Alright, it is time for something of an update.

On Saturday I got back to Hopkins after like a week, went into the bathroom and discovered there to be no hot water.  I thought maybe my dad turned the temperature on the water heater way down again as he does from time to time, so I headed into the basement.  On getting down there I discovered the basement to be a large part flooded, some places up to an inch deep.  The water heater had sprung a leak, and ironically enough it would appear that despite the water heater being right next to a floor drain, the floor slopes away from the floor drain.  This sucks, but its not too bad I suppose.  We swept most of the water down the floor drain (there wasn’t much in the basement to get wet, thankfully) and plan on replacing the heater our selves on Thursday.

In other news, I saw "Stranger then Fiction" the other night with my friend Meka.  It was actually pretty good, better than I had expected.  The ending pissed me off a bit, but I’m not giving anything away. 

Oh, in even other news, Paul talked me into investing in Xbox Live.  It’s pretty cool, I wish I had more Live enabled games, and I wish more of the ones I do have actually had people playing them.  Halo 2’s ranked matchmaking system works really well actually for finding you the proper level of people to play with.  If you have live my Gamer ID is ‘ donatj ’ as it is for most things other than OKC and Skype where it was taken.  There’s some guy in Finland who steals donatj, I’ve spoken to him on Skype a few times.  Last night Paul and I had a pretty good couple rounds of Project Gotham Racing 2, playing with a couple drunk southerners and some guys from England.  The drunk southerners were freaking amazing at the game, and used their amazing-ness to hold everyone back, and hilarity ensued.

And lastly, some final notes on my new cell phone:  I had the Theme song to Sim City for SNES set as my ring tone, but I found that its fade in was too slow and I was missing calls, so now I have the theme to Super Mario 2 for NES.  Lastly, heres a creepy picture of me taken with my cell phone… I was trying to do this thing that happens when I get tired where my right eye slides over into the outside corner, and I kind of loose control of it.  It’s a lazy eye.  Only happens much when I’m exhausted though.  This photo isn’t quite there yet, but I found it weird enough to post.