Good thoughts, CEPT, Prayers, whatever...

Hitting a rough patch at work. I had two Phase II proposals out under consideration. I now only have one; the one I thought had the best chance of going through just came back rejected. That's bad news for me and the company both. I get judged based on how much money I bring in to the company, and of course bringing in new work is necessary to keep the company running. Right now we have one active Phase II and a few other smaller contracts. I really REALLY need the second one to come through. I'm really bummed out about losing this one because it was also one of the most interesting and exciting projects we had.

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Going to see Dragonball now.

DRAGONBALL: Miracle no Zenkai Powaa!

Just got back from seeing Dragonball: Evolution!

To my great surprise and gratification, THEY GOT IT RIGHT!

For those who are Dragonball/DBZ fans, the best way to describe this is: it's like one of the movies. It's an alternate continuity, one that won't fit with any of the original... but it's got the SPIRIT.

One of the brilliant strokes of genius is that the original trailers deliberately mislead you. There are deceptive cuts and a few actual outright changes of dialogue which make you think one thing when another is true -- and the "other" is much BETTER than you expected. They successfully managed to hide a lot of the Real Dragonball Stuff from us until the premiere, which is a hell of a job.

Spoilers follow after the ( cut... )

So in short, I strongly encourage anyone who likes DB/DBZ, or anyone who'd enjoy a quirky super-martial-arts movie, to go see this one.

A good end to a rather bad day.