Well, this past weekend was one of surprises for me. On Friday, I got a summons for jury duty in the mail. I have to fill out this form and mail it back in before the end of the first week of January. The trial is supposed to take place in February. I'm hoping that I don't end up on the jury, even though I would get paid for my time. I guess I just don't want to dress up even more than usual and sit in a courtroom for who knows how long. I hate to shake up my daily routine....
A more pleasant pair of surprises came on Saturday. My friend Harry and I had planned to see Eragon (both of us had read the book already), but we weren't sure when we would get to see it. Harry's parents were going to be leaving town on Saturday, and he thought we would end up seeing the movie on Sunday afternoon since he would be taking them to the airport. However, after he and Liz finished that, they found they did have time on Saturday to see the movie. They called me up Saturday evening and offered to take me with them. I accepted (of course), and we saw the movie. We enjoyed the movie, but Harry and I both noticed that they cut a lot of stuff from the book out and a switched some stuff around. They also changed some of the battles (including the climatic final confrontation between Eragon and the Shade) and some of the settings from the book. The other surprise was that Liz wanted Harry and I to play this racing game in the mini-arcade in the theater complex. She got change, and Harry and I sat down. The machines were linked, and we each had our own controls, seat, and screen while we raced. I picked the same muscle-car (not sure what the name of it was, but it was silver/gray and looked really cool to me) in our three races, and Harry tried a few different cars. We didn't complete our first race, but Harry won (not first place overall but he got across the finish line before me) the second race, and I won the third race.
I started playing my new game ("Kingdom Hearts II") last Wednesday. I was impressed by the graphics, as well as the sound quality of the characters. I made it through the first few "days" on Wednesday night, stopping at a door on a mysterious floating platform. On Friday night, I made it through a few more days. On Saturday, I finished playing as Roxas (the character you start the game as) and began playing as Sora with Donald and Goofy as my companions. Tonight, I left Twilight Town and checked out the Tower (where you meet Yen Sid, a wizard), then moved on to Hollow Bastion. I stopped after acquiring the blizzard spell from Merlin (another wizard). So far, it is proving to be an interesting and challenging game.....
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