So. Happy New Year, everyone!
Um...lets see. Spent the last week down at my parents, just trying to relax and forget about the mountain of work we are going to have to deal with regarding my mother in law's death. I just shudder to think about cleaning out her house. I think we're going to just have to have a big gigantic estate sale.
Anyway. Visit with my parents was good. I got to have a really great D&D game with my old gaming group. We've been doing a game every couple of months when I can get down there, and we are playing with our kids. So it's a really fun multi-generational game...feels kind of like passing along the torch.
Saw a couple of movies while I was down there. Saw Sherlock Holmes, which was filled with win (Guy Ritchie? Robert Downey Jr? Sherlock Holmes? Three great tastes that taste great together!) and Avatar. I loved what I could see with Avatar, but the cheap ass theater in my home town had the sync off or something with the film, so all of the backgrounds were blurry. I am going to hopefully go see it again tomorrow with my wife in a better theater, so I can truly get the in your faceness.
Went and saw my Grandmother and my great aunt at the nursing home while I was there. That made me sad. Both of those ladies were so vibrant and alive, but now seem to just be wasting away. But they were very happy to see us (well, I know my aunt was. My grandma never smiles any longer, so it's really hard to tell. Strokes suck.) But we drove through the country and saw my first home, and went by my grandparents home, and ate at a really dodgy restaurant that still had pretty good catfish and onion rings, so it was an OK side trip all in all.
Came back today, loaded down with Christmas loot, in a van with no heating. Five hours. In 13 degree weather. Next week, we start shopping for a new van.
Um...lets see. Spent the last week down at my parents, just trying to relax and forget about the mountain of work we are going to have to deal with regarding my mother in law's death. I just shudder to think about cleaning out her house. I think we're going to just have to have a big gigantic estate sale.
Anyway. Visit with my parents was good. I got to have a really great D&D game with my old gaming group. We've been doing a game every couple of months when I can get down there, and we are playing with our kids. So it's a really fun multi-generational game...feels kind of like passing along the torch.
Saw a couple of movies while I was down there. Saw Sherlock Holmes, which was filled with win (Guy Ritchie? Robert Downey Jr? Sherlock Holmes? Three great tastes that taste great together!) and Avatar. I loved what I could see with Avatar, but the cheap ass theater in my home town had the sync off or something with the film, so all of the backgrounds were blurry. I am going to hopefully go see it again tomorrow with my wife in a better theater, so I can truly get the in your faceness.
Went and saw my Grandmother and my great aunt at the nursing home while I was there. That made me sad. Both of those ladies were so vibrant and alive, but now seem to just be wasting away. But they were very happy to see us (well, I know my aunt was. My grandma never smiles any longer, so it's really hard to tell. Strokes suck.) But we drove through the country and saw my first home, and went by my grandparents home, and ate at a really dodgy restaurant that still had pretty good catfish and onion rings, so it was an OK side trip all in all.
Came back today, loaded down with Christmas loot, in a van with no heating. Five hours. In 13 degree weather. Next week, we start shopping for a new van.
Also excellent, but less well known than the Sergio Leone entries in the genre, and admittedly not quite as brilliant, are two serio-comical movies starring Terrence Hill, a.k.a. Mario Girotti -- They Call Me Trinity, and My Name is Nobody. Henry Fonda co-stars in the latter.