Saw T3 today. It was a lot of fun. Some of the stunts were so over-the-top that they must have done them to just poke fun. Like the whole bathroom fight scene and using urinals as weapons. It was almost too much when someone gets their head smashed into a toilet bowl. But, they are Terminators, so they were ok. The scene where Arnold gets his set of clothes really sets the tone for the movie, which was a nice, funny touch in which we are told not to take things too seriously. I think it was a good action film with some neat stunts, and nicely destroyed cars.

Mariko just sent me a link to the Aurora City Mall. It’s a new shopping area near where we used to live. It looks great! It seems that the neighborhood we used to live in is really growing. They had some good restaurants there, like an okonomiyaki place, a yakiniku restaurant, a gyoza restaurant, but now there are going to be lots more!

The past weekend was a fun one! My parents, brother and nephew came over for a visit, and celebrated Bay’s 2nd birthday with us. We did a bunch of fun stuff together, ate tons of food and played lots of video games. I will post pictures as soon as I recover. 🙂

Last night I was cleaning up the house to get ready for guest coming over for the weekend. At 10pm I started getting the first signs of a migraine. I couldn’t see anything in front of me. It wasn’t really like a blind spot that I normally get, but was more like after you look at a really bright light. I immediately went upstairs to try to go to sleep, which is the only way to get rid of the migraine for me. I fell asleep before the headache came, but woke up at about 11:30 and my head was pounding. I was writhing in pain for about an hour and a half before falling asleep again. At 4am I woke up and the headache was gone, although if I shook my head, it still hurt. Today I am very worn out…

Yesterday evening I was playing with Bay in my car, which was parked in my garage. He was in the driver’s seat playing with the levers and buttons, I was sitting in the passenger seat. In 10 minutes, I got 3 more mosquito bites. That brings the count to 9 this summer. Kayumi!

What a great picture. Even if Bilbo is not in The Two Towers to the best of my knowledge…

Anyways, tonight I am going to see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at the discount cinema near my house. This will be the second time I will see it. About this time last year I went with Mikey to see the first LOTR movie at discount cinema. Tonight I will go with Ryan, and Mikey might show up as well. Discount cinema is great. It shows movies that are about 3-6 months old for only $2.25 or so. I remember growing up is So. Cal. we used to go to the Marina theater which was something like $2.00 or $1.75 before they tore it down. Good times there… Anyways, I have to dust off my Frodo costume for the show tonight.

(just kidding about the costume)

I have a great talent for picking the worst cashier line to get in while shopping. It doesn’t matter if the cashier I pick has no people waiting in line, is almost guaranteed that the other shoppers will check out before me.

Yesterday I was buying some groceries and all the lines had at least three people waiting except for one, which had a single person. Naturally I got in that line. This particular time I got a double-whammy with a bonus. The lady pulls out her checkbook to pay for her food, and doesn’t pre-fill out any of it until she gets the total. Sheesh. The second whammy was when the cash register had to be refilled with paper. Meanwhile the other lines were just cruising! The bonus was that my cashier was chatting non-stop to the baggers (there were three of them just standing around) and to make matters worse, they were blathering on about some stupid end-of-the-world theory.

These days I don’t really get too peeved at my bad fortune in line. I am just amazed at how fate can create new and original ways for me to waste my time in line.

I was outside with Bay for about 20 minutes and I got six mosquito bites… I swear I am a magnet for mosquitos!