Are there any new ideas?

So I went to see X Men: The Last Stand yesterday. I went to see it at 9:30 in the morning, directly after finishing a 12 hour shift at work, so my level of concentration may not have been the best, but it seemed... well, a bit pants in the story department. The action was great, and over all I thought it was an okay film, but it just seemed a bit short, and a bit sort of messy, not really all that well thought out. And I know that when stories and ideas cross mediums things often change, but I feel that the X-men of the movies are a little too far from what they have been in the past. I always liked the fact that Colossus was russian. Making him into a middle American farmboy knida spoiled the character. But I guess the target audience is broader with film, so they have to play to the public at large in the States, who still seem to see the Ruskies as slightly sinister... And I didn't really like Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut. If I recall correctly, Juggernaut was supposed to Professor X's brother, which was a cool little story element. And he wasn't a mutant as such - his power was magical, which was also cool. But again, I suppose that in adapting things to film, it is necessary to butcher the greater story arc and get down to the bare bones, in order to fit what you can into two hours.

Not much else has been going on recently. I haven't been to church for about a month. I eventually decided that I'd rather sleep or generally relax on Sunday morning than go and listen to loud music and less than helpful sermons. The congregation there all seem like good people, and they clearly believe that what they're doing and how they serve the Lord is the right way to go about things, but it just isn't for me.

Oh, I got a new broadband connection this week - I went with Woosh wireless broadband. It was cool for about two days - I downloaded a whole heap of TV shows that I'd been waiting to see - the last half of SG-1 season 9, the last three eps of SG-Atlantis season 2, about six eps of Futurama that I didn't have, and some Smallville. All of which I have watched since Wednesday. I spend more time sitting at this computer than I do any where else... But anyways, after two days of running at about 50-60K download speed, my broadband has dropped to dial-up speed. Which, basically, is shit. I'm guessing that it's because my plan has a data cap of 10GB a month. If I managed to download 10 gig of stuff in two days, (a) that's pretty fucking astounding, and (b) I need a much bigger cap... Money, money, money... everything costs too much.

Big Jobs

So, here we are. A Saturday evening with nothing much to do. Following on from a Saturday afternoon in which I did very little. But then I worked an extra shift last night, so I guess I'm allowed to be tired and lazy. I fell asleep sitting here earlier this evening for about an hour. It's a really wierd feeling to wake up not being sure where you are or what's going on. But at least I have a comfy chair now. I had been using a crappy folding chair from the Warehouse while computing, but after several long periods playing Fear the resulting numb buttocks lead to my spending a fair amount of cash on a decent chair. It's an executive-type deally, that reclines and has arm rests. Which is great, except that the reclined position is a little too comfortable, and leads to the sleeping...
I went on a Course to get my forklift driving certificate this week. It was unbelievable - it took 8 damn hours, of which about ten minutes was actually driving a forklift. Much of the course was spent discussing carbon monoxide poisoning, LPG, gas heaters, and things "going on fire." It amazes me the way some people mangle language. The guy running the course was telling us about people having accidents with petrol and gas that resulted in fires, and instead of a reasonable sentence like "this guy had a leaky gas bottle in his ute, he decided to have a smoke, and he caught fire," he constantly referred to people who "went on fire." I mean, WTF? Why not say something at least sorta interestingly stupid, like "became flamey"? Or "Got Burneded"? I think those would be my two primary entries for idiot talk of getting burnt. Or deaded, as the case was in at least one of the examples... But anyways, I am now allowed to zoom around the site at work on a forklift. Or rather, I am allowed to use a forklift for important tasks that are absolutely vital to my running of shifty bollocks damn I think I'm too tired to construct coherent sentences perhaps i should get some sleep but then it's still quite early perhaps I'll compromise and sit and watch something funny but fall asleep half way through I guess it's easier than going to bed oh tits...

Bollocks

I know that I had something to write about, but in the process of trying to remember my bloody username and password, I got rather angry and completely forgot what I was thinking about... Is this a part of getting older? I never used to have any trouble remembering much of anything. Well, not passwordy, pin numbery things... Peoples birthdays and other special occasions sometimes slip my mind, but then that seems to be a fairly common thing. It's not so much forgetting the date of the event, as not realising where in the year I'm up to. Time seems to move faster every year, and birthdays and things come upon me with far too little warning. Although this year I've been doing quite well - even remembered my Grandmothers birthday. That's pretty amazing...
Still haven't thought of what I was originally going to write abut. Never mind... It probably wasn't anything of great importance.
Man, if I'm suffering memory loss at thirty two, what the hell is my brain going to be like when I'm old?