First up I want to recommend another movie. This one is called “49 Days” and it’s an Asian flick, which means your going to have to read subtitles. The movie is part thriller, part ghost story, part drama. It actually reminds me of two major Hollywood films, but if I say which ones then I’ll give too much away! Likewise if I even try to tell you what it’s about, I’ll give too much away! I’ll give you only a brief bit of the story though. It takes place at the turn of last century, I believe in Taiwan. A man is accused of setting fire to his medicine/herb factory and killing several workers inside, he is sentenced to die. A female lawyer takes his case hoping to save him from execution and prove his innocence, as well as prove herself to her father. That’s about all I can tell you really. It’s not so much of a mystery as you know he’s innocent and you know who did it from the getgo. It’s other things about the story you don’t know, which unfold later down the road. Some of them are easy to spot, others aren’t. I enjoyed it, I thought I’d pass it along.

I had to cancel my dinner on Thursday this week. I had some personal issues (ie I was grumpy). The day wasn’t going well, I was really stressed out over the fact that I didn’t get enough done and I knew I wouldn’t be good company. Saturday night I have plans with Emily for her birthday, but again it’s going to depend on my stress load. I haven’t been cheerful lately and nobody wants to be around a grumpypuss. I’m going to do my best to go, I know I need a night out of this house and away from my PC!

Speaking of getting away from the PC, I’m really thinking I need a wireless vacation 🙂 The problem is I would have to arrange for the vacation to be somewhere that I know for sure I would not have internet access! If I have access, I’ll bring my PC for sure. For my cruise in January I’m determined not to worry about the page updates as much as I have with past cruises/vacations (easier said than done I know!).

I spent the majority of today working with a statistics program I’m using for my dissertation, as well as reading theory behind the statistical processes I’m using. Not page turning stuff if you couldn’t tell from the topic. I finally got the hang of it though and churned out some pretty graphs which I’m analyzing on Saturday. Progress!

Finally, I’ve decided that I should have some kind of question and answer feature for the blog. You can respond to this with any burning questions you would love me to answer, I’ll do my best to answer them. I have a few conditions 🙂 Nothing sexual or adult oriented, family members read this blog and possibly some friends. Also nothing soap oriented. I know many soap page readers read this, I don’t want to answer who my favorite character is or who I think so and so should be with 🙂 Ask something you really want to know about me, if there is anything.

Dustin