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bethje and I saw Jeepers Creepers II (which she'd seen already, but I hadn't). It was pretty good. I like the idea of the Creeper eating people's body parts to replace or enhance his own. I'm somewhat disappointed that the song "Jeepers Creepers," which was quite significant in the first film, was never even played in this one. Not to mention that watching a movie directed by a child molestor makes me somewhat uneasy, but, you know, I try to separate the artist from the art, and all that.
Today, I had the Pizza Hut lunch buffet for the first time in a while. The buffet ends at 1:30, and I got there around 1:15, so I made sure to check and see if there was any good pizza left. In my experience, if you get to the buffet around when it's going to close, they put out new pizzas much less often. So, essentially, you're paying just as much money for less options. Fortunately, they had plenty of good pan pizza. (I don't much care for their thin crust stuff.)
Incidentally, I noticed on the door that Pizza Hut is still doing the Book It! program. That takes me back. I actually only got the free pizza once, which is kind of weird, as I remember reading quite a bit at that age. I just never read enough books in a month, except that one time in January 1989. I guess part of it might have been because I did too much re-reading, which is still true today. If I like a book, I'll read it over and over again, which is fun for me, but doesn't put the free Personal Pan Pizzas on the table. I also remember that I was obsessed with a book called The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, which is a really cool guidebook-style catalog of locations from books and such. I actually bought a new copy of it a few years ago, since the old one had fallen into disrepair. Anyway, it's not a book that you're really supposed to read cover-to-cover, so the fact that I was always looking at that didn't help me reach the quotas.
( I don't believe this for a second. )
Finally, you know how some places have machines where you have to sign your name on the screen, and it's pretty much impossible to go back and dot I's and cross T's? Were they invented in some country where the alphabet doesn't HAVE letters to cross and dot, or is it just another example of people rushing out technology before it's actually able to handle common situations? It's like the time when I was at the New Jersey State Aquarium as a kid, and I got my sleeve all wet when trying to reach into a tank and touch a tiny shark, and it was practically impossible to get the motion-sensitive hot-air dryer in the bathroom to dry my sleeve?
There are a lot of references to uninteresting anecdotes from my childhood in this post, aren't there?
bethje and I saw Jeepers Creepers II (which she'd seen already, but I hadn't). It was pretty good. I like the idea of the Creeper eating people's body parts to replace or enhance his own. I'm somewhat disappointed that the song "Jeepers Creepers," which was quite significant in the first film, was never even played in this one. Not to mention that watching a movie directed by a child molestor makes me somewhat uneasy, but, you know, I try to separate the artist from the art, and all that.Today, I had the Pizza Hut lunch buffet for the first time in a while. The buffet ends at 1:30, and I got there around 1:15, so I made sure to check and see if there was any good pizza left. In my experience, if you get to the buffet around when it's going to close, they put out new pizzas much less often. So, essentially, you're paying just as much money for less options. Fortunately, they had plenty of good pan pizza. (I don't much care for their thin crust stuff.)
Incidentally, I noticed on the door that Pizza Hut is still doing the Book It! program. That takes me back. I actually only got the free pizza once, which is kind of weird, as I remember reading quite a bit at that age. I just never read enough books in a month, except that one time in January 1989. I guess part of it might have been because I did too much re-reading, which is still true today. If I like a book, I'll read it over and over again, which is fun for me, but doesn't put the free Personal Pan Pizzas on the table. I also remember that I was obsessed with a book called The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, which is a really cool guidebook-style catalog of locations from books and such. I actually bought a new copy of it a few years ago, since the old one had fallen into disrepair. Anyway, it's not a book that you're really supposed to read cover-to-cover, so the fact that I was always looking at that didn't help me reach the quotas.
( I don't believe this for a second. )
Finally, you know how some places have machines where you have to sign your name on the screen, and it's pretty much impossible to go back and dot I's and cross T's? Were they invented in some country where the alphabet doesn't HAVE letters to cross and dot, or is it just another example of people rushing out technology before it's actually able to handle common situations? It's like the time when I was at the New Jersey State Aquarium as a kid, and I got my sleeve all wet when trying to reach into a tank and touch a tiny shark, and it was practically impossible to get the motion-sensitive hot-air dryer in the bathroom to dry my sleeve?
There are a lot of references to uninteresting anecdotes from my childhood in this post, aren't there?
