Too bad my life hasn’t given me a second episode yet. If it did, I would assume I would do better than this. But apparently that wasn’t what Lucas was thinking, but more on that later.

Friday night went very well, despite Lucas’ inability to direct live actors. It started with great company (name excluded to protect the insane) at a fine restaurant (Prime Only off Leesville for those in the area). The name said it all – Prime Only: Steak and Seafood. Ahhh. And it was as billed.

Of course, not being able to decide, I had to go with both. A Seafood Martini and a steak. This martini thing sounded interesting – various sampler seafood things all in a martini glad. I did wonder at first how they would get all that in a glass actually. This little brainteaser was answered when Hans and Frans came in with what amounted to a fishtank on a stem, full of the prescribe items.

This mammoth of a dish (which was really now more of a table centerpiece) had two odd effects. The first was that we now looked as if we were actually worshipping seafood. The second has to due with placing glass between two people. Since we were both so short, we now had to look though the tank to see each other, thus giving the evening all the charm of the local carnival funhouse.

As Hans and Frans left us in this predicament, I used my engineer sense to solve the problem. Actually I got the idea off of McGuiver. Put melted butter down at the base and slide the whole thing right off the table. Oh well, what’s some broken glass and a few hundred pounds of ice on the floor to such an upstanding place?

Despite that, the food was great and we even managed to get fat on dessert before leaving. I’ll spare you the details of the whole garlic issue. And why did they have a sprinkler inside?

Next up, Star Wars. I’ll have you know right now she wanted to go, so don’t give me any shit about this. Actually, she even got the tickets the day before so we wouldn’t have to stand in line (does that kick ass or what). So we did make it in and found some reasonable seats. Unfortunately this put us overlooking an annoying placed railing, so you basically had to sit upright and leaning forward the whole time (man, it sucks to be short).

And being as how this was opening weekend in a crowded theater, I had said I wouldn’t talk during the movie. And I almost succeeded. Except at all those points that made me want to vomit and/or kill someone. No spoilers here, but let’s say that the special effects were great, the battle scenes were great, and if nothing else, it’s worth it for just the last 20mintues. Let’s just say that when it gets to the ‘dollar flick’, I’m going to unleash a war of words on that screen.