I decided after all the positive press that Transformers was getting that I needed to go see it. I kept my expectations low just to be safe. Well, about half way into the movie I was loving it.

With about a half hour to go in the movie I see someone approaching me in the theater out of the corner of my eye. It turns out it's a friend of mine that my wife called up to come find me. My wife had been doing a load of laundry while I was away and later noticed water dripping from the ceiling (our laundry room is on the third floor). Our washing machine Sh** the bed and dumped a few gallons of water out into the hallway, which traveled through the floors and left large puddles on all three floors of our house. We cleaned it up as best we could with towels and a shop vac, but needed to pull up the carpet and pads because they were soaked.

My wife called the insurance company and they hooked us up with a buisness that specializes in water damage. They are in the process of drying the entire house, and will paint the cielings, re-lay the carpet, and steam clean it for us. So by the middle of next week the house should be back in order. But for the time being it sounds like a wind tunnel in our house due to all of the high pressure fans that are blowing at the walls to try to dry them.

The good news is that the movie theater is going to let me come back and watch the movie again for free.

I wanted to wish everyone a happy (and safe) 4th of July. I'm heading up to my wife's parents lake house after work today. We should be doing some grilling, boating, fishing, water skiing, and probably plenty of drinking. Every year we also get some fireworks and have a bon fire (it gets cold that far north at night) and smores. There's only dial up access up there, so I will probably be off the site until Sunday or Monday.

Be safe and don't drink too much.

My son is only 14 months old, and already Nintendo has their grip on him.

We have a baby swing hanging from the porch in our back yard and when I swing him on it I always say 'Weeee'. Now my son walks around the house all day going Wii . . . . Wii . . . Wii. Even at home I'm bombarded by Nintendo's crude marketing ploys.

Also, a guy that my wife works with bought his kids a Wii and he was telling my wife, the non gamer, that we should get one. My wife thinks that it would be great and now she wants one. Not sure if she is serious or not.

And in releated news, my wife thinks I'm depressed or have social anxiety.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621/ap_on_he_me/video_game_addiction

I just told her I think she has an addiction to her Blackberry. That ended that discussion!!