Weekly Wanderings #2

It's that time again, time to sit down and hammer out a recap of the events of the week so that people don't think all I do is sit around and play Conquer Club all day.This week has a few more things going for it than last week. First off, I have developed a bit of a routine at work now so that I don't sit around trying to decide what to do next when none of the graduate instructors need anything. I will do the answering of emails and photocopying first thing when I get to the office in the morning, and then I'll take CC turns, and then I'll cruise around on ESPN for a little while, then and tournament updating that needs done with short reading breaks and such, and then when I have finished all of that I just kind of putter around online looking for web design tutorials and such.I didn't get much done in the way of web design practice done this week, but that is okay I suppose. I did try to work on some of the javascript exercises that Russell sent to me, but it appears my javascript skills are far below what they are supposed to be. I guess my teacher didn't cover it nearly as much as some of the others do, which is helpful for Russell to know in the end.My birthday was this week, as most of you know from the previous post. I'm 24 years old now, which doesn't feel any different from when I was 23, but I guess that isn't really news to anyone. However, by the time I get to be 25 I will have been a dad for almost 6 months, so that should prove to be the difference between 24 and 25 I guess.I also went to see Speed Racer, which was not disappointing, but not mind-blowing either. The way they made the film was certainly visually stimulating, but the races were the best part of the movie hands down. Everything else seemed to be somewhat secondary to that, and the nice part was that there was 1 more race in the movie than I had expected there to be. It was longer than most movies of its kind, but I enjoyed that I think. I don't think that Holly was particularly impressed by Speed Racer, but she did enjoy certain parts of it, so that was good.Finally, American Gladiators made its return for Season 2 this week, and I am thrilled. I loved that show as a kid in England when Dad would sit us all down to watch it, and I love it even more in its modernized version. Bringing that show back was one of the smartest moves EVER by NBC.