A lot of the hype surrounding the film Cloverfield is: What, exactly, is it they’re running from? What’s destroying New York City? After seeing the film today, it’s not entirely clear. It’s a monster, or rather, they’re monsters. And it/they won.

Whatever type of ‘animal’ you may think the monster is, the notion is simple; There are several men and women running from said monster, one of which is carrying a video camera. They die. Bummer.

Since this is all shot with a hand held video camera, you may want to skip it if you get motion sickness. You may also want to skip it if you have seen Blair Witch Project, would like a little more explanation in your movies or simply value your time and money.

If I had to say something good about it — the special effects are okay, the acting wasn’t the suck and it was only 90 minutes long.  Oh, the best part was the quick flash of a Stealth Bomber.

If it matters, my insane plus-one, who has a soft spot for movies with giant monsters that stomp the bejeebus out of New York or Tokyo, loved it!

So, I haven’t put up a significant post in a while, some would say ever, and I really haven’t posted any photos in a while.

I’m currently trudging through a pile of magazines that seems endless. Maybe I should seek help for my magazine addiction. I’m about two chapters into The Golden Compass, and I’m finding that I really like it, but then another magazine says, “No, read ME!”

Christmas was alright, and I slept through New Years. New Years has just never been that exciting to me. Dan and I each received a ten dollar gift card to Borders, which I used online to get Wordpress for Dummies and DragonArt. I am sorely unimpressed with DHL’s delivery service. I ordered both books separately (which is a whole ‘nother story), and the first book arrived about 10 days late, while the second book came two days before the first one was due to arrive. Why one book needed to go from Arizona to Ohio to Utah to Montana, while the other only went from Arizona to Montana, I’ll never know.

I had the distinct pleasure of restoring our computer to factory settings. The sfc /scannow command yielded a lovely corrupt file it couldn’t repair which was causing software to stop running. I tried every possible fix I could find online, which included a system restore to a point saved on December 29. That was a mistake which caused I-don’t-know-how-many registry errors. If I try to look on the bright side, it’s almost like getting a new computer all over again. Wait, there’s all that advertising to remove, Windows Vista security to turn off, patches to install, yada yada. There is no bright side. None at’all.

Ah well, it’s done now. And I always have cats to entertain me.