Turns out that having only a little over 10 hours between arriving home time and going off for another 11.5 hour shift is detrimental to your writing time. I've learned from experience that I need to do some relaxing type things between shifts or else it's really brutal to go in for the next one (even in cases like today where the first one wasn't actually too bad). In that vein I chose to watch some TV and now am going to watch an episode of Quantam Leap. Best guess scenario has me getting about 7 hours of sleep if I post this right now so I'm going to do so.

Quote of the YesterDay: "Open your ears or tentacles or whatever orifice it is you listen with."
- Chricton

I think this is actually the first time I quoted Farscape. I probably should have used a better quote but whatever.

Quote of the Day: Character 1: "Y'know I only put my name on there as a show of good faith for the other robots."
Character 2: "Stop being such a baby and chop my hands off."

Given the lack of successful guesses lately I figured I'd make this one a bit easier by giving two lines of dialogue.

Today was a surprisingly productive day in its way. I got up around 1 PM. Admittedly, not the best start towards a 'productive' day but considering I went to bed around 5:30 AM, it wasn't too bad.

Pretty much the first thing I did after that was play some Pikmin 2. Not only did I play it but I beat it (well sort of. There's an epilogue type thing which I suspect will prove almost as long as the main part of the game)

After that I watched the final 2 eps of Excel Saga. I've had the entirity of that show for months but I kinda got side-tracked around the middle area and didn't get back to it until recently. What a great anime series.

There were other productive things like non microwaved meals, job huntings and laundry but the thing I'm most proud of is that I finally got a start on my novel. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted the prologue to start (though I knew exactly what I wanted to have happen in it) so I was stuck on that for a good week or two. Today I said the hell with it and jumped to chapter one. I only spent maybe an hour and a half writing (broken up into two sessions) but I got a good start on the chapter and I'm looking forward to getting some more done. I'm hoping to be able to write tomorrow as well but work might interfere with my plan a bit.

Quote of the YesterDay: "I'd hug you, but you have no body, and we're both men."
- Shatner in Where No Fan Has Gone Before

Gotta love Futurama with its great quotes and great episodes.

Quote of the Day: "Open your ears or tentacles or whatever orifice it is you listen with."
-?

I watched Bubba Ho-Tep today. I quite enjoyed it. I had a slight worry that the Elvis focus would interfere with my ability to enjoy the movie since I've never really cared and or learned much about Elvis (I could name maybe 2 or 3 Elvis songs if I really tried). I'm sure I'd probably have gotten more out of the movie if I was an Elvis fan but it was still highly enjoyable regardless. A bit more serious than you'd expect it to be given the premise but they made it work.

Quote of the YesterDay: "He came to life. Good for him!"
- Homer on Lard Lad

I was pretty surprised nobody got this as the Treehouse eps are generally widely watched/remembered.

Quote of the Day: "I'd hug you, but you have no body, and we're both men."
-?

It was really nice to have a shift yesterday that ended at 11:15 PM and then not have the next one start until 3:00 PM the next day. I not only got a good night's sleep but I was also able to spend a bunch of time on the computer, watch two eps of Quantam Leap and two eps of Excel Saga. And I had time on top of that to cook a non-microwaved meal. It reminded me of when I used to work 8.15 hour shifts. Very nice.

It's interesting that the incredibly lengthy shifts by themselves don't seem to impair my ability to enjoy my day. It's just that I usually have 12 hours or less between the end of one and the start of the next. When you factor in driving, showering, sleeping, etc it just doesn't leave a lot of time for rest and relaxation.

Quote of the YesterDay: "Unacceptable? Did you see the pool? They flipped the bitch."
- Scudworth

Hbaka knows his Clone High.

Quote of the Day: "He came to life. Good for him."
- ?

When I arrived home from work today I was quite happily greeted by a package at my door (it talked and everything! Well, maybe not). My DVDs of Bubba Ho-tep and Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter have finally arrived. Quite happy with this I am.

I thought about watching one of them tonight as my schedule is such that I have a fairly large amount of free time tonight but I think I'll wait until Wednesday or Thursday when I can watch earlier in the day (meaning I don't have to worry about noise levels)

I thought I might do something productive with my extra free time tonight but I seem to have little energy for productivity. Instead I shall make do with watching stuff on the computer and playing some Pikmin.

Quote of the YesterDay: "I can't believe they killed the main character in the first scene!"
- Background voice

This quote comes from Excel Saga.

Quote of the Day: "Unacceptable? Did you see the pool? They flipped the bitch."
- ?

I had another media tie in related dream last night and it was even more bizarre than usual. It alternating between me playing a video game and being in said game. For some reason which was either not explained or not remembered when I woke up a bunch of videogame heroes were grouped together to take on a bunch of video game villians in what was to be the ultimate showdown between good and evil.

Unfortunately I only remember a handful of the characters but there was Mario (leading the good guys for some reason), Samus, and Luke Skywalker on the good team in addition to MANY others. I only remember two of the villians but there were just as many of them as there were heroes. One of the villians I recall is Darth Vader (he's been in many games as has Luke (oh and they both had a ship. Luke had an X-wing while Vader had the Deathstar. Not exactly an even match)). The other was revealed in highly dramatic fashion as a big swerve.

I wish I remember more the dream as the battles were actually pretty neat with strategies and counter strategies. The strategies may have been really stupid in real life (I can't remember any specific strategy) but they seemed really clever in the dream.

The big climax of the battle saw Mario (who actually didn't really look like Mario at all but that was who he was supposed to be at least) returning to the good guy base to find it empty. The villians were attacking the base and had recruited a massive army at some point. There was some talk between Mario and the lead villians and then they revealed a surprise. Luigi came diving into the room and began shooting green fireballs at Mario. It even did the go into slow motion as he was diving thing to add to the later hilarity.

At this point a handful of the heroes showed up to save Mario but they were still VASTLY outnumbered. I don't know what happened after that but things were not looking good for the side of light.

Quote of the YesterDay: "And now I'm off for a cool refreshing colonic."
- Homer

This is when Homer received a coupon book from Bart. As indicated by Homer's singing Homer seems to have confused colonics with colodas.

Quote of the Day: "I can't believe they killed the main character in the first scene!"
- ?

Oddly tired tonight and I've still got to watch another ep of Superfriends so I'm just quickly posting this for quote of the day purposes.

Quote of the YesterDay: "I could fit if I didn't have these damned arms!"
- Fry

Futurama quote (from the Slurm ep) that nobody got. Shame.

Quote of the Day: "And now I'm off for a cool refreshing colonic."
-?