the mo-cap was solid and fluid and not at all like that shitty stuff like Polar Express/Christmas Carol. You can get a much better scope of acting with what they used. The visuals are gorgeous, and to be honest the culture of the Na'vi and the wildlife of Pandora were interesting and well fleshed out.

Also the fact there's swearing and violence and stuff in this movie makes those Avatar Happy Meal toys all the more hilarious.

In short, if your name is Aaron, you'll fucking love it.

After the movie we went to the Salt Lick, but I was starving at the Alamo so I already ate. Got half a sausage sandwich to polish off before the night is through. We watched the MST3k version of Santa Claus, which featured Satan (different from Lucifer) tryign to fuck up Santa's day and Santa's love of Christ, and somehow Merlin was involved. Also Santa has a bunch of children from around the world held prisoner as his slaves, in racial stereotype costume. After that it was Best In Show which was not as good as other Guest films but still funny regardless.

I spent some money today. Probably too much! I wish I could get gifts for everyone but I'm being selective like I was last year, this time because the way my pay schedules work out, what I have has to last me till the 31st, and I want to have a bit left over for food and gas and stuff when I go home. But for those I was buying things for, I got some nice stuff.

However, I did buy myself some things. At Game Over I got a CD called Select Start of a bunch of orchestral/classical renditions of various video game tunes. They were playing it in the store and it was amazing. I also got a Piplup plushie because I'm a fucking manchild.

Opened up my gifts from jessfudd and got a pair of Batman boxers and Christmas Story pajamas. More awesome things to add to my tacky underwear/pajama collection. She also got Charlie a cat toy which I can only assume he assassinated and hid, and a tie which I will torture him into wearing and getting at least one picture.

Other than that, gonna sit back and do nothing until partytime.

Today's goals before Wuntagub/Movieplex party:

-shower
-light food shopping (mostly detergents/cleaning things, white russian ingredients)
-Go to mall, find a couple gifts for people
-pick up some smoke juice for my trip
-Go to Fry's for gifts I couldn't find at the mall (maybe look for a shitty movie to watch for tonight)

I feel like I have more to do today and am forgetting a few things.

I've been running through Flying Circus recently and for some reason this time around, at least when watching in order, I'm noticing so much of it being referenced in other episodes. Like the one with the soccer match between the doctors and the Long John Silver impersonators, and in an episode or two later during the overacting rehab sketch the impersonators were in the background. I have no idea why I never noticed the subtler references to other episodes before, they're everywhere. Then again, I don't think I've ever watched them in order before, or at least in more than 3-6 episode chunks.

I'm also still wondering about who the mystery man was that was pooping when this conversation happened in the bathroom with high-pitched voices:

"HEY CHARLES!"
"HEY TIM!"
"WANNA TOUCH DICKS?!"

As I am curious as to what a guy wearing proper business shoes/pants would react to this.

well today was awful. but I will have narcotics tomorrow!

So for those who don't know whats been going on with me I decided after I got laid off I was going to go back to school and find a career. I was laid off from my Job back in June and was originally eligible to join the second career program offered by the government to people looking to find a new career after being laid off. So I applied to this program and then I was waiting. Well in the middle of my application process they changed their Eligibility requierments.... So now in order to be eligible you must have been in the same job for over 10 years, not graduated high school, laid off for over a year and various other requirements I don't fall into. So now I will have to go through my school the old fashioned way. Which is fine I guess, I can;t control the government.

Only thing is now I am too late for the January class period so I will have to wait again. But I think i need a change of scenary. I am only 27 years old, I don't have anything holding me back, no kids or anything. Why not do something drastic? I can go do my own thing. I would still receive money from the government until October so if I wanted to wait until Sept to go back to school I could.

So I am currently thinking about moving to Ottawa. I have been pondering it off and on since I lost my job. Its new, I have friends there, Its a major city, has an airport, has some decent schools, cheaper car insurance, possibly cheaper living. Cons being, I would be leaving all my friends and such here in the city, would be farther away from both of my parents, have to relearn the city, would need to start relearning my french.

So right now I am just deciding what i want to do with myself. I am not one to just jump in and do something major without looking into everything. But I just feel like this is something I need to do. Set out on my own and just do it. I have enough stuff to have a single bachelor apartment, my Mom said she would help me move my car and stuff out there. It seems like it is obivous and yet still i wonder if I might be making a mistake. I will not be deciding this instant but I will have it in my thoughts. I am really trying to look at this from all angles but the more I think the more I talk myself out of it. Also trying not to factor in Brandi into my desicion. Can;t make a huge life changing choice on a Long distance relationship a month and a half old. But I think I have looked at it pretty evenly from both sides.

Anyways, if anyone wants to give me thoughts/experiences of their own it would be great.

Aery pointed this out to me: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/jt/tattooblue.htm

I MUST CUT HIS HEAD OFF AND DRAIN HIS ESSENCE

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE

I got poor person's health insurance today, so thank you America New York City for paying into my socialized medicine. It is about as good as I could hope for.

It was a bit of a hassle getting but that is okay. I have to go back for a real appointment at a real doctor tomorrow which is exciting. And then I'll pay for some real god damn drugs.

oh man you have no idea how stocked i am too be temporarily unemployed and have a javelin/care package fixed Modern Warfare 2 to play. no idea.

i bought kameo the other day. figure it's $6 and probably could sink a lot of time into it. shit is like all the N64 platformers (sans Mario 64) to the nth degree. Part of me is enjoying it, but I am also getting the same frustrations I remember from when I was 10.

Both God of War 3 codes I got (Gamestop voucher AND the one inside the booklet) are invalid codes. And I would have just downloaded it from Wes' account but his login apparently is invalid even though he told me the user/pass.

Fucking Christ. I just want to swing my Spartan cock around. Is that so hard?

edit: crisis averted, Wes changed his password.

If I came with a warning label, what would it be?