After searching for an old design drawing of the structure's roof for quite a few minutes, I figured out how much roofing material I'd need. I polished the document somewhat, filling in details that I had failed to include in the file I found.
Knowing how much material I'd need - four ordinary size-sheets of plywood - I was prepared for shopping ( Read more... )

Livejournal is broken

Thanks Livejournal, for breaking browser-based posting from mobile devices. Sure, maybe you want people to use your app from phones, but it doesn't seem to support "disable autoformat". I happen to like posting with my own HTML formatting. It makes my postings format the way I want them.
Facebook did the same thing with the ( Read more... )

My parents visited briefly today, between the first and second films of the day. It was nice to see them, as always.
As often happens toward the end of the film festival, "J" was too tired to watch all five of the films; she skipped the third and fifth. I dozed through parts of the fifth one myself, due to exhaustion rather than lack of interest ( Read more... )

Because we had too much to do around the house, neither "J" nor I got a chance to watch any SIFF films. I did work on writing reviews a bit, but mostly we were too busy with other things.

Quarantine report: home all day.

This morning, instead of another SIFF movie - since we're running short of films suitable for kids - "T" got a special treat: watching television unsupervised. The show was "Tutankhamun's Treasures", a National Geographic documentary. I joined him for the last of it, and it looked pretty good, as one might expect with a National Geographic show.
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This morning, "J" had an appointment in our garden with "G", a gardener who helps with a lot of the heavy duty work J and I can't handle ourselves. B is impressively productive.
Meanwhile, I watched a film with "T": The Unknown Saint, a crime comedy about a thief who buries his loot just before he's captured, and disguises it as a grave to ( Read more... )

I only got around to watching one SIFF film today: The Perfect Candidate, a Saudi film about a woman doctor who runs for municipal council so she can get a muddy road in front of her clinic fixed. It's a good story, well made, but may be too slow for some viewers.
I also wrote a number of reviews for films I've seen so far.
"J" did a lot of ( Read more... )

Today was a big day for watching SIFF films. "J" and I watched four selections, which amounted to almost twenty films because two selections were short film series.
Before the films, my father dropped by. It was nice to see him, even if he wasn't around all that long.
The first selection was Ancestors, a six-film short series. Although I ( Read more... )

Today was a pretty busy day, but even so I'm not sure where all the time went. I suppose some went to writing yesterday's film reviews.
We only ended up finding time for one SIFF film: In the Same Breath, a good documentary about the parallel mismanagement of the COVID-19 in China and US.

Quarantine report: two outside stops: T to school, T ( Read more... )

The big event for the day was opening day and night for the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival, which is entirely on-line because of the pandemic. The festival's slogan for the year is "It's Happening", which is a good fit, given that last year's slogan could have been "It's not happening because of the pandemic." It's great to have a film ( Read more... )