When I was a wee lad, I went to a summercamp. It was at this summercamp that there was a counselor who had the nickname of "Wheels". I didn't really know him, but I did know that I thought that "Wheels" was pretty much the coolest nickname ever, and I've secretly coveted it since then. Tonight, at softball, someone on their own accord called me "Wheels". Yay! (In college, on my flag football team, I was called "Flash", which is equally good).

In other news, I watched some of The Contender tonight, seeing as some friends have raved about it. I saw the second half, which I guess involves two contestants getting paired up to fight. Then there was a lot of them talking about the fight, and getting ready for the fight, and an inordinate amount of praying. Seriously, both guys were all fired up on praying, not only for safety and protection, but to guide them to victory. By the time the fight actually DID roll around, I was all sorts of fired up to see which guy God picked! Turned out to be the Puerto Rican.

Speaking of watching, I saw "Schindler's List" for the first time this weekend. Diana and I Netflixed it. I remember when it first came out, the common saying was "It's depressing and sad, but you *have* to see it." For whatever reason, I didn't really take kindly to this, so much so that I really kind of avoided it. I thought it was pretty good. My suspension of disbelief was broken by just how vicious the Nazi's were (which is sort of funny, as I don't doubt they were portrayed accurately, and that THAT kind of cruelty seemed unbelievable to me). Particularly when they were rounding up the children. If rounding up children for the slaughter isn't some sort of archtypal symbol, I don't know what's what.

We also saw "The Spanish Prisoner". The first DVD was received broken, so we had to send it back and get another copy. It came highly reccomended from Iwan, but reviews were decidedly mixed on our end. Diana didn't really like it at all. ("I can see why the first DVD was broken!" I think was her exact quote). I was distracted by the really oddly unnatural dialogue and relatively sub-par acting, but otherwise found the story mildly engaging. I really liked "The Game", and this seemed to be in a similiar vein, but just didn't have It.

And finally, I got a surprise email from my old college roomate, who was really one of my only friends up there. It was good to hear from him. Huzzah.

That's all I got... out.

So. This weekend, Diana and I headed out and walked around downtown Encinitas. We walked through the little weekend bazaar thing, and windowshopped, had some lunch, and walked down to the beach. A very nice afternoon. That evening, we had some peeps over with the thought of playing poker, but we ended up BBQ'ing and just hanging out, which was fun.

Sunday, I played a little golf with Iwan, which I haven't done in a long time. It was good to spend some quality time with that guy. It's sort of becoming a joke now, to me at least, about how I play better after not having played for months. I shot 9 over, with 2 birdies and a chip-in, so I was pretty happy. It was a beautiful day at good ol' Lake San Marcos Exec, thought, so I could have shot horribly and still had fun.

After golf I picked up a wireless access point so that we can roam around the house with our new lappy-top and be online. Pretty cool. I've had some bad luck with wireless in the past, so I'm looking forward to it working well (ya'hear that, WAP? Work!) Wirelessness is pretty cool, though. It's fun to sit, well, anywhere other than the computer room and be able to get online.

This week brings a doubleheader of hot softball action tonight, hopefully some WoW time tomorrow. Wednesday we're meeting with a landscaper to discuss ideas of fixing up our yard (the one that Eryn pointed out that we complain about a lot but don't actually do anything about :). Hopefully we can come up with some good plan that costs $5. We'll see.

Chess games (FIXED LINKS)!

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"Here" must be the most linked word on the Internet.

How about a quick update...

For those who don't know, Mama S. had to have some surgery on her neck. She's had neck and wrist/hand pain for as long as I can remember, and it turns out she has a condition where the bones in her spinal column are compressing her spinal cord. Since this isn't really something that generally gets better by itself, and can lead to not walking or not using your hands, surgery was necessary. I guess they went in and cut out some bone from some of her neck vertabrae to create more room for her spinal cord. Sounds pretty scary, but it all seems to have gone ok. She's in the hospital now to make sure she heals up nicely and so they can give her sweet, sweet drugs for the pain. I was glad to visit this morning and see she was all right.

In other news, there's not much other news. Work is going along just fine. I'm sort of on my own this week, as my project lead is out for the week. It's a little stressful, 'cause I'm kind of new to the project I'm on, and if there are problems, I'm in the hot seat to fix 'em. Luckily, nothing big so far.

Diana leaves tomorrow for some sort of math nerd conference up in Smell-A (Anaheim!). I'm excited to hear how it goes. That means that I'm going to be Bachelor Adam for the next few days, and then hastily clean everything up the afternoon that she comes home. But we won't tell her that. :)

Last night was supposed to be a softball game, but it was cancelled because the lights weren't working. Something I could have been told BEFORE I drove out there, but whatever. Tomorrow I have training here at work. We have a Microsoft database guy in to give us lessons, which I'm excited about. I know nothing about good stored procedure writing, and since it's a lot of what we do here, it will be good to get the inside scoop. As it turns out, it's easy to write stored procs, and it's just as easy to write BAD stored procs which can bring down the database.

Diana and I saw "Millions" on Sunday. Not bad. Not great. We watched another "Inspector Morse" via Netflix last night, and it was really good. The main actor is just so good at his role. Good times.

So, that's about it for now.