Well, the sickness finally ran through all of us. It hit me at work Friday night. I came home early and spent all weekend recovering. Still not 100% today, but much better.
To add insult to injury we developed a problem with our satellite dish and were reduced to watching just the local channels (all 4 of them) the whole weekend. Fortunately, the service guy came today and got us squared away.
That's all for now.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sick People
Last Friday night Andy, Laurie and Asher came out to visit. Asher was a bit under the weather. On Saturday evening Andy and Laurie took him to the emergency room to be checked. They gave him some medicine which seemed to help a lot. Monday both Andy and Laurie got ill. Tuesday morning LaRue woke up sick but went to school for the morning while I arranged to get a substitute for her for the afternoon. By Tuesday afternoon everyone but Asherand me was suffering.
LaRue has stayed home from school for the last 3 days, but she's getting better. The kids went back to Provo Wednesday.
While here Asher really began to walk around the house; not walking completely, but taking several steps in a row.
While they were here Andy, Laurie and I played a couple of boardgames. We played Arkham Horror. It was the first time I played and it was great fun. It's a fairly complicated game, but once you wrap your head around the basic flow of the turns it plays fairly smoothly. The best part was that we beat the game.
Later we played a couple of games of Pandemic. Beat one and lost one. Both sessions were fairly close and tense at the end.
On another note:
I've seen this before but it has surfaced again -
Let me see if I understand all this...
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERS LICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTH CARE, A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE.
LaRue has stayed home from school for the last 3 days, but she's getting better. The kids went back to Provo Wednesday.
While here Asher really began to walk around the house; not walking completely, but taking several steps in a row.
While they were here Andy, Laurie and I played a couple of boardgames. We played Arkham Horror. It was the first time I played and it was great fun. It's a fairly complicated game, but once you wrap your head around the basic flow of the turns it plays fairly smoothly. The best part was that we beat the game.
Later we played a couple of games of Pandemic. Beat one and lost one. Both sessions were fairly close and tense at the end.
On another note:
I've seen this before but it has surfaced again -
Let me see if I understand all this...
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET A JOB, A DRIVERS LICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, CREDIT CARDS, SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, FREE EDUCATION, FREE HEALTH CARE, A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON AND IN MANY INSTANCES YOU CAN VOTE.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Movie Reviews
I wanted to add movie poster images to this entry, but I'm getting an error from the host server. Apparently after switching hosting services I need to go change the properties of the image folder to make it write-able. I'm writing this from work and can't get to it until I get home. So, I might add them later.
Movie #1 - Avatar
As I mentioned in the last entry we saw Avatar over the holidays. And we got to see it in 3D which was an awesome visual experience. Unfortunately, the story wasn't. It was extremely predictable. As an example, there's a part of the movie where the main character in his avatar form learns to control and ride one of the big bird creatures. At one point he is flying around on the bird when a bigger, badder bird attacks him. The native girl later tells him that in all their history only 5 of their people have ever ridden one fo the big, bad birds. Guess what? Yep, you knew right then that he would later control and ride the biggest, baddest bird of them all. And what happens to the main character at the end is foretold by what happens to the character played by Sigourney Weaver, although with her it is unsuccessful.
Remember what I said about the story not being very good? It's a rehash of several other James Cameron's films - most notably Dances With Wolves. In Avatar you have a main character who represents the "evil" people who infilbtrates the kind, noble indigenous people and then ends up "going native". Instead of the evil white man (cowboys) from Dances With Wolves it's the evil militaristic big business corporation raping the land of the local clans (DWW's tribes). The political message of the movie is so blatantly obvious.
That being said, if you don't think too deeply, it is a very enjoyable movie. I recommend it. But you have to see it 3D.
Movie #2 - Sherlock Holmes
First LaRue's short critique - stupid.
Me - I really wanted to like this movie, but alas it was not to be. The first major complaint I have is against the theater sound system (although it could have been the mumbling actors). I couldn't understand a majority of the dialog. If there was some smart, witty verbage I missed it. As far as the story goes, I felt it was nothing special; certainly not unique enough to rate all the accolades that movie has been receiving. I would say that if you're really interested - wait for the dvd release and rent it. If you can't wait that long then just prowl the darker corners of the internet and find it there. But to me it wasn't worth the full theater price.
Movie #1 - Avatar
As I mentioned in the last entry we saw Avatar over the holidays. And we got to see it in 3D which was an awesome visual experience. Unfortunately, the story wasn't. It was extremely predictable. As an example, there's a part of the movie where the main character in his avatar form learns to control and ride one of the big bird creatures. At one point he is flying around on the bird when a bigger, badder bird attacks him. The native girl later tells him that in all their history only 5 of their people have ever ridden one fo the big, bad birds. Guess what? Yep, you knew right then that he would later control and ride the biggest, baddest bird of them all. And what happens to the main character at the end is foretold by what happens to the character played by Sigourney Weaver, although with her it is unsuccessful.
Remember what I said about the story not being very good? It's a rehash of several other James Cameron's films - most notably Dances With Wolves. In Avatar you have a main character who represents the "evil" people who infilbtrates the kind, noble indigenous people and then ends up "going native". Instead of the evil white man (cowboys) from Dances With Wolves it's the evil militaristic big business corporation raping the land of the local clans (DWW's tribes). The political message of the movie is so blatantly obvious.
That being said, if you don't think too deeply, it is a very enjoyable movie. I recommend it. But you have to see it 3D.
Movie #2 - Sherlock Holmes
First LaRue's short critique - stupid.
Me - I really wanted to like this movie, but alas it was not to be. The first major complaint I have is against the theater sound system (although it could have been the mumbling actors). I couldn't understand a majority of the dialog. If there was some smart, witty verbage I missed it. As far as the story goes, I felt it was nothing special; certainly not unique enough to rate all the accolades that movie has been receiving. I would say that if you're really interested - wait for the dvd release and rent it. If you can't wait that long then just prowl the darker corners of the internet and find it there. But to me it wasn't worth the full theater price.
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