Sorry to that guy in Ridgewood

I hate it when people honk at you for no damn reason. Like a few weeks ago some ass honked at me because he thought I was taking too long to move from a red to green traffic light. I swear to god I couldn’t have moved faster. Or reacted I should say. When a light turns green, I take my foot off the break and let it roll a bit forward before giving it the beans. A good way to avoid someone trying to beat a light. The light turned green and I’m moving in a second of it turning. But that horses ass didn’t think so.

I hate that shit.

So with that in mind I’m coming out of Ridgewood when a white lexus stops at a 4 way intersection (we got the right of way). He’s gonna make a left and waits for a car to pass and then waits for another car to make a left onto our street. He then waits for the car after that to make it’s left hand turn. So my dumb ass gets impatient and honks the horn not even looking ahead. Thankfully, Lexus was or he would have gone right in front of on oncoming car.

So to Lexus guy in Ridgewood, sorry. I hate when people do that shit and I did it myself so I felt like an ass.

Bioshock Demo!

It hit Live last night and now everyone with a 360 is freaking out. It went from a wait and see to an absolute buy when it comes out next week. I need to go pre-order it tomorrow (it’s that good).

Vacation Pics are up

At my Flickr account. Since I had so many pictures I finally upgraded to a Pro account. It’s got some great tools, I recommend it to anyone who’s looking for a good and easy place to put their pics up on.

I’ll probably write a review for KoRn’s “Untitled” album next.

Vacation time

Leaving for vacation today. Gotta go into work early, when I get home I need to pack up my last odds and ends and then we’re off on the first leg of traveling to upstate NY. Then on Thursday we continue up to Canada.

I doubt I’ll have time to post later today so I thought I’d just toss this up real quick.

New KoRn album came out today and I grabbed it at Best Buy (the deluxe edition is dope). Very different, seems like a real step up from SYOTOS. I’ve only listened to it twice through so it’s too early to say anything substantial about it yet. I’ll be listening to it a lot over vacation so I’ll be back with that and more in about a week.

The Deathly Hallows

I finished the book early this afternoon. Last night I read up to the final chapter and decided to go to sleep and finish it today. Woke up, did the get ready for the day rituals and then before I ate some food took my final new trip into the world of Harry Potter.

The book was fantastic. That’s really the easiest way to sum it up. I’m still digesting things, waiting for some friends to finish reading it (I thought I did it fast, I basically read all of sunday since I had work and company over on Saturday. The speed readers finished it on Saturday). It’s neigh impossible to finish any type of story that so many people read and make it something everyone is satisfied with. I thnk Rowling did it though. 7 books, hours of reading, thousands of pages, probably close to a million words and she pulled off a series that is going to be read for generations.

But I am dissapointed. First that it is the last book, the story is over. I’ve been with the series since 1999 and knowing that there aren’t any more books coming is a sad thought. Sure she may do some encylopedia type stuff like she’s done before, but the adventure, the journey, the tale, is over.

She killed a whole mess of people. Like…a lot. It was really a war book, the darkest, most adult and suprisingly complex book. But the story ends, one I’m basically happy with and then she has a “19 years later” Epilogue that’s 6 pages long. The space between the end of the book and the epilogue is basically a black hole. I’m dying to know of the aftermath of the war, the rebuilding of the Wizarding world. There were some funerals I wanted to go to, to see what many of the kids went on to do and it’s simply not there. I thought the epilogue was going to be about 30 pages long but only got 6. A mere morsel of what I’d consider the whole story. It’s pretty fucking annoying knowing that’s all there is. You get a certain attachment to this world and I’m not just yearning for more, but to fill in that black hole that’s there. It feels like it isn’t finished to me.

That’s life though…it’ll be interesting to see what Rowling does next. Lord knows she’ll have millions of people ready to follow her.

New pictures up

New pics are up at my Flickr account. Check ’em out, we took a quick trip around the area. Lot of fun, the car is amazing.

Also: Hit page 500 of Deathly Hollows. I can’t stop reading. The end is getting near.

A post before the last journey with Harry Potter.

Book Seven comes out in a matter of minutes, it’s hard to believe the time has come for the end. I’m about to go to Bennet Books with mom to get it, I should be back with it in less than a half an hour.

I have the last section of Book Six to finish before I continue on…I think I’ll finish off Half-Blood Prince tonight an leave the last book for tomorrow. I’m going to take it to work and read at every chance I can steal away. I won’t watch tv or surf the net until I finish the book. I’m going to charge through it, I can’t risk hearing any spoilers about it. I’ve managed to go in pretty much blind and I actually feel anxious about finish the tale that I’ve spent the last 7 years reading. I don’t think Rowling is going to disappoint me…the next 48 should be something.

Dad picked up his Audi A3 today. The TSX has found a new home with a guy in Wyckoff…the Audi crushes it. It’s an amazing car. An awesome blue metallic paint with grey leather interior. Fast as hell, handles like a dream.

Alright, time to start the journey.

Jim Norton signing!

It rocked! Got my book signed, got a pic with him which can be found here and met Club Soda Kenny, Pat from Moonakie and No Filter Paul.

Big turnout for Jim, they sold out of books. John was smart enough to get it yesterday so we were ight. There was at least 200 people, took an hour and a half to get all the way through.

I got my passport today too. It was a damn good day.