Adventure of A Jawa

Since Monday it’s been raining. Soft at times and other times HARDcore… Seems to like to stop sometime after 3pm for a good many hours. (Which is nice, gives me time to do PT) But by morning it’s back raining. And the weather channel says it’s not going to top anytime soon.

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Posted an updated Movie log. 179 is the magical number. Currently watching season three of lost; with plans to watch all the seasons of 24 next. I think at one time I watched the first season of 24; but nothing after that.

It’s been a while since I last posted. Not much to post about. I live a very un-exciting life.

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36 Movies/TV Shows watched this month. Knocked out a lot of movies I had in Queue to watch which helped to boost the numbers.

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It’s now July which means a Month and a half till football season. New England Patriots are looking very good this season. I can’t wait to watch them. Hope I can somehow get them over here. Need to look to see if NFL.com shows them like MLB.com does for baseball.

Boston Red Sox are doing well, but they still got a lot they can do to improve the second half of the season. Then make a solid push at the word series title.

31 Movies/TV Shows watched in May; of those 12 where TV series/ Mini Series. Bringing the grand total to 110/107

I still got a long list of Movies/TV Shows in queue I want to watch. Sot here is no rest in site

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.

After a long wait the day has finally arrived. Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar officially gets released Tuesday 24th. They expect the servers to go live around noon eastern on Tuesday; which is 1AM Korean time. That Blows. So it’ll be Wednesday night before I get to play to expand my characters.

I’ve been in Beta since the end of January.

There was an offer to anyone who pre-ordered the official game to keep the characters created during “Open Beta” which started in April. They put a level cap of 15 in effect for this event. So I got two level 15 characters sitting and waiting for release so they can grow more.

I would probably of had all 5 character slots allowed on the server maxed out, but sadly during most of the “Open Beta” I was without a computer and internet connection as I moved to Korea.

My characters:

A Human Hunter named Legacy and An Elf Champion named Athena.

My intention when I started “Open Beta” was to take a Champion as my main. During Closed Beta I played a Guardian and really enjoy it. Being the “TANK” class was fun. I think Turbine did an awesome job with how they created the Guardian. Most of your offense is triggered off using a shield and being beaten to death by the enemy.

But the saying “been there, done that” comes into play. I didn’t want to re-level another one.

So I decided to go Champion. Duel wielding DPS machine class. I enjoyed playing the character to level 15 and had all intentions to continue with this character as my main.

But deep down inside “Hunter” called to me, so I deiced to level one of them to 15 and get a feel for it.

Star Wars Galaxies I was a Creature Handler. Basically I could tame pets and use them in combat. Then Sony fracked the WHOLE GAME UP…

World of Warcraft I started off with a Hunter as my fist character and got it leveled to the high 30’s before I decided to go a different path. I wanted to get into “End Game” play and realized as I hunter it would be a tough tough thing to do. Hunters in WOW could tame almost any animal they came across in the world and use it for combat.

Hunters in LOTRO cannot use pets or tame creatures of the wild. Turbine claims they couldn’t fit it into the LORE of the franchise. In Fact there are two classes in LOTRO who can have pets, Captains who can have a “Herald” to fight n buff for him. Lore-master can summons pets; but as of now you get the choice of Raven or a Bear, and later in the game an eagle. Neither of these classes appeals to me.

I think it is kind of LAME to have no real pets; but I can understand them trying to stick to LORE the best they can.

I think what appeals most to me about “Hunter” class is the Long Range combat (AKA Bows n Arrows), and in other games the taming of beast.

Something that I find ODD (Albeit with a disclaimer that I have never been apart of any others MMO release day, so I am not sure how others have done it. Plus the unique fact the characters we created during “Open Beta” can be carried over.) is that Turbine is hosting 5 launch parties at various GameStop/EB Games though out the US. Yet it does no good to get the game early.

One: The servers will be in “Open Beta” set up until they turn the servers off at 6am and bring it back up around noon with the “Live version”

Two: Turbine has given us a grace period of three or four days after “Launch Day” that we can play the “Live” version without buying the game for us who pre-ordered.

I just hope they have awesome Door Prizes :-p

Currently it’s just before 2PM Monday as I type this and I’ve been up since 8AM Sunday morning. I could not sleep what-so-ever last night at all. I tired to go to bed at 1145PM and just tossed n turned all night. My Body is protesting the non-regular sleep schedule I’ve had to partake in over the last month.

I was on normal sleep Eastern Time zone for many months up till around March 20^th.

Then I want to Pacific Time and stayed on that till I left for Korea 5 April.

That night I sleep some but not a lot, and I didn’t sleep on the 15 hour flight. I got to Korea Friday night local time and crashed and it so happened to be the right time at 13 Hours ahead of eastern.

The next week I was sleeping fine and everything was good.

Then OSAN “Exercised” and I was put on nights. So I switched to that and I didn’t have much trouble sleeping after being at work for 12 hours.

But then came the end of the “Exercise” this past Friday. I happened to have an in-processing appointment Friday at 2pm so I woke up at noon with the intent for me to go to bed Friday night and get back on the normal schedule.

But, Friday night I didn’t sleep much. I think 4 hours early Saturday morning.

Saturday night I slept with no problem.

Sunday, as I stated above I didn’t sleep a wink.

Tonight I should be very ready for sleep and hoping it will become a good routine.

For-warning: Be careful how your sleep schedule can get messed up.

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On a side note, OSAN AB, Korea does not carry Diet Mountain Dew or Diet Code Red Dew… What on Earth could be wrong with this place?