war is hell.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-King Henry V, Shakespeare's Henry V, Act IV, Scene III

this weekend, i finished watching the hbo series "band of brothers" that i borrowed from my parents' house. stephen spielberg and tom hanks produced the series, so it has that "saving private ryan" feel to it. the show takes place during world war ii and follows easy company from the 101st airborne from basic training and throughout their entire european tour. the company lived and fought together throughout numerous bouts in five different countries, and although many of were lost, they ultimately got to go home at the end of the war. it's a powerful series and i highly recommend it.

it's not like i've been doing anything with my time.

damn, i missed the entire month of january on this thing. oh well, it's not like this is a "real" post anyway. more like a bulleted list of happening things.

-tomorrow i start my first salary job at harper house in dallas. it'll be interesting for sure.
-hooray! the patriots did not win the super bowl! i hate sports teams and fans from boston.
-my current engaged friends/married friends count on facebook is 43 engaged and 64 married.
-i had a job at uno's pizza in downtown fort worth for a few weeks. it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.
-super smash bros brawl comes out for the wii on march 9. yes, i'm stoked. yes, i'm a nerd. and yes, i reserved it at gamestop.
-the new animal planet logo sucks.
-because of this effin writer's strike going on, i need a suggestion for a new tv show to start watching from season 1. i'm considering house, 30 rock, and weeds right now.
-speaking of the strike, this is a pretty good ad.
-i updated the links on the right-hand side of your screen.

yeah, that's about it for now. hopefully i'll pick up blogging fairly regularly again.

labor-less weekend.

the at&t guy came in friday morning, so we now have cable and internet through at&t u-verse. it's a pretty cool deal. we got two cable boxes, one of them with dv-r capabilites in which we can record up to four shows at once. we can also set up the box through the internet to record shows by signing into our account. and if we missed a show, we can find out if someone we know that has u-verse caught it and they can send it from their box to ours. but here's the kicker that had us sold: free installation. unfortunately our cable outlet in the living room is pretty old and needs to be rewired, but our landlord doesn't want to spend the money to get it fixed. that makes our cable and internet cut out sometimes and it's especially annoying when it goes out in the middle of a show.

anyway, it's labor day weekend and i've done a bunch of nothing. friday i worked at the pool for a few afternoon hours then came home and played with the u-verse for the rest of the evening then turned in early, as seems to be the trend with my sleeping habits lately.
saturday was a bit more exciting because college football was back! i worked for time and a half at the pool, came home and ate some grilled ribs, went to the tcu-baylor game, and then to the roustabouts show at the aardvark. after that everyone came back to our house since we're right around the corner from the aardvark. i just sat on the couch and waited for them all to get bored and leave because i was ready to sleep.
sunday involved nothing beyond getting milkshakes from sonic, watching the discovery channel, the science channel, and a fantasy football draft.
however today, it's probably nose to the grindstone time. what mostly needs to get done is a need to pick up the house from saturday. and i really should work on my graphics projects, but we'll see if that happens.

offline.

my house is still currently without internet. dave and i signed up for at&t u-verse and the installation guy should be coming on the morning of the 31st. once we're connected, hopefully i'll be posting more regularly. until then, i have a link that i hope will suffice. i found it on the espn website following the rangers trouncing of the orioles last wednesday (the final score was 30-3 if you hadn't heard.) the article is a list of the 100 greatest beatdowns in history. read through it, it's pretty entertaining.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/070823
items of note: #10, #20, #27, #44, #58, #62, #65, #74, #82, #90.