{"id":235,"date":"2001-10-22T11:32:27","date_gmt":"2001-10-22T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=235"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:18:13","slug":"another-week-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/10\/22\/another-week-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Another week begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16806,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005JKJM\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005JKJM\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16807,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com\\\/profile\\\/10772954&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231120204233\\\/https:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com\\\/profile\\\/10772954&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:52:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 09:38:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:19:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 11:31:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:29:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:29:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16760,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXQY\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CXQY\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16808,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com\\\/profile\\\/11349320&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250826065127\\\/https:\\\/\\\/seattle.citysearch.com\\\/profile\\\/11349320\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 14:52:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 09:38:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 19:19:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 11:31:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:29:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:29:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16809,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6302135397\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/6302135397\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Been a busy morning so far, but I figured I&#8217;d grab a couple minutes to babble away for a bit. I ended up having a pretty nice weekend &#8212; a good balance of getting out and doing stuff, and kicking back and killing time at home.<\/p>\n<p>Friday evening I headed out with Chad and Kelly, since Kelly is in town for a little bit on her way out to a job in Colorado, and we all went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JKJM\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: From Hell\">From Hell<\/a>, the new Johnny Depp film about Jack the Ripper. I&#8217;d give it a very solid &#8216;good&#8217; overall &#8212; not bad, but not great. Worth a matinee showing, at least. However, the closer it got to the end, the more I liked it &#8212; and while the end didn&#8217;t come as a total surprise to me, I really liked the choices that were made in presenting the final events of the film, and even what those events were. Of course, I don&#8217;t want to give away a whole lot here&#8230;suffice it to say I was somewhat pleasantly surprised with the closing moments of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday I went out with Chad, Don, and Kelly for a bit. We started with brunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.citysearch.com\/profile\/10772954\/\" title=\"CitySearch: El Greco\">El Greco<\/a>, a nice little spot up Broadway a bit, then we all headed down to the Pike Place Market to do some birthday shopping for Dez. Of course, as we were wandering around in a cooking store finding her present, who should we run in to but&#8230;Dez! Just the way these things work, I guess. In any case, everyone got things hidden in time, and we chatted with her and her sister Morgan for a bit before they took off again, and we got the gifts and skedaddled. I wandered home to rest and watch a movie, then that evening walked up to Chad and Don&#8217;s house and we all cabbed over to Casey and Dez&#8217;s place for Dez&#8217;s birthday party. Was a lot of fun&#8230;just a few friends kicking back and talking. Round about midnight I was getting tired, so I packed up one of the computers I&#8217;ve had over at Casey&#8217;s and hauled it home with me on the bus.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was spent mostly cleaning up at home &#8212; since I got the TV I&#8217;d been just enjoying being able to watch movies again, so had let the house go a bit, and I finally got sick of it. Popped in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CXQY\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: The Emperor's New Groove\">The Emperor&#8217;s New Groove<\/a> to listen to as I cleaned, and got just about everything put away. I&#8217;ve even got my computers set up on my table, all plugged in and ready to go as soon as Rick gets here with my monitors (not that I&#8217;m anxious or anything&#8230;.). Much nicer living in a place that&#8217;s actually all clean and presentable.<\/p>\n<p>That evening I went out with Heather, a girl I&#8217;ve met here at work. She works for one of the other businesses in the building, and after getting to talking after running into each other a few times, we figured we&#8217;d get together sometime. So, we ended up heading out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.citysearch.com\/profile\/11349320\/\" title=\"CitySearch: The Satellite Lounge\">Satellite Lounge<\/a>, just a few blocks up Pike, and sat and talked there for a few hours. Was a very pleasant evening &#8212; and I figure any girl that I mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/6302135397\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Closet Land (VHS)\">Closet Land<\/a> to and have her know exactly what movie I&#8217;m talking about (it&#8217;s not the most well-known flick out there) has got to be pretty cool. Anyway, it made for a very nice evening&#8230;we&#8217;ll see what happens from here, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>And that about catches us up to the here and now, as I continue muddling my way through another week punching the green button. Fun fun fun&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a busy morning so far, but I figured I&#8217;d grab a couple minutes to babble away for a bit. 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