Movie Madness

Well, last week was quite interesting work wise. I went from being so stuck I was wondering what the hell I got into, to finally have gdb spit out some exact memory addressing to get me to realize I was doing everything right... the docs/man pages were wrong. About 15 minutes after figuring this out... I had an email from the original developer confirming as much. Thank $DEITY... I thought I was losing my mind. Once I knew what was wrong, a few changes later.. and everything was working rocket fast and to my amazement, better than I had hoped. I was so pleased, I took Friday afternoon off and went movie matinee mad.

Started by going and seeing XXX (That's Triple X.. not pr0n you dolt) alone, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is the exact brain dead action flick I needed to enjoy myself. After than, Wim, Alan and I hooked up and we checked out Austin Powers - Gold Member. Talk about funny. The beginning is so weird, its stupid and funny at the same time. Split a gut with so much dumbed down humor. Now, neither of these movies are going to end up with awards galore.. but none the less, they were exactly what I needed, and had a great time in the process.

Yesterday I took the family with some friends up to Lightening Lake in Manning Park for a picnic. Now that is a beautiful lake. Crystal clear waters, no motor boats allowed, and nice weather to boot. Extremely kewl place to hang out for the day. Was well worth the hour and a bit drive. Really clean air, quiet atmosphere and the enjoyments of a nice picnic in the shade. Spent the evening with friends, playing cards and some chess. It was nice to pull out my glass chess set and sit on the back deck at night playing some good chess. After promoting a few pawns to queens (was a REALLY weird game), I finally finished off the game in style. I miss playing chess. Wish I had more friends that enjoyed it, without it being to damn competitive. I could play online... but it is one of the few games I like to play in person, and like to SEE and FEEL the game rather than push electrons around.

This morning I just vegged out with my daughter. Spent the afternoon listening to an old CD of David Sanborn while preparing for a technical paper I need to write this week. If you like saxaphone, and like a mixture of fusion and clean jazz... you will want to grab some stuff from this guy. Very talented. I always loved his sound. Be kewl if Sanborn and Botti would play together someday.

Just finished up some email, and am now going to go sit on the deck and get an outline done for this techical doc. I have most of the pieces together and just need to formalize it and create a sane flow to it all. On that note, I should get at it. L8r.