The Aerie
No vast insights in today's blog - just a quick note or two in order to confirm my continued existence. As one might have anticipated, life got stupid when work resumed last week, and then the entire weekend was spent on various time-consuming pursuits so that last week eased into this week with no discernable seam.
Friday night we went to see the new Harry Potter movie, which has to be evaluated as "creditable." They did about the best job they could have done condensing a 700 page book into a 150-minute movie, and I don't think the Dursley's or Winky will be missed. I still assert that book 4 was when Rowling figured out that she could tell her editors to go sod off and then wrote whatever came into her billion-dollar head. Certainly the editing job accomplished by the movie screenwriters demonstrates that the book COULD have been edited down to 400 words with practically no loss of quality.
Anyway Friday night was Harry Potter, Saturday morning I think I managed to go to the gym? It's all a blur. Oh, oh, I remember now - we went to the annual coffee fest at Calhoun Square, which I've managed to miss for the last five years. That's right. Too much caffeine, even restricting myself to decaf. Then we shopped for some birthday presents, and then hey presto it's off dinner on Saturday evening.
Sunday was the Hellish Day of Housecleaning for my youngest boy's party - yes we've had our last 11-year-old family birthday party until the grandkids show up. I cleaned the living room, which desperately needed it - dust buffalo, anyone? However, while beating the living room carpet with a baseball bat, one of the laundry-pole's hooks poked through the carpet. So at some point a new carpet will be needed - hopefully soon, I hate that rug. But I didn't damage it on purpose... really!
The families arrived, crammed themselves into the house, ate, sang, watched presents, and ate cake, and left. And then it was time to go back to work. Last night the wife and I had an appointment, followed by dinner at Old Country for the youngest lad's ACTUAL birthday. Tonight we have to go to a church potluck for some unfathomable reason.
It's like a bloody roller-coaster. Tomorrow threatens to maybe actually be a regular day, with like an evening in it and everything. Then we have Thanksgiving, which we will be thankful to survive with any sanity. My wife's sister's have been popping out the kids like crazy over the last few years, and we all get to visit grandma's single-level townhouse for Thanksgiving. The Shrine of the TV will of course be showing football, meaning that half a dozen bored wound-up kids will be hanging all over every surface, while the in-laws push each other's buttons all night.
But now it's off to the potluck at church. For this I'm an atheist? I must not be doing this right.
Posted by Albatross at November 22, 2005 6:29 PM | TrackBack