Seeing Ear Theatre’s production of Clive Barker’s History of the Devil, is the story of Lucifer’s appeal trial for re-admittance to heaven.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant. The trailers made me want to see it, but the movie wasn’t very good. It was, in a word, boring.

I think I’ve got everything working on the homepage blog, so might just as well start using it. That’s where all the new stuff will be going, after this post that is. I removed the redirect from the index, so now if you type http://ronnmccarrick.com you’ll end up at the new blog page. Change your bookmarks as is appropriate. I have mixed feelings about putting it there, but mostly that’s a residue of the before-times when I had an actual web page with content and what not… now it’s pretty much just a blog. So there is no real reason to keep that spot reserved. The WordPress theme on the new page is Clementine1, it’s got a very industrial feel to it which reminds me of Black & Decker tools, so I guess it’s apropos given what I do.

Tasha headed out to the east side of the state to visit Karin for her birthday. I was going to go with her, but then we have the fiasco that is traveling with the dog. Where does the dog stay? Where do we stay? How much time to we have to set aside for dropping the dog off and picking the dog up? And then there’s the problem of each of us wanting to do different things and only one car. So despite what I told my boys about coming out there, I’m staying home with the animals. Maybe I’ll go out next weekend, and definitely the weekend following, I’ve  gotta teach the boy how to drive a stick and give him some practice time. Doesn’t that sound like fun… nerve wracking, parental fun.

I was going to get up and do some calastetics, eat some breakfast, and then start writing. That didn’t happen. Instead,  I got up made coffee, played some Xbox and got caught up in creating custom paint schemes in Forza Motorsports III, then started fiddling around on the internet and playing with my webpage (tweaking WP Themes can be an all day thing), before I knew it the dog was asking to be let out and it was 5:00 PM. So we went for a walk, had some dinner, and here I am now putting up a blog post. Not exactly the day I had planned, but not a bad day by any stretch. Just not as productive as I’d imagined.

I finished listening to The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett today, I didn’t enjoy it as much as The Maltese Falcon. It jumped around too much, at a couple different points I had to check my files to make sure nothing was screwy, but everything was okay and I just had to listen twice to get the gist. I’m not sure but I had a real problem differentiating the hero in this book, Ned Beaumont, from the Falcon’s, Sam Spade. Maybe it was the narrator, but they seemed pretty interchangeable (distractingly so) to me. But that noir was still there and it was a nice change from the paranormal and fantasy stuff I’ve been listening to of late.

Now the dog wants to go out again… Probably wants to get rid of that pepper. Ha ha. Later.

The dog just ate a pepper from my Chinese-food leftovers and he’s not happy about it or about having me laugh at him as he paws at his mouth

Tasha has gone east to visit and I’ve stayed home with the animals. This having a dog thing is not so great when it comes to getting away.

Done listening to Patrician Briggs audiobook, Hunting Ground. Alpha & Omega book 2. Good tale.

Picked up a “new” netbook from Sam’s Club that it already had an user account set up on it. I do not have Biwi’s password. Back to the store

Happy Birthday to Karin, the young lady is the ripe old age of 20 years old today. Damn, kids are getting so old… at least I’m staying young. Ha.

Yesterday, I finished listening to J.R. Ward’s Covet. It’s the first book in her fallen angels series, but I’ve got to say, there was quite a dearth of fallen angels. It wasn’t really what I was looking for, but then none of the angel stories ever are. I was happy that there wasn’t a lot of religion in the story. Which makes me happy. It was good, but not what I expected and I’m not sure I’m sold on the whole premise of the series. I’ll finish Malach at some point and then all will be right with angel fiction in the world. Or at least I’ll think so.

Today, I listened to A Werewolf’s Guide To Life: A Guide To The Newly Bitten by Bob Powers and Ritch Duncan. It’s written as a user’s guide to lycanthrope and I thought it was pretty well done. I expected something a bit more tongue-in-cheek, but it wasn’t at all, it took it’s subject seriously and I think it was better for it. I didn’t get much out of it that changed my ideas of what a werewolf is and isn’t, but it did give me a couple of ideas that may find their way into my writing.

I’m looking at WordPress themes and toying with moving the blog out of the /log directory and right into the main domain page… I’ll keep you updated on any changes. Later.

Just finished The Werewolf’s Guide To Life: A Manual For The Newly Bitten by Bob Powers & Ritch Duncan; read by Robertson Dean. I enjoyed it

Bought new boots yesterday and by 10am I was wishing I’d broken them in before wearing them… by 4:30pm I was driving home in my socks.

Not sure exactly why, but I set myself up an account on Twitter. You can follow me if you so choose. I’m arohen, but then aren’t I always

We went and saw Shutter Island this afternoon. It was a decent movie, though it seemed a bit long. But it’s the kind of movie I don’t generally go to see at the theater. There wasn’t anything about it that made me say, you gotta see this one on the big screen. For me, I could have watched it at home on the telly and enjoyed it just as much. Theater movies should have lots of cool special effects that make you sit back in your seat and go wow, cool. This isn’t one of those movies. This one is more a period-thriller, and for me that doesn’t warrant the big screen and the theater ticket pricing. But Tasha wanted to see it and I wasn’t a hundred percent sold on what I’ve seen of the Wolfman, so we went. It was a pretty good movie, good acting, good visuals, but neither of us really got what we wanted out of it. That’s about all the review I can give it.

The cat, Rascal, is being a bit more social and seems to be sitting with a bit more ease. His brother seems a bit stir-crazy for lack of anyone to play with. We’ve stopped giving Rascal the pain meds, because the trauma seemed worse than his pain, and  I think he seems to agree. There’s still some swelling in the tail, but it seems less with each day.

I saw a red camaro with white stripes at the dealer today, and I rather like it. But I’m still conflicted about white vs. black stripes. In my mind I see white, but the popular opinion seems to lean toward black. Tasha doesn’t get it. She thinks it’s dumb to get the car striped. But then I think throw pillows are dumb and completely unnecessary. I guess it’s a boy thing. If I have my way, and you know I will in the end, I’ll get the stripes, a brushed aluminum gas cap cover, the extra gauges on the console, and maybe the upgraded 19″ or 20″ rims (if I can find them used for cheap). It may not happen now, but I’ve got the car for five more years, plenty of time to play around with things.

I was looking at my checking account ledger, apparently I’ve renewed my Xbox Live account. Now if I just had someone to play with. Or rather someone to play the kind of games I like with. So many consoles, so few good games.

I spent some time yesterday consolidating six notepads of ideas into a single notebook. I gotta say, I’ve got some good ideas. Now I just need to get my ass in gear and do something with them. Writing seems like the logical choice of action, but it’s so damn hard to get myself motivated. But then, hasn’t that always been my biggest problem. Plenty of ambition, not enough drive. So once again I find myself needing to work on my discipline and hold myself to the grindstone; be it in my writing, my fitness, or my finances the struggle continues. Later.

Just got back from seeing Shutter Island. Not bad, not great, but it is the kind of movie I really see no reason to watch on the big screen.