It's been a long day--not bad, just long--so it wasn't a surprise when this happened ( Read more... )

I had to work today; it wasn't bad, and in fact I was able to start a new project, so all told not terrible. Of course, working six days this week has made me pretty tired, so I was glad to get home and have dinner waiting. We don't normally cook on Saturdays, fending for ourselves, but before I left this morning dad said he'd make soup and I was ( Read more... )

Dad was watching The Time Machine the other day, the '60s version, which he and mom remember from their childhood. I've heard of it, and possibly seen parts of it before, but not to any large degree. I did recognize the machine itself from an episode of The Big Bang Theory, though. Anyway, mom forgot how far into the future the machine went and ( Read more... )

Shortly after I got home from camp, I mentioned that we'd played Frozen, and how it went over like gangbusters, and we'd watched the movie, yet I didn't actually *watch* the movie. Mom said she kind of wanted to see it, and even dad was curious, so we decided to get it from Netflix and watch it together. You know it's something special if all of ( Read more... )

Every so often on Sunday nights, I find myself watching "Silent Sundays" on TCM. It happens most often this time of year, when Sunday Night Football disrupts my normal 10 PM news broadcast. I was tired last night and figured I'd watch the 9:00 news anyway, but decided it wasn't worth it, and stumbled upon a silent film that had just started. It ( Read more... )

The big news in Chicagoland this summer has been that they're filming the newest Superman movie in the area, and by "area" I mean the west and far west suburbs. I know they're not filming in the Tri-Cities, because, believe me, we'd know. The papers are all up on that sort of thing. Just being within 20 miles is enough ( Read more... )

Laura and I got together yesterday and went to see Bridesmaids. Funny. It's been a long time since I'd seen a movie in a theater/drive-in/not-TV. Laura, dear that she is, said she had coupons and offered to treat me, except the theater told us they'd discontinued their coupon/frequent movie watcher club and she couldn't use it. Really? Thanks ( Read more... )

I can't believe I've spent much of the day watching HP.
I'm still watching it now.

My mother has been wanting to watch Grey Gardens for a couple of weeks now. Wouldn't you know that we'd have trouble with our HBO tonight and the only way she could watch it was in Spanish ( Read more... )

Our ed psych test was today. This is the class where we wrote our own questions for the test and then got a 60-question study guide of what would turn out to be 39 of the 40 test questions. There is no reason, if you looked at the study guide, that you wouldn't know the test. Did we truly learn anything? No, because when I got to question #39, ( Read more... )