On Holidays, family, and tap dancing steel workers, which is way more awesome that you would think
Final day of our holiday celebrations was also quite lovely. I dragged Gramma out of bed around 8:15 this morning (if I don't, she is likely to sleep until 10:30 some days) and took her home to visit my parents for the morning and into the afternoon. Mom cooked a very tasty dinner of quiche and a glazed ham for us, and I managed to trick dad's laptop into installing drivers for one of the old printers they had lying around. Dad also gave me the name, phone number, and address of a guy in Stevens Point who might be able to do something with my first and still very beloved laptop (Shadowlite!), which still works, it's just crazy slow (and after 8 years, when it only has 40 gigs memory and a whopping 500 or so MB processor to begin with, can you really blame it?). I know there isn't much you can do for laptops, but I'm hoping if nothing else he might be able to write zeros to the hard drive, get rid of the 6+ years of Crap-ware and corrupt data, and at least get it back up and running to it's full potential.
After the computer stuff and dinner, we also watched an extremely awesome Sundance film titled Boots or Bootmen, something like that. It was like a mesmerizing combination of Stomp and the movie Coyote Ugly, only instead of scantily clad bar-dancing ladies, it involved fully clad (but still incredibly hot) tough as nails steel working men who also happened to be phenomenal tap dancers. I kid you not. It was *amazing*. And actually, the love interest guy in Coyote Ugly is the lead in this one, and holy cow... If you thought he was hot before, that doesn't even hold a candle to what he did in this film. The last ten minutes, I think my jaw may have actually dropped. Seriously, check out the preview. Which is kind of meh honestly, but the movie is amazing and fans of dance and percussion and pretty Aussy boys should totally check it out. And if you won't watch the whole film, at least try and find the last ten minutes somewhere. You won't be disappointed.
After the computer stuff and dinner, we also watched an extremely awesome Sundance film titled Boots or Bootmen, something like that. It was like a mesmerizing combination of Stomp and the movie Coyote Ugly, only instead of scantily clad bar-dancing ladies, it involved fully clad (but still incredibly hot) tough as nails steel working men who also happened to be phenomenal tap dancers. I kid you not. It was *amazing*. And actually, the love interest guy in Coyote Ugly is the lead in this one, and holy cow... If you thought he was hot before, that doesn't even hold a candle to what he did in this film. The last ten minutes, I think my jaw may have actually dropped. Seriously, check out the preview. Which is kind of meh honestly, but the movie is amazing and fans of dance and percussion and pretty Aussy boys should totally check it out. And if you won't watch the whole film, at least try and find the last ten minutes somewhere. You won't be disappointed.