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Finally. I’ve waited for this for too long: the Super Mario Bros Physics Tutorial.

So here I am, watching The Daily Show (With Jon Stewart) and seeing the new set for the first time. I’m thinking about how I don’t like it at all. I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. Bring back the couch! (When you think about it, that’s kind of a strange command for a news show, fake or otherwise.)

“THE DAILY SHOW” is emanating from Jon’s head. Not good.

It’s time to go back into space. The shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch tomorrow.

Today I was the recipient of some good news on the work front, but I’ll have to see how it plays out. One of these days I have to get back to looking for something new.

Last week I was interviewed by a pretty big newspaper for a small article. Hopefully the journalist won’t make me sound like an idiot. It would probably help if I weren’t an idiot in the first place.

I need to redesign the Mix CD Exchange website. Who knows when that’ll happen.

Sometimes I feel like I hardly get a break. I probably can’t even remember all the things I did this weekend. Luckilly, I managed to include homework in priorities so I can manage to get work done for school and not fail my accounting class. Let’s see.

Bryan paid us a surprise visit this weekend, so Friday night involved poker (which I won this time) and X-Box video games at Darren‘s house (which he no longer owns). It would be a dangerous idea for me to have time to play video games. The game in which the goal is to crash your vehicles and generate the most monetary damage is kind of addictive. It helps to get my road rage and frustrations out in a video game rather than the NJ Turnpike.

Saturday involved a trip to New Hope and the weather was perfect. Amy and I had lunch at the restaurant with the donkey. We had ice cream and visited the requisite shops. That night we caught E.T. playing at Petronello Gardens (the outdoors amphitheater), sponsored by Thomas Sweet.

E.T. was followed by a local student-made film based on Star Wars. I don’t remember the title.

Sunday was errand day, as always. I got a much-needed oil change for my car and Amy and I picked raspberries from Stults Farm. We brought some of these fresh raspberries to a barbecue at Bryan’s parents’ house. I proceeded to play more of that car crash video game.

Following the barbecue, we caught yet another movie (North by Northwest) at Petronello Gardens. I had never seen this one before. It was nothing short of excellent.

Any time over the past weekend not taken up by any of the above activities consisted of either sleep or homework.

Darren, some chick and I had dinner tonight with a blast from the BBS past, Doobie (new and improved, with more blog)! Now I’m nostalgic for the days of Fenric, The Black Dragon, The Oβserver, Kasreyn, MSALM, and who knows who else.

Speaking of the past, you must see Voltron get served. (Daaaaaamn.)

What’s going to happen to her?*

Amy was visiting this past weekend and we managed to fit quite a bit into the last few days, as she already mentioned. On Saturday, we spent almost all of the afternoon at Mercer County Park in West Windsor. This was the first year they changed the format of the day; in the past the Independence Day celebration was nothing more than the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and fireworks. This year, the day was co-sponsored by 97.5 The Hawk (a classic rock station) and was called “Freedom Fest.” There were moon bounces, food, drink, and ice cream stands, a tethered hot air balloon, and live music (which included a U2 cover band, 2U). We brought some picnicky foods, books and chess to pass the afternoon while waiting for the fireworks.

And then, the fireworks. I think it’s been at least ten years since I’ve seen fireworks at Mercer County Park, and this year’s were much better than I remember. Of course, it took several hours to get out of there, even after waiting an hour after the fireworks before going to (well, searching for) the car.

Yesterday, we were invited to Stacey‘s still-new house for a barbecue. Good food, good people as always, now with More Cute Kids!™ Many photographs were taken by all.

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera into the Trenton Thunder game we attended after the barbecue. More Cute Kids!™ was the theme for the game. Minor league games are much more family-friendly than the majors, if you discount the obnoxious, probably-drunk guy behind us who excessively verbally berated the (admittedly exceedingly pitiful) visiting players from Portland.

We were very close to the field, so it wouldn’t have been out of the ordinary for a player to pitch the baseball directly into this guy’s face. Unfortunately a stray line-drive foul ball did hit a young kid in the face, HARD, and the stadiumfolk rushed him out of the area very quickly.

After the game, we stayed in the stadium to watch more fireworks. The display wasn’t as good as the one we say Saturday night, but it was still fantastic. The home team came out of the showers and stood in the dugout to watch the show. Once again, getting away from the stadium after the fireworks was an exercise in in what the crazy kids like to call eXTReMe PaTIENCe! (That’s somewhere in between extreme snowboarding and extreme kayaking.)

Now, it’s back to reality. Work and school are calling and they’re not letting me get away with not answering.

* Chess Piece Face is a They Might Be Giants reference from 1983 or so.

I watched the Pink Floyd concert today and wrote about it here.

Sometime in the last week or so, I redesigned another of my websites. Take a look at [my real first name][my real last name].com. It still needs a couple of touch-ups… maybe that will be finished in another week or so.

I’m volunteering to work at a drum and bugle corps competition at Giants Stadium tonight, so that’s where I’ll be.

This is looking to be another non-stop, fun-packed weekend… despite having to find time to write a paper and do other school work.

This blog has really suffered the past few months. I find myself spending more time on a different one because it attracts many more readers and provides me with a very small additional income. So I’ve been doing most of my blogging over here with an occasional life update over here.

I’d like to get out of the habit.

Moving on. Not only does Starbucks sell coffee, but it also has its own brand of ice cream. Not only does Starbucks have its own brand of ice cream, but it’s also giving it away for free. You can get me to do anything for free ice cream, even drink Starbucks coffee if I absolutely must.