What James Knows

I wake up to the alarm clock, but it’s only Sunday. It’s 8 AM and there are cookies to bake. Monica gets up and gets ready, but I take my time. I try my luck with my computer, but get nowhere. My hands are thrown into the air when I get a version of the infamous blue screen of death. I think about possibly buying a new computer, but I wonder if any of my shit is Vista compatible. Fuckin’ A.

We’re going to head up north today to meet up with Kara and Finn and bake things. We thought we had to get up there early, but it turns out that’s not the case. We hang out and watch some more Friends until around 11, then we’re out the door.

Monica drives this time. I’m rarely a passenger in cars for more than 5-10 minutes, so a long drive like this just feels strange to me. I get the opportunity to notice things that I never get to really check out when I’m driving. I spend much of the ride just looking at other cars and the people inside them. Where are they going? I also observe the ice that’s dripped down the sides of these massive rocks along the Thruway. They look pretty cool. I also take the time to bounce a film idea off Monica. I’m really happy with this one and I think I can finalize it soon. I love that I can see the whole thing play out in my mind already from start to finish. Now to type it up and get to filming. Continue Reading »

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I wake up around 9. It’s Saturday and it’s now the tail end of the holiday weekend. Monica and I watch a few episodes of Friends to kick off the morning. Breakfast and showers are had and then we make a quick trip to the bank to drop off some paperwork needed to complete our joint account. That taken care of, we get down to the train station and hop on a train bound for Grand Central.

I read some more from Soon I Will Be Invincible on the way down. We’re going to be meeting up with Scott and his wife Makiko (I’m not sure if I’m spelling that right). We get down to the city a little afternoon and spot Scott as “the guy wearing pants” near the clock in Grand Central. We then stop at a pub a block away to await the arrival of a mystery guest who Scott has invited along.

In the meantime, Monica and I talk to Scott about some financial stuff. He works in the banking industry, doing what, I’m not really sure, but we looked to him for some advice. We were toying with the idea of buying a place when our lease is up this summer, but we’re not sure if it is financially possible. After the talk with Scott, we have a better idea of what we’re looking at. There’s still a lot of stuff to discuss and a lot to figure out, but we’re on the right track. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to do it this year though.

Our mystery guest arrives a little later. It’s none other than our friend, Kushal, who currently resides in Boston. It’s been about 2 years since we last saw him, even though he provided a ton of computer help to us a few months ago. We chat for a little while at the pub and then head out for lunch. Continue Reading »

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I wake up at 6:30 to the alarm clock again. No work for me today though. Monica is not as lucky. She gets ready for work and we watch some Friends in the meantime. Monica leaves for work around 8 and I hang out and watch an episode screener I had picked up at Best Buy a few months ago for Crash.

Now, I really dug the Oscar winning movie of the same name (which this show is based on), but this show just sucked. Where the movie was thought-provoking, shocking, and interesting, the TV show just tries to be controversial throwing in bizarre characters that don’t make any sense with horrible dialogue and phoned-in acting. I mean, did anyone clear this before it was released? Did anyone actually watch it? It was just horrible. Continue Reading »

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I wake up and it’s around 10 AM. I’m in my parents’ house and Monica has cleaned the guest room. Apparently she’s been up for 3 hours and I’ve been comatose so she got bored. She already packed up all our stuff and took out our new clothes for today. She’s spent the last half hour or so playing Pokemon Snap on the Nintendo 64. I eventually get up and we get ready to leave.

After saying goodbye to my Mom, we head out and grab some breakfast at the Dunkin’ Donuts down the road. I take a quick spin through Wal-Mart in search of the 2 disc Director’s Cut of Zodiac. As I’m digging through the bargain bin, scrapping the bottom and touching God knows what, Monica asks “Is this the DVD you’re looking for?” Sure enough, right there on the top is the DVD I want. I was about ready to leave, but Monica reminded me that we need some new pillows, so we took a quick walk through the bedding section and found some cheap ones. Pillows and DVDs in hand, we head home. Continue Reading »

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I wake up to the sound of the alarm clock for the last time in 2008. It occurs to me that everything I do today will be “for the last time in 2008.” I eat breakfast for the last time this year and watch Friends for the last time this year, then Monica and I go to work for the last time this year.

