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I've decided that the timely format is holding me back, so now I'll just make sporadic posts when I have something important to share. I've got five months of material to cover, so I can't give you every last detail.

Movies:

I joined AMC Stubs for $12, or "$1 a month" as they like to say, so now I mainly watch movies at the AMC Lennox 24 near OSU Campus instead of the Regal Georgesville Square 16 (well over 5 miles closer to my house). Also, the Lennox has AM showtimes, so I can occasionally make it a double feature and still get home in time for dinner.
As I mentioned last time, I saw Arthur on opening day at the Regal and saved Hop for Easter, which was Day 3 of Anime Punch: Armageddicon VI. I had to go to the Movie Tavern in Hilliard and catch a breakfast show to fit it into my schedule.
Super didn't hit theaters when Fandango said it would, so I had to wait until April 29th to see it at the Gateway Film Center, my new destination for Indie films. I also went there for Hobo With A Shotgun in either late May or early June, and Trigun: Badlands Rumble in early August.
One more thing; Netflix decided to break up the Unlimited Discs and Unlimited Streaming plan ($27.99/month) into two separate plans ($21.99 and $7.99 respectively, or $29.98 total), so I need to stop sitting on the four discs I have out and start getting my money's worth.

Video Games:

Unfortunately, games like Star Fox 64 3D and Paper Mario 3D have been pushed back. However, due to the 3DS price drop on August 12th, I've been entered in the Ambassador Program so I'll get 20 free Virtual Console downloads (10 NES titles starting September 1st, and 10 Game Boy Advance titles sometime before the end of 2011) to keep me entertained while I wait.
I picked up a copy of Portal 2 in April, and I've finished both campaigns. I don't know if there are any plans for a Portal 3, but I know there's free DLC coming out in mid-September.
My Xbox 360 Pro died on me again somewhere around my birthday. The ethernet port went bad every 13 months and this was the third strike. Instead of sending it for out-of-warranty repairs again, I traded it in for the 360 Slim. Luckily, GameStop had a promotion at the time, so I got the 250 GB Xbox 360 S Kinect bundle for around $400 with a free $50 gift card. My bedroom is much too small to use the Kinect, but I pre-ordered the Nyko Kinect Zoom, which claims to reduce the necessary space by 40%. I think Kinect will finally make Forza Motorsport's cockpit view viable, seeing as how Forza 3 cuts the rear-view mirror in half and only lets you look in four directions.
I found a couple of games I've been seeking for years. I bought a copy of Beautiful Katamari for the Xbox 360 on my birthday, and found Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am for the PS2 in a GameStop in Cary, North Carolina over the weekend. There was a Buy 2 Get 2 Free sale down there, so I also chose Twisted Metal: Black, God of War, and Lego Star Wars: The Original Trilogy.

Vacation:

My parents and I took a road trip down to Cary, North Carolina over the weekend to pay my oldest brother and his wife a visit. We actually started packing on Thursday the 25th so we could hit the road before 5 AM on Friday. We stopped for breakfast in Charleston, West Virginia and gas in Bluefield, Virginia (a town that straddles the WV/VA border and showed up on our map twice). We drove by Mt. Airy, the birthplace of Andy Griffith and basis for the fictional town of Mayberry. We could have stopped to visit it, but we just didn't work it into the schedule. The whole trip from Grove City to Cary covered 480 miles and took about 8 hours.
We would've seen Lazy Daze, but it was cancelled this year in response to the threat of Hurricane Irene. It made landfall in the Outer Banks on Saturday, but all we got in Cary was a rather large rainstorm. We defiantly went out in the storm, like the vast majority of the town's residents, and visited the Cary Town Center mall.
I don't know why we waited until Sunday to try the famous Carolina BBQ, but apparently all of the best places are closed on Sunday. We did manage to find a place called Dickey's, which was pretty good.
We drove back to Ohio on Monday morning, stopping at a Virginia Visitor Center to stretch our legs and refueled in Charleston, WV. I can now say that I've seen 8 states and set foot in 7 - I still have to double back to Tennessee.

Miscellaneous:

While in North Carolina, I realized just how inadequate my cell phone is. I'm strongly considering an upgrade to something capable of Twitter, GPS, and search apps if I can find one on a pay-as-you-go plan like Virgin Mobile offers.
Also, my Skullcandy earbuds failed about a week ago (one side stopped working, which ruins stereo playback). I tried using the stock Zune earbuds that I've kept in the box since I bought my Zune HD, but the felt caps keep slipping off and I'm afraid I lost one. I'll have to go and buy a new pair of Skullcandy earbuds now. While I'm at it, I saw an Xbox 360 Slim Vault on GameStop.com in "Gundam White", which would help the black console blend in with the white accessories I bought when I had the Pro model. If they aren't in stock in stores, I'll buy one online.
I have to catch up with Penny Arcade, PVP Online, and The Escapist again, but I'm still on vacation until the day before Labor Day.
One last thing: I've already pre-registered for Ohayocon 12, and I desperately hope to meet someone there so I can move out of my parents' house before they retire and move away from Ohio.

That's it for now. Whenever I have more to say, I'll post it next time.