Thursday, December 29, 2005
Yesterday was fun, but I didn't get a lot done. After work I came home and just chilled out for a little bit. Katie and I watched some TV and then we got Amanda up (she wasn't feeling good) to see what she wanted to do about dinner. She was hungry so we went to eat some Hibachi. It was yummy as usual and we had the added bonus of watching Katie wrinkle her nose at sushi. She ended up liking some of it!
After dinner we decided to go to a movie. We watched "Fun with Dick and Jane" which was ok, but far from good. I had high hopes for this movie and thought that it might be a more serious movie with some comedy, but it was a comedy (Ala Jim Carey) with all too few moments of clarity. I was pretty disappointed :(
The temperature was great yesterday, nice and warm. I can't believe it was in the 50's at the end of December! That is crazy. My office was so warm yesterday. The AC was turned off for the winter and the room just kept getting warmer and warmer. I think that it eventually topped out at like 80 degrees or so.
Over the holiday I finished 'The Da Vinci Code', it was pretty good. I wonder why it took me so long to read it. I definitely am a Dan Brown fan now and will be reading more of his books in the coming weeks and months. Right now I just started to read 'Citizen Soldiers', so far it is interesting, but it doesn't weave much of a story as of yet. I think that I'm going to rotate my books fiction and non-fiction, that way I can learn something in between my pleasure reading.
It's nice to read some for leisure since all the time that I was in college the leisure reading took the backseat to school work. I used to read a lot during the summer but since 2000 a good number of my summers have been disrupted by military stuff. Speaking of military stuff, my training in the spring/summer is coming up fast. I need to start a crash diet and workout program. I've been doing good with my pushups, but need to start running 4 days a week and road marching another. I think that I'm just going to go directly after work to the gym since it is on the way home and will probably be easiest, besides, I hate to wake up early and I'm going to have lots of early mornings at OBC.
Last night at the movie someone near us smelled like a human joint. They reeked terribly, I couldn't tell for sure who it was but I think that it was the couple next to Amanda. Do they really think that they don't smell? It always cracks me up during the movies when kids hear their parents coming and they open a window and wave their arm to clear the smoke in their rooms. The parents always accuse them of doing something or don't do anything...do the parents not smell it? Do they intentionally make all characters in TV or the movie non-smellers? They might since the audience can't smell, so if the TV characters are smelling it would create some type of disconnection with the audience. Wow, that is a pretty good theory and it may be true. You don't hear of many characters talking about taste either. The movies focus on the senses that they can stimulate sight and sound, not the others. Sorry, but if you are being chased by Jason from 'Friday the 13th' you could probably smell his rotting semi-decomposed corpse a mile away, but yet he always manages to sneak up on people. HA! I just disclosed the single largest conspiracy in movies today.
Ok, that's it for now.
After dinner we decided to go to a movie. We watched "Fun with Dick and Jane" which was ok, but far from good. I had high hopes for this movie and thought that it might be a more serious movie with some comedy, but it was a comedy (Ala Jim Carey) with all too few moments of clarity. I was pretty disappointed :(
The temperature was great yesterday, nice and warm. I can't believe it was in the 50's at the end of December! That is crazy. My office was so warm yesterday. The AC was turned off for the winter and the room just kept getting warmer and warmer. I think that it eventually topped out at like 80 degrees or so.
Over the holiday I finished 'The Da Vinci Code', it was pretty good. I wonder why it took me so long to read it. I definitely am a Dan Brown fan now and will be reading more of his books in the coming weeks and months. Right now I just started to read 'Citizen Soldiers', so far it is interesting, but it doesn't weave much of a story as of yet. I think that I'm going to rotate my books fiction and non-fiction, that way I can learn something in between my pleasure reading.
It's nice to read some for leisure since all the time that I was in college the leisure reading took the backseat to school work. I used to read a lot during the summer but since 2000 a good number of my summers have been disrupted by military stuff. Speaking of military stuff, my training in the spring/summer is coming up fast. I need to start a crash diet and workout program. I've been doing good with my pushups, but need to start running 4 days a week and road marching another. I think that I'm just going to go directly after work to the gym since it is on the way home and will probably be easiest, besides, I hate to wake up early and I'm going to have lots of early mornings at OBC.
Last night at the movie someone near us smelled like a human joint. They reeked terribly, I couldn't tell for sure who it was but I think that it was the couple next to Amanda. Do they really think that they don't smell? It always cracks me up during the movies when kids hear their parents coming and they open a window and wave their arm to clear the smoke in their rooms. The parents always accuse them of doing something or don't do anything...do the parents not smell it? Do they intentionally make all characters in TV or the movie non-smellers? They might since the audience can't smell, so if the TV characters are smelling it would create some type of disconnection with the audience. Wow, that is a pretty good theory and it may be true. You don't hear of many characters talking about taste either. The movies focus on the senses that they can stimulate sight and sound, not the others. Sorry, but if you are being chased by Jason from 'Friday the 13th' you could probably smell his rotting semi-decomposed corpse a mile away, but yet he always manages to sneak up on people. HA! I just disclosed the single largest conspiracy in movies today.
Ok, that's it for now.