The ride into work is insanely easy because there’s barely anyone else on the road. There’s supposed to be another snow storm too so that’s probably warding off some folks. There’s a light dusting by the time I get to the office, but nothing too scary yet. Continue Reading »

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I wake up at 6:30 AM once more to that alarm clock buzz. It’s dark outside and once again, I don’t really feel like getting up. Monica and I lay in bed and watch Friends then get on with our day.

It’s gotten really cold over the past two days. I was walking around with my jacket open on Sunday in incredibly nice weather. Now we’re back to that face-shattering cold again. Thanks, Mother Nature. There’s some rumblings of another snow storm heading our way tomorrow. The last bits of the previous storm are just disappearing off the ground. Out with the old and in with the new, I guess. Continue Reading »

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With a bout of maniacal laughter, Dr. Horrible came on the scene earlier this year. I think it ranks very high in the list of media achievements for 2008. I mean, it was such a unique animal. Here is a three act story presented to you without the interference of a major studio and produced in the true nature of indie-film…except with actual money. And now I’ve got this handy DVD packed with extra footage that I can watch any time I want. Awesome.

If you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, you can watch it for free online. Here, I’ll do the work for you, just scroll down a little bit.

There, now that you two have gotten acquainted, let’s continue to talk about the DVD. Continue Reading »

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I wake up at 6:30 AM to the now less-than-familiar sound of the alarm clock. Man, I do not want to get up today. Monica and I watch some Friends and eventually get out of bed. This is a battle though. Neither of us really want to get up and go to work. We’ve been spoiled by this long weekend and now we have to go back to our jobs.

I get to work around 8:30 and there’s a handful of new emails. Nothing too crazy though. I do receive a bunch of Christmas cards as well as a free gift from Weather.com. I filled out an ad survey for them a few weeks ago and I got this…thing in the mail. I have no idea what it is though.

No one else can figure out what it is either. So, I open it up to you, the reader. Ten cool points go to whomever can tell me what the hell this thing is and what it does. Continue Reading »

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I wake up eventually around 9 or so. Man, it’s going to be so hard to wake up at 6:30 tomorrow to go back to work. Monica and I lay around for a bit and watch a couple episodes of Friends. We hang out for a bit before Monica makes some chocolate chip muffins with the stuff that my Mom got her for Christmas. She’s been asking about muffin tins for months and that was a gift I was going to get her, but my Mom beat me to it. The muffins came out pretty good. We watch more Friends and chow down.

After a couple episodes, Monica and I get ready to go dress hunting again. This time we’re going to hit up Nanuet. We head out around 11:30 and check out Kohl’s, but we don’t turn anything up there. We then venture further towards the Nanuet Mall.

This mall is just depressing. Monica and I came here once before I think earlier this year and I thought it was depressing then. Now it’s even more so. There are a bunch of stores that are going out of business in the Palisades mall, but the Nanuet one looks like it’s about to die at any moment. There are only a handful of stores that are actually open, then there are these big wings of the mall that are just abandoned with no stores at all. It’s a little scary when you think about it. Monica pointed out that you could probably film a movie here and you wouldn’t even have to close the mall. Continue Reading »

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I wake up around 9. It’s late and I don’t care. This weekend has gone on forever and it’s been beautiful. Hooray for 5-day weekends! Monica and I stay in bed and watch some Friends for a bit, then I get up and make us some eggs for breakfast. We eat and watch some more.

I got the urge to clean the apartment last night, but didn’t feel up to doing it then. So now’s the time to clean. We go through and clean most of our bedroom, going so far as to move things and dust under them which is something that’s rarely done. With most of the room done, I leave Monica to finish it and then venture into the bathroom to clean that up. Continue Reading »

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