I've only watched the first episode because I had an appointment today (and I also have work to do), but it was pretty cool.  I'm looking forward to watching the rest of it.  It didn't strike me as being quite as good as Band of Brothers but I always feel that way at first with any sequel type situation.  By the end of it I'm sure I will feel it is at least as awesome as BoB, if not better.  The only I'm sort of kind of joking disappointment is that it doesn't have Ron Livingston in it.  I miss Defying Gravity.

I saw The Green Zone today.  I actually liked it.  Pretty average in a lot of respects but a decent action flick.  I like a good war movie that doesn't go too far into politics and talky bits.  This movie did not disappoint me in that area.  There are talky movies I have liked, The Man From Earth for example, but they are few and far between.  I do enough thinking.  More than enough really.  I do it all day.  When I watch a movie I almost always just want some crap to blow up and some people to get shot.  They aren't real people, it's just a movie so director feel free to direct your lead to shoot that annoying chick in the corner.

I managed to play a couple hours of Red Dead Redemption the other day.  I went out and grabbed a bounty alive and put him on my horse.  While riding back I was getting shot at pretty much constantly as usual (I generally just stop and shoot them.)  I noticed that if you accidentally kill some innocent bystander during a shoot out, it doesn't matter anymore after you return your bounty.  The money that I owed towards my wanted level just disappeared, and so did my wanted status.  I'll have to try going on a huge shooting spree some time when I'm returning a bounty.

So I'm spending my days (for the last three days so far) studying various things.  Right now I'm working on brushing up on my PHP skills.  SQL is next (mySQL really), although I'll probably end up doing it more in the middle of my PHP studying.  I don't imagine it will be long before I start working on my new project.  It should be fun in some ways and extremely irritating in other ways.  I think my biggest problem with trying to code when you don't do it all the time is that no one tends to write the basic stuff down.  The extremely basic stuff is always easy to find (Hello World projects and the like) but the things that are just after that are generally not written down.  It's like everything thinks to themselves "Well, I know it so everyone must know it" and it just doesn't get written down anywhere.  The really complicated stuff I can always find easily because everyone always needs help with it, but the simple stuff tends to be a lot harder to find.  Not that I never find the answers I'm looking for, it just irritates me to spend an hour or two looking for the answer to something stupid like how to transfer the contents of one variable to another variable (I know how to do that, it's just an example.)

Well, hopefully I can get a lot done in the next day or two.  I had a lot of wasted days earlier this week (counting the weekend.)