They had enough of their pride to not bring coins to this amusement park

Okay, let's see here. On Thursday night, bethje and I watched The People vs. Larry Flynt, which was pretty good. I wonder how close the events portrayed were to those in Flynt's actual life, though.

On Friday, we went to Great Adventure for Fright Fest. This was our last visit of the year. I'm not sure whether or not we'll get season passes for next year, but we very well might. The new roller coaster opening up last year is supposed to be the biggest in the world, or something like that. Anyway, the lines for most of the rides weren't bad at all, although they got worse as the day went on. The longest line was the one for Medusa, and that was about two hours or so before closing time. They were having technical difficulties with one of the cars for the Runaway Train right before we were going to ride it, so we ended up having to leave, which sucked. I did get to ride the Batman side of the Batman and Robin roller coaster for the first time. I think I actually like the Robin side better, but I'm glad I finally got to ride the other side. We were considering going on the haunted hayride, but the line was really long and barely moving, so we decided not to.

Today, we're planning on continuing our amusement park adventures with a trip to Clementon Park. We got free passes last time we went there, because the new roller coaster wasn't running. It should be running this time.

Oh, and last night I had a dream that I bought a bunch of Final Fantasy games at some used video game dealer for only $30. The only problem was that I didn't have a PlayStation to play them on.

Technical Difficulties

Yeah, I know I just posted recently, but I thought of a few more things I wanted to say.

Is it too much to ask that the Internet actually work the way it's supposed to? Just recently, I ended up posting the same comment eight or so times to revme's livejournal. And Hotmail, which had actually been working all right in the past few days, decided to reverse my messages again. It was easily fixed, but I don't know if the problem will happen again. I certainly wouldn't doubt it.

Speaking of the Internet, can anyone explain the appeal of Friendster and similar services? I mean, I'm on there, but all I've ever done was add people I already knew from elsewhere. Other people seem to love it, though, so I wonder if I'm missing something. As far as meeting people goes, it strikes me as much less effective than livejournal, or, for that matter, just an old-fashioned mailing list. At least in those places you can find out more about a person than what can be found in a brief list of interests and other people they know. Maybe the Friendster appeal is more of a collecting thing than an actually-meeting-people thing. I don't know.

By the way, I'm not a big fan of the fall. I'm usually kind of depressed around this time of year. The cold weather and shorter days probably have something to do with that. I didn't realize how cold it was going to be yesterday, and I ended up walking around Great Adventure in just a T-shirt and sweatshirt (on my upper regions, that is; I'm not implying that I wasn't wearing pants {g}), which wasn't very comfortable. Cold weather requires too much preparation just to go outside.