Weekend of March 28th 2014

The last bits of March now hold significant weight with me.  It seems like March is now my month of renewal, reassessment of life goals, and devotion to change in the year.  So far it works out much better than January 1st, which I think is an arbitrary time to do things at.  One of my new things is taking time to get started, but I did it close enough to the time that I think I can stick to the pledge.  I want to work my way back to the height of my stability, which was sadly 10 years ago this year, but I'll get there.  Its nothing compared to what I did last year.

Watched Romantics Anonymous on Friday.  Its a nice little heartwarming, quirky romantic comedy.  Reading its summary, you might say "uhh no thanks, I've had enough neurotic comedies for the foreseeable eons", which is what I said, but it straddles this fine line of not going into being annoying.  American comedies seem to think annoying is funny.  They've thought that since Ben Stiller became famous.  Its untrue.  The annoyance being funny part, its true that Ben Stiller ruined American comedy.  So if you like sappy movies in the vein of You've Got Mail, then check it out.  Especially check it out if you like French ones like Amelie.

One of the things that I have to get used to is the fact that people change guitar strings ALL the time.  With my bass, I'm in the camp of using bass strings forever and a day.  I go for that motown, warm tone, and I like the feel of well worn in strings.  There are people that don't change their strings for 20+ years.  Its a thing.  It is also a contributing factor to bass strings being 20-30 bucks and guitar strings are $5.  I got Cryo-genically frozen strings.  Not because I wanted to, I'm a DR fan, but they were out of DR's at my local place and I was not in the mood for a drive.  So far they have seemed very resilient.  I have recently gotten into trying to practice speed metal, like High on Fire, and I would not be surprised if the strings got worn out while I clumsily learned technique.

My food savior is the fact I have what I want for breakfast on Sundays.  Usually this means a stack of pancakes.  Sometimes though, I need to get inventive with my pancakes.  My favorite so far is to buy a muffin mix and make pancakes out of it, and for the most part it works well.  I have to be really careful though, because muffin mixes have browning agents(sugar) in higher amounts than pancake mix.  I burn them quickly if I do not make small pancakes.  Lemon Poppy seed was this week's, and it was awesome.

Clash of the Titans is only barely a remake of the first.  Its sort of all over the place with a heightened sense of ADHD.  For the most part it was enjoyable, and the original kind of played with Greek Myths without caring too much about accuracy, so I can forgive it for being fast and loose with the rules.  It got a little "out there" with one of the characters(the black magic one), and the bumbling hunters that were supposed to be comic relief seemed to thankfully get their time cut in the film, but for an action movie it was good enough.  I plan on watching the sequel.

I'm very tense this week.  Its either going to be a good week, a long week, or a bad week, my bets are hedging on long.  I may just have to get a 6 pack on tuesday to help me unwind, which will take me contrary to my goals in a few ways, but I'm wound up a bit at the moment.  Blog wise?  Well I need to start back listening to ACDC for the Brian Johnson years.  I have a Final Fantasy ranking to finish, and a card game to talk about.