I'll take Logitech off my shit list

I was all anti-Logitech. Their mouses tend to wear out for me and one click sometimes clicks 1-5 times. Very annoying. This happens with maybe 4 mice and I just get a new one each time. This time I look into the warantee and realize thats covered.

I RMA it and they tell me that I have to pay to ship it to them and I'm very angry. I finally do it and a whole process happens that takes 3 months to resolve. Finally I get this huge package and it's a brand new mouse. I thought I would just get it fixed or a refurbished one.

Also if you have your receipt and everything I think they pay for shipping. I just didn't have that. I'll keep this information for when the mouse wears out again. 

Can Toothpaste Go Bad?

You know that guy who leaves the cap off his toothpaste?

You know that guy who looks down at the dried toothpaste crust, shrugs and stabs a mixture of crust and gooey paste onto his toothpaste?

You know that guy who brushes hardcore for about 43 seconds, then realizes something tastes nasty in his mouth?

I'm that guy and I'm about a button away from looking on WebMD for Toothpaste Poisoning. 

A button away. What the hell does that even mean? I just assume when you lose your last button, you're there. 

My 2009 Movie Lineup

I haven't really looked forward to any movies for a while. Don't really watch TV much and don't go out of my way to read movie reviews. So today I went out of my way to see what was comming out this year and see which I want to see and why.

January

• My Bloody Valentine 3D - (Theater) - Saw this on opening night. The writing was awful, but the acting was servicable and maybe a little above par for an exploitation horror movie. I think the writing just helped us enjoy this movie a little more as we all laughed at unintentional spots of the movie. The 3D was great and the movie didn't try to be more than it was... just a bloody, gory, 3D horror movie trying to entertain. I'll say they got decently creative for a killer who only uses a miners pic.

February

• Coraline - (Theater) - Saw this one on the last day it was in 3D. It was a good childrens movie. Parts were lacking on plot and longer on visuals like they tried to stretch the story out into a longer format. The 3D was awesome and I'm not dissapointed for having seen it, but I wouldn't put this in my top 5 of 2009.
• Fanboys - (Theater/Rental tossup) - Saw on DVD. It was funny, geeky but not a particularily good movie. Definitely won't remember this a few years from now.
  
• Push - (Theater) - Saw the first 10 minutes of it. Apparently Friday night at the theater was "Take your tweens to a PG-13 movie and leave them there" night. Kids kept talking and we got a refund. I'll likely catch this later on DVD.
• Friday the 13th - (Theater) - This was pretty sweet. Had some boob and lots of gore. It was just about what I had expected in terms of quality, maybe a little better. A little of non magical Jason, magical Jason and a mixture of the first half dozen movies all boiled down into 90 minutes.
• Youth In Revolt - (Rental)
• Assassination of a High School President - (Rental)
• Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - (Rental)

March

• Watchmen - (IMAX) - Saw this one. great movie, I love the fact that they didn't edit out the Blue Junk! I can't wait to see the Directors Cut!
  
• Miss March - (Theater/Rental tossup)
• I Love You Man - (Theater) - Saw on Daves Birthday. Very funny movie. Paul Rudd is hilarious, but still can't seem to hold a lead on his own. Lucky he's teamed up with Jason Segel
  
• Knowing - (Theater/Rental tossup)
• Adventureland - (Rental)
• Monsters vs Aliens - (Theater)
• Big Man Japan - (Theater)

April

• Alien Tresspass - (Theater)
• Observe and Report - (Theater)
• Crank: High Voltage - (Theater)
• 17 Again - (Rent)
• Sleep Dealer - (Theater)
• Mutant Chronicles - (Theater)

May

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine - (Theater)
• Star Trek - (IMAX) - Excellent movie! Far exceeded my expectations and desires. It threw me a curve with the whole sequel, prequel, reboot deal and it was just perfect the way they did it exploiting Trek's love afair with time travel!
  
• Terminator Salvation - (Theater) - This was okay. I saw it and it didn't hold up to my expectations... the script was pretty Swiss towards the end of the movie... just so many plot holes. Good action movie though.
  
• Drag Me to Hell - (Rent) - Oh great movie! glad I saw in the theater, just great sound, great audience, great classic Sam Raimi!
  

June

• Away We Go - (Rent)
• The Haunting in Connecticut - (Theater)
• The Proposal - (Rent)
• Year One - (Rent)

July

• I Love You Beth Cooper - (Rent)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - (IMAX)
• G-Force - (Theater 3D)
• Funny People - (Rent)
• They Came From Upstairs - (Rent)

August

• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra - (Theater/Rent tossup)
• Shorts - (Rent)
• District 9 - (Theater/Rent tossup)
• H2 - (Theater)
• Final Destination: Death Trip 3D - (Theater 3D)

September

• Pandorum - (Theater)
• Daybreakers - (Theater)
• Jennifer's Body - (Theater)
• The Crazies - (Theater)
• Surrogates - (Theater)

October

• Zombieland - (Theater)

November

• 2012 - (Theater)

December

• Avatar - (Theater 3D)

Okay, well, 28 movies I have marked for the theater. We'll see how that goes. At 20-30 a movie, I can see not making all of those. But I'll rent the others. I'm such a sucker for 3D. It'll make me want to see a movie I'd otherwise have no interest in seeing. Haven't seen a great movie in 3D, but I imagine it'll be all the more awesome for it.

A Defining Moment

1985. 

My mother thought I was interested in scary movies. I don't know if I was. I remember going to see this really bad movie... loose screws. loose nuts... something with nudity that I had to cover my eyes for. When we went there as a family I saw a poster for Day of the Dead. No clue what the movie was about other than a walking dead apocalypse. For some reason I was nearly begging my mother and step father to see it over that comedy. Not sure what the draw was. So apparently my mother took this to be my interest and she took me to a drive in playing many movies in all directions. I remember some cartoony movie in one direction. We were there to see Return of the Living Dead. 

So I'm watching this movie. It's scary. At some point I have to cover my eyes when the girl gets naked in the cemetery. By the time people were turning into zombies from the gas (human to zombies, they were living) my mother had me turn around to watch the cartoon because this movie was too much for an 8 year old. So I turn around, this cartoon is going on to the sounds of zombies calling out "Braaaiins" and people dying, which I think scared me more. Roadhouse comes on next and I'm watching Patrick Swayze beat the hell out of people and lots of tits. To the soundtrack of zombies. 

I've got no doubt that this helped shape me into the adult I am today. 31 years old. My most recent birthday was zombie themed. Yes, my friends all awesomely dressed up as zombies and we had zombie themed games/food :) For Giftmas, I got a Fido Zomcom collar my most awesome girl made for me, a zombie petshop set, a zombie sex magazine... last year I got a zombie porno. And Goth girls. They're almost like the walking sexy dead ;)

I can't even count how many zombie movies I've seen. I'll get into that later, but I've seen so damn many... at least a hundred or two. Why the extreme? I had someone ask me what aspect of a zombie appealed to me. What part of myself I saw in a zombie?

After seeing that first zombie movie, I was terrified. Anyone who would moan "Brains..." would freak the heck out of me. In hindsight I might say I was traumatized and dealt with that by driving headfirst into my fear.