![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canadiandiamondNot a bad weekend, really, and it's not quite over yet but planning to work and such tomorrow. More on that later.
Last night I got to watch a heartbreaking loss in Game 5 by my Bruins, mreh. Such a weird Stanley Cup Finals, it's very odd. Games 1, 2, & 5 in Vancouver? 1 goal wins, all by Vancouver, but could've went either way. Games 3 & 4 in Boston? Epic blowout wins by Boston by 8-1 and 4-0 scores. Game 6 is Monday night in Boston, so we'll see what happens. A Vancouver win gets them the Cup; a Boston win gets them one more kick at the can in Vancouver. Obviously I'm hoping for the latter. XD
Then we raided last night, using a new loot rule system, managed by yours truly. That was a bit frustrating at first, since we literally got our first boss down and had to use it for the first time just as the Canucks scored. Was hard for me to pay attention and stay calm. XD It works well though, I think, and I'm glad we finally got it instituted. We got 2 bosses down, one in challenge mode (which equals more/better loot), so that was good, then a somewhat decent bedtime for me.
This morning I got up at a little after 10am, which is great for me on a Saturday, hehe. Showered, had breakfast, then drove to St. John's, where I hit the mall and stayed there for 8+ hours, haha. I picked up tickets to see 3 movies: a 12:20pm showing of Super 8, a 3:10pm showing of X-Men: First Class, and a 6:00pm showing of The Hangover 2. In between I picked up some other things: a copy of Transformers 2 on DVD for cheap (saw the first one but not this one, and hear it's GODAWFUL, but in case I want to see 3 in July I figure what odds?), Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane album and Season 2 of Spectacle, and after the mall made a quick trip to Chapters for a book on learning music theory (wanna learn to read sheet music) and on writing.
Movie reviews/summaries behind the cut for potential spoilers, though I don't really go into much detail just the same, but to be safe. :)
Super 8
So, I really loved this movie, it was great. Very well done and a great cast of new (to me anyway) young actors, a great story, just a great movie experience to me. This was definitely my favourite of the ones I saw today, which I ended up unintentionally seeing in order from best to worst, hehe. Highly recommend it!
X-Men: First Class
I thought it was really well done, and loved the Xavier/Erik stuff, but... mreh. I just can't bend my head around things too far from canon, I guess, and seeing some of the X-Men they chose to use, and how they changed some of them (from different countries as canon for example), just, mreh. Don't get me wrong, I like the movie, it was well done and well acted, but I guess I'm just too old school or something. XD Loved the cameo though, even if it had been spoiled by me from some e-mails/tweets/people talking about it. XDDDDDDDDDD
The Hangover 2
This movie on the other hand... ugh. I pretty much expected it to be very similar to the first one, and read reviews saying it was more like exactly like the first one, and the latter is right on the nose. It's impossible to spoil this movie for you because you've already seen it (if you saw the first one, anyway XD). Replace a tiger for a monkey, a tooth for a tattoo, hell, a piano song about their foibles for a guitar song about the same. It even starts the same and they review pics at the end the same just ladkawpoikdwapokd. WHAT THE FUCK. There's doing a sequel with the same characters and then there's just doing the exact same fucking movie and this was deeeeefinitely the latter. Was hoping people were wrong but nope, what a disappointment. :/
Came home from town and raided, which, mreh as well. Just been frustrating lately, and tonight was the same as the last several weeks, with us banging our head against the wall for hours at a time on this one fight. A few weeks' back the banging was mainly over clearing the trash to get to him, but we have that down pretty well now. Now it's the actual boss fight itself, which is just frustrating, and we keep trying for the challenge mode that's just preposterously easy to blow (we lose it less than 30s into the fight every damn time and it's a long fight to win, if we ever do win it) and resetting when we fail. It takes the wind out of your sails to spend hours at that, especially when you die a lot while doing so, ugh. So yeah, just a frustrating night, kinda sucks to end off the night like that but it is what it is.
Tomorrow I have plans to get some work done because I'm way behind on a lot of routine things, mainly because my assistant, Nancy, was out of the office most of the week. The sad news, though, is that she was out of the office because her mother, who'd been ill for awhile, was in palliative care and took a turn for the worse on Wednesday, and then died on Friday. :/ The funeral will be Monday afternoon, so I may be able to make it - have court Monday morning so it'll depend on how long that lasts, but would like to be there - but at any rate will be going to the funeral home tomorrow afternoon to pay my respects.
