Waking up this past Saturday and Sunday mornings, snow and cold quietly greeted me before eight. I usually sleep in on my days off, but I woke up early and could not fall back asleep. During the week-days, my neighbor starts his older Jeep Cherokee before 6:45 a.m., so I have been getting up early.
This past weekend, I finished Half-Life 2. I confess I had to use a cheat guide to avoid becoming stuck in a number of places. As a FPS, I enjoyed the game but I did find it too linear, either you followed a certain game path or you got stuck and could not continue. My Gateway laptop ran into some rendering problems during the final sequence of the game. I have it set-up as a dual-boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux operating system.
Also this weekend, I rented from McDonald's RedBox kiosk (Gunnison is so small that for the price and availability, the DVD rentals are the best deal) Catch & Release, Knocked Up, and Renaissance. Catch & Release was recognizable because it was set in Boulder with Jennifer Gardner and Kevin Smith but played as a forgettable light romantic comedy. Knocked Up was the better movie, I did laugh and Judd Apatow's comedy wasn't scared to shock. Renaissance was an animated black-and-white film set in a future Paris. A typical bleak future with massive corporate overlords trying to reach immortality with the hero solving these problems with primitive violence.
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