The Purposed Trek

This past weekend I spent a good part of it reading. While I was reading there were times I couldn’t focus anymore so I would take breaks and do my dishes, clean up some, organize things and watch some shows/movies that I have PVRed (Tivo or DVR in America) over the past month or so. I like to keep a line-up going because some weekends I have nothing going on and it is nice to watch a movie you have been wanting to see. My line-up has been really long because I was in and out so much.

So last Saturday while I ate lunch and took a break from reading I selected to watch “Spaceballs”. In my opinion it is a classic Mel Brooks movie – poking fun at Star Wars, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and many other movies. In lieu of Darth Vader you have Dark Helmet played by Rick Moranis, his right hand man is Colonel Sanders, and John Candy plays a huge Cheshire Cat character named Barf. Yoda is called Yogurt and he has the power of the Schwartz. It is really dumb and the story line is lame, but I laughed so hard because it reminded me of my childhood and how we would watch it over and over again because it was so stupid, yet made us laugh.

So may the Schwartz be with You as you go forth this weekend. I am hoping the Schwartz allows us to have power.

I was excited to hear the nominations for the Oscar's yesterday and at 3:30 my time I tuned in and watched the announcements live in CA on the website. Technology is great. While I was watching the announcements I realized that I have no idea who many of the nominees were much less the movies that were selected for best picture.

I am not a movie buff, but I did keep up with things and try and pretty much watch anything that came my way. I enjoy all different types of movies, with the exception of super-hero, sci-fi and some victorian period films. In South Africa movies are cheap here so was looking forward to watching anything and if I didn't like I didn't feel too bad walking out after paying $3. But with cheap tickets comes less movies and if they come at all they usually come months later.

With that said - I haven't a clue about movies anymore. Any tips, suggestions, or don't go see it's are welcomed. I did see August Rush and loved it, and I am seeing The Bucket List this weekend and excited because I am proud to admit that I love Jack Nicholson in anything.

As of late, you need a flashlight when you go the bathroom at my office. There is this thing in South Africa called “load shedding” and it happens often, usually for a short amount of time. Load shedding is when the power company turns off power to lessen the load in the grid in order to save electricity (and money). Lately, the office complex where I work is on a grid where it happens for hours at a time on a regular basis. So not only does it prevent you from doing projects where the Internet is required, but it causes the ladies bathroom to be incredible dark. So as soon as the power kicks off, I have a knee-jerk reaction and that is to stop drinking water until it comes back on because I don't typically carry a flash light with me to work.

And one other thing about the bathrooms at the office, they are in another building. So when it rains outside, I quit drinking water too, especially if I didn’t bring my raincoat with me.

Just wanted to wish all my friends out in blogging world a Happy New Year. Thanks for stopping by. Life starts back to a normal routine on Monday so no more fun holiday posts will be coming from me; just the usual.

Hope 2008 is a year of amazing wonder for each and every one of you. Cheers from Cape Town!