Well, I didn't mention it on Thursday, but I ended up ditching Nick a bit early to go help out JoeBuck. He came out of the bank after leaving his car under brooke's watch to find it wouldn't start. I ended up not going to help him because he didn't actually have jumper cables so Mr. Boyum showed up with some to bail him out.

Friday was some more of the same, but not as much (the network stuff that is, not brooke breaking things - at least not that I've heard about yet). It turned into a bunch of random stuff, and I don't remember many details. I do remember moving patch cables around, and talking to people, and people asking me questions every time I sat down to do something. Oh well, those days happen. Did get a few minor IB changes to the look of the UserInfo area done, and sent someone to tell people no. I don't remember the exact quote that was said upon the messenger's return, but a close summary was "there's something about telling someone they're screwed and it calming them down".

Saturday I was woken up to a pounding on my bedroom door. It was around 8:50am and my brother was annoyed by the UPSes beeping. Turns out the power was out. I couldn't really shut them up, but the power came on shortly after 9 and I went back to bed. Now that I look back that was the night I was woken up at 2am when my lights turned on too. My brother said the dining room one was on too. Other lights have done that other nights this past week. My closest guess so far is that there's something really funky with the power and some sort of surge is resetting the switches. I ended up sleeping until early afternoon, which was nice for a change. Sat around for a while online, and then my family came over with pizza after the game. Can't argue with that. After that I left for Dave's sister's place to watch a movie with him and flabre since they were out of town. On the way I noticed that the lights on the south side of 694 on Silver Lake Rd were flashing red (well, noticing was good since I went through the intersection, but it's not the point of mentioning it). After alternating phone calls of giving directions (to other places) and getting directions a few times, I arrived. We watched Mallrats followed by Dogma. Kevin Smith movies are great because you can always catch things in them each time you see them. They may seem odd and superficial at first, but he puts an amazing amount of work into each one. After the movies went to Dave's house with my DTV tuner to prove he wasn't on crack and ended up not proving said hypothesis. Oh well. Watched a bit of L&O and then headed home. Upon approaching Silver Lake Road I notice something isn't quite right about the lights. As I get closer I realize the lights on the south side of 694 are flashing randomly. Like a few quick burst and take a break. Nothing's consistent, not even the lights that normally work together in a given direction. The lights on the north side of 694 are now flashing red. I think the power outage seriously fried some stuff. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with (my siblings borrowed it for a concert) or I would have grabbed a video.

Sunday morning was church at Salem. I grabbed the camera this time for the trip but someone had discovered the lights having a fun time and they were off with stop signs up instead. Oh well. After church sat around for a bit, and ended up watching This Is Spinal Tap. I think that's seriously overrated. Then again, the whole Christopher Guest mockumentary things never interested me much. Trying too hard to be funny or something and basically overdoing it. That was followed by more sitting around and some grocery shopping. Finished up the evening by watching Full Metal Jacket. I'd argue it's one of the best films about war I've seen. Whether you like Kubrick or not, it's hard to argue his films aren't well made. The level of detail in his movies and how many different ways he pulls to make you think about stuff. Basically he does in Drama what Kevin Smith does in comedy. Yes, I did really say that - think about it for a second though.