My wife thinks I'm special

But not in a good way. I'm back to writing in this blog after almost a year away. Angela and I started a blog together to keep everyone informed about our life together and what we are doing, but it has sparked my desire to ramble on about the nerdy/geeky things that my mind turns to when there is nothing good on tv or I am at work and space out. I know my wife would rather I didn't think about these things let alone blog about them on our shared site, so I'm back here geeking out a bit.

So my first subject has to be my excitement about Cloverfield. The movie started today and I hope to go tomorrow if Angela doesn't get called in to work. I am excited to see what is causing such a ruckus in the big city (as seen in the previews). My sister-in-law's boyfriend told me that the monster is Voltron or something, but that makes no sense to me, so I think he must be wrong. But if he isn't I really don't know what to think. I want to make sure I see it before someone really spoils it for me though.


There haven't been a lot of movies I've been excited about seeing lately, so it's fun to be excited about something new. I was surprised that Angela agreed to go with me. She went with me (and others from my family and hers) to see "I Am Legend" and had her head buried in my shoulder for half the movie, threatening to leave every couple minutes. So I thought she might never go to a scary movie with me again.

My posts will probably get shorter as I go, but another thing I did want to talk about was the following: Both my Tivo and my XBOX 360 died this last week. The Tivo was first, and was a hard hit for me. I tried my best to revive it, but after over 4 years and thousands upon thousands of recorded television shows, it has been declared deceased. I got the dreaded red rings of death on my XBOX 360 just a couple days later. The lame part is that I just got some great new games over Christmas, but the positive part is that I can send it in to get fixed for free (although it takes about a month or more) and I also got a PSP for my birthday in December so I will have some good time to get acquainted with it.

The last thing I wanted to do was talk about the most interesting tech thing I learned this week: Soon we will all have bionic sight! Based on some work being done at my Alma Mater, they are finally getting contacts to work the way I always thought they should. But my question is why they are doing the research on rabbits (aren't they supposed to have great sight with the carrots and everything)?