You know, I just haven't had that much to say lately that I couldn't accomplish in 140 characters or less. I hope there's a point to this one.

Writing
I need to write a couple of pieces for work tomorrow, so consider this a warm-up. I minored in English in college, but I really don't like to write. In fact, nothing slows me down more than a blank page. I am most productive at work when I have 100% of the content of something provided, and I can chisel away and create something out of it.

I always say that it's hard to know what the finished puzzle looks like, when I don't have all the pieces in place. I'm kind of in that situation right now with one of our major yearly publications.

Kitchen
We're almost there on our kitchen. We started six weeks ago on Monday. Looks like we'll finally be finished next week. Whew... 7 weeks. Thankfully, Jamie's parents have been great about letting us eat over there, so we haven't had to get take-out nearly as often as I thought we would. The finish line is in sight. I'll post a gallery of before and after construction photos next week. It's all driving Jamie nuts though. She hates clutter around the house (she's majorly type-A), and our dining room still has the contents of our old kitchen piled up all over the place. Thanks to Dave Ramsey, we did it all in cash too. Still debt-free (except the house, of course.)

Movies
I came down with the Swine Flu or some other virus this week, and I ended up catching up on some movies I've had ripped and sitting in Boxee on my Mac mini for a while, along with some more recent ones. Jamie and I used to hit the movies every weekend. Now I see about 3 a year, and 2 of them are usually kids' movies. Funny how that goes. I don't even watch as much through Netflix.

My theory on movies is that part of the reason I don't watch as much movies is that we've gotten spoiled by how much better TV shows are. Go back and watch some of the older TV shows, they're ridiculously bad. The writing is usually bad, the acting is atrocious. The plots are simple. Now you take a show like Lost: TV shows are as complex as movies.

I ended up watching some of the summer stuff that I missed. Transformers 2: I want my 2 hours back. I guess the only reason I didn't turn it off was my affinity for the characters from my childhood. Wolverine: Better than I thought it would be, based on the reviews I had read on it. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan: I really liked it. I think this should have been the last few episodes before the finale. I also watched AMC's remake of The Prisoner: Started out well, but ended up a mixed bag.

I'm also pretty behind on games. Wish I had more time to play. Call of Duty: Modern Combat 2 is out, I know, but I have yet to play World at War. Just finishing up Gears of War 2. Great game, btw. I did luck out and get Halo ODST a couple of days after release via GameFly. Good stuff.

More to come...