Happy Hunger Games

Momoko and Kit Kat visited a weird restaurant today. So Little Kat and I were on our own. We walked up to a restarurant we knew well. It was a long walk both ways. I slept most of the afternoon because of that. I woke up hungry. The family returned to the restaurant for dinner. Then we headed West for the good movie theaters.

Momoko was eager to see one of the earlier shows. Hunger Games was playing every 30 minutes, so I was not worried. We arrived just after one of the shows started. I checked with the ticket lady. She told me only one fourth of the tickets had been sold already (the theater was not crowded). We decided to watch the movie immediately instead of waiting for the next one.

Some of Little Kat's friends warned him that the movie was not that good. They were wrong. I have not read any of the books. But the movie was quite exciting. I jumped out of my seat at least once. There were many stars in there. I did not recognize the lead actress (aside from the Hunger Games hoopla). Her initial love interest in the movie is the boyfriend of Miley Cyrus.

Now we are hooked, and are ready for them to do the second movie installment from the Hunger Games series.

Open Window Effect

When we moved in the house, I claimed the 4th bedroom upstairs as my study. Momoko seemed helpless with all her papers. So I opened up the study to share it with her. She desperately needs a bookcase though.

Well we gave away our guest bed in the downstairs 5th bedroom. So I am going to make that my study. Today I moved my two bookshelves from the top level to the bottom. The bookcases themselves were a haul. But the books were the hardest.

I did not move a few items. For example, I pulled off the super absorbent window towels from my bookshelf. I put them on the window sills in our master bedroom. While doing so, I found one of the windows open.

Now we were freezing because it is a double pane window. Only the inner pane was open. Still, now I know why Momoko had been complaining about a cold breeze up in tghe brdroon. Tomorrow I move out shelf with school supplies up from the basement to Momoko's "new" study.

New Student Orientation

This semester I am switching to a new community college. The old one kept cancelling courses on me. Today I went to the new student orientation of my new college. They told me to get there early. So I did. I found the secret back entrance to the college.

Somehow I think I have been to this college before. It must have been some meeting 15 or 20 years ago. Today I found the registration area. It was too early when I arrived. Then they started handing out registration materials. I got in line. But when I got to the front, they said they were halting registration. Huh?

I took the opportunity to go get a student ID and parking pass. Then I dropped by the bookstore. My one book cost over $100. Ouch. Luckily my company is paying for the book. The general orientation session was okay. Our student government president was a poor public speaker. We then went to breakout sessions for our major.

I went to the Computer Science small group discussion. Most other people there were comp sci majors. Some of them wanted to focus on games. Later I went to a session covering online services. I won a thermos bottle by answering the quiz questions the fastest.