What I did on my vacation

So I went to bed this morning at 5:30am, and was woken up this morning at 9:30am by the maintenance guy coming into our (my roommate and I's) apartment. Now I'm sitting here waiting for it to get warm enough in here so he can come back and do some kind of reading. I don't want to sound like a pussy or anything but I really did want to get more than 4 hours of sleep before work today. Oh well, enough moaning, on to my vacation.

Chief Vacation achievement: I beat Dawn of War: Soulstorm as the mighty Necrons. I don't usually go for the "bad guys" in a PC game especially in any kind of war/strategy game, but cool Egyptian themed skeletal robots that can't die, well who could resist that. So I thought I mite stop playing the game after having actually beat it, but nope...I'm a fool. Now I'm attempting to play it through as the Imperial Guard. We shall see if playing it as this technically complicated race doesn't drive me insane!

Biggest Vacation Goal not achieved: I got the book "The Passage" by Justin Cronin as an advance readers copy before going on my vacation . And I set myself the goal of finishing it by the end of my vacation. That didn't happen. This book by the way, is excellent. Its like World War Z had a baby with I am Legend, and then they both died and the baby was raised by its Godfather The Stand. But there were just a few too many days of not being able to read at all during my vacation. And soon my goal of 90 pages a day fell by the way side. I didn't even get 90 pages read SOME days. At the most it was like 2 days tops. Still, I'm on page 270 of 766 and this book is amazing. I will keep you posted with more. For your own edification go to these two sites the publishers set up to learn more www.findsubjectzero.com and www.enterthepassage.com .

Overall: This was a pretty fun "Staycation". I spent most of my time watching my new Blu-rays (count is up to 4, I'll do a small blog about them this week) hanging out with Dave and Noah, and eating too much food I probably shouldn't eat too much of. I did get to see Iron Man 2, and its freaking awesome! Go see it right now if you haven't seen it yet. I spent most of a day with my Niece and sister, and that's always a good time. I can't believe how cute my niece is, its often times painful to wave good bye to here. And she is having her Birthday soon, turning a whopping 2. Hmm..lets see, not much else happened over my vacation. Oh, I did watch two fairly memorable horror movies. "Grace" the story of a blood drinking infant that was actually surprisingly low key and subtle; and "Human Centipede" that was anything but subtle and yet was disturbingly hilarious in its over the top way. Frankly I recommend checking both films out if you are at all a horror movie fan, they both have something to say. Ok that's it for now. Up coming blogs: Web Comics and why I like them, My Four Blu-rays, and Three Dorky things I watched on Netflix.