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Posts tagged Movies
New Hosting Provider
Jul 26th
After many years with the same web hosting provider this weekend I decided to change. The reason behind it is over time I saw the performance of Pennstar.net slowly degrading. So much so that I was having trouble bringing up the site or logging into the admin area. So the site is now hosted by www.asmallorange.com. They were referred to me by a friend of mine and so far I there is a noticeable difference in the performance of the site.
In other news I have attended three birthday parties in the past 4 days. 
The first party was for our neighbor’s Jason and Julie’s youngest Jeslyn. Jeslyn turned 2 and had a small family birthday at Chuck E Cheese’s. Penni and I felt very honored that our family was invited to the “family” birthday party. All of the kids loved hanging out and playing on all the stuff. Daniel is now addicted to Air Hockey. I swear he played something like five games straight against Jeslyn’s older brother Jase.
Here is a video of the kids all dancing around at Chuck E Cheese’s
Last night the awesome Annie Spell came over and watched our kids for us, so Penni and I could go and celebrate our friend Rick’s 50th birthday party. It was a Hawaiian themed party. Neither Penni nor I had any Hawaiian shirts, clothes etc, but that didn’t matter as when we got there they had grass skirts for everyone to wear It was a great party with lots of funny stories told.
The final party was today. Stephanie’s friend Hailey is turning four and she was also having a party at Chuck E Cheese’s. This was a little kids only party, so I took Stephanie to the party while Penni took Daniel to get a new backpack for school and then pick up my movie tickets so I could see Inception with my mate Collin. Inception is one cool movie!
It was a very full weekend, adding on top of it all the migration of Pennstar.net to a new host means it might be time to go back to work to have a rest.
Batman – The Dark Knight
Jul 26th
I went and saw “Batman – The Dark Knight” with a couple of mates last night, and all I can say is “Wow!”. It was awesome! Action packed and intense from start to finish.
Christian Bale again did a good job as Batman, and Heath Ledger was incredible as the Joker. You would swear that Ledger was insane, he played the role of the Joker that well. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an academy award nomination coming his way for the role. Others who had seen the movie told me that they were skeptical going in about Ledger’s performance as they thought it was just hype after his death. The hype though is worth it.
The movie is summed up best by one of my mates who had already seen it. “You won’t regret spending the $10 to see this movie.” Over all I give this movie a 9/10, it was that good.
Kung Fu Panda
Jul 21st
Daniel and I went to see Kung Fu Panda yesterday at the cinema. This was the second full length movie Daniel had gone to at the cinema and the first one that he had no connection to at all. (The previous movie was “Veggie Tales – The Pirates who don’t do Anything”)
The movie itself is quite funny and worth seeing (7/10 for a kids movie) and it’s something we will probably end up owning in the future, when it is released on DVD.
How did Daniel do in the movie? Let’s say he was really good at sitting down and watching the movie for the first 1/2 an hour. For the next hour he was up and down on his seat. Looking forward, looking backwards. Tapping on the floor and the seat in front of him. All while watching the movie. (Hey, he’s 4!) He had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
The girls got to have some together time too while the boys were at the movies, which Pen said was lovely.
