Blue Ray DVD Star Wars complete saga midnight release party!

Hastings, Wal-mart, and lots of other places are having a midnight release party for the Blue-Ray DVD release of the complete Star Wars saga.  Along with the festivities, Sarah even prodded Russ into purchasing a more authentic-looking lightsaber for one of Russ's former costumes, and now his collection (and training) is more complete.  Russ has even been invited by the local 501st to attend (dressed up, of course) in one of his former Star Wars Halloween costumes for the local Hastings gathering.  He's elected to wear his personally-crafted Sith Lord costume.  We will bring the camera and hopefully get some snapshots of the promotion party along with some of the other 501st members.  May the force be with you!

Post-edit: Russ broke down in the middle of the excitement and bought himself a copy with all 41+ hours of extended features & feature-ettes.  It's only too bad we don't own a blue-ray player.  Yet.

Another one bites the dust...

A few days ago, Russ woke up early in the morning to blog about some things that were mulling around in his head.  He pulled out what he's been affectionately referring to as the mini-lappy (a fairly decently powerful netbook) that has survived his heavy gaming, role-play & regular use for the last 2 years.  In the middle of collecting his thoughts, a glitch somehow wiped out the master boot record for starting the PC into windows.  Needless to say, Russ got a little upset in not being able to access his files, books & web bookmarks, music, movies, photos & games on a regular basis.  He's attempted restoring the glitched data with recovery disks & flash drives - but so far, no dice.  His only consolation is that he's already upgraded to a nicer wider-screen-and-better-graphics laptop for only a few hundred dollars more and has already began backing up his new files & settings.  Lesson learned: Archive & update on a regular basis!

On a side note: There may still be hope.  Russ is still attempting other methods of resurrecting the missing boot file.  If successful, he will be donating his machine (after copying his files to an external backup drive) to his wife who seriously needs a laptop upgrade herself.  Not to mention so that the 2 of them can sit in bed & play their favorite multiplayer game side-by-side each other.