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Apr 19, 2006 19:11

Productive Monday: put on grubbies and sunscreen after work and ripped the black and desiccated Goreyesque corpses of last year’s tomato plants out of my little garden patch. Also removed many huge green things I hadn’t planted there. Uncovered my little lemon tree, which was shorter than most of the aforementioned Green Things. Stopped as the sun went down and the trash bin filled up. Thomas will have to Make Arrangements if I’m going to do this more than one evening a week.

Less productive Tuesday: the battery light came on in my poor little CRX, so Mary and I took it to the Sears at lunch, and they replaced the alternator during the afternoon. $250, but as I haven’t made a car payment in six years, I can hardly begrudge it. Came home and did dishes, but not a significant amount: distracted by my current book and the technological throes of replacing the DVD player. Finally got to see The Perfect Storm, albeit on my notebook. (I thought it was good-I really enjoyed seeing the things that were a bit difficult to visualize from the book, mostly in the fishing process, although I didn’t care for some of the violence they’d done to the facts [Jurgen hadn’t documented any hostility between Sully and Murph; the fishhook incident did happen to Murph, but not on that trip]. Almost everything that happened on the Andrea Gail is pure speculation of course, but I thought the length and extremity of the severing-the-bird-chain sequence was rather piling on. There were other decisions I thought very nice: Billy fading back into the wheelhouse after he sends Bobby up to the surface, the last scene between Ethel and Christine, the callbacks at the end. I appreciated Peterson’s decision to keep the crew together till the end, instead of picking any off one by one.)

Very bad today: there are two remainder bookstores not two miles from work. Got a third of the way through the first one and brought home three more books.

Read: Embroidered Truths, the latest Crewel World mystery. V. lightweight, but interesting: restored my faith that I still like mysteries, after the awful ones last month. Have put aside for Astra. Started the second Pamela Aiden Pride and Prejudice pastiche, which has been sitting around for weeks. It’s okay so far, but I’m afraid it won’t have enough Elizabeth Bennett in it.

car, movies, garden, reading

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