Only 100 Years To Live
By Boomer | October 5, 2008
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Hello, Again, Hello
By Boomer | September 30, 2008
Good morning, y’all. Your regular blogger is off doing school stuff so I thought I’d bring you up to speed on happenings around the house, starting with a weather report. Did you know water falls from the sky? Well, most days during this time of the year, all we see is sun and blue skies, but we saw just enough rain on Monday for it to be an event. Nice!
The Bride and I are deeply into the school thing, and I woke this morning to find her perched over her laptop, looking for email from her professor. Impressive dedication. As for my classes, I’m not enjoying the team environment because some folks don’t carry their load and all of our grades reflect it. The upside, though, is we will all pass the class and when you get your degree after you turn 40, nobody asks you about your grades.
As for my night class, there are too many students and not enough computers to go around, and I was kicked out of the prison early last night due to an incident on the yard. It was either leave or spend the night. Easy choice.
One of our readers is always looking for an exercise report and I’m happy to say that The Bride and I have been dragging ourselves to the gym. Nothing spectacular and we’re trying to build a routine (although that picture above is what I looked like this morning…not. It’s an attention-grabber, folks).
What, you say, no rants? Nah - y’all are good people so get back to life and enjoy the journey. Take care of you.
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Our Regularly Scheduled Host
By Administrator | September 25, 2008
Inspired by the sneaky post Boomer made on this page, I guess the actual owner of this blog should make an appearance, however brief. I’d just like to say that the opinions expressed by my “guest” blogger may not agree with my own and I take no responsibility for anything Boomer may post on this site. Of course, I’d also like to say that Boomer is more than welcome to add his sharp insights and witticisms to my more bland fare at any time. What’s mine is yours…etc.
Honestly, I haven’t been ignoring my blog, but I do have a lot going on in my life right now: work, school, wedding planning, etc. By the time I think about updating I’m ready for bed. I will try to remember to stop by a little more often.
Until next time…
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Shh…
By Boomer | September 24, 2008
OK - I shut down my blog and there is an odd void in my life, then I remembered I can sneak over here and post. The Bride won’t notice.
And the only things I got to say is that I went to the gym tonight (first time in…2008?…nah, can’t be) and that this is hilarious.
Peace Out!!!
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Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
By Administrator | August 31, 2008
This is the middle of a three-day holiday weekend as we head in to the -ber months. School is back in session and fall is only three weeks away. Where has the year gone so far?
I have to say that I really like long weekends and wish a four-day work week would be implemented. For some reason, I’ve never quite been able to get in to the swing of working a full time job even though I’ve been employed consistently for the past four years. Not that I don’t like my current job…I really do enjoy what I do and I finally feel as though I belong in my workplace. The trouble is that I seem to be the type of person who needs more flexibility than sitting at a desk all week allows me.
Time goes very quickly when one is occupied so much of the time. I often find myself wondering just what I have accomplished over the course of a day, a week, or a month (not to mention a year). I do manage to get a lot done at my job, but very little done on the home front. Somehow I’d like to learn to strike a balance between those two parts of my life because I never seem to have the energy for the things I’d like to accomplish outside the workplace.
I’m sure I’m not alone in this.
Anyway…I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and that you manage to fit a little fun time in to your lives. Don’t work too hard!
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In Sickness and In Health
By Administrator | August 26, 2008
Here’s hoping that my poor sick hubby feels better soon. He tends to get awful sinus infections at least a couple times a year, but this has to be one of his worst ones in awhile.
If I weren’t so worried about my better half, everything would be good. My oldest and middle daughters and I took a weekend trip to Las Vegas that was a lot of fun and I’m feeling relaxed and reenergized now that I’ve caught up on my sleep a little. Doing an 850-mile road trip in two days is pretty exhausting, but I’m really glad we went.
My youngest daughter, her fiancee and I met yesterday with the woman minister who will be serving as the officiant for their January wedding. The woman was very nice and my daughter seems pleased with her so I feel good that we have taken care of another detail of the planning process. Even a supposedly “simple” wedding is an awful lot of work.
Yesterday was also the first day of my first semester of college for more than five years. I’m taking a couple online classes through our local university that will take me a little closer to my ever-elusive quest for a Bachelor’s degree. My hope is that I can finally finish within the next few years so I can switch careers; I’d really like to be an elementary school teacher (probably second or third grade) and I think now is a good time to fulfill that long-term wish of mine. I do enjoy my current job quite a bit, but I’ve really wanted to teach school since I was back in the second or third grade and I’m very sorry I let myself get talked out of the idea when I was younger. Of course, I’ll probably be a better teacher now than I would have in those days so I think things worked out for the best.
