Things other than WoW have taken over my life

It's been a while since my last update. I can see the dust starting to settle around here.

There is a little more to report on the car front. I was going to pick up Eunice from school last night when I heard a very loud "CLUNK". The car seems fine. I think something may have hit the side of the car --it being a Saturn, it doesn't dent very easily. Hopefully the Vehicular Fortitude saga is over for now.

I did find one disturbing thing while trying to locate the source of the noise. I was looking around in the trunk and saw that my emergency roadside kit was soaking wet. It turns out that entire little corner of the trunk is soaking wet. There is even some standing water. I didn't find any evidence of anything having exploded, so I have to wonder how all the water got there, and how I'm going to get all the water out. Our complex has an industrial strength vacuum --we'll be trying that in a bit.

Eunice's computer died and was later resurrected. Her power supply quit working on us, right when she needed to write a paper. Fortunately we were able to replace the power supply and the computer felt significantly better. The new power supply has 2 fans and is louder than the last one. That'll take some getting used to. At least she has her computer back.

Last weekend Eunice and I went to visit my sister. Eunice needed a dress hemmed, so we used that as our excuse to go for a visit. We had a lot of fun, except for the part where I was stunned by a wasp. It turns out that 40 degrees is indeed warm enough for some wasps to be out. It got itself caught in my pullover and stung me when I tried to take it off. At least now I know that I'm not allergic to wasp stings.

Eunice and I finished watching all 4 Samurai X discs. Samurai X is part prequel and part sequel to Kenshin, and is much darker. You find out why Kenshin is the way he is, and you get an ending to the story that is much better than the ending supplied by the original Kenshin series. If you're a Kenshin fan I'd recommend it, but be warned. The tone is completely different from that of the series.

So, with Kenshin over we moved to a new set of movies in our Netflix queue. We have jumped in to Jeremiah (the showtime series). We're enjoying it so far. We just saw episode 8 (Firewall) and it's starting to get good. I did enjoy the earlier episodes in the series, but the series really gets good around City of Roses and Firewall.

I have some high expectations for Jeremiah. J. Michael Straczynski is involved. And if you don't know, JMS did Babylon 5, my favorite sci-fi series of all time.

Of course, in doing my research for these links I've just found that Jeremiah was not renewed for a third season, and that JMS declared he would never work with MGM again under it's current administration. It also appears that season 2 isn't yet out on DVD.

I'm sure I'll have more to say about the series the more I watch it.

Finally, I've been busy reading Arcana Evolved. It's very cool, and deserving of it's own post (again).

Anyway, I'm off to watch The Return of the King with Eunice, to celebrate Easter.

Happy Easter everyone!