Thursday, July 29, 2004

And the moral of the story is..
My parents continued their cleaning spree last night, until 9:00, when my dad told me to check the progress of my grandmother's plane to LA. They got off the ground an hour late, but my dad decided we were to leave as scheduled.

I brought along the DDR soundtrack, listened to that on the way down to Los Angeles International Airport, and brought it with me into the baggage claim area. As I listened to all of the songs in detail, I slowly changed my thoughts about the soundtrack. Honestly, I'm not sure where I was coming from when I said that it's not what I expected. Most of the songs have pleasant vocals, and a great beat.

I was also reading some of the booklet that came with the soundtrack.. It was all in Japanese, of course, so I could only get bits and pieces of it, but I still felt it was a big accomplishment when I figured out that one particular song was Italian technopop (Well, I sort of knew it was, but reading it was the accomplishment).

So we sat there for an hour, waiting for the plane to land. It really wasn't crowded in there- some homeless person was sleeping across from us, and there were a couple families waiting for their relatives.

About a half hour in, this huge group of people came in with balloons, and posters, and American and Mexican flags, and they all lined up in a nice fashion. They were waiting for the return of their son/cousin/uncle/whatever, who just came back from Iraq.

I was listening to the Nonstop Megamix on disc two when our grandmother popped up behind us. After exchanging greetings, we went over to the baggage claim carousel thing and picked up her stuff. The large group's soldier came down, and it was a warm, fuzzy Kodak moment.

I, however, didn't care, and wanted to get home as soon as possible.

We got some McDonald's on the way home, talked about various stuff for a while, and I got carsick and went to bed as soon as we got home.

Today I woke up to the painfully familiar pattern of conversation among my mom among her family- Chatter, chatter, yap, chatter, loud sleep-interrupting, chatter yap. After watching a bit of the Daily Show (That guest was pretty outspoken) I started up Half-Life. Things went swimmingly until after I started up the generator. I only had nine health points left, and the scientist guy wouldn't give me a healing shot. I just can't figure out how to get up from the pit without the use of the elevator. The ladder's there, yes, but I die everytime I just jump down to the platform, because I'm so low on health.

So I'm pretty boned. Let's hope it didn't autosave after I started it up..

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this little factoid I found on Anime News Network. Now, I'm not one to keep track of the box office in Japan, but I just think it's funny that five of the top ten movies over there right now are from the US (if you're counting Harry Potter, which may technically be British, but I have no clue).

My reasoning for showing this? Why, there isn't one. I'm just impulsive.
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