Too cold to even think about going outside. The Miata hasn’t moved all day, almost like it was a Sunday. Spent the day huddled in front of the PC, basking in its electrical warmth.
Tonight I’m on my own movie-wise. Donna will be glued to the tube watching the ladies figure skating in the U.S. Championships from Dallas. I may watch Memento or maybe Ronin.
Started up, still up.
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I am in more of an agreement with the review on IMDB than the one that suckered me into renting it that I read on filmcritic.com. At least it was only 90 minutes of my life. We got so much anti-hollywood in this one that it was distracting. Early on in the movie we get a lingering close-up of the phone on a table, obviously a set up for when it will be needed later in a time of trouble, never see it again. A short time later an axe in a woodpile gets the same treatment. Geez.
Maybe tomorrow. Or maybe Saturday. If not, Sunday. But I’m shooting for tomorrow. Really.
Top stayed up again today. If this trend maintains it may just work out that there will have been exactly one top transition for every day in the year by the time February 1st rolls around.
Tonight’s feature was “Lilo & Stitch” and we only made it through about half way before turning it off. Can’t really explain it, except it just didn’t seem like fun. Give me Dumbo any day.
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In an effort to winnow down the stack of DVDs on the coffee table we are going to try and watch a movie every night until we can’t stand it anymore. Tonight we watched a movie called “The Price of Milk” whose write up on the Netflix< site made it sound a lot less quirky that it really was. It was a movie from New Zealand and I understood it about as much as I understand about the mammalian life forms found down there, that is to say very little. I'm sure some folks would have been able to see through the quirky scenes and derived the proper symbolism from them, but I not me. On a positive note, it made last night's "Happy Accidents” seem positively mainstream…
Finally broke down and put the top up. We made a late evening store run and even with the windblocker it would have been too cold to enjoy the trip. Besides tomorrow morning will be in the 20’s….
With the breakfast trip Friday and yesterday’s lunch run, that makes 3 short trips in three days, probably less that 10 miles total.
We spent most this weekend indoors watching DVD movies. M*A*S*H, This is Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, My Fellow Americans and Blue Streak. Lots of comedy there, even in the couple of dramas on that list. The first 3 are from my growing collection and the others are from friends at work, two others and I have started our own little DVD swap club. 6 down and 11 to go. I have my full quota of 4 from Netflix sitting on the coffee table, along with 1 from work and 6 left of the recent arrivals from Columbia House.
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Followed along behind someone who was using the phone in his car this evening. The speed limit on the 2-lane road we were on was 55, but we were traveling along seesawing between 40-45 mph and occasionally he managed to stay in his lane. Naturally there was enough traffic coming the other direction so that passing was impossible the few times I had a dashed line. When we got to the four lane portion of the drive I of course zipped right on by, Donna looked over and reported it was a 20-something male. We think that 60+ drivers suck now, wait another 40 years when this generation gets there. At least today’s seniors don’t have a phone to their ear to go along with the poorer sight and reflexes.