Yesterday afternoon I had a conference call with Sylvester Stallone and a few other members of the press about Stallone’s upcoming movie, Rocky Balboa (aka Rocky VI, the final in the series). I didn’t know he was a Christian… Really nice guy. He seems to have a heart for wanting to create a family friendly movie with a good story morally, something that is really lacking in Hollywood right now he said. He’ll be appearing on the big late night talk shows and other media outlets soon to promote the film as well as to get the word out about why he’s making this film.

The movie hits theaters on December 22nd and I think I might actually go see it. You should too. What I’ve heard about it storywise from the call yesterday sounds intriguing…

So I’ve decided it doesn’t hurt to splurge once and a while on myself. I used to be really, really cautious with my money and limit myself since I’m saving up for more post secondary education. But I’ve decided that I’m making a decent amount of cash at work and I have enough saved up that I can afford to buy a few things without having to worry about the bank account. I’m not buying for the sake of buying mind you, I’m just picking up some things that I’ve wanted for a while now but didn’t want to let go of my money. You only live once, so there’s no point in missing out on playing with some new toys if you can afford to purchase them. ha.

Lately I’ve picked up a new monitor for my computer, the 360 (though the system itself, a game, and a few accessories were paid for with vacation pay), and on Sunday I finally bought extra RAM for my computer so I could run a new program that was given to me back in October. ha. I’ve gone from 512MB to 1.5 GB of RAM. Now I can run Pinnacle Studio Plus 10.5 Titanium Edition, a program my boss gave me when she came back from a conference for work. It took forever to install (it’s a huge program), but it’s awesome… It’s very professional with tons of transition effects, picture-in-picture features, chroma key features, video overlay and so much more. Now I wish I had something to edit… ha.

It’s a pretty professional program though and can even edit High Definition footage thanks to its rendering-on-the-go. I likey. It also came with a free Hollywood FX bonus disc (normally a $129.99 upgrade) that added a ton more special effects into the program… Thanks Sharon!

Eventually I’d like to pick up a new graphics card so I can stop using my integrated graphics card… Plus with a new card, I could have a secondary monitor output. Then, once I get that, I’d also like to pick up a second 19″ LCD monitor just like the one I have and get a dual-screen setup going. It would be fantastic. An external harddrive wouldn’t be too bad either since I’d be getting into more editing and what not.

I came across a funny video the other day. It’s actually pretty old, but I hadn’t seen it before. It is a spoof of Monty Python’s And Now For Something Completely Different skit only with footage from the first Halo video game for the Xbox. They use the original audio then recreate the skit in Halo… It’s amusing.

I think that’s it for now… Off to work I go…

Rock on.