We took the end of the week off because we had our two kittens going in for their spaying and neutering on Wednesday and we wanted to supervise their interactions with the other pets over the first few days after their surgeries. Their normal course of interaction is for them to jump on the dogs heads and get tossed off. We figured that probably isn't a good idea with surgery stitches and such.

I believe Mrs. NFB has a bad case of "GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!" blues. She doesn't deal well with staying home all the time. I've tried throwing subtle hints at her about ways she could get out of the house and I could stay and watch the pets, but nope. She's determined to stay the course.

We're going to go out for a nice meal sometime today as the pets seem to be healing up fairly good and if I don't get her out of the house for a few hours there's going to be a bloodbath.

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The new Mac is a pretty slick machine. The wide-screen works really well for tracking, and the old monitor is a nice stand-in for keeping the mixer up without interfering with the main window. The one thing that's sort of odd is that when a window is up on the main screen and full-sized you see the shadow of that window on the second screen. I do like the setup for dual-monitors, as it allows you to specify exactly where the two monitors are in relation to each other. My second monitor sits quite a bit higher than the main screen, and if I took the default position it would look like windows are jumping upward quite a bit when pulling across.

The updates needed from Apple are downloading in the background. In typical fashion, Quicktime took the entire night to download all on its own. Everything else is taking about three to twenty minutes, depending on size.

Am I the only person in the universe that doesn't understand the need for shiny screens? It took years for us to get away from shiny screens and only a couple years from that point to bring them back as if they were somehow superior to the dull screens. If we lived in a world with no light, they'd be awesome. Unfortunately, there's always light. Windows. Light bulbs. Etc.

The last thing I want to see when working on a dark screen object is a reflection of my ugly face.

Aside from that though, this new machine is super sweet compared to the old one. I think I'll be happy with my current memory load for a while. And it's got more applications than I'll probably ever use.

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A few movies from the past couple weeks.

The Hitcher (1984) - Not bad, not good. Right down the middle. It has its moments, but most of those moments are ruined by the idea that this hitcher dude is so awesome that he can take out an entire squad of cops without breaking a sweat. And the main guy he's antagonizing is too stupid to ask for help at any point.

Return of the Living Dead - A classic. Though there were scenes of this one that neither Mrs. NFB nor myself remembered, and there were scenes we did remember that weren't there. YAY FOR LUCAS STYLE REVISIONISM! Lousy bastards.

Friday the 13th - Another classic. Good, but cheesy.

^^ 2 - Again, good, but cheesy.

Dangerous Beauty - Mrs. NFB has a knack for grabbing movies full of boobs, butts, sex, naughty-naughty and not much else going for them. Gotta call it as I see it, and I gotta say despite the fine quality of boobages, this movie is a turd. A big steamy turd at that. It's painful to watch, and made even more painful by the fact that it starts and ends with a "this is a true story" claimer.

Cube - Weirdness. It's like Hellraiser on crack. Take a group of ordinary joes (and joe-esses), stick them in a big puzzle box that constantly re-arranges itself and see how long it takes for each of them to snap. The ending was some serious suck, but I believe the point they were trying to heavy-handedly get across is that life SUX! and then some. OK, while a certain part of me buys that, the joy of fantasy is that sometimes the good guy does win. Eh.

OK, my downloads say there's only four minutes left, so that's enough for now.