For now though it's off to bed, after a good day of movies and shopping followed by a long night of frustrating raiding. Think I'll try to read a bit first and end off the day that way instead. :)
Last night I got to watch a heartbreaking loss in Game 5 by my Bruins, mreh. Such a weird Stanley Cup Finals, it's very odd. Games 1, 2, & 5 in Vancouver? 1 goal wins, all by Vancouver, but could've went either way. Games 3 & 4 in Boston? Epic blowout wins by Boston by 8-1 and 4-0 scores. Game 6 is Monday night in Boston, so we'll see what happens. A Vancouver win gets them the Cup; a Boston win gets them one more kick at the can in Vancouver. Obviously I'm hoping for the latter. XD
Then we raided last night, using a new loot rule system, managed by yours truly. That was a bit frustrating at first, since we literally got our first boss down and had to use it for the first time just as the Canucks scored. Was hard for me to pay attention and stay calm. XD It works well though, I think, and I'm glad we finally got it instituted. We got 2 bosses down, one in challenge mode (which equals more/better loot), so that was good, then a somewhat decent bedtime for me.
This morning I got up at a little after 10am, which is great for me on a Saturday, hehe. Showered, had breakfast, then drove to St. John's, where I hit the mall and stayed there for 8+ hours, haha. I picked up tickets to see 3 movies: a 12:20pm showing of Super 8, a 3:10pm showing of X-Men: First Class, and a 6:00pm showing of The Hangover 2. In between I picked up some other things: a copy of Transformers 2 on DVD for cheap (saw the first one but not this one, and hear it's GODAWFUL, but in case I want to see 3 in July I figure what odds?), Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane & Sugarcane album and Season 2 of Spectacle, and after the mall made a quick trip to Chapters for a book on learning music theory (wanna learn to read sheet music) and on writing.
Movie reviews/summaries behind the cut for potential spoilers, though I don't really go into much detail just the same, but to be safe. :)
Super 8
So, I really loved this movie, it was great. Very well done and a great cast of new (to me anyway) young actors, a great story, just a great movie experience to me. This was definitely my favourite of the ones I saw today, which I ended up unintentionally seeing in order from best to worst, hehe. Highly recommend it!
X-Men: First Class
I thought it was really well done, and loved the Xavier/Erik stuff, but... mreh. I just can't bend my head around things too far from canon, I guess, and seeing some of the X-Men they chose to use, and how they changed some of them (from different countries as canon for example), just, mreh. Don't get me wrong, I like the movie, it was well done and well acted, but I guess I'm just too old school or something. XD Loved the cameo though, even if it had been spoiled by me from some e-mails/tweets/people talking about it. XDDDDDDDDDD
The Hangover 2
This movie on the other hand... ugh. I pretty much expected it to be very similar to the first one, and read reviews saying it was more like exactly like the first one, and the latter is right on the nose. It's impossible to spoil this movie for you because you've already seen it (if you saw the first one, anyway XD). Replace a tiger for a monkey, a tooth for a tattoo, hell, a piano song about their foibles for a guitar song about the same. It even starts the same and they review pics at the end the same just ladkawpoikdwapokd. WHAT THE FUCK. There's doing a sequel with the same characters and then there's just doing the exact same fucking movie and this was deeeeefinitely the latter. Was hoping people were wrong but nope, what a disappointment. :/
Came home from town and raided, which, mreh as well. Just been frustrating lately, and tonight was the same as the last several weeks, with us banging our head against the wall for hours at a time on this one fight. A few weeks' back the banging was mainly over clearing the trash to get to him, but we have that down pretty well now. Now it's the actual boss fight itself, which is just frustrating, and we keep trying for the challenge mode that's just preposterously easy to blow (we lose it less than 30s into the fight every damn time and it's a long fight to win, if we ever do win it) and resetting when we fail. It takes the wind out of your sails to spend hours at that, especially when you die a lot while doing so, ugh. So yeah, just a frustrating night, kinda sucks to end off the night like that but it is what it is.
Tomorrow I have plans to get some work done because I'm way behind on a lot of routine things, mainly because my assistant, Nancy, was out of the office most of the week. The sad news, though, is that she was out of the office because her mother, who'd been ill for awhile, was in palliative care and took a turn for the worse on Wednesday, and then died on Friday. :/ The funeral will be Monday afternoon, so I may be able to make it - have court Monday morning so it'll depend on how long that lasts, but would like to be there - but at any rate will be going to the funeral home tomorrow afternoon to pay my respects.
For now though it's off to bed, after a good day of movies and shopping followed by a long night of frustrating raiding. Think I'll try to read a bit first and end off the day that way instead. :)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-06-12 07:31 am (UTC)I'm predicting Vancouver to win in 7, when they're back on home ice again, barring Thomas having a bad night in game 6. (Every goalie has one every now and then, but I'm not expecting it. Hoping, but not expecting. ;))
no subject
Date: 2011-06-14 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-13 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-14 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-13 05:35 pm (UTC)I did a triple header myself on Friday (Kung Fu Panda 2 in place of Hangover 2, and I lovededed it.), but I only paid for one. Lol.
no subject
Date: 2011-06-14 01:21 pm (UTC)Ooh I'd like to see that! Oh JM, hee. ♥