Oy vey iz mir. Has this week been taking forever or what? It’s like I’ve been drinking theraflu.
It’s been one thing after another at work. “Hey, that project? I’m 98% done with it. I’m adding some final polish and then I’ll get it to you after lunch.” “Oh. Yeah. that. We’ve moved it to the end of April.”
Sigh. Today was a day where my boss was at the off-site lab when I was at my desk, at her desk when I was at the off-site lab, and we drove past each other three times. It would be funny, if this week weren’t already irritating as heck.
Additionally, I realized this week that I have to break my Lent thingy (what do they call that?) because Bioshock comes out on the 26th and they only hold your pre-orders for two days. So I have to buy the game next Tuesday. I will merely buy it and put it on the couch.
It’s just another irritating thing about this week. And next week now. So I am just looking forward to Friday night where I will probably watch a movie with a ton of explosions. With wine. Perhaps that will turn this week around.
So… what’s on your docket?
Moving!
The cleaning people come on Monday, so I have to have everything either in the basement (which I, instead of they, will clean) or out of the house. And the carpet ready to go. It’s a week from Monday we have to be out.
I’m actually headed over there now. I drove for five hours today for Lain to get her hip checked out and see if we could get her out of the harness (alas, no), but no rest for the weary.
I’ve been watching the anime series Dual. I hope to finish that up this weekend. Or maybe next week.
Good luck with everything! I will be thinking of y’all this weekend.
Upstairs done!
Achievement unlocked!
Mostly homework (spring break is definitely OVER). Going to a Great Big Sea concert on Saturday up in Boulder… It’s their twentieth anniversary tour and I first saw them in concert 16 years ago, so I’m pretty stoked.
Take ear plugs! They play music really loud now! Also be extra careful breathing because Colorado passed a law about the reefer recently and Boulder is probably the reason it passed so people will probably be smoking the reefer there so be EXTRA CAREFUL walking around and breathing.
Contact high’s are protected free speech and can also make donations to political campaigns (hey, man, like, no politics).
The kids will be home for Spring Break, which is great timing since we’re doing first Seder on Monday. Speaking of which, cooking.
Two words: Twilight Imperium.
Sleeping. Last week, I got very little sleep because I was out until 2 or 3 in the morning every night (which taught me that I am no longer 22). This week I got very little sleep because I got hit with one of my periodic bouts of insomnia. So this weekend? I plan on doing nothing but sleeping, watching a bit of basketball, and reading this.
Will that book put you to sleep? I’d never heard of it, but I love The Good Soldier.
No, it won’t put me to sleep. It’s actually the first book in a trilogy that is always, for whatever reason, bundled together. You can actually get all three (together) free in the Kindle edition.
I read the trilogy many, many years ago, and loved it. Since I just read Wolf Hall, and liked it (but didn’t love it), I figured I’d go back and read FMF’s take on the whole thing again. FMF is a wonderful writer, even if he’s not particularly… innovative. And he was good friends with Conrad, which makes him all the cooler. If you liked The Good Soldier, you will almost certainly like the Fifth Queen trilogy.
Saturday morning is the final rehearsal for our Easter musical. The musical is Sunday night. I am not sure what I will be doing in my free time. I am fighting off some kind of crud, so this weekend might involve copious amounts of sleeping.
I really don’t know, which is kind of pleasant. Pretty sure I’ll be reading one of the new books I just bought, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why, which, despite the usual flaws of an intellectual book written by a journalist, is fascinating and enlightening, and On the Map (first recommended to me, iirc, by DRS). To get really boringly detailed, changing the headlights on my car, moving a bunch of junk destined for the dump so I can build a parking pad for my utility trailer, and digging post holes for my new grape trellis. Maybe to all of that. I may just lay around and read while the basketball games are on.
Dude, I’m sort of stuck in your neck of the woods for a day or so. Sitting at a truck stop in Dexter, MI (just east of Detroit) taking a 34-hr break for purposes of Hours of Service rules.
My mentor passed away last weekend. I’ll be attending her celebration of life on Sunday.
That sucks.
Condolences.
My condolences.
We’re off to Chicago for a few days. My father-in-law turns 90 on Monday–we couldn’t miss this milestone.
We’re having a hole in the roof repaired Saturday, assuming the forecast rain doesn’t show. Outside of that, hugghig baby girl because I’ve been working like mad this week and have hardly seen her since last weekend.
Tonight: Redeye to NY
Tomorrow: Hanging with friends at the Met and Hill Country
Sunday: The theatre!
Hill Country!!!
I will be doing some part-time work (but not enough), and continuing my job search; playing with my kids; spending time with my wife.
And, reading Chinua Achebe again, who died on Thursday.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html
Perhaps an in memoriam write up is in order…
JHG thinks he was a great man. Read Anthills. He died last Thursday. The end.
My local cinema is doing a triple showing of Star Trek II (which is good), III (which isn’t) and IV (which I haven’t seen, but sounds ridiculous), so I will be spending Saturday going to that.
IV is awesome.
I’ll say this.
IV is fun. If you’re in the mood for fun, it’s also awesome. If you’re expecting something as good as II, it’s not.
IV is better than a movie with its premise should be. When I first watched it, I expected to hate it, but it is one of my favorite ST movies.
II, IV and VI are all good mainly due to Nicholas Meyer (Nimoy Directed IV, but Meyer still wrote the screenplay) – Meyer didn’t care too much about Trek, he cared about making entertaining movies (Lucas should have taken note).
IV is lightweight, but incredibly entertaining – it’s the one that even people who don’t care about Trek like – the jokes all work, and the fact that II-III (which isn’t great) and IV all form one continuous story is kind of cool.
After watching it – IV is hilarious. It breaks pretty much every law of time travel re: don’t change the past, but it’s fun enough that you don’t have to take it seriously. Chekov running around Cold War-era SF asking about “nuclear vessels” had me cracking up, but “these are not the hell your whales” had me laughing so hard I could barely breathe for a bit and is still making me laugh now. And McCoy’s commentary on 20th-century medicine!
I don’t know if it’s a good movie, but it’s entertaining and sometimes that’s enough.
Star Trek has a special place in my heart because it was the first sci-fi I saw on TV. They thing about ST is that there’s so much of it–five live series, an animated series, plus G-d only knows how many books and comic books now–that it covers the whole gamut from just embarrassing schlock to really outstanding and thought-provoking.
But the movies? IDK, it seems like they really struggled to come up with movie-worthy stories in that universe. I liked II (everyone did I guess) and the one, I forget the number, where it’s the NG crew and the Borg screw with Earth in a time-travelly way. Overall, the Borg are a great concept for an super-villainous foe. But otherwise I just look at the movies as extended length episodes, sort of like Dr. Who Christmas specials, and enjoy them on that level.
The nursery is just about done… fully functional at this point but some touching up to do that we’ll tackle tomorrow. We are also finishing some other projects around the house and Zazzy’s sister may be visiting. Since Easter falls so close to the due date, we’re seeing my mom for a Palm Sunday dinner.