so....I will now.

Remember me saying that I was waiting for my dad to finish the computer that my brother gave me for Christmas? Well, he did. I received it a week ago last Thursday. IT is a quad core processor with 2 gig of memory and a GeForce 6200 LE video card. The video card is nothing special, but the processor isn't bad at all. I would like to replace the video card and put more memory in it some day, but that is a ways off. For the time being, I am happy to have something that can run most of my games. and it is nice, indeed. This computer is noticeably faster than my laptop. IT does not lock up when watching videos. I can finally watch all of the Invisible Walls podcasts and whatnot without having to restart the computer several times just to get through it. I hated that with my laptop. I also get to use my badass monitor, finally. It is a 22 inch wide screen LCD monitor with a resolution of 1680x1050. IT is so nice to be running something that will display at a higher resolution than 1024x768. You have no idea. I love it. This computer is so much better than the old one.

You may have also remembered that I said that my mom accidentally bought me Reservoir Dogs on Blu Ray when I already owned it. She replaced it with the 1989 Batman movie on Blu Ray with Michael Keaton as Batman. That arrived with the computer, and I could not be happier with it. The movie looks and sounds clean, crisp and clear. It's picture and sound is, far and away, the best this movie has looked probably since it was in theaters. On top of that, it is an excellent movie. It is exactly what a Batman movie is meant to be, which is something that cannot be said about any of it's three follow ups. Yes. This includes Batman Returns, even though I enjoy that movie too. This flick is dark and gritty. It isn't over the top. IT does have some 80's cheese, which is largely because the movie is 20 years old, more than anything. It could, however, do without the Prince songs. They feel out of place in a movie like this. Danny Elfman's brilliant and dark score for this fits the film perfectly, but the real story here is Jack Nicholson as the Joker. The man does not play the Joker. He IS the Joker. That is how good his performance is. He absolutely steals the show and, if you know anything about the comics, then you know he gets it absolutely right. This is the wise cracking psychopathic killer that we all know and love from the comics. They got it right, even down to the last detail. He even has the acid spraying flower that is a trademark of the Joker. I cannot praise his performance enough. If you have not seen this movie, shame on you. IT is everything at Batman movie should be.

I could rave on and on about how good this movie is, but eventually you would just get sick of me reading it, and it might sound like I am fanboying all over it. I am going to move on now. It has been extremely cold here on Pennsylvania late.y .We are talking the high for the day is not above freezing and the temperature dips into the teens at night. Yikes that is cold. No matter what we did, we could not seem to keep our apartment heated. It sucked. All the base board heating seemed to be doing was costing us a lot of money. My parents took note of this and bought us a heater. Thank God for that. IT does a better job of raising the temperature in here and it costs a lot less money. Ok. IT still gets cold. That cannot be helped. IT is Pennsylvania. It get's cold. that is just the way it is. IT truly sucks, but it is a lot better, especially on the electric bill side of things.

I have picked up a couple of movies and a couple of albums recently. I finally broke down and bought Killers by Iron Maiden. I paid more than I wanted to, but at least I have it and thoroughly enjoy it. I wanted to find it at Best Buy so that I could pay about 5 bucks less for it than I wound up paying, but I kept checking. I have never seen it there. What can you do? The album is great, anyway. I also bought Number of the Beast by the same band. IT is excellent as well. I love it. It, of course, has Run to the Hills, Hallowed Be Thy Name and the title track on it, which are some of Maiden's most popular songs. That is always cool. I also got The Departed and 2001: A Space Odyssey on Blu Ray. I have not watched either of them yet, but I have already seen both of them. I owned 2001 on DVD and gave the DVD copy to a friend. I hope he enjoys it. It is a truly fantastic and thought provoking movie. I absolutely love it and cannot wait to see it in high definition. I have a feeling that this movie is one of the reasons that God allowed us humans to have HD in the first place :P I expect its art to stand out strong and be even more breath taking than it was on DVD.

