What’s your record?

Sharing the first half of this only so the second half makes sense.

It’s been more than 15 years since such for me, so it’s not exactly something that I ‘live with’ on a daily basis like I used to.

But yeah, I just… I can’t say “I’m sorry” to anyone in that context.  I just can’t.  Logically, I understand that it’s saying someone is sorry for your loss, but… it’s so meaningless to me, so empty and serves no purpose other than to be the only applicable response to “someone died” and… I just can’t bring myself to say it. 

Comments?

In recent years, the ever-increasing Orwellian nonsense called ‘security’ at the airports though has gotten me to the point where I would not fly even if I wanted to.  It’s just too damn far down the rabbit-hole of insanity.  We’ve sacrificed enough of our freedoms and civil liberties and personal identities and our privacy as it is.  Enough is enough.

Thoughts, Comments, Questions?

I know some will disagree, but frankly?  He’s just too freaking weird for me.  And I can handle my share of weirdness!  But Burton?  He goes too far.  Too gross, too outlandish, too beyond the realm of reason for me.  And because he’s achieved a certain level of fame and cult following for this?  No one challenges him any longer.  No one tells him to tone it down.

Back in 1992, with “Batman Returns” there was a great deal of upset over how grotesque he made the Penguin in that film, and though at the time I liked the film, I’ve got to agree with that 1992 sentiment that it was too much, too far, especially for the 7-8 year old boys like myself who would very much want to see such film.  It’s why he didn’t do a third Batman film.

I’ve seen a lot of his movies, and I liked them when I was younger, but since I’ve grown up?  I find him/his films just… unpalatable. 

Anyone else?

I had seen them once when I was 12 or so on VHS.  I may have seen them on TV before that, maybe?  I do not remember.  But I just was not really that impressed?  Then I got into Star Trek at about the same time, and it absorbed me.

When they where out for their 20th, I didn’t go see them in theaters and now I wish I had, but I wasn’t into it then.

As I became more of a Trekkie, I kind of resented Star Wars for the praise it received.  After all, it was just 3 movies.  How could it compare to the awesome vast Star Trek franchise?

To some extent, I still ask that; but I also understand that Star Wars changed things back in the day.  It even effected Star Trek, because the reason TPTB decided not to do a second Star Trek series on a 1978 version of UPN that would have starred everyone except for Spock, was they saw the financial success of Star Wars and wanted such (amongst the other reasons not to launch a 4th broadcast network in the late 70s).

I saw the prequels when they came out, as they where an ‘event’ and everyone did… though I may have skipped AOTC in theaters?  I don’t remember.

Anyway, loving FPS games courtesy of Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force (favorite video game of all time, I think - it got my started on gaming really) when I needed something new, I tried out a Jedi Knights game that came out in 2002, and found a little more depth in Star Wars than I’d remembered.  So I re-watched the original trilogy and enjoyed them.

The original films are good; but I think the prequels suffer from so many problems… ugh.  I’ve seen a few episodes of Clone Wars through my nephew, but it’s not my cup of tea.  I’ll be curious about this live action series they’ve spoken about since 2005, if it ever is made.  Though I think if they where smart, they’d make it about Vader.  Everyone loves Vader.  Show us the horrible things he did between III ad IV! 

Thoughts?

You see… it all depends on how you count them.

Technically, I have attended school in 9 different buildings.  Kindergarten was in one building, with first through eight grade in another, but it was the same school.  Then when we moved when I was a kid, they didn’t have room for me in the school I should have gone to, so I went to another one in the district for the last 6 months of that year.  So then for 3rd grade, I switched again. 

And then for 4th, I had the stupid idea that I wanted to go back to private school after that year and a half in public.  Proof that kids are stupid!  So for 4th grade, it was another school.  One which was two private schools that had combined.  And so kindergarten through 4th went to one building, and 5th through 8th to another.  So yet another building change while still the same school.

Then in 8th grade, I switched from private to public in the last 1/3rd of the year.  So another building.  And then high school was split into not one, not two, but three buildings on one campus.  One for just the freshmen, and the other two for the upper three grades.  So then sophomore year, I was in two more buildings. 

So… like I said.  Between 6 and 9 schools.

1) K-2nd = 2 buildings, 1 school
2) 2nd half of 2nd = another school
3) 3rd = another school
4) 4th = another school /5th-8th = same school as 4th but different building
5) End of 8th = another school
6) 9th onward = one school, but three buildings

6 schools, 9 buildings.  So… 6 or 9 schools. :P

Thoughts, Questions, Comments?

What makes it even better?  Was one of those two courses that I totally aced was science.  I’d always done poorly in science, but it turns out such was well and truly the fault of the teacher.

I had never aced an entire subject - let alone two in one year - until that year.

Thoughts?

I just… couldn’t fathom such being for real, lol.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

I did so sliding into home while playing baseball.  Not an organized thing or team or anything.  I’ve never been much for sports or teams.

What bones have you broken?

Sort of, anyway.  It was a tiny island that was used for some visual establishing shots anyway, like when the credits came up and they showed the island from a few miles off-shore, as the show was actually filmed in a studio save the pilot and films.

I don’t think I’d go on a cruise these days.  Too much bad shit happens on them anymore, it seems.  Would you (go on a cruise)?

To quote Guinan, it was as if “joy was something tangible, like a blanket, that you could wrap yourself up in.  And I have never been so content.”

It was in 1998, about 10 months into it’s first year being open. 

They had a big jumbo screen playing Trek video all the time as they looped Star Trek score from the shows and movies on audio, giant monster starships hanging from a starry ceiling, a museum of trek props and artifacts you walked through to get to the ride.  The ride itself was awesome, and I still don’t know how they made the transition from the room you’re in to the Enterprise-D’s transporter room!

Then there was Quark’s and the promenade (which sadly didn’t live up to the DS9 namesake on the latter, but the former looked quite good.)  The second level of Quarks had not yet been built though.

I’d have loved to have gone back, but such was not in the cards.

They’ve said they want to re-build it elsewhere, but I doubt such will happen.  I think Trek sort of peaked in the mid-1990s and now, investing such money into rebuilding such is… well, it’s just not likely to happen, IMHO.

Anyone else ever go?

And yet, I can watch “The Walking Dead” with no trouble at all.  For some reason (I blame the Mark Snow score!) “The X-Files” just scares me!

Anyone else have something weird like that?