Funny Couple of Days
I mean funny in both meanings of the word…
On the funny “ha ha” side, Rachel and I squeezed in some hang out time before her parents arrived today. Sunday night, after she got off work, I arrived for a late visit and she told me about blowing up a car for the movie she’d worked on for the last couple of days. Monday, I decided I that I had enough of work at about 1:30 and snuck home for a bit, and then back over to Rachel’s to assist with some more domestic activities (a Target run, etc.) before we had a quick dinner and ran over to the DGA theater for two movies.
The Namesake was a sweet little movie about an Indian family in America. I knew Rachel was a cryer from some of her postings, so I had a feeling this movie would do her in from what I know about the plot… and she did not disappoint. I have to admit, they did such a great job of making you care about these characters that when something happened to them, I had to cry myself.
Premonition was the second flick of the night… skip it, trust me. The plot device gets old really quick and because the storyline skips around so much, you really can’t get too attached to the characters, so you end up just not caring about them in the end. Plus, I just don’t get Sandra Bullock… never have.
Tonight, after work, Netflix delivered Eragon… yeah, glad I skipped it in the theater. I am more of a sci-fi guy than fantasy on any given day, and this movie just drove it home. Not only was it geared at the younger reader, it was WRITTEN by a younger reader, so maybe I was just jealous of the idea… until I actually saw the movie and realized it was a collection of every cliché fantasy tool in the toolbox… LOTR lite, truly. I actually fell asleep at one point…
The funny peculiar portion was the last two days as well… lots of activity at work, and a couple of real odd problems. One having to do with a hardware giveaway that we’ve been doing for some time and the aftermath of us running out of the replacement stock too early (still dealing with that). The other was a mild freak out by my boss when she realized we were over budget on one of the programs… but it was one where, if anyplace, this was the one to do it because it tied directly to customer acquisition… never a bad thing. It tied into a great idea (if I do say so myself) that would solve our search program problem for next quarter, but I’m getting a lot of push back there as well… some I can see, but others seem a little contrived. I already know there is something afoot, I’m just curious of the details.
Anyway, off to bed for me…
J.
On the funny “ha ha” side, Rachel and I squeezed in some hang out time before her parents arrived today. Sunday night, after she got off work, I arrived for a late visit and she told me about blowing up a car for the movie she’d worked on for the last couple of days. Monday, I decided I that I had enough of work at about 1:30 and snuck home for a bit, and then back over to Rachel’s to assist with some more domestic activities (a Target run, etc.) before we had a quick dinner and ran over to the DGA theater for two movies.
The Namesake was a sweet little movie about an Indian family in America. I knew Rachel was a cryer from some of her postings, so I had a feeling this movie would do her in from what I know about the plot… and she did not disappoint. I have to admit, they did such a great job of making you care about these characters that when something happened to them, I had to cry myself.
Premonition was the second flick of the night… skip it, trust me. The plot device gets old really quick and because the storyline skips around so much, you really can’t get too attached to the characters, so you end up just not caring about them in the end. Plus, I just don’t get Sandra Bullock… never have.
Tonight, after work, Netflix delivered Eragon… yeah, glad I skipped it in the theater. I am more of a sci-fi guy than fantasy on any given day, and this movie just drove it home. Not only was it geared at the younger reader, it was WRITTEN by a younger reader, so maybe I was just jealous of the idea… until I actually saw the movie and realized it was a collection of every cliché fantasy tool in the toolbox… LOTR lite, truly. I actually fell asleep at one point…
The funny peculiar portion was the last two days as well… lots of activity at work, and a couple of real odd problems. One having to do with a hardware giveaway that we’ve been doing for some time and the aftermath of us running out of the replacement stock too early (still dealing with that). The other was a mild freak out by my boss when she realized we were over budget on one of the programs… but it was one where, if anyplace, this was the one to do it because it tied directly to customer acquisition… never a bad thing. It tied into a great idea (if I do say so myself) that would solve our search program problem for next quarter, but I’m getting a lot of push back there as well… some I can see, but others seem a little contrived. I already know there is something afoot, I’m just curious of the details.
Anyway, off to bed for me…
J.