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Four good years
Today was the forth anniversary of me and my sweetie-wife getting married. IT’s been a good four year and I can say that I am a happy mna.
Experimental
So I’ve been playing with the themes again for this blog. Any opinions on this look?
A pretty good day
So this morning was a trip to the World Famous San Diego Zoo with my sweetie-wofe. We had a very nice and got in a some decent exercise. Afterwards we went to a new place for Lunch, the Sea Rocket. This was an upscale bistro kind of place, so not my usual haunt. The food was good, the services was excellent and we enjoyed ourselves. (Though the burger I ordered was too large to eat like a hamburger and I was forced to utilize knife and forke to tackel the thing.)
Then it was grocery shopping and home. The entire time I had my mind gnawing and working on a problem in my newest novel. I have been going like gangbusters on the outline, it’s now up to 24 pages, and this week I came to a sudden and terrible halt. Partly because of the huge load of work that descended upon us at my day job, partly because of the arthritis flare that took me out of typing commission at home, and partly because I knew I was stuck for what was going to happen next in the plot.
If you think of the plot as a number line I was at 18, and I knew what happened from 23 on, but 19, 20, 21, & 22 were leaving me stumped. Today I think I cracked the problem. I’m going to sleep on it and try writing it out tomorrow, then I will know if it worked.
And I’ll close out with a photo from the zoo taken with my iPhone 4.
going to bed
No writing tonight as the arthritis in my fingers has been hell today. I shouldn’t have been late on my medication last night.
Just a few tidbits
So I started a new work schedule at my day-job this week. Instead of working 8-5 I will now be working 7-4. Getting home earlier is nice, but my body hasn’t yet adjusted to getting up a little earlier. As such I’m a little fogged of mind and will not likely be doing any writing this week. (Also there is a convention, World Fantasy here in San Diego, starting on Thursday.)
It’s a shame about the writing as I just cracked a plotting problem for my SF noir idea. (Currently titled in my head “The Long Night.”) I did not want my lead character to be a cop or P.I., but rather someone not normally seen in the role of unraveling a mystery. I’ll make sme notes but not much more tonight.
Here are my latest movies on blu-ray.
A first rate superhero film and an excellent lead into next years The Avengers.
For the price I couldn’t turn down a blu-ray set of all three films with bonus material. (My set does not have the swag, it’s just the three discs. I dislike unusual packaging as it never fits well in my cases.)
Stayed Home Sick
Last night, actually yesterday afternoon, I started developing a sore throat. BY the evening I was light-headed, dizzy and my throat had begun to seriously hurt. I went to bed quite early, I’m guessing it was about 8:30. (My sweetie-wife and I had just finished watching Journey To The Far Side of The Sun. A quite silly film from 1969.) I got out of bed at 6 o’clock to call in sick and then went straight back there until about 9:30 a.m.
I spent most of the day drinking water and being thankful I did not have to speak. By the end of the day the throat had settled down to just scratchy and I was feeling tired but not light-headed or dizzy. I was able to get some writing work done. Finished a new scene for Love and Loyalty inspired by some of the feedback at the luncheon and edited a short story that was very well received at my writers group on Monday night. Once both has been proofed by my sweetie-wife I will see about using them. The short story I intended to submit to Asimov’s SF Magazine.
Moday Morning Mirth
I had to take my sweetie-wife into the hospital for an exam so I’ve got a few hours at home to kill this morning and no Sunday Night Movie to post about. (I went to bed early.)
I saw this over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog and just had to share…
Feeling better
10 hours in bed was what I needed to kick this thing. I woke up this morning with hardly a twinge of vertigo.
a trip down memory lane
So on Sunday Night I decided to go to the drive-in. A friend of mine also came along as I was seeing a double feature of Contagion and Apollo 18. (I expected Contagion to be good and Apollo 18 to suck.) After a minor navigational error where we learned that the turn-by-turn software knew my friend’s area better then he did, we made it to the Santee Drive-in about fifteen minutes before show time.
There were plenty of spots to choose from and we ended up pretty much front row center. A quick trip to the restroom and concession stand and we were ready for the show.
I did not expect top flight visual as this was a drive in with a long throw on the projector. There were lines running vertically through the image, almost like a video display had been enlarged. Still I was seeing two feature films, first runs films, for 8$, ($12 after gas) so really there was little to complain about. The sound was transmitted via FM radio and sounded just fine on the car’s stereo.
Contagion was a damn good movie, a very realistic and scientifically accurate portrayal of a sudden and deadly global flu outbreak.
Apollo 18 sucked rocks as I expected and —–spoiler alert —–
—ends badly when the Command Module Pilot apparently forgot how to pilot the command module. Avoid this film, even on video.