My long weekend.
Jul. 6th, 2008 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraThursday was not my best day. Really, it was one of those days where things just don't work. I didn't find out how much until later. I screwed some things up at work but it ended up being okay... I'm pretty sure. I won't really find out until tomorrow and I go in. The e-mails would seem to indicate that things are going to be okay but ... Well, you never know. Also, it will be a bit for me to get into everyone's good graces again.
Oi.
Friday ended up being movie day. I saw both Hancock and Get Smart. Both of which are worth your time. Hancock got a lot of negative reviews and I can sort of see why it did but I enjoyed it. There is a feeling of disjointedness that gives the feeling that there might be a few scenes too many that were left on the cutting room floor. Still, I appreciated the uses demonstrated for super strength that I hadn't ever thought about before. The explanations for him and his powers didn't bother me at all. Some of these things don't need to make a ton of sense - especially when told from the point of view of someone else inside the narrative. As for Get Smart, it was funnier than I was expecting. Less cheap humor than I was expecting as well. And, well, The Rock is awesome. I've become a big fan of him as an actor.
Saturday was waking up to go to the gym. Let me say, I'm still feeling it today. After that, we (Kris, Holly and I) got into the car and zoooooomed down to Tacoma to join up with Mike, Leigh, David, Sean and Kyna. Then we went to the Tall Ship festival. I'm not sure if it was my mood (which was hit and miss), the day (which was muggy and unpleasant) or the festival. I think probably some of all together but I wasn't really into it. It would be very different if we had arranged to go out on one of the ships. We decided to pass on trudging around more and went to The Old Spaghetti Factory. Yum.
Later that evening I went with Holly to see Wanted, joining us were Sean, Kyna and Steve. What can I say about this movie? Well. It was pretty. And that pretty sustained me through the first act and into the second one. And then, then it just started drifting into absurd, even within its own conventions. There were a few plot points which we were asked to swallow which seemed far too obvious for most anyone to not see where they were going. And then the last third of the movie was violence, gory violence, stupid violence and violence with poor special effects. Angelina, hot cars and a few of the violence moments that retained their awesome look (like the keyboard) were enough to make me be okay with having paid to see it but man... I'm glad to have seen someone enact a train-fu scene.
Today. Today Kris and I rearranged the kitchen and bought a blender. We also bought some Spiru-tein. It isn't bad. Not my favorite thing in the world and my stomach is still a little uncertain what to think of it. It seems to sit a little heavily in my stomach. In milk it tastes sort of like much better Slim-Fast shakes. In Orange Juice it sort of tastes like not as good Orange Julius. And I think I'll have to use the blender just to mix this stuff because otherwise it gets clumpy and meh.
Then we had Sean's Changeling game. Yeah! Wooooo! That game is a lot of fun. I enjoy playing it a lot.
Also, watching Iron Chef there are Kikoman ads that define 'umami' as "Japanese for Delicious" and while that is /technically/ true, it really, really doesn't go far enough. Not at all. It is much more complicated than that.
Oi.
Friday ended up being movie day. I saw both Hancock and Get Smart. Both of which are worth your time. Hancock got a lot of negative reviews and I can sort of see why it did but I enjoyed it. There is a feeling of disjointedness that gives the feeling that there might be a few scenes too many that were left on the cutting room floor. Still, I appreciated the uses demonstrated for super strength that I hadn't ever thought about before. The explanations for him and his powers didn't bother me at all. Some of these things don't need to make a ton of sense - especially when told from the point of view of someone else inside the narrative. As for Get Smart, it was funnier than I was expecting. Less cheap humor than I was expecting as well. And, well, The Rock is awesome. I've become a big fan of him as an actor.
Saturday was waking up to go to the gym. Let me say, I'm still feeling it today. After that, we (Kris, Holly and I) got into the car and zoooooomed down to Tacoma to join up with Mike, Leigh, David, Sean and Kyna. Then we went to the Tall Ship festival. I'm not sure if it was my mood (which was hit and miss), the day (which was muggy and unpleasant) or the festival. I think probably some of all together but I wasn't really into it. It would be very different if we had arranged to go out on one of the ships. We decided to pass on trudging around more and went to The Old Spaghetti Factory. Yum.
Later that evening I went with Holly to see Wanted, joining us were Sean, Kyna and Steve. What can I say about this movie? Well. It was pretty. And that pretty sustained me through the first act and into the second one. And then, then it just started drifting into absurd, even within its own conventions. There were a few plot points which we were asked to swallow which seemed far too obvious for most anyone to not see where they were going. And then the last third of the movie was violence, gory violence, stupid violence and violence with poor special effects. Angelina, hot cars and a few of the violence moments that retained their awesome look (like the keyboard) were enough to make me be okay with having paid to see it but man... I'm glad to have seen someone enact a train-fu scene.
Today. Today Kris and I rearranged the kitchen and bought a blender. We also bought some Spiru-tein. It isn't bad. Not my favorite thing in the world and my stomach is still a little uncertain what to think of it. It seems to sit a little heavily in my stomach. In milk it tastes sort of like much better Slim-Fast shakes. In Orange Juice it sort of tastes like not as good Orange Julius. And I think I'll have to use the blender just to mix this stuff because otherwise it gets clumpy and meh.
Then we had Sean's Changeling game. Yeah! Wooooo! That game is a lot of fun. I enjoy playing it a lot.
Also, watching Iron Chef there are Kikoman ads that define 'umami' as "Japanese for Delicious" and while that is /technically/ true, it really, really doesn't go far enough. Not at all. It is much more complicated than that.
