Gah, this yahoo dial/pr0ndigy thing has fux0r3d my email so bad…yahoo no longer allows me to check my pr0ndigy acct through POP3. I really liked yahoo until they took away free POP access and fricken merged with SBC and pr0ndigy to become an Evil Empire.

But I’m not going to dwell on that right now because it makes me too angry, so I’ll mention how happy I am with Blizzard. Every one of their games has been top notch and highly addicting. I finally killed 100 plagued villagers before Mal’Ganis did, allowing me to get to Level 7 of the Human campaign in Warcraft III. I had to do that level 4 times because I got booted out twice when my computer redialed pr0ndigy. (Grrrrrrr! Guess that’s gonna keep coming up no matter how much I try to avoid it!!!!) Anyhow, I’m really enjoying that game, and am really looking forward to the Undead campaign.

I’m also getting pretty well into Dean Koontz’s One Door Away From Heaven. Seems like a pretty typical Koontz book: 3 separate plots with his regular cast of characters…special boy, special dog, special girl, woman-who-empathizes-with-special-girl-and-wants-to-help-her, evil government conspirators. Very X-Files-ish–definitely my kind of story. This man is unquestionably my all-time favorite author, even though From the Corner of His Eye left me disappointed. (Nothing gets better than Intensity though. I will never ever forget Edgler Foreman Vess. After seeing the made-for-tv movie, I can never watch John C. McGinley in any other role without thinking “My God, that’s Edgler!)

I’m looking for a decent price for the Collector’s Edition Moulin Rouge soundtrack but haven’t even found a place where it’s in stock, let alone on sale. At first it really bothered me that the whole movie is a giant anachronism in regards to the music…I mean, obviously Elton John and Madonna weren’t making music at the turn of the 20th century…but about 15 minutes into the movie it stopped bothering me and I enjoyed it very much. I wish I could share my appreciation for the film with other people, but I’m well-aware it isn’t for everyone.