Matrix Reloaded thumbs down :(

Well I caved and went to see the movie in German!!! I just didn't want to miss it, that's all. Unfortunately, the action scenes were ho-hum as far as martial arts goes, and the bullet-time crap got boring really fast. It's not new enough and they didn't introduce anything that really made a big impact on me. Also some parts had lots of confusing talking in it that I didn't understand, and to tell you the truth even in English I don't think I would get it. The stuff about 6 different Neos or something... hopefully all who read this have seen it and and I haven't spoiled anything! The only part I liked was the two semis crashing head-on in slow-motion, that was pretty neat.

I went to see it with my uncle's girlfriend's God-daughter. If you think there are wedding bells in the air you're way off base because she has a boyfriend. She was also a little, um, big. Even my uncle made fun of it when she wasn't in hearing range, and I must admit, I laughed! Other turn-offs were that she was taller than me and smoked a lot. Otherwise she was pretty decent, and it was interesting talking to someone around the same age as me again.

So yeah last weekend was Pentecost weekend, and in Germany it is a big holiday weekend. I am now staying at my Uncle and his girlfriend's house, but I will just call her my Aunt now. They got everything, including a nice satellite setup. But I don't care about TV that much, specially crappy german TV that dubs all the american movies and shows over, that is an unforgiveable offence! Everyone is supposed to speak English, for crying out loud!. Oh well...the TV-commercials are funny too, they have a really over-excessive style to them, and sometime there are 10 minutes of commercials. The Germans are also more loose with naked images so sometimes you see bare-breasted ladies on TV in the middle of the day!

My Aunt has a son from a previous relationship and he is 14. He's already taller than me, which means he will get really tall. He's pretty spoiled since he is an only child, so he has lots of cool toys. He is a Nintendo fan like me so he has Gameboy Advance and Gamecube. It's funny seeing the games in German. Thankfully he is a pretty nice kid and lets me play, and I introduced him to emulation with the few games that I brought with me, and he is pretty interested in it, which surprised me since punk kids these days can't appreciate old classics. His name is Pascal, which would sound pretty weird in English, but apparently it's a common name here. I fixed his computer since it was in a a sad state. He has Windows Millenium, which sucks really bad. His mom was amazed I fixed it (all I did was re-install Windows!), and thanked me for saving her from a costly repair bill. The ONLY bad thing is that he doesn't have Internet access, not even modem!! It's mostly because his mom's afraid he'll download pirated stuff and share it with his buddies and then she'll end up in jail! She should hear my crazy download stories...

We went on a bike tour in the Rems river valley on Sunday, and I must say the scenery was nice. The only bad thing is I didn't buy a camera, so the memories are only inside me. We also had some beers on the way about 3 times because Germans are all about the beer. It wasn't complete beer though, it was mixed with Sprite, and they called it "Radler", which pretty much means "bicyclist". I think it's only a sorry excuse for a bike rider to drink beer! I only drank it once though, afterwards it was only Coke for me. Coke is good stuff but it wasn't on-the-rocks, so that made me a little sad.

I will only stay there at my Uncle's for one week and then go back to boring gramma and grampas house. It is really close to work here, I could even ride my bike here practically. Too bad my ass is all bruised from the weekend. I haven't ridden a bike for that long in a long time, so after a while I was sore and now I got to live with it. It's sort of like when I went snowboarding for the first time and I fell a lot. So it hurts to sit down now, possible need some Preparation-H , but that won't help I don't think. .

I gotta ask for more work soon from my boss or else I will go insane I think. But I'm too much of a wiener to do that, so hopefully he will come to me and give me stuff. The MS-Office XP he gave me will lose its 45-day trial soon. I tried putting in random numbers for the activation but it didn't work, and since I don't have Internet on this computer I can't activate it! I downloaded lots of ROMs and burned them already on the public computer. I had to erase my traces after because it looks pretty bad when all the history links are game-related. Today I wore my cool casino shirt but nobody noticed... but I felt like a star anyway.

Some of my family will be coming here over the next few weeks. I wish they would bring me presents of Gameboy Advance SP and a laptop computer, but I just don't see it happening. I am still sick from hay-fever related symptoms, and my eyes are always red. It looks live I've been doing some hard cocaine or something, not that I know what it looks like, I just heard offhand...

I know this entry is a little early in the coming, but there is finally something more to tell so I gotta let it all out at once. I wish I had some water, mineral water is the Devil's Drink, it's supposed to have healing qualities but I think it's poison swill from beneath the earth where liquid hot mag-ma dwells.

I finished reading Lord of the Rings. It was way better than the movies so far! I wish they wouldn't have made the movies so deviated from the books. But hopefully the third film will wrap things up in a nice way that doesn't skip too many good parts (like Shelob).

-joram