Just like in the trailer park...

I have seen my future and it includes my own Last Starfighter video game. My life will not be complete until I have this sitting in my living room. All of this time I’ve been focused on finding the girl of my dreams when I could have been searching for this instead. Talk about wasted effort (and at least this would only cost a quarter to play). This just has to be the coolest thing that I’ve seen since the Lego Millennium Falcon.

Ok, I haven’t done a random note night for a while and this feels like one. Here we go…

Random Note # 1: I saw the following license plate this week and I think we need a collective coolness ruling here. The culprit is “SCUBYDO”. Now, obviously this is a reference to Scooby Doo and I guess in a retro hipness sense that is cool. I hope they aren’t referencing the movies unless they happen to be really, really big fans of Sarah Michelle Gellar and couldn’t get a Buffy license plate. But is Scuby a really good replacement for Scooby? Would you want to tell the world that your car is Scuby?

Random Note # 2: While we’re on the subject of rulings here is a question that was raised to me recently and I don’t know the proper answer any more. First time out for dinner, should the guy pay or should you split the tab. I’d really like to hear some opinions on this one. I know where I stand but I want to hear from the crowd as my luck with either method tends to be a little spotty.

Random Note # 3: Fair warning to everyone, I may be in a foul mood this month as they have decided to close my parking garage at work for repairs for the entire month. Now I could look at this as a positive: I will no longer worry about my car plummeting four stories due to shoddy construction. However, since the garages were all filled to capacity to begin with and I, uh, am not an early riser I now find myself parking on the opposite side of campus. The amount of exercise I get on a daily basis has doubled, though. Still, as some people said, why couldn’t we have done this in the summer when I wouldn’t have minded the walk?

Random Note # 4: I’ve picked up a couple of interesting catalogs in the mail recently. I received one from Jack Stack barbecue today and while this shows that I’m not from here, I’m not really a big fan of barbecue. To the point that I really don’t understand why everyone makes a big deal about it around here. So you’re slow cooking meat and putting sauce on it, it’s not like a good hot dog or deep dish pizza. The other one was my Duke University catalog, which I receive due to my wardrobe and the fact that I’ve applied and been rejected by every college at the school Flipping through I noticed something very odd. There sure were a lot of Duke Lacrosse shirts for sale. Way more than I’ve ever seen before. True, they were found innocent but it is a bit of a jarring sight.

Random Note # 5: Thanks to my sleep deprived state I’ve been having very weird dreams. Here’s the latest and it’s a new variation on a theme. As usual, it was finals week at school and I’m not prepared. Except now I’ve already graduated and I’m just hanging around school taking pass/fail classes and pretty much avoiding the real world. It’s tough to be stressed out about a pass/fail course that you’re not entirely sure you paid tuition for. Still, I always end these dreams by having to remind myself that I have several diplomas on my wall and odds are I did earn those so I really shouldn’t freak out about it. I’m not sure why but these dreams always involve college and not grad school. Maybe that’s the degree I fear they’ll reclaim first.