Dinner with Captain Paisley

Saturday night I had dinner with Tom Monaghan and his wife, Donna. We had a good time catching up on stuff, seeing what the other's been up to, trading trivia found on Slashdot, that sort of thing. Tom's even posted some new Wiikii strips on his website, Wiikii Paradise. I think he (or maybe Wiikii) should get a LiveJournal.

Other than that, it's been a slow week. All this week, I get home at 7, eat dinner, and just don't feel like doing much besides reading. As soon as I get my next paycheck, I'm going to get some model supplies and build and review the Klingon ship model for Jerry. Of course, tomorrow night I'll be back on I-64 / I-81 for the trip to Blacksburg (with stopovers in Salem both ways).

While I still believe that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most beautiful and realistic space movies ever made, I think I become more critical of its other aspects upon every viewing. I'm beginning to agree with the folk who say that Hal 9000 actually has far more personality than the two human astronauts on Discovery. Guys, you could be out-acted by Thunderbirds puppets - come on!

Game text: "Sacrifice personal pride to play this card"

Re: my earlier whine about collectible games...

Just played two games of ./Hack//Enemy with one of my co-workers over lunch. I lost them both, but I didn't humiliate myself. Even he admitted that I just got some bad card draws. So now I feel better.

I need to see if we have some spare Marvel Hero Clix, he wants to play some games of that. If not, I'll buy some next week.