I went to see the movie Final Fantasy after work today. The aliens were awesome. The animation in general was ground-breaking. There were times I could forget I was watching animation. But not enough times, I'm afraid. Objects still don't seem to have weight. That was fine when they were on space. Not so fine when they were on planets. Also I hate to admit it, but the plot lost me a couple of times near the end. I'm usually pretty good at keeping up with the metaphysical plot twists, but I guess I'm a little slow with the representation here. Wait -- if you shoot that, won't it die? Yeah, OK, it did. No wait... it's back. No, now it's venting into space. Huh? Wait, does that mean he died? Or is that the bad ones that are now blue? I was confused.

I'm curious to see if the animation of the people looks even better on a TV where the resolution isn't as good. Maybe I'll rent the VHS someday.

Before the movie there was a preview for the Spider-man movie next year. It was cool to see it on the big screen. Parts of it looked good. Parts of it really didn't. Movie going is such a gamble.

There's an "excessive heat watch" for this weekend. Sounds like I'll be huddled in front of my air conditioner. I so hate the heat. Tomorrow I get to put together a filing cabinet. And you know what that means. Power tools. Muahahaha. It will be a fun project. Bring back fond memories of days spent under foot in my dad's woodshop. And when I'm done I'll have someplace to put all my piles of paper I'm so fond of.

The book: well, my first-draft reader convinced me to expand the new chapter I just wrote. I'm trying to decide if I should do that or read another Sherlock Holmes story. Apparently the reports of his death were greatly exagerated.