THE SIMPSONS NEWS

The Simpsons party last week really messed me up for the rest of the week.  I spent most of last week recovering from lack of sleep.  I end up not finishing my assignment last week but I finished it this Tuesday.  This put me behind on starting my next assignment.  Also, Monday we got the day off. Which is great, except that my schedule doesn’t change to reflect the day off, so this basically means, I’ve lost a day of work.

Fortunately, the other board revisionist I work with got done with his assignment early and helped me finish mine.  Overall, it’s been a pretty stressful week.

MY WEEK

Monday was my birthday. I’m 37. It was also President’s Day and I got the day off work. I spent three days celebrating my birthday.  Saturday, my parents took the kids out because Alesha had planned to have her brother come over and play some board games with us but he canceled at the last minute.  Alesha and I played a few games of Quarriors anyway.  We also watched a few movies and generally relaxed and enjoyed each other’s company. It was nice. She made me a cake too, and when my parents brought the kids back, we had some.

On Sunday, my mom had us over to celebrate my birthday over at her house.  My cousin’s family came over too and I spent the time relaxing and watching Spider-Man cartoons on Netflix streaming. MY kinda party. We also had stake, that my Compadre, Eduardo, barbequed. It was tasted amazing. Even though he cooked it with an arm in a sling. I was very grateful.

As a present, my mom reserved a copy of the Game of Thrones tv show on DVD for me and my cousin’s family game me a gift certificate to Best Buy.  I honestly didn’t expect any presents at all, so it was a pleasant surprise.

Monday, I spent with the kids relaxing. I took them out to play at the playground in the morning and I got caught up on some reading. I also managed to get away for a few hours to go to Best Buy and see what I could get with my certificate.  Oddly enough, I’ve conditioned myself to be so conservative with my spending that I didn’t want to spend too much on things that I though I could buy somewhere else cheaper.  I left the store with a portable speaker for my iPod so I can listen to it in the car. I found that the devices to plug the iPod to transmit through the car radio where too expensive.  I have a bad sound system anyway so it didn’t make a difference where the audio would be coming from.  I also left with the DUCKTALES DVD box set.  It was a really good deal for 27 episodes of one of my favorite cartoon shows.

When I got home, the kids and I spent the rest of the day watching the shows.  They’re SO good and the kids LOVED them.

The best part is I still have plenty of money left over for something else.

I had a good birthday.

VIDEO

This is a fantastic “Filmumentary” of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.  It’s the movie BUT it’s also the commentary, film facts, deleted scenes and behind the scenes footage, all at once.  It’s fantastic for anyone who is a fan of the film. Check it out:

ART

Started on page 7 of my script. This is the part where Rob has his big dramatic “come back”. To be quite honest, I don’t think I’ve done it justice.  I’m not sold on the shots that I’ve come up with.  Maybe I’m getting fatigued. I don’t know…well, I can always change it later if I come up with something better.

This is yet another page that has more action than the dialogue on the page shows. Here’s what I got done:

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