Semi-Charmed Life

A Very Tiring Weekend

Did a ton of mountain biking this weekend. I'm not an expert by any means, but I am ready to move beyond Cunningham and try new parks. I did about 2 hours on Saturday and 3 hours on Sunday. I didn't get away unscathed though. I got caught up in a thorny brush on Saturday and got scratched up along my arms. I also tipped over and landed on my elbow.

On Sunday I felt a lot more comfortable and was clearing a lot of the features that I was not able to clear the day before. Downside to that though was that I was feeling a little too comfortable. I decided to take this downhill jump that launched me in the air and threw me off my bike. Luckily I had gloves on and decided to wear a long sleeve that day, so the only thing I got from that was a scratch or two on my ankles and a bruised knee.

MTB'ing is surprisingly fun. I bought a bike expecting this to be whatever, but I found that I like MTB'ing just as much as snowboarding. The bad thing though about me though, as one of my friends pointed out to me, is that I'm extremely impatient and do not like to wait at all. Just like snowboarding, I hate stopping to wait for people and don't like it when people wait for me either. I don't like taking frequent breaks and like to ride trail after trail.

Aside from MTB'ing, I also got around to one of the Netflix DVDs that have been lying untouched on my desk for some time. I've been wanting to watch Wanted for some time now . . . what a huge disappointment! The trailer looked cool, but the actual movie fell way short.

[Warning: Spoiler Alert]

First off, I have a problem with cults, and the main protagonist is basically recruited into a cult. A group calling themselves "The Fraternity" supposedly help maintain world order by assassinating targets which are instructed to them via a magical loom. These guys go on to kill these targets with no questions asked, because obviously a magical freaking loom can't be wrong!

That was my main gripe about the movie. Secondly, the acting was not great. Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman were not engaging at all. They might as well not even have casted them because their role was minimal.

I didn't expect this to be movie of the year or anything, but I love super powered action movies (think Jumper) and I was disappointed that this movie turned out the way it did.