mellicious: Yoda: "Post every day you will" (yoda - nablopomo)
We met my sister and her husband for dinner (BBQ - which is the best food to be had in my hometown that I know of) and then went over to their house and watched Knives Out. I think that all four of us had seen it before but it came out three years ago and we never re-watched it so I think we all enjoyed it. I did, for sure. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen it but I remembered some of the plot but not all. The plan is that we will watch the new one, Glass Onion (which has no characters in common but the one played by Daniel Craig, as I understand it) on Christmas Day. Netflix is weird sometimes - they put it in theaters for a week, possibly to make it eligible for award nominations? I don't know - but then they pulled it and it will be out on Netflix shortly before Christmas. That's an odd decision, to my mind, but whatever.

Rob and I watched Willow - meaning the two existing episodes of the new series - last night. I had seen it once, earlier in the week, but he hadn't. And it actually grew on me the second time. Hopefully the producers found their footing doing these early episodes and it will be a bit more consistent after this. I read a review that said, effectively, "If you were fond of Willow the movie as a child, you will like this series." (I was in my 20s by the time it came out, but I was fond of it just the same, so I imagine I count in that number, more or less.)

And then we watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, which was unexpectedly sort of charming. I won't spoil it, because some of you probably haven't seen it and are still interested, like we were. I mean, when I say "charming" I mean charming in a Guardians kind of way - but by Guardians standards it was relatively toned-down. I don't think I would let small kids watch it unless their parents had vetted it first. (I don't have kids, I'm not tuned in to thinking about what's appropriate for kids. I would be liable to miss something that's a deal-breaker for other people.)

Rob intended to go see Violent Night, the David Harbour/John Leguizamo thing, last night but was foiled by two, two! Christmas parades between here and the movie theater. We had planned ahead on how to get around one, but not the second one. I had bowed out of going because I saw the trailer and thought it seemed too violent for my taste. He said he was not in any particular hurry to see it in any case.

Suburbia

Dec. 1st, 2019 05:33 pm
mellicious: Yoda: "Post every day you will" (yoda - nablopomo)
(written Wednesday very late, or rather Thanksgiving Day super-early)

It occurred to me tonight that December 1st is going to be here before we know it, what with Thanksgiving being so late, so I guess I could actually start writing a little early and get a head start.
 
We had to work tonight. It was fairly busy early on and then it died off almost completely. We should have closed early but apparently nobody thought of that ahead of time.
 
On the way home we got off the freeway and ran into a WALL of police cars, lights blazing. I am not kidding. Everybody was just turning around and going back the other way rather than try to see if they'd let you through that. I don't think I want to know what was over there, anyway. That many cars, it was something very bad.

We don't have much crime in our little corner of suburbia, that's why this was so unusual - although technically we were in the next town over when we saw the police cars. That town is bigger and I suppose they probably have somewhat more crime, just because there's like 3x as many people. We live in a smallish town squashed in between two other towns that have grown a lot more. Like, they've got 100,000 people each, somewhere around there.

I grew up in this area and I can tell you that when I was a kid (admittedly a long time ago now) all these towns had 10,000 people or so each. The town I grew up in is maybe 50K now, where I live is 30K (just because we're in the middle, no room to expand), and the other two are the boom-towns, relatively speaking, with about 100K each . I think the police departments of the two big towns are bound to be majorly overloaded because they've grown so fast.

The town we live in, despite being the smallest of the bunch (or maybe partly because of that) is the one that gets all the Best Place to Live kind of awards. (I'm not telling you town names but we're talking about Houston SE suburbs, near the Johnson Space Center.)


(I'll do a something more like an actual catch-up entry later on!)
 

Happy 2018!

Jan. 1st, 2018 11:57 pm
mellicious: Happy New Year! (new year gif)
 I'll quote what I just said about Last Jedi in my own comments:

 I think I enjoyed it more the second time, without all those pesky "what's going to happen?" thoughts running through my head. If nothing else, it's really pretty to look at. And I didn't think the middle was especially saggy the second time, either.
 
