Sunday
Today was another sterling example of how a “day off” should be spent. I slept in this morning. Actually, I slept a little longer than I had planned. But the body needed the rest, so it was a good thing. After observing the hygiene rituals, I headed out.

First stop: Hastur’s. I picked up my comics for the past couple of weeks. The cover of X-Treme X-Men #27 (below) had what I consider a quintessential Wolverine picture.

X-treme X-Men #27
One of those “It’s about to hit the fan… and I’m at Ground Zero” kind of pictures. Salvador Larocca does good work. (And his Storm doesn’t look half bad, either!)

Next stop: Borders. Drawing and coffee time. A few of the folks that I ran into a couple of weeks ago were there today. We talked – well, Lisa talked and I listened – about paleo-anthropologic finds and theories. It was a little out of my league, but very interesting. After they left, I started sketching. This was the product of most of the time that I spent there:

Michelle K Footwear ad

Back home to see what the peoples’ choice for tonight’s cinematic fare would be. I managed to get in a call to my mother before heading out again for dinner and the movie. We saw 28 Days Later. I liked it. It was pretty-well done and had a definite independent film “feel” to it. The only real down side to the movie was the idiotstick behind us who felt that he needed to talk through the entire movie. He trod dangerously close to meeting the business end of my shoe on a few occasions. Unfortunately, I was not wearing my steel-toed boots. *shrug* When I turned around to match a face to the annoying voice, I saw a man in a wife-beater (white, ribbed tank top)… and a pretty greasy-looking mullet. The first (and rather immediate) thought that came to mind was: “Spam-sucking trailer trash.” *GRRR* One point of vindication was that everyone in our group who heard him was ready to snap him off a little something, too. I think that the people in front of us might have gladly joined in…

After the movie, we headed to one of our old haunt’s: Denny’s. The service was poor. It took us forty minutes to get our food. The problems with that were:

  1. The restaurant was NOT crowded.
  2. None of our orders were terribly complicated.
  3. When most of us got our food, two of the items that were ordered (a slice of cheesecake and a Caesar salad) took another five minutes to be brought to the table.

We were less than thrilled. At least the company was good.

But tomorrow is another day. And the start of a new work week. At least with the Fourth of July holiday, it will be a short week. And, as long as there are no more problems like this past Friday, the week should be rather pleasant. And no one should get hurt. Operative word: “Should.”

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

Namaste.
(Larger versions of the above pictures can be found here and here, respectively.)