And now I should stop procrastinating and get back to reading my textbooks. My first assignments are due on Friday and Saturday and I’ve promised myself that I will buckle down and work hard this semester.
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Night and Day
By Administrator | August 3, 2008
Today has been abnormal and off-kilter, but not in a bad way. I woke up at 4:30am to the sound of car doors outside our house as two of our three daughters headed off on a road trip to Las Vegas (along with one fiancee and one friend). Daughter number two remained at home and, since both of us were awake, we spent several hours talking about the various deep subjects that we seem to discuss in the wee hours before the sunrise.
Daughter and I also decided to go out to an early movie. Our choice this time was The Dark Knight - the third time for each of us - and we both enjoyed ourselves just as much as we had at the previous two showings. Many people have written excellent reviews of this newest installment in the Batman franchise so I don’t really feel a need to go into too much detail here. I would like to say that The Dark Knight takes movies, especially the superhero sub-genre, to a whole new level of artistic excellence. From the opening shot of two men in clown masks riding a zip line from a skyscraper window down to a rooftop, we are drawn into a gritty world of fear and depravity; a shadow realm of gray that obscures the identities of everyone so that we are never quite sure who is lurking behind a mask in the darkness. Here there is no good or evil, no right or wrong, only unhappy choices that must be made in order to ensure the safety and security of the masses. Here dwell flawed characters who express the true nature of the human race. This city of Gotham is a place well worth visiting in the safety of a dark theater, but is not a place we’d like to inhabit in our real lives.
Movies can be a good way to examine the thoughts and emotions we don’t always experience throughout the course of our day-to-day lives. Seeing movies with members of my family tends to spark interesting conversations about what we’ve seen that go far beyond the artistic elements involved. We are a group who enjoys discussion and debate on a wide range of topics and I think our movie-going experience is a reflection of that.
I highly recommend The Dark Knight - a movie as different as night and day from its predecessors.
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Monday, Monday
By Administrator | July 28, 2008
After having had a fun weekend of barbecuing and a train ride in Virginia City, work was the last thing I felt like doing this morning…especially since our e-mail server was switched over the weekend. As we suspected, our computer network did some funky things today and I was forced to spend a majority of my time working on an endless copy job for a researcher. Today seemed as though it would never end.
The weekend went much too quickly, of course. We barbecued on Saturday evening as a belated birthday celebration for hubby (kabobs made of chicken, lean turkey sausage, pineapple, and various veggies). The temperature was too high and the sky too smoky for us to eat outside, but that didn’t lessen our enjoyment of the meal and we’re planning to have another barbecue next weekend. Sunday afternoon, middle daughter and I met youngest daughter and her fiancee (and some of his family) in Virginia City so we could take a ride on the V&T Railroad past Gold Hill on the track that will eventually extend down to Carson City - much of the line following the original route used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I highly recommend the ride to anyone who happens to be in this area.
I’ve also wanted to visit Virginia City so that I could do some writing-related research for a paranormal romance manuscript that I’m working on. While the main part of the story is set in the present, some of the background deals with the Virginia City fire of 1875. My hope was to wander around the area where the fire started to see if I could find a location to use as a setting - and I was thrilled to find a place that matched what I had envisioned almost exactly. Now I’m eager to get back to work on the manuscript and think that the story will really start to come together.
Here’s to weekends and writing…two of my favorite things.
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On the Day that You Were Born
By Administrator | July 23, 2008
My darling hubby’s birthday is tomorrow and I’m sending out my best wishes a little early.
Party on!
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The Night is Darkest Before the Dawn
By Administrator | July 20, 2008
Friday morning, I saw the midnight showing of The Dark Knight with two of my daughters and two of their friends. Our local theater gave out free t-shirts with Heath Ledger’s Joker on them so we arrived more than an hour early in order to get one each and spent the remaining time before the movie talking and people-watching. Our theater was completely full and we assume the other two were as well judging by the crowds in the lobby before the showing.
The movie was supposed to start at 11:59pm, but was about ten minutes late and we assume that was due to the men in suits communicating by walkie-talkie (trying to start all three showings at the same time, we think). Shouts and whistles erupted from the audience when the lights finally dimmed for our three trailers: Terminator Salvation, Watchmen, and Tropic Thunder. Then started the main event.
At this point in time, I don’t plan to write a detailed review of the movie, but I will say that it was well done and I don’t regret the loss of sleep caused by my attendance at the midnight showing. Much of the hype leading up to this movie is well-deserved and Heath Ledger’s performance was excellent.
If you haven’t yet seen the movie and are a fan of Batman, superhero flicks, or good movies in general then I do recommend going to this one. You won’t consider your time and money to have been wasted.
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