Adventure of A Jawa

Goes to Valerie for this sweet look design.. She did an awesome job…

I was negative 2 years old. Man was I young!

But also:

George Lucas’ first “Star Wars” movie opened in theaters.

30 years is a long time, been alive 28 of those, so I know first hand. Yet for some reason “Star Wars” is still as popular as ever.

What tells you a lot is: “without adjustment for inflation” 3 of the top Ten North American films of all time are Star Wars. As of May 21st, 2007. Of which #2 “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” was release in 1977. The only other film released around that time is E.T. Considering how much ticket prices have gone up over the 20-30 years that the rest of the movies fall into should tell u how many people watched them and how many repeated trips people made to watch them over n over. Just be-daffles me.

All six movies are currently in the top 25. Although the lower three keep dropping.

I managed to lose my copies of Star Wars and a bunch of other movies, so I won’t be doing a back to back to back to back to back to back showing anytime soon. Sadness confounds me… Soon enough I will replace them and make up for it. Some day will get my wife to sit down and watch them all back x 6 with me…

Days like today I wish SOE hadn’t FUBAR’D the Star Wars Galaxies MMO.

In the two MMO’s I have played to date since, WOW and LOTRO; neither have yet to capture me like SWG did. Still playing LOTRO so there is still some hope, but so far doesn’t look like it will be close.

Being a LONG time Star Wars fan it was just awesome to play in the world. The crafting system was rock on. The 37 combat/tech proficiencies truly created diversity. Not to mention the hard work and dedication to become a Jedi. Every now and then SOE offers a free 10 day trial to try to entice us back, so I log in and play, but it just never pulls me back in.

Maybe someday there will be another company that brings back all the great SWG things without SOE messing it up. But slim to none I am sure.

There are 10-20 MMO’s coming out in the next 1-2 years that could.

Gods & Heroes: Rome Rising – Stargate Worlds are too I am looking at.

Is what it took to hit the 100 movie mark.

74 Days is not bad; considering a lot of time was spent watching the Stargate SG-1 series – 9 Seasons worth. Each season is about 22 episodes long at about an hour apiece, so two episodes equal out to be about a movie. I have plans to watch more TV series so it might be another 74 plus days till 200…

The 100^th was “Earth: Final Conflict”. Been wanting to watch this series for a good many a years now. One day while watching Sci-Fi channel they showed an episode from this series, and it caught my attention. But it wasn’t being shown on TV anymore on any station nor where the DVD’s released yet. As of now season 3-5 are on DVD but not 1-2. Shows the oddness of the world we live in.

Something else new I learned recently is that Gene Roddenberry Died October 24, 1991 (age 70). I always thought he was alive. He is the mastermind behind Star Trek and all the follow series was based on it. Along with Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict. My first big interest in him was with Andromeda which was presented as Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, and then got into Star Trek and now Earth FC; but never in all the reading I did on the shows did I realize he was dead.

So far in the season and a half of Earth: Final Conflict that I have watched I must say it leaves things to be desired; yet it draws you in with so many hints n flashes of what might come; Yet things are seen/happen in one episode that never carry over into others. None the less, I will watch them all and see how it all turns out.

So glad I don’t have much of a life here in Korea

Traffic sucks!! That is all I have to say about that.

Thursday – (today) Saturday I went/am/was TDY to Kusan AFB and Gimhae IAP to upgrade some computer equipment. From Osan to Kusan to Gimhae covers much of The Republic of Korea.

At the moment we are trying to drive back to OSAN but the traffic is horrible. Been bumper to bumper since we started and we have been on the road for close to 2 hours. At this rate we will never make it back to OSAN. From what I saw on a map; Korea has expressways that tri-verse the country and I assume everyone decided to use them today.

Sadly I forgot to pack me camera so I don’t have any pictures of trip. There are still plenty of trips I plan to take so soon enough there will be some.

But I have some observations to share.

1: The Republic of Korea has mountains and hills. The land itself is beautiful looking. Way better then good on Georgia.

2: Everywhere you look in The Republic of Korea you see farms. Every nook and cranny has a farm or field of some sort stuffed in there. They are very interesting to see. True I have only made observations from a vehicle and can only see what’s next to the highway.

3: Korean’s drive like maniacs. I thought Boston/Cali drivers where bad, but not even close. Cars parking in the middle of the street; Drivers who will just cut you off and expect u to let them; Traffic lights mean nothing… So on. Just glad I am not the one driving. One of the co-workers is Korean, so he is driving.

4: Last night we stayed in Busan at the Busan Lotte Hotel. It was a nice hotel. High class but I was disappointed. It cost around 134 dollars a night. (This doesn’t bother me becase the AF is paying anyways). But one would think for that price you would get internet correct? Nopers, it would have been another 20 dollars for that. Plus, they only had one 100V power plug and that was in the bathroom. Plus they didn’t have a DVD player. Just VHS!!

I’m just ready to be back. And when I do you will be able to read this.

So I am back now… And just for the record, it took 9ish hours to make a 3-4 hr trip. Fun Fun

Took me a good while to get around to posting this, Almost two months after I started it, it is being posted.

Movie Log File

This will also be in my link section for future easy clicks.

The log explains itself. For some reason with IE7 it wants you to run ActiveX. Guess that is what i get for doing it in WORD. Someday I will be able to afford DreamWeaver.

Since joining the military; and working most of that time on night shift; I have watch tons n tons of movies. And me being the carious person that I be, I’ve always wondered how many. That lead to the log I decided to keep. Sadness I didn’t do it way back when, but all we have is the Now and the Future.

With me being stationed in Korea, there will be a lot of time to watch Movies/TV Shows. That is unless I decide to take up the habit of nightly drunkenness or club hopping. Which won’t happen.. So Movies/Video Games it is.

I am multi-talented and normally have a Movies/TV Show going while I play on my XBOX 360 or Lord of the Rings Online.

As you can see I got a good jump on it in March with 45. Having almost a week out processing combined with leave in New Hampshire and then California; Gave a lot of time to watch movies.

In other happy news; I got me some Diet Mountain Dew. Seems the commissary has gotten some in. I just hope it is a permanent thing and not a once in a blue moon. Will find out as time goes on.

I was walking back from the commissary with two 12 packs and I passed a guy who asked if they where on sale today. Seems I was the 3^rd or 4^th person to walk by with Diet Mountain Dew. I laughed and told him no, it’s just you can’t find it anywhere else and seems to be tough to keep in stock.