I seem to have the absolute worst luck with women, and women have a tendancy to piss me off more than anything else on the planet. Occasionally, women just seem to have a knack to drive me up the wall to the point where I just want to run to the nearest living thing and kill it. I am not singling anyone out with this. Let me repeat that, in case you missed the single most important sentence in this entire paragraph. I AM NOT SINGLING ANYONE OUT WITH THIS. I am just venting my frustrations. I ask that you do not take it personally. I seem to be the guy that women come to to complain when they get frustrated with whatever man they are currently dating that is bad for them. They come to me and tell me that they cannot find an honest man or a good man or a man that cares about something more than sex. I hate this. I really really hate this, but I care. I never say that I hate this because I care. I never say what I am thinking because I care. I just keep my mouth shut because I do not want to hurt her. It pisses me off though. You know how many times I have cheated? Never. Nada. Zip. Zero. Ziltch. Not one single time. I have NEVER cheated, and I never would. I have felt that pain. I have felt it 4 times from 3 different women, and I would not wish it upon anyone. It is one of the single most hurtful things you can do to someone. It isn't just a betrayal by someone you love dearly. It is a serious blow to self confidence and self esteem. "Why am I not good enough?" That is what we think. What is the logic behind it.

I digress. The point I was getting at is that women come to **** to honest guys that they cannot find an honest guy. We sit there and thing "I am **** sitting right here." We think, "It isn't that you cannot find an honest guy. It is that you do not want one when you do find it." Speaking as someone who hates lying and cheating, honest guys do exist. We just have a tendency to get thrown to the side for a jackass. I do not know why, but being an ass seems to attract women. Someone explain that to me. How does treating women poorly land them in your lap? No. Seriously. I want to know. The knowledge would not do me any good anyway because I cannot bring myself to be a dick. I can be a smart ass, but not a dick. It frustrates me to no end. All I find are women that want to be my friend and **** at me. When I do find a woman that wants more than that, she is a ticking time bomb. IT is only a matter of time until she cheats on me, and it upsets me. A lot.

Anyway, we have had a lot of snow lately. We had something like a foot and a half over the weekend. A foot and a half? Are you freaking kidding me? I had to dig my car out of the snow the other day. It was probably 20 degrees. It took me an hour and a half. By the time I got done, my pants were wet. I was extremely cold. I was very tired and just a little irritated. IT has snowed a lot since then as well. I think it snowed another 16 inches. What the hell? Where is all this snow coming from? I know it is Pennsylvania but it is like being in the middle of a **** blizzard. I hate it. I cannot drive anywhere because the roads are full of slush. My car does not handle on slush,. It is a rear wheel drive that is front heavy with 8 cylinders under the hood. IT is powerful and handles like a dream in dry conditions. This snowy and icy crap? I throw it out trying to turn a simple corner going less than 10 miles an hour. That is how crappy my car handles on snow.

IT is a double edged sword as well. There is an apartment above us that has a porch. The porch is directly above our kitchen. Snow gathers on the porch above us and melts. Guess where all that snow goes. If you guessed our kitchen, you guessed right. The ceiling panels slowly got more and more soaking wet as time went on to the point where it was literally bowing down toward the floor. IT, then, started to drip, WHILE I WAS COOKING SUPPER! It was dripping right in front of the stove. That is a nice wake up call. Cold water was dripping from my ceiling onto me while I was cooking. The land lord's husband has been out here twice and replaced two tiles. It has snowed since he replaced the second one. The ceiling is getting wet again. It is only a matter of time for it to start dripping again. IT isn't fun. At all. We had a walkthrough of the apartment the other day, and I am glad he had just replaced the ceiling tile a few hours before it so that it wasn't dripping onto our floor during the walkthrough. It still sucked to have t he ceiling wet for it, especially after spending about 3 hours cleaning this place up and making it look nice for said walkthrough.

Ugh. I am one frustrated and annoyed pyrenees pup. That is just great. I needed more negative emotions to add to being depressed.