Domestic Geek

One of the movie channels (Encore?) did a Kevin Smith marathon on Friday. I couldn't sit all day and watch it, nor did I want to waste that much PVR space, so my friend Nina lent me her DVDs. I did record An Evening with Kevin Smith, though, and will probably watch that this afternoon. I tried watching Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma a while back and I must've been in a really bad frame of mind or something, because I absolutely hated them. I had never seen Chasing Amy, though. The only movie I liked that he had made was Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Over the course of the past week, I managed to watch all five films. Mallrats was still stupid, but in a good way. After putting it in perspective with the rest of the films, I could appreciate the humor in it.

I didn't realize it was Alan Rickman (Snape in Harry Potter) in Dogma. (Swoon) I find that man extremely sexy. lol

It amazes me the empire that Smith and company have created around these movies. I guess there's a store in New Jersey (and now in L.A.) called Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash that sells comic book memorabilia and Smith movie paraphernalia. I'll have to try and visit one of those one day. Of course, the stuff is available for sale online. There are a whole bunch of associated sites on the web. Not bad way for a guy to make a living.

I noticed on IMDB that there's going to be another movie called The Passion of the Clerks due out sometime late this year. I guess he made another one in the series after all. IMDB says:

One of the things that most prompted Smith to make the film was a promise he made to friend Jason Mewes. If Mewes managed to stay off drugs he would be able to play the character of "Jay" one more time. Smith kept his promise.

I'll have to check that one out.

Anyway, great films they were not. They were entertaining, though. I'm glad I gave them all a second chance.

I went to a clinic on the 18th to get treated for my bladder infection. The urine test came back negative, so the doctor sent me on my way with a prescription for some blue pills to ease the discomfort and I ended up being $90 poorer. He said I was probably irritated from something I ate or something. Hm, ok.

Well, it's over a week later, the blue pills are gone and I still feel like I have a bladder infection. This so totally sucks. As Marcus noted, "The mechanic can't figure out what's wrong with your car and the doctor can't figure out what's wrong with you. What's up with that?" I have no health insurance and no money. Now what? I think the thing that's making me most upset is if it had been diagnosed correctly, I'd be taking the last of the antibiotics today and I'd be moving on. Instead I'm in more discomfort than ever, it's Easter Sunday and everything is closed and if I can find a way to get to a another doctor tomorrow, it will still be at least another 10 days until there is some sort of resolution to this. Damn it!

Any wonder why I hate going to doctors of any kind?

Ahhh, the panic is over. I've been using this handy Color Scheme Generator for awhile now. It was one of the Safari bookmarks I lost the other day after the fateful Library trashing. I thought I had linked to it in my blog, but apparently not. I've been frantically searching the web for it and I found it! I'm going to have to start a page of categorized links, I guess. I hate coming across those kinds of pages in search engines, but I guess they're necessary.

Well, that was totally stupid. I'm trying to set up a recipe blog and I had Transmit (FTP program) open. Instead of opening a file to edit it, I accidentally copied it to my hard drive. I right click on it, select delete and hit enter to agree and then realize that I had clicked on the wrong file. Wouldn't have been disasterous if it had been any file other than my Mac's Library folder. You know that one...it contains your keychain, your cookies, your browser bookmarks, your saved emails, your iCal data, all your program preferences. Yeah, that one. I immediately hit the cancel button, but those things never seem to work. I forced Trasmit to quit, but it was too late...all the data was gone. I checked the trash and it was empty. I opened Transmit and it had nothing. Damn. I can recreate almost every thing I lost except the iCal stuff, some of my booksmarks and my emails. Damn it! That's one folder I never thought to back up. Guess I'll have to start doing that on at least a weekly basis, eh?

I wish Marcus was home. I could sure use a hug just about now.

The New York stations I watch on Dish Network keep playing Six Flags commercials. Even though Marcus and I hate the whole Six Flags organization with a passion and have vowed to never give them another penny of our money (and it really sucks that they bought Elitches), I love that Mr. Six guy. I also really like the theme song they play. I kept meaning to find out if that was a real song or someting that Six Flags had composed, but never got around to it. Today I had my faithful Vaio laptop on when I saw the commercial and Googled "Six Flags Theme Song." It turns out to be a song called "We Like To Party!" by the Vengaboys. So, I checked iTunes and sure enough, they had it. Fortunately, I have a couple of iTunes Pepsi credits left, so I purchased it. It doesn't totally make the gloom go away, but it helped.