March In Review

Whoa. There goes another month. Still no job. Just as in Feb., I did have one on-site interview, this time in Madison.  I could become Madison Dan!  But, just as in Feb., nothing has come of it.

There was a bonus "heavy game day" this month. Usually it's only the even months.  This time it was "Angola", where each player represents a faction in the Angolan civil war in the mid-1970s and one pair of players plays against the other.  Believe it or not, it's actually interesting to play, even if you're one of the few who has no dog in this fight. Or someone who couldn't really say who won this war. It is long, though.  We called it quits after 8 hours or so, when it was pretty clear which side was going to win.

At "regular game day", I found myself in a couple of time killing games ("To Court The King" -- again -- and "Easy Come, Easy Go"), a simple game that the whole family could play ("Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers"), and a couple of games that are fun and interesting ("Power Grid" and "Amun-Re").

And there was still time for some movies, as shown below.  I finally plopped in the second movie in the "Planet Of The Apes" box set -- the only Blu-Ray movies I own.  There were several post-apocalyptic-nightmare movies I'd never even heard of before, but also one you hear about every once in a while that I'd never seen: "A Boy And His Dog", notable for being one of Don Johnson's earliest movies.  He was 25 when it came out. He communicates telepathically with his dog, which is the brains of their partnership, as they wander the wasteland looking for food and, well, women. Kind of a freaky, far-out, low-budget 1970s flick.  Finally, I was really fascinated by "District 9".  It was so easy to identify with the "hero", who definitely did not come from central casting's hero catalog. Having the aliens be a bunch of dim-witted thugs -- with a single genius scientist among them -- seemed kind of Sleestakian to me.  If I may say so.

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| 2011-03-02 - King Solomon's Mines (1950)             |
| 2011-03-03 - Jennifer's Body (2009)                  |
| 2011-03-04 - Adventures Of Robin Hood, The (1938)    |
| 2011-03-04 - Da Vinci Code, The (2006)               |
| 2011-03-06 - Teen Wolf (1985)                        |
| 2011-03-06 - Star Is Born, A (1954)                  |
| 2011-03-10 - Secret Of My Success, The (1987)        |
| 2011-03-11 - Stranger Than Fiction (2006)            |
| 2011-03-13 - I'm No Angel (1933)                     |
| 2011-03-14 - Ghost Rider (2007)                      |
| 2011-03-15 - Five (1951)                             |
| 2011-03-18 - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)   |
| 2011-03-19 - Losers, The (2010)                      |
| 2011-03-20 - Phase IV (1974)                         |
| 2011-03-20 - Grass Is Greener, The (1960)            |
| 2011-03-21 - Last Night (1998)                       |
| 2011-03-22 - 9 (2009)                                |
| 2011-03-23 - Boy And His Dog, A (1975)               |
| 2011-03-24 - Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)      |
| 2011-03-25 - Noah, The (1975)                        |
| 2011-03-25 - District 9 (2009)                       |
| 2011-03-26 - Domino (2005)                           |
| 2011-03-27 - Penny Serenade (1941)                   |
| 2011-03-27 - Charlie's Angels:  Full Throttle (2003) |
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Oh, and did I have a gallbladder attack near the end of the month? I'm not sure if there's any way to prove it, although at least one GI seemed adamant.  Great Caesar's Ghost! The jury's still out. I'd like to see what doctors who have known me for more than a day have to say about it.