This was a really great movie. It’s French, so you have to read subtitles. See the link for more of a recap. It’s a well-crafted mystery. It was nice to not have the entire thing figured out in the first 20 minutes.
I’d totally give it 4 out of 5 stars.
So, like 3 or 4 months ago Eddie’s main monitor started acting weird. It had this strange green haze on the screen. We turned it off, turned it back on, unplugged, different cables…we tried everything and it just never was right again.
Our friend John was going to Thailand for a few months, so Eddie asked if he could borrow John’s 2 24″ monitors until we could buy some new ones. John said yes, and Eddie used them until he got 2 24″ Samsungs from the Full Tilt store. The Gateway stayed in the closet.
Now that we’re getting ready to move, we decided to see if it could be fixed or whatever.
We hauled it out of the closet, plopped it on my desk and hooked it up. Green haze everywhere.
Eddie contacted Gateway, who’s response basically was, “It’s not under warranty. Go fuck yourself.”
Eddie called around to a few computer repair shops and found one that said they could fix it. $200 and it would be like a new monitor. Seeing as the thing cost over $1,000 to begin with, $200 sounded pretty good.
We take it yesterday. This afternoon the place calls:
“Sir, we have good news for you!”
“What?”
“There is nothing wrong with your monitor.”
Blink.
Blink, blink.
“Yes, there is. I guarantee you there is.”
“Well, we’ve had it on for 7 hours and we see no green haze. So we were thinking maybe it’s the cable you were using, so go ahead and bring that in and we’ll test it.”
Now, we told them yesterday that the green haze was over multiple inputs, so to me that would rule out the connection, but whatever. Eddie takes the cable and goes to the repair shop. He views for himself that there is NOTHING WRONG AT ALL.
He brings it back home, after making a deal with the manager of the shop that if he gets it home and there’s green haze, we’ll video it and they can make a “house call” and see it for themselves. Free of charge.
It’s been home and on Eddie’s desk for 5 hours. No green haze.
I am so confused.
edit: Well, now it’s back. Fuck.
Is actually happening.
We’re moving to Denver. And we’re SO FREAKIN EXCITED.
We have given our landlord our 30 days, and we’ll be leaving before that time is up. He wants to give us until September 15th to vacate, but we most likely will not wait that long.
Instead of having to move all of our extremely huge and heavy furniture, we are attempting to sell it all on Craigslist. We are planning to sell the following:
The stuff with lines through it has been sold already. And we put the ads up yesterday. This is nothing compared to how quickly we sold Eddie’s Ford Taurus, which has to be some sort of record. He hit “Publish” for the ad, and within 3 minutes had 1 phone call about it, while he was talking to that guy 2 more people called about it. Two of the three people immediately told him they were on their way with cash in hand.
Total whiplash at how fast it happened. Within like 1 hour it was gone.
We have some people coming over in the morning to look at my desks to see if they want them, one of our friends wants the coffee table, which we’ll sell to him if no one wants the complete set of living room furniture.
We paid GOOD money for all of our stuff, so we’re not going to take just whatever people want to give us for it. If we don’t get the asking price, then we’re just going to take it with us. But as fast as some of the stuff has sold, we’re not too terribly concerned about selling the other stuff in the month or so until we leave.
I’m kind of sad to see the big stuff go, cause I mean…it’s OUR STUFF. It’s the first big furniture we picked out and bought together. But, it’s also enormous. I don’t want to have to live in this huge place just because that’s the only way all of our furniture will fit. We bought the bedroom suite to fit the bedroom in the first house we lived in here in Vegas. That bedroom was GIGANTIC. So, in turn, the furniture is huge as well. So, we would rather downsize and be able to live in a smaller place for awhile, save money on rent, pay bills off, and THEN buy furniture again.
A lot of people on Facebook have asked me why we chose Denver. We went to a website called findyourspot.com, which asked about 80-100 questions about different things: what climate you would like, the “art scene” you’d want, just many various questions. Denver was one of the places it spit out, others being Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, etc. We did some research online and chose Denver. It just seems like an US place. An Amanda and Eddie Place. We’re so excited to get there and get settled.
We have big plans about starting to get exercise. I’m only 29. I shouldn’t get winded when I’m making the bed and talking at the same time. That’s ridiculous, and horrible for my health. Eddie has heart disease in his family, and I would like to keep him around for a while. We’re going to start taking walks (Denver is supposed to be very walkable), eventually start running, we’re gonna buy bikes and go bike riding. I want to lose weight by exercising, not by starving myself because that’s the only way I know how to lose weight.
I’m just so excited about the prospect of it not being over 100 degrees for months at a time. According to the City-Data.com message boards, it gets REALLY HOT sometimes in Denver. A whole 90 degrees. Psssssh. That’s not hot. Try walking out of your house and feel like not only have you walked into an oven, but you’re also blowing a hot hair dryer in your face.
Eddie asked me today if I was going to miss Vegas. Sure, there’s things I’ll miss…I’ll miss being able to go to the Strip if we want. I’ll miss being able to go to boxing matches. I’ll miss some of the people we’ve met here. But I won’t miss the weather, the rude people, how expensive everything is.
I’m going to get to move to another brand new place with my best friend. How much better can life get?
I have been very busy lately, what with all the staring, sleeping, eating, not pooping, playing WoW and reading Dooce. I started reading the archives (began reading it in like late 2006, so I have a lot to read), and that’s all I’ve been doing for like 3 days.
Oh, and I’ve filled out so many job applications that my right hand and wrist stopped working. I was in so much pain I was contemplating sacrificing one of my few remaining pain killers. (I have to take a half of one each time I have a migraine, and I’m down to just a few.) I didn’t take one…just a lot of Advil.
If reading Dooce has taught me anything, it’s YE SHALL NOT BLOG ABOUT WORK. I’m going to take that as even to not blog about the possibility of getting a job, so I shall refrain.
It’s difficult to find something to blog about when I can’t talk about work, I can’t talk about the thing that might be happening, or about the other thing that might be happening.
So, I guess I can just blog about not being able to talk about anything. Or about how I can’t make anything chainmaille without my wrist hurting so badly I can’t move it. Or how much the Reds suck and how I want Dusty Baker to actually realize that batting Willy Tavaras in leadoff or allowing Alex Gonzales to still play shortstop while they are the 2nd and 3rd to last in being the most horrible baseball players in MLB WILL NOT MAKE THEM BETTER. Bench them or I will have to come to Cincinnatti and strangle you with my bare hands.
Either that or just do all movie reviews all the time.
“Knowing”
Watched this tonight. Absolute piece of rubbish. It started out pretty good, was interesting and such. However, it got dumb FAST, kind of like “Wanted” did.
Avoid at all costs. Two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
(Oh, and watched the entire thing and still don’t understand wtf the pebbles were about.)
