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Just a few more hours and the wife and kids leave for a few days in Louisiana. They’re going to see my in laws. I’m staying home with the dog (whom we can’t board because she’s crazy).
When they return, they’ll bring my mother with them. She’ll stay through Christmas, going back and forth between my house and my younger brother’s.
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Randomly checking YouTube yesterday, and I came across a podcast celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the release of Jackson’s LotR: The Two Towers. So I decided the best way to celebrate was watch the movie.
Of course, I had to watch Fellowship first…..
Today, I’ll probably put Return of the King on. I would have done it last night, but didn’t really feel like staying up after midnight.
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Once upon a time, there was a zombie who worked for his father in the family dry cleaners. The father would sometimes bring his own clothes to be cleaned there. One day, the zombie thought it would be funny to replace all the buttons on one of his father’s flannel shirts with buttons of different colors.
The father was…..not amused.
Yet the father did not change the buttons back. Nor did he throw the shirt away or stop wearing it. When the father passed away, the shirt hung in his closet, forgotten and alone.
Until now…..
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Ugh!
Earlier last week, I was asked if I could assist my boy’s old cub scout pack with their Pinewood Derby Workshop, where we help the scouts build their cars. Being the nice guy I am, of course I said “yes”.
So yesterday I was on my feet for about four hours straight. With my legs already being sore before that, I was in a great deal of discomfort the rest of the day.
A little liquid painkiller helped - the first booze since October. I had avoided it completely while on prednisone.
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Huzzah! I dodged a bullet, so to speak.
A while back the wife had bought tickets through the boy’s school orchestra to go see the Houston Symphony this coming Sunday. Since then, however, she got sucked into a business trip, for which she leaves on Saturday.
For me to bring the boy, we’d need someone to watch my daughter. Sadly, my brother and his wife will both be on a scout camping trip, not getting back until late Sunday.
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I had to drop the wife off at the airport today, and the drive took us past the office building I used to work in. Sadly, my old company’s name was no longer on the side of the building. Thus, I could not perform my usual ritual (involving the middle finger and some choice language).
Still, I had a good laugh, as I remembered the company shrank so much it had to move to a smaller office. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of a-holes.
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I’ve long hoped the Universe would one day smile upon us all and give us a Conan movie (or maybe TV series) more faithful to REH’s original stories. That hope is pretty much dead these days.
I just don’t see much chance of getting something as awesome as a faithful Conan adaptation. Too many pansies in Hollywood (and the country at large).
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Watched Conan the Destroyer, just for kicks. I’m ashamed to say I was unaware the original story for the movie had been written by Roy Thomas Gerry Conway. When the didn’t like the way the script writer changed things, they released their version as a graphic novel.
There are copies of said graphic novel available, if you’re willing to spend between $55 and $355 dollars.