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Who am I? Where am I?
Aug. 3rd, 2015 10:56 am
Last week really took a toll on me. I'm so exhausted I barely even remember what happened. It was like a terrible nightmare that's on the edges of my brain, waiting for my conscious to acknowledge it. Or maybe... I'M STILL SLEEPING. /gasp
It seems that whenever I put off writing about something, stuff just keeps piling up until I get overwhelmed and put it off, then never write about it. This is a very bad journaling habit, and Future!Me hates me for it because then I can't use LJ as a way to remember when stuff happened. Sorry, Future!Me. :(
I will thus attempt to catch you all (and my future self) up on recent goings ons.
The 1D concert on July 15: Had a great time, but next time am just going to fork over more money to get better seats. We already had really good seats -- close to the stage (but on the side), and didn't have to deal with the crowd on the floor, but... seriously, if I'm going to go to a concert in person, I'd like to be able to watch the performers with my own eyeballs rather than on a freaking monitor. I had enough of that at Comic Con, and it was the same general experience at CenturyLink. >< ( More deets! )
I have Seahawks training camp tickets for this Saturday! Woot!
So this is the story of MY life... For months and months (at least six or so), I have been holding out for a really old iPad that I could do very basic things with. I didn't care what gen it was; I just wanted one so that I could play Pandemic on it and was willing to pay about $100. Only it turns out that even really old, used iPads go for more than that, so it seemed my search was for naught. I finally gave up last night and bought an iPad Air 2 (because that's how I roll -- if I can't get the oldest, most decrepit thing available for cheap, then I want the newest, most expensive one around :P). And guess what came through the sell-buy list at work this morning? That's right, a $70 1st-gen iPad, which was exactly what I'd been waiting for. SERIOUSLY, WHY DOES STUFF LIKE THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME??? (Edit: Apparently life was trying to save me from myself, and I wouldn't let it. I now have the iPad, and it turns out that I didn't do the necessary research. Gen 1 iPad doesn't support iOS 6 and up, which means that I am not able to use most of the apps at the app store, which require at least iOS 7. >< SIGH Edit 2: Actually, there's a way you can hack it, but it's no guarantee that every app will work that way, so I returned it for a refund. The guy was very nice about it. It was in really nice condition, too; really wish I could have made it work out.)
Saw Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation yesterday. I was not impressed. Disappointing because I thought the last one was really good, and this one had been getting stellar reviews. It was all right; not bad, but not great, either. Jeremy Renner was completely wasted. I don't know why they even bothered to have his character back. In MI5, Brandt proved himself to be a good field agent who shouldn't have been relegated to desk work, which was something he imposed on himself. Last we saw, Ethan was giving Brandt a field mission. But in MI:RN, Brandt was basically The Suit. He had no action AT ALL. WTF? Jeremy Renner is an action star in his own right, it was something they'd established for his character, and yet... nothing? He's just a desk jockey like Alec Baldwin? A big let down and also made no sense. The plot was kind of convoluted, the way Alias and James Bond plots are, but okay. I actually really liked Rebecca Ferguson, who I'd never heard of before this... but MI movies tend to do that with their female characters.
It seems that whenever I put off writing about something, stuff just keeps piling up until I get overwhelmed and put it off, then never write about it. This is a very bad journaling habit, and Future!Me hates me for it because then I can't use LJ as a way to remember when stuff happened. Sorry, Future!Me. :(
I will thus attempt to catch you all (and my future self) up on recent goings ons.
The 1D concert on July 15: Had a great time, but next time am just going to fork over more money to get better seats. We already had really good seats -- close to the stage (but on the side), and didn't have to deal with the crowd on the floor, but... seriously, if I'm going to go to a concert in person, I'd like to be able to watch the performers with my own eyeballs rather than on a freaking monitor. I had enough of that at Comic Con, and it was the same general experience at CenturyLink. >< ( More deets! )
I have Seahawks training camp tickets for this Saturday! Woot!
So this is the story of MY life... For months and months (at least six or so), I have been holding out for a really old iPad that I could do very basic things with. I didn't care what gen it was; I just wanted one so that I could play Pandemic on it and was willing to pay about $100. Only it turns out that even really old, used iPads go for more than that, so it seemed my search was for naught. I finally gave up last night and bought an iPad Air 2 (because that's how I roll -- if I can't get the oldest, most decrepit thing available for cheap, then I want the newest, most expensive one around :P). And guess what came through the sell-buy list at work this morning? That's right, a $70 1st-gen iPad, which was exactly what I'd been waiting for. SERIOUSLY, WHY DOES STUFF LIKE THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME??? (Edit: Apparently life was trying to save me from myself, and I wouldn't let it. I now have the iPad, and it turns out that I didn't do the necessary research. Gen 1 iPad doesn't support iOS 6 and up, which means that I am not able to use most of the apps at the app store, which require at least iOS 7. >< SIGH Edit 2: Actually, there's a way you can hack it, but it's no guarantee that every app will work that way, so I returned it for a refund. The guy was very nice about it. It was in really nice condition, too; really wish I could have made it work out.)
Saw Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation yesterday. I was not impressed. Disappointing because I thought the last one was really good, and this one had been getting stellar reviews. It was all right; not bad, but not great, either. Jeremy Renner was completely wasted. I don't know why they even bothered to have his character back. In MI5, Brandt proved himself to be a good field agent who shouldn't have been relegated to desk work, which was something he imposed on himself. Last we saw, Ethan was giving Brandt a field mission. But in MI:RN, Brandt was basically The Suit. He had no action AT ALL. WTF? Jeremy Renner is an action star in his own right, it was something they'd established for his character, and yet... nothing? He's just a desk jockey like Alec Baldwin? A big let down and also made no sense. The plot was kind of convoluted, the way Alias and James Bond plots are, but okay. I actually really liked Rebecca Ferguson, who I'd never heard of before this... but MI movies tend to do that with their female characters.
