I went to my first happy hour in a while yesterday at the Flying Saucer with Max and Karen, old engineering technologies buddies. We had a fantastic time, a few beers, some delicious bratwurst with saurkraut and mustard. I came home fairly early, sat on the computer, and then went to bed in accordance with the sleep rules.

As it turns out, what I had done there was concoct the perfect recipe for heartburn. I've never had heartburn before, but from what I experienced and what I read, that's what it had to be. I was up literally all night trying to swallow down that acid in the back of my throat. By morning, I was fighting back the urge to vomit. I knew I had to go to work to at least give someone the work computer I've been using. So I went there first, and that's when time ran out. I threw up in the work bathroom and then came home. I absolutely feel like shit and I don't know what to do about it. Now that the burning sensation is gone, I'm left with a terribly sore throat and an excess of mucus. I'm not sure what to do.

Tell you one thing, though. My finances are in a dire situation. I think from this point forward, I am going to go back into the Febrehabruary mode. Not so strict, but I'm definitely curbing my spending a lot from now on. I need, need, need to pay off my significant credit card debt from Europe before I go to Australia on June 30. It's not like people are knocking down my door to hang out with me anyway, but I just thought I'd let you all know that my life from now until Australia will be a game of saving money, eating chicken breasts, working out and sleeping.

Is anybody going to see Star Wars tonight? Let me know how it is.

It’s a good action movie, but man some cheesy ass dialogue. Go see it, but I don’t know if i’d buy it.

yeah… but how did hayden look?

Beautiful, of course. I never knew anyone could make a robotic arm look so sexy.

So yeah, Hayden looked great, far better than Episode II. Lucas actually pulled it off. He completely nailed the final act of Anakin’s fall and the birth of Vader. It has all the weight and emotion and visual panache to make every geek in the room quote Butthead with “uh, huh-huh, that was sweet”. And it seamlessly ties into Episode IV.

It’s enough to make me forgive all the Jar-Jars, Jake Lloyds, Mitochlorians, and the other detours Lucas made on the road to making this one movie work.

I agree wholeheartedly with Scotty. I thought the same things after I saw it, and up until reading Scotty’s post, couldn’t find anyone to agree with me.

I don’t think, however, Lucas has reclaimed the top of the mountain after being bucked off by Peter Jackson and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Jesus Christ I’m such a geek.