Random Access

Monday – 15 August 2011
A new week greets us with sun and scattered clouds. This comes after a night of thunder, lightning and rain — I’m not really sure “who” did “what” to Thor, but he was really on one last night.

The weekend was good. And, as is often the case with weekends “too short.” This isn’t to say that we didn’t get a lot accomplished – we did – but I wouldn’t have argued with a little more downtime. Highlights of the weekend include:

Hearing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture – complete with cannon – at the Deer Valley Music Festival
Judging a ‘Clix tournament for Dr. Volt’s Comic Connection
Seeing Cowboys and Aliens with SaraRules! and
Setting up/putting away more baby items
Putting together a gallery of invitations from our baby showers
FINALLY cleaning out the detritus left under our deck by our home’s previous owners!
Dinner with the in-laws, including my first Charlie Chan movie

Cowboys and Aliens was fun. It was a decent western. It was also a decent alien movie. And, even better: It combined the two fairly well. Daniel Craig is almost always a pleasure to watch act. It was also fun to see Harrison Ford in a role as a… less-than-savory character again. (It’s been a long time since Han Solo was a true scoundrel…) And, the movie also had Thirteen Quorra Olivia Wilde, which is a “Win” in my book. Well done, Mr. Favreau.