The Best Day of my Life

This day is surely to be eclipsed as my life con­tin­ues, but as of now — I think today may have been the best day ever. Seri­ously. If how­ever you wish to not hear about my awe­some day, you may scroll down and read my review of Michael Bay’s Trans­form­ers movie.

My Awe­some Day
I had a really shitty Fri­day at work. I mean truly hor­ri­bly ugly such that I left work ready to quit the next day. I had hit my limit. I was done and frus­trated and just ready to move on. As such, K and I decided that today needed to be an escape from every­thing. So we decided we would put some Uni­ver­sal comp (free) passes to use and go get high on adren­a­line. I crashed at her place. We got up and as we com­pleted a quick errand this morn­ing, we dis­cov­ered that my engine was emit­ting an acrid smelling smoke. Uncool.

We drove it to my family’s mechanic and I called dad expect­ing he would have to pick us up. The prob­lem with the car turned out that it needs a new AC Com­pres­sor. The cur­rent one kept lock­ing on the clutch which pro­duced the afore­men­tioned smoke. So we cut the belt and I had my car back sans the smoke. Excellent.

K and I then run back to my house to do a few more chores to get the house ready for fam­ily. As we’re fin­ish­ing up the chores I get a call from an unknown num­ber on my cell phone. As it turns out, back on Sat­ur­day I had gone ahead and listed my resumé on Monster.com. This was an early morn­ing call from a com­pany offer­ing me a posi­tion as a junior web devel­oper with them. The pay isn’t as high as I would like, but it is extremely encour­ag­ing that I heard from them early on a Mon­day morning.

After I fin­ish the call we fin­ish the chores and then, we’re off to the parks. The plan is sim­ple, hit them hard, hit them fast. I’m a power gamer when it comes to the theme parks. Since I worked at the park I know the ins and outs, the short­cuts and the ways to game the sys­tem. And so we were off, first we dashed to the back of the park to hit the Duel­ing Dragons.

Tip: Head for the back of the park and work your way for­ward. Most every­one hits the close attrac­tions imme­di­ately and so lines in the back will be shorter.

After rid­ing Fire (one of the duel­ing drag­ons,) we’re com­ing around to go through the line and I decide to make a joke with one of the employ­ees. My joke, as it turns out, skips us to the front of the line and cuts a good 20 min­utes off of our wait time. From there we skip from ride to ride and gen­er­ally enjoy the parks.

From there we head to meet up with some friends. We meet them at a Sushi place and enjoy a won­der­ful meal filled with lots of delight­ful dis­cus­sion. I hadn’t hung out with them much, so it was a joy to get to know them bet­ter. I enjoyed some great nigiri, both tuna and shrimp while K had some great sushi.

Then it was off to the movies. Orig­i­nally we planned to see “Live Free or Die Hard” but that was imme­di­ately and inar­guably eclipsed when we dis­cov­ered Trans­form­ers had been released. I thought it was com­ing out on the 3rd but it was in the the­atres and we were all too happy to go see it.

My Trans­form­ers Review — I’m 23 years old, tonight I was 8.
I loved it. Sim­ply loved it. It kept the same feel as the car­toons, being crazy and off the wall.

I even loved the prod­uct place­ment. They didn’t shove it down your throat, but you knew the items were there. Remem­ber, Trans­form­ers were cre­ated from the idea for the toy, then they built the story around it.

It’s 1:47am and so I need to sleep, I’ll write more tomor­row. Promise.