Gripefest

It's Friday, things should be good, right? WRONG!!! I'm going to have to come to work on both days to take care of experiments. So I've got a storm cloud overhead, and thus I'm going to gripe to get some fustrations out:

1. My new iPod. Love the size and portability. Unfortunately, the ear buds are a little too big for my small ears, so my ears will hurt after a few hours, but I had come to accept that as something that would happen. But this AM, I really just needed to charge the iPod because I haven't been able to fully charge it yet. Upon connecting to my machine, it syncs with iTunes. Since I had made no changes, iTunes quickly told me that the iPod was synced. But the icon on the iPod itself said "Do not disconnect". Waited a few minutes, then disconnected. Nothing happened because it really wasn't file transferring, but my computer had a cow. Then it said that it was fully charged....uh okay. Of course it's not, but I put a few new songs in iTunes, and now it's happily charging.

More gipes later, have to run to the clinic...

Summer blockbusters

I try and pride myself on the fact that I can avoid the lemmings when it comes to the latest hit movie. Sure, I'll go see it if it's decent (like StarWars: Revenge of the Sith). But I only saw Elektra because Mr. San Diego slipped it in with some other movies he thought I should watch. I think I one-uped him by loaning him the extended versions of The Lord of the Rings movies.

I enjoyed Batman Begins, and though Fantastic Four was so-so. But considering the price of movies these days, I'm not willing to part with that much of my hard earned money unless I think it's worth it. So when a new movie comes out, I read a lot of reviews. I had pretty much decided to pass on The Dukes of Hazard, but I thought I'd share a funny quote I got from this review:

The Dukes of Hazzard is no damn good, but for $10, it’s cheaper than a Vegas lap dance, and probably just as sensual.

I AM however, looking foward to The Constant Gardener, but still have about three weeks until that hits the theatres.