Sunday
I managed to sleep in this morning. All the way until a little after 10:00. Opening my eyes, I realized that there was someone with a hammer (I don’t think that it was Thor as there was no lightning or thunder associated with it) located somewhere behind my eyes. How he got there, I have no idea…. I started working on a few things and more-or-less “forgot” about the headache. I wound up “remembering” it when the hammer-wielder decided to pick up where he or she had left off.

The rest of the morning and early afternoon was rather uneventful. I did get to chat with Rana for a bit. She’s doing well and is about to embark on a brief trip and get more stamps on her passport.

Tonight’s movie was Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira, also known as Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door or just Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Nothing like seeing ‘Bebop on the big screen. Well, it was a semi-big screen; we saw it at Tower Theater, one of the older (and independent!) theatres in the city. My only “complaint” was that they didn’t use Tank! or The Real Folk Blues (the series’ opening and closing themes) in the movie. It isn’t really a complaint because the music in the movie was good and it fit just as well. I received a phone call shortly before the movie ended. (No, I didn’t answer it nor did the phone “ring;” I keep it on vibrate and let calls go to voicemail during movies.) It was my father, but when I tried calling back after the movie, he didn’t answer. *shrug* After the movie, we went out for food. Aside from the large group of high schoolers a couple of tables over, it was good. Then, I received another call from Dad. Shortly after the call, we left the restaurant and…

I came home to play travel agent for the family again. I had been tangentially drawn into it earlier this morning, while talking to Rana: A friend of hers and my stepmother are going to Italy for a couple of weeks to visit her. Knowing that there tend to be “issues” in dealing with the Internet-related items, I told her to send me a copy of the planned itinerary. This was a wise move. The reservation that had been made expired one hour before they got back to me, post-movie.

::: braincramp :::

This was one of the (if not “THE”) longest times that I spent on the phone trying to process the necessary info and find the best fare/itinerary. That was mostly due to the fact that I was dealing with the non-Internet savvy side of the family. *sigh* But, I got things taken care of. Everyone seems happy with the arrangements. After I hung up, I had a Stoli Citrona. I had earned it.

And tomorrow is Monday.

Stray Toaster
I posted this in this afternoon. If you have any suggestions to add, please feel free to add them to that post’s comments.

Quote of the Day
At post-movie dinner, said, to no one in particular, “Get me a fire extinguisher” so that she could use it on the aforementioned high schoolers. , seeing one a few feet from the table, stood up to retrieve it. Suzie grabbed [‘Bear] by the arm and said:

Sit down! Unless I specifically say the words: “[Suzie] tells [‘Bear] to…” don’t do it!

We all got a good laugh from it.

And with that, it’s nearly time to call it a night.

Namaste.