The weekend in a nutshell...Friday I was invited to a group movie night. The selection was Zardoz John Boorman's 1973 scifi vision I swear any movie Sean Connery is in just plan kicks ass, I'm never disappointed. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that this movie existed but never saw it..wow.. just amazing..one of the best intros I've seen in any movie period..very strange, worth watching again, very surreal..recommended. Saturday night I walked over to the campus area to check out Civil War reinactors who were camped out at a local museum. I ran into two customers from work whom I know quite well who were with the 26th Virginia Infantry company F. Who would of thought, rebels bivouacked this far north. It was pretty cold and I asked them if they needed something from the 21st century, but they said that they were ok. Somehow I believed them, they looked warmer than me in their grey heavy wool overcoats with campfires blazing not far away. The Union boys and girls were set up some thirty feet away from them in similar comfort. I said goodbye to search out a hot cup of coffee from somewhere other than Unimart. As I walked away I passed a group of skateboard kidzs that seem bemused that their play area was occupied by 19th century pretend warriors, they didn't seem really angry just confused, I was somewhat amused by them then horrified as I see Nardo the giant towering over the bus stop. Nardo has been a denizen of these parts for quite sometime and I'm still in awe. He must be over 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds..really scary, I can't really give more discription than that, maybe someother time. All of the coffee haunts seem to have closed eariler than I think they should, so I shuffle back home to get some sleep. Sunday night our game huddle decides on Samurai: the game of politics and warfare in feudal Japan 12-17th century. This blast from the past, Avalon Hill 1980, is a multiplayer simulation of the period as players vie for conrol of the japanese court and the ancient capital of Kyoto. My best laid plans were constantly thwarted by the multiple "Cherry Blossom Festival" random events that seemed to crop up over and over again. How can you lay a successful siege only to be called by the Emperor to attend a glorified flower show? Nonetheless Shogun Chris crushed us all with his gameplay and samurai movie dialogue. Not a bad weekend I guess, on to sleep and tomorrow.