I think I’m a consultant right now. That’s the only word for it. A small non-profit has hired me for two weeks to help them decide what to do with old computers, set up a network, help them plan a game they’re designing, and automate their backup system.

This temporary position happened to coincide with the host of their external sites, ValueWeb, merging with Hostway and moving their servers to a different city… and they claimed the machines would only be down 12-15 hours. It turned out to be over 3 days with no external site or company e-mail, but what’s the difference, really? I’m glad I’m not hosting a business with them, I’ll say that much.

While some of it’s frustrating at times, I’m getting to muck around with Applescript. Oh, and it pays the rent too!

I saw Transformers today. I went in expecting to barely tolerate it and I was really pleasantly surprised. The robot characters were pretty well done, and the humans were almost good too.

I’ll happily admit that I got pretty choked up when Optimus Prime was introduced. Lots of old memories and feelings came flooding back, mostly connected to his death in the 80′s movie. I was too young when it was in theaters, but I watched a whole lot of reruns and VHS a few years later, and I was asking for an Optimus Prime toy before I could properly pronounce his name. Odimus Pry could, to my mother’s frustration, potentially refer to Optimus or Rodimus.

Michael Bay’s movie did justice to my Transformers memories, and that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. It kept surprisingly close to canon and closed in a way that could either open it up for a sequel or simply tie it in as an alternate opening for the mythology. I do hope to see a sequel, perhaps with Leonard Nimoy returning to reprise his role as Galvatron. If not, I’ll still be adding this one to my DVD collection.

P.S. Ratatouille is awesome. See it. SEE IT.