Our friends Stacy and Steve got engaged this weekend. They bought the ring together just a few weeks before – not unlike another couple I know – so it wasn’t entirely unexpected. They’re good people.

Friday night Tammy and I went out for sushi and I went a little crazy with the gin and tonics later that evening. Saturday was rough.

I’m at a point in my life where I’m ready to buy nice things for myself, my wife, and my house, but I unfortunately don’t have any money to do so. Raises are an infrequent event at my company and Tammy’s company is about the same. I don’t think that either one of us have gotten raises since we bought the house last year, so we’re still dangerously low on funds. At least I’ve got my health, and I’m pretty happy with how my life is going.

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I think the Wachowski brothers realize that The Matrix phenomenon might just be their one-hit-wonder, and it seems like they sure are doing a lot to extend the franchise beyond a simple three movies… They’ve actually written everything you see below, with the exception of five of the Animatrix stories.

Matrix Timeline:

• The Animatrix was sort of a prequel to the Matrix series.
  
• The Matrix
  
• The Matrix Reloaded
  
• Enter The Matrix was loaded with over an hour of live action footage shot specifically to fill in some backstory for Reloaded.
  
• The Matrix Revolutions
  
• The Matrix Online plans to continue the story indefinitely.
  

This chat transcript with Jason Hall from Monolith says it all:

“The Matrix Online is the true continuing story of the Matrix franchise. Larry and Andy oversee it personally and the story will continuously evolve. We have a whole team here that will be doing nothing but adding to the game on a monthly basis. We are not messing around with this. This game is going to be like no other.”

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If you haven’t seen it yet, Michael Jackson’s Mug Shot.

Interestingly enough, of the four people in this photo, Michael Jackson seems the most normal.

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The latest Disneyland rumor is that this year’s Christmas Lighting Ceremony will be hosted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He will be flipping the switch on November 24th (Monday,) however that is subject to change based on his schedule.

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I haven’t seen Elf yet, but Anchorman: The Legend of Rob Burgundy looks like a winner.

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An Al-Qaida member is claiming that a large strike on Americans will happen during Ramadan. That’s this month.

I highly doubt that will happen, but the guy sure talks like he’s convinced it will.

If you wanted to kill a bunch of people at once – and at the same time make sure that nobody saw it coming – you have to admit that flying planes into skyscrapers was a pretty creative way of doing it. Nobody suspects something like that. Well they do now, I guess.

But Al-Qaida is boasting that they’ll kill as many as 100,000 people in their next attack. What could they possibly do that would kill a hundred thousand people? Whatever they do, they’ll probably do it to a densely populated area like Los Angeles or Chicago.

A dirty nuke maybe? Poisioning the water supply? Who knows. They could do anything. I’m just glad that I’m not one of the hard-workin’ law enforcement people whose job it is to think of ways that terrorists could launch large scale attacks, because I’m just not that creative.

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We saw Love Actually this weekend. Great movie. Very funny.

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Have you seen the new teaser trailer for Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban? You should. It almost made me pee my pants, and I’m not even one of those psycho HP fans.

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Farscape might be returning for a final four to six episodes that would hopefully give the series some closure.

Cinescape is reporting some strange happenings at Farscape’s former production studio…

Henson had scheduled a Farscape-related press conference yesterday, but postponed it “indefinitely” the day before. So whatever was supposed to happen might not be happening after all.

There’s a Farscape convention in Burbank this weekend, so maybe that’ll help clear some of this up!

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Head hurts.

Massive headache.

Took Excedrin in car this morning. No water. Almost choked.

Pain.

Pain.

Ack.

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