Friday – 09 March 2007
Today has been good. I didn’t have to fight too many road monkeys. I was able to work on something that I haven’t had a chance to do anything with since God was a boy. Went to off-site training. Went back to work. Worked. Came home.

Today’s off-site training was held at the Cinemark at The Meadows in American Fork (or, if you want to sound more like a native Utahn: “Amurrican Fark”). It was titled 300. For those of you who don’t know, the movie is based on the Frank Miller graphic novel 300; it is about King Leonidas of Sparta and the 300 soldiers who battled the combined might of Xerxes‘ Persian army at Thermopylae.

It was good. And gritty. And bloody. And passionate.  And, like Sin City, also by Frank Miller, it is not going to be for everyone.  It did a good job of conveying the importance of freedom. And honor. And duty. And the costs of being free. Yes, there was creative license taken, but from what I’ve read of the actual Battle of Thermopylae, I still think that, all in all, it was a well-crafted and well-told story. I haven’t read the graphic novel yet, but I’m going to; I want to see how faithfully this was adapted.

Stray Toasters

It’s coffee time, so I’m up out.

Namaste.