Next week on "The Young and the Restless"

So, in the ongoing saga of the slow death of my laptop, I stopped by Best Buy today to talk with a manager about the fact that their original estimate is now 100% wrong. Not only did they tell me I would have my laptop back after around 10 days, but now that it has been 20, they don't know when I will get my laptop back. It could be as much as 8 weeks total time... (UGH!) So, anyway, if I'm a little short & infrequent, blame it on Best Buy.

On a completely unrelated note, I'd like to take a moment to discuss "The Apprentice" for a minute. If you're ever looking for a classic picture of someone being railroaded, and cannot find any homeless people & a set of nearby railroad tracks, look no further than last Thursday's debacle on "The Apprentice". Now, granted, Mary J. was a nuicance at best, a hindrance at worst, and really only there because Trump's got a thing for models, but to say that "I was the most afraid I have ever been in my life," is a complete and utter lie. Honestly, I can't believe she survived last week, but thanks to the "Bradford incident" she scathed by. Anyway, I'm just babbling at this point...but let me end with this. Very soon, I'll be providing my top ten picks for the show, and then we can have the fun of seeing how terribly wrong I was.

I have some bad news...

My laptop is off to BestBuy for repairs again, it seems it wanted to wake up from standby whenever it is moved, so I thought it best to have them look at it. The good news is that this is my fourth repair, so the laptop is up for a "lemon review" to see if it should be replaced (let's hope). The bad news, is that it's going to be hard to update this until I get the laptop back, but for now, I'll do my best...

So, tonight "The Apprentice" season 2 started. I'm pretty excited, since last season was so much fun to watch. I never thought I would get into the "reality TV" thing, as I had been able to successfully avoid "Survivor", "Big Brother", and somewhere around 5000 other replicas. I had been temporarily snared by "The Mole", partially because it was Anderson Cooper (of Channel 1 fame) and partially because it was a thinking man's game, but ever since that I haven't ever been drawn to any "reality TV". I pretty much stick to my staple Simpson's augmented by the occasional "Friends" rerun.

All in all, now that I'm back on basic cable, I don't really watch that much TV...Well, I've got to jet, time to get a spot picked out on the couch for the 2 hours of "The Apprentice" and the "Friends" spinoff, "Joey".

A day late and a dollar short...

I'm not sure why I wanted to start blogging...I guess, because I've found it to be such a great way to keep up with friends from college (University of Missouri-Rolla, more on that in the future, I'm sure). None the less, here it is Saturday, September 4th and I'm about to quit lurking in the shadows, and post my first blog entry.

I've avoided this for some time because I didn't feel I was as witty or original as some of my friends, and thus wouldn't provide any interesting material for a blog, but I've realized over the past few weeks/months that I don't care about any of that. I'll be content if this is nothing more than my own personal dumping ground for stray thoughts on life, the universe, and everything. Even if no one ever links to me, or posts a comment, I'll be happy.

I've always thought that one of your earliest entries in your blog should be an introduction for the readers, since you never know who is going to read your blog, and so I'm going to do my best to start this off on the right foot. Let's get some of the preliminaries out of the way.

Name: Richard Curtis Johnson
Nickname: RC
Birthday: June 10, 1980
Currently living in: Austin, TX
Occupation: Programmer/Analyst
Hobbies: watching movies, playing with legos (especially mindstorms), video games (XBox), hanging out with friends, and goofing around with my computer.
Political affiliation: None...I vote independent of party lines.
Religious affliliation: Non-denominational Christian.
Favorites:

Movie: Lord of the Rings
TV series: Simpsons.
Bands: Five Iron Frenzy and Sixpence None the Richer
Food: Homemade cheese burgers.