Phil Falls Down on the Job

I have been somewhat lax on what I had planned to do to prepare for NaNoWriMo, but sometimes you do have to take a break from things in life. This past Wednesday was my 33rd birthday, so I took a few days off from everything that I could. I even managed to get two days off from work.

What, if anything, did I get accomplished on my little mini vacation from life? Not much, really. I watched some good movies at home and with friends, I watched the entire Kolchak: the Night Stalker series, the original with Darren McGavin, and I bummed around my apartment. The night of my birthday I went over a friend's place and watched a peculiar movie (more on that later) and had one of my favorite pizzas, cream cheese and pepperoni.

That visit with my friend was also a true test of my committment to be a non-smoker. Cheri is a not exactly a chain smoker, but she does smoker a lot. And does Munky, the other friend that was visiting. Like most smokers, when they find nothing for their hands to do they smoke. I know that when I get bored I want to do something with my hands. Sometimes I just want to hold something in my hands. That is something that I think a lot of non-smokers, those who have never been a smoker, do not understand. Part of the addiction is having something to do with your hands, as well as there is the oral addiction. Smoking is not just an addiction to nicotine and the other nasty chemicals in cigarettes and smokable tobacco products.

Well, I am quite proud of myself. I resisted the one urge to ask Cheri for a cigarette and I also managed to only use my bluCig five times during the six hour visit. Yes, six hour visit. Visiting with my friends is rarely a pop-in/pop-out adventure.

Now, that movie that we watched. It was quite peculiar. "Death of a Ghost Hunter" is the title. I had never heard anything about it, but it sounded interesting.  It is supposed to be the true story of a paranormal investigator and the last case she investigated. The case that she died investigating. Well, it was a very good story line, but the acting sucked and the sound quality was more than ameteur. The use special effects was minimal, which probably saved the believablity of the movie. All in all, I think I would rate the movie with three stars. And considering that the Netflix viewer rating was 3.5 stars, I suppose I am right there with most of the viewers. I may even find myself watching it again. I don't know...

We also watched a documentary called Gendernauts, a film about the transgendered community in the United States, primarily San Francisco. That was a truly interesting documentary and something that I may have to delve into more in a future post to this blog.

And to top off the evening, we watched a few episodes of Red Dwarf. Perhaps one of my favorite British comedies....at least of the surreal kind.

Meh....more to come.