Day with my Aunt, Uncle, & Cousins

They are basically the RedSox family. My Mom has this once a year thing with her college room mates were they get together for a day and spend a night in a hotel. Weird but to each their own right?

So it was a pretty cool day went swimming, watched little cousins baseball game they lost but both my cousins got hits and the older off the two got a triple was fun to watch.

Then we went to see Toy Story 3 in 3D. It was a great movie. Lots of fun, though one of my little cousins actually cried around the ending. Won't give it away since i don't want to wright a spoiler review. Anyway it was really good, not at all what you would expect from the third movie of anything. =) I just wish the army guys had more scenes they had a total of maybe forty seconds on screen what a waste. =(

Great day

i handed in my thesis paper which for some reason everyone now calls term papers no clue why the change. it was a page short but other than that it fits most or all the requirements. so that is a load off of my mind. i think my stress levels dropped within 5 minuets of handing that in. rest of English not so great kept falling asleep for 20 sec intervals. not on purpose, its just the heat & humidity made for a really good sleeping pill.

let me mention something about a normal lunch. "normally" Timmy's little brother Dru pisses me off every lunch on purpose. but today i turned the tied and pissed Dru off. very satisfying to see that smug little bum get frustrated.

kid i hate because he is annoying on purpose got thrown out of medals today for falling asleep so that was also good.

then i decided to hell with homework and basically started goofing off watched Transformers, was awesome, but i kneed to watch it again without my Mom and Brother interrupting the Movie all the time. mostly my Mom though, my brother was pretty good about it this time.

ah well i need to do my homework now but that's OK since i feel relaxed for the first time in weeks.

My Weekend

so basically my weekend went like this

watched Dr. horribles Sing along blog like 3 time because it was awesome despite the name sounding lame.

spent a lot of time on Onemanga.com reading "One Piece".

watched my brother play lacrosse, which is always great.

went to my uncle's birthday party and had to spend time around their "friends" some of whom are OK and some of whom are evil people hiding behind a religious veil. if that sounds dramatic I'm sorry but i need to explain that there are at least two very bad things that can happen because of religion, the first is that people who are, not exactly abusive but shall we say, they take excessive physical action in order to make children "behave", the second is that good people can become closed minded and except anyone who is devoutly religious as a good person without looking at there character.

both of those traits were evident at this party. i wont go into the details but i swear if i ever catch that guy in the act of doing anything harmful to my little cousins i will take full advantage of the opportunity and tell him "exactly" what i think of him, and if he gives me an excuse i will flatten that Bastard! Maybe having a teenager beet the living Crap (which i am assuming has replaced his soul) out of him will teach him to play nice with little kids!

Ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

this is driving me more insane than usual and i am totally giving myself heartburn all because my aunt and uncle have shitty choices when it comes to friends! Dammit!

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just saw it for the first time today. i missed it when it was in theaters for some school or fencing related reason. anyway it has been added to my list of all time favorite movies.

i can see what the critics were complaining about but i want to tell them to shut up. so what, there was a native American type theme too the movie, the ScyFy behind it was as credible as Hollywood ScyFy can be and the whole thing was breathtaking, in an alien, Dinotopia sort of way. plus i love the big, red, dragon, lizard, pterodactyl thing.

my only complaint is that my Mom and brother either kept missing things and asking questions thereby making me miss things, or making jokes about that one line were they talk about mating. seriously never watch a movie with my Mom and brother they talk right through it.

P.S. want to apologize for atrocious spelling in last post was barely awake at time and forgot to hit spell check. it has all been corrected now.

Dune

I'm not even 20 min into the movie Dune and i just want to say i already want to cry from disappointment. they have already omitted, edited, removed, and invented, so many major plot elements that i want to kill the director.

every fight seen was ruined. the knife duels, the force shield duels, the sword duels (they never even said may thy blade chip and shatter!)the Freeman had lazguns which oh yeah they never once used in the book! they absolutely destroyed the concept of the weirding way! all the stuff about the freeman culture was completely removed! the stillsuits had no face masks!

The Harkonans were portrayed as violent idiots! huge chunks of story line just disappeared into thin air! the Guild navigators were done all wrong! they didn't even come close to properly expressing the value of water on Dune! Hell they couldn't even do the ending right! this movie was as far from the book as it could have been while still using the same title. my lord what was the director smoking when he filmed this @#$%!

Never watch this movie! read the book but never, ever, watch this movie.

I'm wasting time again.

firefly, i finished the entire season in two days which says a lot for how easily i get and then stay off topic, although it also says a lot for the show. which leads me to my next statement. Laura you weren't kidding they really did cut the show short and leave it hanging.

but i also wouldn't worry if i know anything about Hollywood it's that they can't come up with an original idea to save there life. give it 10 or 20 years and it could reemerge the next Star Trek, which is supposed to be the next Star Wars. now that Spock has a personality that might even be possible. but only if the next Star Trek movie includes dog fights and more shooting, maybe if they had to take a fortress or something.

anyway i need sleep if I'm going to make sense of physics tomorrow and i need to do that if I want to pass the test on Friday. so night everyone.

Problems with movie sword fights

as the direct result of being a fencer i pay particularly close attention to sword fight scenes from movies and let me tell you that is a double edged sword.

on the plus side i see amazing moves to which i can aspire to use on the strip

on the down side all of those little flaws which most people would not pick up on are blatantly obvious to me. right now i would limit myself to just three movies however anyone who is fanatical about any of the following should take this opportunity to stop reading. Star Wars, the Princess Bride, Star Trek(the new one)

all of these movies are favorites of mine but the mistakes are killing me.

First the light SABRE has no guard at all and considering the nature of the weapon anyone could slide along their opponents blade and destroy there opponents weapon and our hand also sabres are a one handed weapon not a choice between a one and two handed weapon.

then in the fight seen between Wesley and Inigo there rapiers bend about 15, 20 degrees up and down. a real rapier would not have much, if any bend to it they are stiff blades. the only blades that bend that much are fencing foils which granted also can bend more than that but they are not for fighting they are purely for sport and most often can not penetrate deeper than skin because they bend that much.

that was my only problem with the sword fighting in this movie everything else was good as far as i could see

in the new star trek movie one of those guys who does a space jump down to that platform says his combat training was fencing, but what he fights with is a katana. that is an entirely different sport altogether. not only that but he does a front flip over one of the bad guys swords. turning your back and exposing the back of your head are both major no, no's in fencing. and more importantly you never take your feet off the ground for any longer than is necessary.

if or rather when i catch more of these flaws i will tell you.