Memorial Day Weekend
May. 27th, 2008 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grindmonkehBooks read thus far this year...
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
Transitions I: The Orc King - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
Books of Blood - by Clive Barker
Duma Key - by Stephen King
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men - by Cormac McCarthy
Roomanitarian - Henry Rollins
I spent three and half hours putting together our trampoline and enclosure Wednesday after work. The boys have been bouncing their happy-asses off at every opportunity since then so thankfully I don't have to throttle them for being ingrates.
I took them to see the latest greatest Indiana Jones flick on Saturday. I really liked it overall. It was hoaky, far-fetched, and fun...just like the first three. I've heard and read criticisms about it, and simply put... (ala Star Wars) comparing it to three of the greatest films ever made is a no-win situation. My only complaints...bullwhip? what bullwhip? And the scene capped by the refrigerator escape. That trumped the inflatable-raft parachute. Still...a hoot.
Chewie figured out how to climb the stairs leading to the second story of our house, and he spent the entire weekend running up and down the stairs for fun, trying to make nice with the cats without getting hissed or swatted at. We have a rescue-kitty that the boys found wandering around in our backyard. It is missing its rear left foot, so we've tentatively titled it Stumpy. I'm uncertain of its fate at this point, but I'm afraid it wouldd only be roughed up by the cats and dogs we already have if we kept it...either unintentionally by the dogs or intentionally by one of the (jealous) cats. We really don't need another animal anyhow, but it's hard not to become attached. It's a bit heartbreaking watching it hobble around.
Stumpy
After a partial bath.
Up and Down. Up and Down.
The Star Wars Vault: Thirty Years of Treasures... - Stephen Sansweet
Transitions I: The Orc King - R.A. Salvatore
Lord of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - by Michael Moynihan, Didrik Soderlind
Books of Blood - by Clive Barker
Duma Key - by Stephen King
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men - by Cormac McCarthy
Roomanitarian - Henry Rollins
I spent three and half hours putting together our trampoline and enclosure Wednesday after work. The boys have been bouncing their happy-asses off at every opportunity since then so thankfully I don't have to throttle them for being ingrates.
I took them to see the latest greatest Indiana Jones flick on Saturday. I really liked it overall. It was hoaky, far-fetched, and fun...just like the first three. I've heard and read criticisms about it, and simply put... (ala Star Wars) comparing it to three of the greatest films ever made is a no-win situation. My only complaints...bullwhip? what bullwhip? And the scene capped by the refrigerator escape. That trumped the inflatable-raft parachute. Still...a hoot.
Chewie figured out how to climb the stairs leading to the second story of our house, and he spent the entire weekend running up and down the stairs for fun, trying to make nice with the cats without getting hissed or swatted at. We have a rescue-kitty that the boys found wandering around in our backyard. It is missing its rear left foot, so we've tentatively titled it Stumpy. I'm uncertain of its fate at this point, but I'm afraid it wouldd only be roughed up by the cats and dogs we already have if we kept it...either unintentionally by the dogs or intentionally by one of the (jealous) cats. We really don't need another animal anyhow, but it's hard not to become attached. It's a bit heartbreaking watching it hobble around.
Stumpy
After a partial bath.
Up and Down. Up and Down.
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Date: 2008-05-27 11:20 pm (UTC)It's cute.
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Date: 2008-05-28 01:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-28 01:46 pm (UTC)PS: When dogs first learn how to navigate stairs, it's hysterical. Winnister would run up and then be afraid to come down, so she would stand at the top and bark.
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Date: 2008-05-28 01:57 pm (UTC)There was quite a bit of hoaky going on...the setting...the neighbor...the dialogue with the neighbor...
The whole horse-jockey thing? Um...yeah.
Also...the paintings with the shells that my imagination would conjure were just awful. But the people in the book seemed to like them a lot.
Definitely some creepy bits...with the dead things lurking. But his villains (the frog thing?) really just kind of lose me sometimes. He writes the characters so well and other imaginative things not so well where his recent stories seem to be very spotty.
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Date: 2008-05-29 05:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-29 09:26 pm (UTC)I thought people would want to know, they're apparently going to name the guy (or girl) Trinity. On account of the three legs, of course. They're taking the guy to the vet today, so I'll know more later :)