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I am in CA by iGrrrl (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 12:57:57 AM EST

I am in the country of the movie Sideways.

I am about to embark on elements of your old life.

I am jealous of elements of your current one.

Too many thoughts swirling in my jet-lagged head.

"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus

and you didn't even tell us? by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 01:58:50 AM EST

sheesh!

When I'm imprisoned as an enemy combatant, will you blog about it?
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: It's not like I'm that close by iGrrrl (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:31:22 AM EST

And I'm working.

"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus
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Sideways and Napa by johnny (4.00 / 1) #7 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:14:28 AM EST

I want to see that movie again and write a review of it.

I liked it. Dear Wife disliked it violently. I mean, she was ready to divorce me because I liked it. I've never seen a movie make anybody so angry.

But none of the reviews I saw of it caught it right, I think. I saw it as a dark tragedy about a sex addict and a possibly self-deluded writer-alcoholic and self-deluded alcoholic girlfriend. I certainly didn't see it as a comedy. It was more like Leaving Las Vegas, outdoors.

I had a grand time in Napa Valley a long time ago. It seems like the Sun Microsystems board of directors had rented out a fancy/rustic wine-lover's retreat for a 4-day meeting. They cancelled the meeting but couldn't get the money back, so all of the engineering managers in one of the groups used the place instead. Man, the rich do live differently than you and I.

It all seems like a dream now. I remember that during that meeting we watched the Steve Jobs movie introducing the Next Machine, and we had one of them there and played with the software and took apart the hardware. Maybe that's why I associate good California wine with matte black computers?
Buy my books, dammit!
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I dunno by Scrymarch (2.00 / 0) #16 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:12:01 AM EST

I'd say it was only tragic insofar as Fawlty Towers is tragic. And seeing life from Basil's perspective is rather depressing. But it's still funny when he does his Hitler impression.

But from my vague memory of past experience I don't think we agree on books and movies much.
_{The Political Science Department of the University of Woolloomooloo}
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: whatever you do, by johnny (2.00 / 0) #17 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:29:23 AM EST

don't mention the war!
Buy my books, dammit!
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Jet lagged? by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:20:03 AM EST

The US is not that big :-)

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: on top of short sleep by iGrrrl (4.00 / 1) #13 Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:32:42 AM EST

My daughter had nightmares the night before I left, so I'd only had 3.5 hours of sleep, and was at the equivalent of up until 1:00 AM.
So there.

"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus
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