Can I stay up long enough and finish another entry?

I'll try. Actually I still need to drive back to my store tonight and cash a check so I can buy some gas for my truck Bernice. (Sonny and I already were there earlier this evening shopping for groceries.) And then I have to drive across town to Blockbuster and return a video.

Have you see Best of Show? I liked it. Sonny didn't. It's a Christopher Guest movie done in the mockumentary vein. You know it's suppose to be a documentary, but it's not. The movie plays out as if it were real life, but again its not.

Christopher Guest has directed at least one other mockumentary. The one I am referring to is called Waiting for Guffman. I saw that too and liked it, but I don't think Guest's movies are for everyone. They're kind of corny.

But I like corny.

I thought Guest had directed This is Spinal Tap, but I guess he is just an actor in it. I haven't seen that one yet, but I want to. It's another mockumentary about a fake rock and roll band. I did see the band's crossover from movie to television. Their characters had a starring role on an episode of The Simpson's.

(Part two of this entry was written today. After I returned home from the video store I conked out. Last night I slept seven and half-hours! Woo hoo! I feel so good this morning!

Incidentally, we rented more videos. I had a rent-two-for-the-price-of-one coupon. Sonny picked The Crow, Part Three. I picked a Sopranos video with episodes four, five, and six on it. [Keeping within the theme of things I guess this entry should have the labels, Part One and Two attached to it's title. I'll have to remember to do this when I give it a title.]

Incidentally, part two: [Heh! Heh!] Both my sisters are hooked on The Sopranos television series. My younger sister pulled me into their addiction when I was visiting her last month. The Showtime series has been out for three years now, I think, yet I can't watch it on regular television since I don't have cable [duh.] Be forewarned though, if you decide to watch it as a result of reading this. The hero of the series, although likeable and extremely interesting, is morally corrupt. Galore! He's a killing mobster. But he's a loveable, killing mobster.

[I always feel the great need to go to church and confession whenever I'm through watching a Sopranos episode. I feel so guilty for enjoying it so much.])

More about last night:

I have this friend I've known for several years as a loyal customer to the grocery store I work in. Over the years in our short visits in my grocery checkout stand we have talked about various subjects. One of those subjects we used to relate to each other over is the fact that she was writing a one act play (later produced on a college stage in Big City) and I was writing a screenplay (never finished, never sold. Otherwise, why would I still be slaving away in a grocery store?) The friend's job now is fixing government computers for the state. At the mention of this I happened to mention my computer is not recognizing the my new CD-ROM player that my friend, Kirk installed. I asked her how much it would cost me to have her fix it. She told me twenty dollars an hour, but the first time she'd fix my computer for free.

So that's how I spent a couple of hours in the early part of the evening before I journeyed to the video store. I sat and watched an expert perform her technical magic on my machine here. As of yet my machine is providing too difficult of a challenge and the CD-ROM is not working yet, but my friend did manage to get rid of a few bugs. Even though the overall solution evaded her I could tell she knows her stuff. I sat there fascinated as my friend went through different files here and there tweaking this and that.

And my friend hasn't given up on the challenge. She went home to check out her son's computer whose is similar to mine and she had me email her some information I received from the CD-ROM manufacturers. She plans on returning on another night and giving it another go, and before long I'll be able to play music CD's on my computer and load programs from my computer CD's.

I can't wait until this happens. A long time ago I bought this cheap digital camera from Wal-Mart (sixty bucks, you can't beat that price) and it has a CD required to load up it's related program you need in order to take pictures and transfer them to your computer. Even though they most likely won't be quality pictures, I'm anxious to be able to have the capability to do this. If the pictures are good enough, perhaps I'll even upload some of them to this website.