Yesterday was a good day.

    Scott and Angie came over for Movienight. If you get the chance, establish a Movienight of your own; ours wind up becoming watch and talk about/talk back TO the movie while filling your face with various forms of snacks and goodies. Last night’s fare: “Midnight Run” and first of four “The Record of Lodoss War” DVDs.

      Scott brought “Midnight Run,” Angie and I had never seen it; it was quite funny. I’ve never been a big Charles Grodin fan, but his role – and his characterization – in this film was good. Robert DeNiro was the other lead; I don’t think that I need to say anything about his performance – that man is consistently great in movie.
      “The Record of Lodoss War” is a 4-DVD/32 episode anime. I borrowed it from someone at work. We watched it in Japanese with subtitles (so Scott and I could follow along). It has an interesting, if somewhat confusing at times, storyline. And there is just a touch of soap opera-like romance nuance to boot. The odd thing about it: At the end of each episode, there is a little chibi cartoon recap. This was bizarre. This was the first time that I’d really seen any of this style of animation. According to Angie: “That’s a type of their method in Japan.. whenever they do some parody or something, they make characters very young and have ’em become a clown.” On the whole, I enjoyed this, too. I’ll have more to say about the other DVDs as I watch them.

    After Scott and Ang left, I tried to bring a little order to the computer room.
    Jess called to tell me about last night’s problems at work (see her entry in my Friends section).
    I finally got tired, so I showered and went to bed… and once again the cats decided that lights out and me getting in bed meant that it was their playtime. *Yay* I remember that the formative stages of a poem were flitting around the corners of consciousness as I was starting to drift off… Maybe I’ll remember exactly what it was while I’m at work.
    Jess got in a little before 6. She gave me the Cliff’s Notes version of what had happened and how it wound up.
    After that, I slept. Soundly.

The alarm went off at 11; I woke up at 12:45. I love “Mondays.” On the plus side: Working on the weekends is pretty relaxed. Also, I don’t think that any of the managers will be there for the next five days – they’re off on the weekends, they and some of the other supervisors have off-site training Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday is their holiday. Thus, I may not see them until the ninth of July. I also realize that this may just be wishful thinking on my part, but we all have to have our little delusions.

There’s a rumor that we may actually go bowling tonight… which has been abortive for the past two weeks. It would be a nice change.

Well, I guess it’s time to put on my work face.

Peace