I read Old Man’s War today (no better way to avoid writing than to read). I enjoyed it very much. I'm off to check out the author’s web site now.

Rich is tired of me blowing off the local nerd events, so he set up something he knows I can’t stay away from: an afternoon showing of Fantastic Four. I’m an FF fan from way back (every time Don signs his emails ” ’nuf said ” I get a little tingle of nostalgia). I’m been loving the Ultimate Fantastic Four trade paperbacks (that’s what adults call comic books that have been collected into a bigger, more expensive book).

I don’t have much hope that this movie will be any good, but the Brothers Sells and I can’t not go. Feel free to join us! Rich has picked the 12:25pm showing on Saturday, July 9th, at the new Century 16 Cedar Hill Crossing theater that I love, just to make sure there would be no way I could say “no.” Plus, I’ll be deep in the throes of finalizing the Avalon book chapters that day (along with every other day this week — what a way to burn vacation days), so any excuse to avoid the writing will be good. Come one, come all!

I can’t believe nobody* blogged about this today! Isn’t this the beginning of most sci-fi horror movies?!? By the end of the movie, all of the scientists die and only one good-looking male/female pair are left, having barely averted the Apocalypse (no one every expects the Apocalypse…). Since I identify with the scientists and barely know anyone good looking enough to survive, I’m not so sure reincarnating dogs into zombies is such a good idea…

*by “nobody” I mean “nobody” I read, of course — I sure it was all the news amongst the “dear diary” set : )

The channel 9 guy starts on the road to the PDC. Random fun (1 of 3).

This one made me laugh out loud:

The boys and I went to ROTS on the 2nd night and our local theater had some auspicious guests that I made stand around while my son took the picture (neither of them asked to be in a similar picture, btw : ).

I was at Episode IV in 1977 when I was 8 years old, so this has been quite the journey. You’d think I’d be bored, but I’ve actually been following threads on the web lately like the “3 more episodes” rumors and The Sith Explained on howstuffworks.com.

A: The reason I gave for wanting to cancel an extra credit card.

I bet they don’t have that reason in their script! : )

See IanG, my Avalon book co-author in crime, talk with Ted Neward about WinForms, Avalon and .NET. Nicely done.