There were still a good many people in the theater, but nothing like the crowd that was at Jumanji last week. Probably most of the kids have to go back to school tomorrow, come to think of it.
 

(I was trying to hurry so I could make the Holidailies cutoff at midnight, but then I realized they're unlikely to have the cutoff be Central time, anyway, unless they have a rolling cutoff that uses each person's own time zones. I'm just not going to worry about it.)

We saw the aftermath of a horrific-looking wreck on the way to the movie theater (a car basically underneath a pickup) and when we came back through three hours later they were still clearing it up. It looked like they basically had cut the car that was on the bottom apart. I'm trying not to speculate about what happened there.

I stayed up until well after daylight the last few days. I have to go back to work on Wednesday so I need to shift my bedtime at least a little earlier than that! I have no sense of time, that's basically my problem. Sitting here in the living room facing away from the windows I don't even necessarily notice that it's getting light until I get up to go to the bathroom or something.

Which reminds me, I don't really make resolutions, but I want to stop feeling guilty, somehow, for being a night person. People get so judgy about it, and I'm sick of that shit. I like to sleep in the daytime, so what. (I'm not really talking to you guys, of course.) Oh, did I mention that my sister is now on the exact same schedule? She sleeps til the middle of the afternoon just like I do. Apparently at her previous job - which she has now quit - she was mostly working evenings, too. We used to seem so different when we were younger but now we are exactly alike in a myriad of ways, so much so that it's slightly alarming. (What, is my entire personality just genetics?)

mellicious: blinky holiday lights (holiday lights gif)
 The town holiday parade is tonight. We usually go out to eat on Saturday nights, but we went yesterday instead (on the way home from work) because we knew to go out tonight would be a mess. There's no way out of our neighborhood without running into it.

Rob said, "They act like this is the Macy's parade," and I laughed. People who've always lived here are very fond of this parade, it's true. It's just a little dinky parade, but they come out and score their spots on the sidewalk hours ahead. The first year we lived here, we went and watched it, and we enjoyed it, it's really cute - but I haven't had any desire to go again. I think if I had more ties to the people here, that's what would make it different, but I'm kind of a hermit, let's face it.

So we're just staying home tonight. Rob's watching Fury, that Brad Pitt movie about the tank, and I'm half-watching and fiddling around on the computer. (It was near the end when I walked in, or I'm sure I would have gotten more into it. We saw it in the theater and I liked it a lot, although it's pretty depressing.) Tomorrow we think we're going to see "Coco," and Monday we're both off so we thought we might go to the mall and goof around. I don't like to go when it's crowded, but it ought to be alright on a Monday.

I'm going to go see my sister the Monday after that, in San Antonio, and we're going to go over to Austin and go to the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar. I went once with our mom, years and years ago - I guess when I still lived in Austin, which means it was in the early 80s. I imagine it's changed a bit since then. And I haven't seen my sister in ages, either - I guess we're both kind of hermit-ish. We talk back and forth but hardly ever get around to visiting. So I'm sure I'll have more to say about that later. I'm off work the entire two weeks before and after Christmas, which is going to be kind of weird. I haven't had that much time off all at once in years. (It'll go by like a flash, of course.)

Angels

Oct. 30th, 2009 07:29 pm
mellicious: Quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 1st episode: "The earth is doomed." (Jack-o-Lanterns)
So I was driving down 2351 (some of you will know what that means) and then down Highway 3 this afternoon and I got a free performance of the airshow that's on this weekend - or the best part of it, anyway, which was the Blue Angels. I didn't know if it was the Blue Angels rather than the Thunderbirds until I got close enough to see the markings on the plans, because I am geeky enough to know what the markings on their planes look like - or rather, my father is, and I have just gotten dragged into the periphery of that particular brand of geekiness numerous times over the years - but I am not quite geeky enough to know the differences between their routines (if there are any, and I suspect there are). By the time I got down to Hwy 3 (which was once called Old Galveston Road - it runs north/south right in front of the former air force base) they were close enough that seeing the markings wasn't a problem at all. There was cloud cover and they were flying really low - or actually they fly that low anyway, I'm pretty sure. Practically like a close encounter.

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