So on Monday night, I came down with that disgusting flu thing that’s going around. And while I’m doing a little bit better today, I still feel like I was hit by a truck.
This year’s flu is really, really nasty. It seems to be of the “intestinal” variety, if you know what I [...]

I want to offer my heartfelt congratulations to my brother-in-law A and his wife Pond on their new baby girl! She was delivered during the wee hours last night in Thailand, and the pictures I saw this afternoon show how cute she is. Congrats to the lucky parents!
She doesn’t have a name yet, [...]

Before I started this entry, I considered simply adding to the comments thread of Pooch’s post on the Knight Rider movie. In the end, I had so many thoughts banging around in my head that I decided it was worth adding an entirely new post on the subject.
To recap: This past Sunday night, NBC [...]

In case you’ve somehow forgotten, the all-new Knight Rider TV movie that all of us at Oddball Update have been waiting for is airing tonight on NBC at 9PM EST.
Part of me is intrigued, but another part of me is dreading it. Still, it can’t be as bad as Knight Rider 2000, right?
Right?

Just yesterday I posted up a rant about how much this year is costing us so far, and at the end, I smarmily asked for an end to the surcharges. Well, it seems I owe 2008 a nod of thanks — having gotten our tax return wrapped up, it looks like we’ll be getting [...]

2008 is barely a month old (barely four days old if you live in China) and it’s already costing us a great deal of money.
First there were the rats in our attic. Well, more like rat, singular. Still, trapping, sealing off and baiting the place cost us $650. Since I run a [...]

December through February are typically very dry months in the gaming universe, since the industry usually pumps out all their big-name titles ahead of the Christmas season. So start saving your money now, because in March, the pace begins to pick up again.
On March 10th, the first downloadable expansion pack for Mass Effect, entitled [...]

I had a couple of “holy cow!” moments yesterday. You know the type — like when you suddenly realize that one of your favorite songs as a child was recorded by an artist you “discovered” later in your life. In my case, I learned something new about two classic movies I’ve always liked.
Yesterday [...]

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone — albeit slightly belated, particularly if you’re in the eastern hemisphere. Ironically, 2008 is the year of the rat. Well, we’ve certainly welcomed plenty of them into our attic already, so that’s apropos.
Fortunately, as of this week, there should no longer be any more rats [...]

My mom recently remarked that this past week was one where anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. I definitely understand what that’s like. Ironically, I was having the same kind of a week myself. At least, now that the weekend is here, things no longer look so bad — although [...]