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Mar. 6th, 2012 01:33 amMy weekend consisted of a reasonably productive couple of days. Yesterday I managed to get some cleaning done including washing the kitchen floor, then I watched Hugo (which was oh so good!), and did a bunch of reading. Today was chores-tastic: After showering and loading the car up, I spent the next four hours doing recycling at the city yard, having lunch, getting my hair cut, going bathing suit shopping (and finding one that I didn't loathe, so yay!), returning cans, going to Coinstar with my change cup contents (yay new kindle books now), returning Redbox, grocery shopping, and other quick errands. Came home and put the groceries away, got dinner going, loaded the dishwasher, paid bills, chatted with Patrick.
Earlier part of the week was pretty standard. On my work from home day this week I managed to watch three movies while I worked: The Thing (2011), In Time, and The Whistleblower. They were all better than I thought they'd be, so that was good. The Thing wasn't as good as the original by any stretch, however. There are only two ways monster movies seem to deal with the monster, these days: you either never see any of the monster at all, or you see too much of the monster. This was a too much situation, totally — all thrashy tentacles and gaping maw. Kinda boring, really. Nice that there was a female hero, however, a la Ripley. The Whistleblower was depressing, but gripping. Rachel Weisz was good as always, but since the plot was about human trafficking there wasn't much she could do to perk it up and make it less than grim. And In Time was better than the reviews, although a lot of that was because of Justin Timberlake's personal charisma, and because the plot was interesting. The dialog needed a lot of work, and the female lead could have used a bit more...something. I dunno. It didn't really stay with me, but Justin was better than I expected, so that was a pleasant surprise. Had to see it, what with the Harlan Ellison early controversy. He apparently dropped his lawsuit after seeing it, which sounds to me like a bad review. Anyway, go-to futurey sci-fi actors Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser and Olivia Wilde gamely made appearances, which upped the pretty quotient of the film by an acceptable amount. (when your entire cast has to look 25 years old or less, probably makes casting a challenge)
On Thursday I decided to take a walk at lunchtime and ended up over at the Museum of Science. There's some fun stuff there: they have a live gekko exhibit, with 30 or so different types of gekkos all in little unique habitats. That was pretty neat. There was also a museum guide carrying around a gekko to let visitors see one up close. Cute! That's one of the changing exhibit halls, from what I could tell. So many others seem to remain encased in amber. I couldn't believe that the main "habitat" exhibit hasn't changed much since I was a kid. I mean, I first saw that moose in probably 1970, when I was six! There's a sign identifying the moose habitat as dating from 1962, so I'm not exaggerating. A lot of the stuff is the same — the shuttle model, the capsule, the dinosaur models, etc. And the math room hasn't changed in at least 35 years, not to my eyes, anyway. But it's all still charming, and sort of comforting. There may be advances in science every day, but our little museum will do its part to stem the tide...
Later was dinner at Patrick's, much chatting, and Revenge. I don't know how many more eps there can be of Revenge, but it's pretty consistently AWESOME, so who cares? I heard that next season will be an entirely different cast and plot, like American Horror Story, so that is good. It also means anyone can be pushed off a cliff at any time. Also good.
Saw a very exciting number on my scale this morning. Let's hope it repeats! It would mean 75 pounds. It would be my first major goal reached, too. Which means a hot fudge sundae at Friendly's.
Kidding.
Sorta.
Earlier part of the week was pretty standard. On my work from home day this week I managed to watch three movies while I worked: The Thing (2011), In Time, and The Whistleblower. They were all better than I thought they'd be, so that was good. The Thing wasn't as good as the original by any stretch, however. There are only two ways monster movies seem to deal with the monster, these days: you either never see any of the monster at all, or you see too much of the monster. This was a too much situation, totally — all thrashy tentacles and gaping maw. Kinda boring, really. Nice that there was a female hero, however, a la Ripley. The Whistleblower was depressing, but gripping. Rachel Weisz was good as always, but since the plot was about human trafficking there wasn't much she could do to perk it up and make it less than grim. And In Time was better than the reviews, although a lot of that was because of Justin Timberlake's personal charisma, and because the plot was interesting. The dialog needed a lot of work, and the female lead could have used a bit more...something. I dunno. It didn't really stay with me, but Justin was better than I expected, so that was a pleasant surprise. Had to see it, what with the Harlan Ellison early controversy. He apparently dropped his lawsuit after seeing it, which sounds to me like a bad review. Anyway, go-to futurey sci-fi actors Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser and Olivia Wilde gamely made appearances, which upped the pretty quotient of the film by an acceptable amount. (when your entire cast has to look 25 years old or less, probably makes casting a challenge)
On Thursday I decided to take a walk at lunchtime and ended up over at the Museum of Science. There's some fun stuff there: they have a live gekko exhibit, with 30 or so different types of gekkos all in little unique habitats. That was pretty neat. There was also a museum guide carrying around a gekko to let visitors see one up close. Cute! That's one of the changing exhibit halls, from what I could tell. So many others seem to remain encased in amber. I couldn't believe that the main "habitat" exhibit hasn't changed much since I was a kid. I mean, I first saw that moose in probably 1970, when I was six! There's a sign identifying the moose habitat as dating from 1962, so I'm not exaggerating. A lot of the stuff is the same — the shuttle model, the capsule, the dinosaur models, etc. And the math room hasn't changed in at least 35 years, not to my eyes, anyway. But it's all still charming, and sort of comforting. There may be advances in science every day, but our little museum will do its part to stem the tide...
Later was dinner at Patrick's, much chatting, and Revenge. I don't know how many more eps there can be of Revenge, but it's pretty consistently AWESOME, so who cares? I heard that next season will be an entirely different cast and plot, like American Horror Story, so that is good. It also means anyone can be pushed off a cliff at any time. Also good.
Saw a very exciting number on my scale this morning. Let's hope it repeats! It would mean 75 pounds. It would be my first major goal reached, too. Which means a hot fudge sundae at Friendly's.
Kidding.
Sorta.
