Nothing too exciting, thus the lack of posts. Lots of just has to be done stuff. I started an account audit for Windows accounts to clean up for the summer. We have way too many people with duplicate accounts, and then there's the whole really leanient on student accounts so we have like 2700 that aren't current students (I just cleaned those up last year too - I didn't realize our turnover was that high). We'll see how that goes this week though when I actually dive in and start doing things with the accounts. Friday night brooke invited a bunch of people over to her place for dinner and then a movie. She made some good soup, despite her claims of not being able to cook (granted it was just opening cans and stirring, but...). Not too many people showed up - besides the 4 obvious it was just Dan and I. After that I went to BestBuy with brooke and Joe to get Joe's graduation present sorted out. He ended up returning the gamecube and got an Xbox instead. Also ended up getting a couple games, an extra controller, and the dvd remote. After unpacking it and starting to play it promptly overheated though. brooke and I spent time alternating between playing the game and trying to figure out why it kept overheating even after cooling down while Joe checked out of his place. Eventually Travis came over and we found the fan making noise attempting to spin. So the thing went back in the box to go back to the store the next morning. Hopefully he got a new one that works now. Saturday was relax day. Slept in a bunch, sat around the house, and watched
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I'd have to say the reviews were a bit off on that one. Yea it wasn't the greatest movie ever, but it was actually pretty decent. It's not a movie to be expecting a plot, but more of just a fun pulling together of a bunch of classic book heros to conquer the evil guys. Standard fun no-thinking action flick. I'd have to recommend it. Sunday was Salem, followed by going home and sitting around some more. Still raining of course. I like rain a bit, but I think the biggest thing is the big storm aspect. I just keep looking outside hopeful for lightning and thunder that shakes everything and stuff blowing everywhere for high winds, and all I see is rain hitting and bouncing off the ground and a world of highly saturated color. So it became time to listen to music downstairs some more. I need to get a more comfortable chair down there. It's always good though, sometimes music just needs to be cranked up a bit. Eventually started watching
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, which was recommended to me at some point. It's a good thing I don't remember where, since that thing was boring as heck. Didn't take long to reach over and grab the computer and start surfing the net more. I let it play through, but didn't pay much attention to the last hour and a half. Doesn't help that it was 160 some minutes long. The guy seems a bit odd. Oh well, at least I didn't suffer through it all. Then there was the season finale of Alias, which seemed to try to cover too much and jump around more than normal. Sorta makes sense to try and tie up loose ends for the summer, but they seemed to do less of that than opening up a bunch of new things and then finishing quick and going to something new. Oh well, we'll see what next fall brings. Tomorrow is back to work, and hopefully only deleting the accounts on my list...
LXG wasn't too bad. I enjoyed it. Except Nemo. I thought they did a terrible job on him... he looked like the 80's mixed with the Middle East.