Yesterday as we swept the driveway of leaves he informed me "doing hard work is good because if you do it you won't have so much hard work to do".
My wife and I escaped to see Nightmare Before Christmas 3d. This is only the second 3d movie I have seen (after Captain EO) and the first feature length. It's not hard to see why this never catches on. It is hard to think of a more ideal candidate for 3d treatment and yet it honestly didn't add much. Both my wife and I felt cross-eyed after an hour.
I've been vaguely following the screenwriters strike and it strikes me that for the TV guys at least, it is squabbling over an ever decreasing pie. I know for myself I am watching less and less TV (and fewer and fewer movies) in favor of other pursuits. There are currently only four shows I watch, "Battlestar Galactica", "Heroes", "The Office" and "Lost". All of these but "The Office" have gotten annoying enough that I'm not entirely sure I'd miss them. "Heroes", in fact, I've been on the verge of deleting from the DVR.
Work has been a bit frustrating because of dealing with a platform that is 90% there to being a real OS. Nothing like depending on a language feature and then discovering after 100k lines of code is written that it doesn't quite work. I'd probably get fired if I said more.
The SiL may avoid bankruptcy, assuming her house sells. I guess she's seen some reason, though our offer to give her my '88 Accord free of charge so that she can sell her newer car and stop making payments has fallen on deaf ears. She claims that her VW bug gets 50 a gallon and thus is a smarter thing to drive than my Accord, which gets only 35 mpg. Something's wrong with that picture.
I really should clean the gutters. And hire a gardener.
My wife and I escaped to see Nightmare Before Christmas 3d. This is only the second 3d movie I have seen (after Captain EO) and the first feature length. It's not hard to see why this never catches on. It is hard to think of a more ideal candidate for 3d treatment and yet it honestly didn't add much. Both my wife and I felt cross-eyed after an hour.
I've been vaguely following the screenwriters strike and it strikes me that for the TV guys at least, it is squabbling over an ever decreasing pie. I know for myself I am watching less and less TV (and fewer and fewer movies) in favor of other pursuits. There are currently only four shows I watch, "Battlestar Galactica", "Heroes", "The Office" and "Lost". All of these but "The Office" have gotten annoying enough that I'm not entirely sure I'd miss them. "Heroes", in fact, I've been on the verge of deleting from the DVR.
Work has been a bit frustrating because of dealing with a platform that is 90% there to being a real OS. Nothing like depending on a language feature and then discovering after 100k lines of code is written that it doesn't quite work. I'd probably get fired if I said more.
The SiL may avoid bankruptcy, assuming her house sells. I guess she's seen some reason, though our offer to give her my '88 Accord free of charge so that she can sell her newer car and stop making payments has fallen on deaf ears. She claims that her VW bug gets 50 a gallon and thus is a smarter thing to drive than my Accord, which gets only 35 mpg. Something's wrong with that picture.
I really should clean the gutters. And hire a gardener.
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