Meh! So I finish my Sudoku puzzle at the Easy level in what I consider to be admirable time. Nineteen minutes and some chage. I felt good about this, but can the Internet let me have my moment of glory? Oh no! Nooooo! Can’t let Jeff feel good about himself, that’s why the Internet provides the “How Good Is My Time?” button that I just had to click on. You could probably hear my soul being crushed in the next county as I learned of my inadequacies. The average time of completion on the Easy setting is 7 minutes and 2 seconds. Fuckers!
But could all those Sudoku puzzle masters figure out that a blacked out sheet of paper means that the laser printer needs a new toner cartridge? Huh, could they? I hope not, because I couldn’t either. I had to have the Internet tell me.

I just finished listening to most of Guns N’ Roses: Use Your Illusion II. Was this ever a good album? Really? My recollection would say that it was, but oh dear, sweet and holy eject button! My recollection was so, SO wrong.

Now on the verge of seeing another movie I though I might mention the one I saw last Friday. Transamerica, a film I had known nothing about until it was suggested that I might be invited along to view it. Having no details on this flick might intimidate others, but not me. I’ve always been easy going and as the years have passed I’ve become very open to doing whatever comes along. Be it trying new foods or watching movies, I try to find something enjoyable from most experiences. My philosophy being that I’m wasting either time or money on this thing, usually both, so I might as well get something out of it. And yes, I know that one sentence further up makes me sound like a whore. Manwhore?
So, come to find out that Transamerica is about a trans-gendered individual who ends up traversing the United States. The title is one of those dual meaning things for which I’m told there are more sophisticated words for, but at the moment I feel too lazy to look one of them up. Besides, those of you have been coming here for any length of time already have formed opinions about my intellect so I’m not going to waste time trying to fool you now. Anyway, yes. I’ll let you do your own research for the synopsis on the film. I feel certain of the quality of my filthy readers and their Interweb skillzorz.
My opinion? That is what you come here for. Well, I liked it. The acting was solid, there were funnies and sadness and the film kept a good pace, never dragging to a halt anywhere. Still, and I find that I say this a lot, it was too long. I can only guess that they’ve killed every god damned film editor in Hollywood. One aspect of this movie I really enjoyed was its lack of apologetics. As you might imagine in a movie involving gender reassignment surgery there are a lot of surprising and shocking elements, and no excuses are made for any of the character’s actions. They are the people they are and they do what they do without trying to justify it or gloss over what’s going on. The chord that it struck with me is that the characters are all just dealing with things the best that they can, trying to live life by the rules that have been either forced on them or taught to them by raw experience. I felt like I could identify with that and I think that says something coming from a man who is more than comfortable keeping his penis attached and engaging in regular heterosexual activities.
So does this count as another post about where I stick my penis? For those of you who are keeping some sort of tally. Questionable as it may be.