The other day I woke up and my fish tank was on fire...

True story.

Well, I didn't necessarily see any fire. But I saw smoke. And old sayings are always correct.

I've been away for a while. This is because I have been moving/going out of town/hanging out and such. Thus I haven't really had time for anything other than that stuff. But things are sort of slowing down now, which means I might be able to toss off a few posts every now and then.

Except that I've been playing a lot of games recently. Plus I haven't picked up Super Mario Galaxy 2 yet. Plus I've heard really good things about Red Dead Redemption. So... yeah.

Wanna know what I did during that long stretch?

-Drove down to lower Wisconsin with the girlfriend! YEAH! It was exciting... except for the fact that I had to deal with a flat tire. I mean, that was exciting, but in the wrong kind of way.

-Visited the Spam Museum, which is probably the greatest ridiculous and inessential museum out there. I mean, it's pretty essential if you want the history of Hormel and Spam. Cause you get to learn about the founder of the company through puppets and telephone conversations. But other than that... it's kind of silly... and amazing. There's a Spam quiz that you can take in this studio that's kind of awesome. Plus you can see who is able to can Spam the fastest. I won the Spam can-off by a second. It was intense.

-Helped out on Sara's grandmother's farm. Which by that I mean... sat around mostly while other people worked. So her family might secretly resent me. I have no way of knowing.

-Went to a drive-in theater and saw a double feature. Mini-reviews on both:

Shrek 4: I liked the first one, hated the second one, never saw the third. So I thought this would be terrible. Imagine my surprise, when it actually turned out to be bland and inessential instead of offensive and annoying! I thought pop culture jokes would trample all over the entire film, but thankfully it was all kept to a minimum. The story is kind of underdeveloped and the characters seemed rather one dimensional, but hey... guess ripping off "It's A Wonderful Life" grants you a decent amount of mileage. RATING: 5 OUT OF 10 OR SO.

Iron Man 2: I heard this was going to be disappointing... and it was. Didn't seem nearly as fun and exciting as the first one. Plus, I was totally digging Mickey Rourke as the bad guy, and for the first 20 minutes it seems as if he might develop into someone cool... but then he gets relegated to the background for the rest of the movie. And then the final fight he's in is pretty much the least climatic final battle I've ever seen (SPOILERS: Mickey Rourke rigs a bunch of bombs, Iron Man dodges them in about 5 seconds, and that's it. (What?)). It was another film that seemed sort of underbaked, but perhaps I was missing some crucial information by having the drive-in experience (with the crappy radio sound and all). But then again... probably not. RATING: 5 OUT OF 10-ish.