I just installed the Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve never used tags before-never really saw the need. Maybe it will prove useful.

Holy crap. I’ve had a blog for almost a year now and I have never been number one on the Top 100 Bloggers list. I would like to thank the academy, my parents, and God. You like me, you really, really like me.

I’m close to calling Charter to order cable internet. I’ve had about all I can take from Verizon-and the tech support is, well, worthless. I told the lady on the other end I had already been through all of the troubleshooting steps. What did she do? Take me right back through them again. I can count on one hand the number of times my cable went down while I had Charter. I’m now counting with my toes for the number of times my DSL has been down. Plus, I need to open a few ports and I’m sick of trying the ports I’m allowed to use with NO FREAKING RESULTS. Anyone want to contribute-click on the contact link and drop me a line.

I watched Napoleon Dynamite. Personally I didn’t find it funny. Which is why I’m not doing a review. I found it sad. Perhaps if I was 15 years old I would have found it more entertaining, but, I’m 33 and it only reminds me of junior high and high school and how cruel people were and how cruel I could have been to others. I was taught not to make fun of someone because he or she was different. Looking back, however, I did. My friends did. If someone wasn’t in the “mainstream” and walked to his/her own beat we laughed. I wasn’t in the popular crowd but my friends and I basically fit in anywhere. So I really don’t think we had trouble. Who knows, maybe we were more popular than we believed at the time. All of this rambling aside, the song at the end-The Promise by When In Rome, gave me a huge nostalgic feeling. Not surprisingly I had to find the song and listen to it, about 5 times, before I got most of it out of my system. I remember when I was younger I would listen to my mom’s old albums-yes kids when vinyl records existed-and would wish I lived in the era she lived. Now, if a song from the 80s comes on the radio, I’ve had a 15 year old say “the 80s were so cool.” I guess the 80s were a good time, but 20 years from now that 15 year old will hear the same from a kid who isn’t even born yet about the 2000s.

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Yes, I’m several years late on this movie. I’ve had it in my DVD collection-unopened for about a year now. I finally watched it this evening. One word. Brilliant. The movie is based on the life of John Nash-who happens to be from West Virginia. Russell Crowe did an outstanding job as Nash. By the end of the movie I felt like I was the crazy one. Jennifer Connelly played Nash’s wife, Alicia, whom I felt for from the beginning. She saw something in him-it wasn’t looks it was his mind. His brilliant mind. I could actually see, in my own mind, what she saw. I know people always say looks are what attract you to a person. Not for me. It’s the brain. Then the humor. Then the looks. The love she had for him is what helped him fight and go forward. Plus his strength to defeat his demons on his own terms. And win. Yes, they were always there, but he learned how to control the impact on his life. If you want a film which touches you and allows you to see the human spirit conquer a disease that would normally control you completely-watch A Beautiful Mind. It is now on my top list of movies-ever.

And today was movie day in my household.

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