Wherein Some Things Are Revealed

Now that I've written that title I'm kind of reconsidering revealing anything. Not that anyone reads this anymore. Hello? Anybody out there? See? Nobody reads this. Makes me wonder why I even bother to remember the password. No matter, it's a place to record my rather odd thoughts and observations for future consideration. Take the Crazy Irish Girl entry for instance: that actual occurrence was really strange and uncomfortable when it was happening, but now it's downright hilarious. Of course, that feeling was somewhat tempered when I thought I saw Crazy Irish Girl at the mall a few weeks ago. I really hate malls. I can rarely find what I'm looking for, unless that something is a cigar or video game, and I end up spending money because I don't want the trip to be a total waste.

Now let's see...revelations...um, well I ended up getting that job for the County and I've been happily working with the survey crew for over two months. Most of the time I don't do any actual surveying because there's a lot of drafting work to be done to get all the various jobs prepped and completed. Even at the lowest levels of engineering in our office (meaning me and the four surveyors) I see how engineering principles are used. I've never really liked the thought of working with buildings and bridges so I kind of wrote off civil engineering as a career, but now that I've had a chance to see what it can be about I'm a little more interested in the field.

What elks? Hmm... didja catch that awesome typo? Yeah, I know. Elks are so cool. Anyway. Ahem. I went to a showing of a local production of "Kiss Me Kate".
You have to promise never to tell anyone, but I love musicals. Except for West Side Story. That's a tale for another day though. Anyway, I love musicals. Especially "Spamalot". I saw it in Chicago with my esteemed cousin Mikie, he who is graced with lower than average social skills. The whole point of going to see "Kiss Me Kate" is that Miss Taylor asked me, or rather told me, to see it because she was a member of the chorus. Miss Taylor is somewhat of an enigma to me, but I think that issue can wait until another post. In the mean time, my bed calls to me. And it's long distance, so the bloody call is getting expensive.

ROLLOUT!

I saw "Transformers: The Movie" on the Fourth. No, seriously. It was good. Shut up. Yes I'm a major dork, dweeb, nerd, geek, etcetera. I really liked it. Of course it wasn't true to the cartoon that I watched when I was about six, but I can barely remember that anyway. The way it was presented made it appealing for anybody who watched it; of course there were the in jokes that referenced the original show such as the "More Than Meets the Eye", and the Volkswagen Beetle sitting next to Bumblebee in the used car lot. Things my movie going companions Mr. Smith, Miss Thomas, and Miss Taylor probably missed, but which drew a small chorus of chuckles from the devotees of the Church of Optimus scattered around the theater.

Optimus Prime is going to kick your ass for not watching the
original TRANSFORMERS when you were a kid, but he will do so
with compassion because you were just a kid then and didn't
understand.

As my cousin Ed(pwninginthehood.net) said,"It was either going to rock or suck, and it rocked my socks off." I agree with that sentiment entirely. I was prepared for disappointment and for my favorite childhood show to be forever ruined, but luckily it did rock. It's not all that often that I'm willing to give such an enthusiastic endorsement to a film, especially one that was adapted from something that I love.

I'm actually glad that they changed a few things. Megatron for example. He was a Walther P-38 handgun in the cartoon and he couldn't even fire himself when he was in his gun mode. Starscream had to carry him around and fire him which wasn't all that great since Starscream was always plotting against Megatron. They did maintain his frickin' giant gun albeit in a different way.

Bumblebee probably wouldn't have done very well against Barricade as a Volkswagen so it was a smart move to have him be something larger and more appealing since he was to have such a big part in the film. Originally, Bumblebee was just a scout and messenger and didn't do much fighting.

Overall, I really enjoyed it. If I were Colonel Tigh, I would give it five shots of scotch out of five.