I Don't Get Out Much
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bethje and I bought Valentine's Day presents for each other, but the ones for me didn't arrive until a few days later, and hers haven't arrived at all. Mind you, I take full responsibility for this, as I didn't order them until a few days after Valentine's. I actually just received an e-mail saying that UPS had attempted to deliver one of the items, but no one was here. I have trouble believing this, as people are usually here, and it didn't say WHEN they tried delivering it. Besides, why not leave the package when no one is here? And since when does Amazon use UPS? I thought they generally just sent stuff through the mail. It's all too confusing for me. Anyway, Beth gave me the DVD sets for the fourteenth season of The Simpsons (even though we still haven't watched the thirteenth) and Volume 6 of Futurama, as well as a collection of Oz-themed horror stories called Shadows of the Emerald City. A little while ago, when I searching for stuff about Mr. Yoop, I came across some samples of the stories from the book, and they sounded interesting. There was also a review in the latest Baum Bugle. Has anyone else read this volume?
On Saturday, I noticed that it was the last day of a sale at Target where you could buy one Sims game and get another of lesser or equal value for free. I'd been meaning to pick up The Sims 3, despite the fact that it received some less than complimentary reviews on Amazon, so I bought the package that has the new game plus the Pets expansion, as well as the Late Night expansion pack. Not surprisingly, I ended up playing it a lot the following day. I think Sims games are probably much more addictive than cocaine. It has its pros and cons, but I think I'll save all that for another post. Beth and I spent much of Sunday night in Atlantic City, after a brief stopover at Denny's. See, the Denny's closest to us closed down a few years ago, apparently because the owner owed a lot of money and just ran off, or something like that. So even though Denny's isn't all that exciting, I've always liked it, and it was nice to go to one for the first time in a while. This particular Denny's, the one on Tilton Road near Pleasantville, is surprisingly non-dank. It even has a room for events, something I've never seen at any other Denny's. Maybe it's where Denny's has their corporate meetings. In Atlantic City, all we did was walk on the Boardwalk, and it was quite chilly. Beth has a thing for walking on boardwalks, claiming that she's in her zen state there. Personally, I think I'm in more of a zen state when I'm at home on the computer, but I guess it doesn't hurt to get out and walk occasionally.
Speaking of which, I was apparently supposed to go out and get some fresh air before going on the Internet to complain about how much the latest Simpsons episode sucked, but oh well. Anyone who's been reading this journal knows that I haven't given up on the show entirely as many have, but this particular episode? Yeah, it sucked. At least usually when the whole town turns against the Simpsons, there's more of a reason for it. Here, they half-assed that part, and for what reason? So they could get to some cobbled-together plot about the family living out in the country? They were apparently trying to do something big for the five hundredth episode, but it didn't make any sense. Also, if Abe was with the family when they were being banished, where did he go when they actually left the town? And I don't really see the point to Julian Assange as a guest star. I could pull a better cartoon out of my...hey hey!
bethje and I bought Valentine's Day presents for each other, but the ones for me didn't arrive until a few days later, and hers haven't arrived at all. Mind you, I take full responsibility for this, as I didn't order them until a few days after Valentine's. I actually just received an e-mail saying that UPS had attempted to deliver one of the items, but no one was here. I have trouble believing this, as people are usually here, and it didn't say WHEN they tried delivering it. Besides, why not leave the package when no one is here? And since when does Amazon use UPS? I thought they generally just sent stuff through the mail. It's all too confusing for me. Anyway, Beth gave me the DVD sets for the fourteenth season of The Simpsons (even though we still haven't watched the thirteenth) and Volume 6 of Futurama, as well as a collection of Oz-themed horror stories called Shadows of the Emerald City. A little while ago, when I searching for stuff about Mr. Yoop, I came across some samples of the stories from the book, and they sounded interesting. There was also a review in the latest Baum Bugle. Has anyone else read this volume?On Saturday, I noticed that it was the last day of a sale at Target where you could buy one Sims game and get another of lesser or equal value for free. I'd been meaning to pick up The Sims 3, despite the fact that it received some less than complimentary reviews on Amazon, so I bought the package that has the new game plus the Pets expansion, as well as the Late Night expansion pack. Not surprisingly, I ended up playing it a lot the following day. I think Sims games are probably much more addictive than cocaine. It has its pros and cons, but I think I'll save all that for another post. Beth and I spent much of Sunday night in Atlantic City, after a brief stopover at Denny's. See, the Denny's closest to us closed down a few years ago, apparently because the owner owed a lot of money and just ran off, or something like that. So even though Denny's isn't all that exciting, I've always liked it, and it was nice to go to one for the first time in a while. This particular Denny's, the one on Tilton Road near Pleasantville, is surprisingly non-dank. It even has a room for events, something I've never seen at any other Denny's. Maybe it's where Denny's has their corporate meetings. In Atlantic City, all we did was walk on the Boardwalk, and it was quite chilly. Beth has a thing for walking on boardwalks, claiming that she's in her zen state there. Personally, I think I'm in more of a zen state when I'm at home on the computer, but I guess it doesn't hurt to get out and walk occasionally.
Speaking of which, I was apparently supposed to go out and get some fresh air before going on the Internet to complain about how much the latest Simpsons episode sucked, but oh well. Anyone who's been reading this journal knows that I haven't given up on the show entirely as many have, but this particular episode? Yeah, it sucked. At least usually when the whole town turns against the Simpsons, there's more of a reason for it. Here, they half-assed that part, and for what reason? So they could get to some cobbled-together plot about the family living out in the country? They were apparently trying to do something big for the five hundredth episode, but it didn't make any sense. Also, if Abe was with the family when they were being banished, where did he go when they actually left the town? And I don't really see the point to Julian Assange as a guest star. I could pull a better cartoon out of my...hey hey!
