t minus six days

I finally got around to ripping my new Blackthorn CDs, and I am surprised yet again by how retarded CDDB contributors are. For example, a contributor moved the word 'the' to the end of song titles. So what should properly be 'The Parting Glass' is now 'Parting Glass (the)'. What the hell is that?

I'm also getting annoyed with batteries. It seems like every time I put something down the batteries are drained when I pick it up again. Cell phone, my new cordless phone, the camera, iPod, it doesn't matter. Batteries suck. You'd think that someone would have come up with batteries that could hold a charge.

I saw 'Batman Begins' with my dad today. That is a good movie. I like Bruce Wayne's transition from angry guy, to ninja, to ninja with cool toys. The movie is a lot darker than the campy pieces of trash that preceded it. I thought the music did a very good job of helping with this and I'm tempted to buy the soundtrack. I like heroes that are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, like Batman and Gordon Freeman.

I'm leaving for Oregon on Saturday, so this week I have to do everything that remains to be done. I'm hoping that the stupid car part I ordered will be in tomorrow so I can fix my damn A/C. I need to start figuring out what stuff deserves to be in the car and what can be shipped later. The shift from 'bum' to 'graduate student' is going to be a hell of a shakeup. My friend Erin has already passed the point where to her, 'home' is not the place where her parents live. I feel like that distinction might be creeping up on me. I'm also going to have to make a lot of new friends. Fortunately it seems like the grad students are a close-knit group, and most of them should be around during the summer. No idea when I'm next going to be in Clarkston after I leave, so my Gregg's breadstick intake will probably be even higher this week. (Clarkston people will know what I'm talking about.) I also want to catch the Hard Lessons show on Friday, the day before I leave.