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Today's a bit disorienting so far -- first, getting up with only 4 hrs of sleep to see J. off (R., an early riser, drove him to the airport for his 5:50 a.m. flight, thank you!), and then, waking up the second time to the shambles of my "do list," which I've started to pull back into order. Every vacation needs a reorientation day, in my opinion; I'm lucky to get one.
Yesterday we got little accomplished until mid-afternoon, when we played Settlers (I'm 2 for 2!). We wanted to play a third game but never managed to fit it in. After that, we thrilled D. with Scooby Doo 2, which J. and I had both postponed watching until we could see it together. When R. got back from Salem, we ate dinner (turkey-jack-jalapeno sausages on sourdough baguette) and watched an early episode of the X-Men cartoon, which introduced Saber-tooth and background on Magneto and to me seemed a bit plodding compared to later ones; then we watched an episode of Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, from my tape. Or rather, we tried to watch "The Knight," but it was far too graphic for D., so we switched to "The Alchemist." J. watched Charmed while I put D. to bed (they're still messing with Piper and Leo's marriage, so I'm still essentially boycotting it), then we watched two movies. 300 Spartans is a movie from the early 1960s about the Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), which I remember watching on late-night TV while visiting my aunt and uncle in Seattle when I was 10 or 12. The credits listed like four guys for contributions to the story idea but none of them was Herodotus. In an entirely different vein, Legally Blonde was very, very, very funny. Can't wait for R. to see it too. Didn't have time for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, though I did consider fast-forwarding through it so J. could at least see the swordfight with the Kali statue. Something to look forward to next summer.
Yesterday we got little accomplished until mid-afternoon, when we played Settlers (I'm 2 for 2!). We wanted to play a third game but never managed to fit it in. After that, we thrilled D. with Scooby Doo 2, which J. and I had both postponed watching until we could see it together. When R. got back from Salem, we ate dinner (turkey-jack-jalapeno sausages on sourdough baguette) and watched an early episode of the X-Men cartoon, which introduced Saber-tooth and background on Magneto and to me seemed a bit plodding compared to later ones; then we watched an episode of Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, from my tape. Or rather, we tried to watch "The Knight," but it was far too graphic for D., so we switched to "The Alchemist." J. watched Charmed while I put D. to bed (they're still messing with Piper and Leo's marriage, so I'm still essentially boycotting it), then we watched two movies. 300 Spartans is a movie from the early 1960s about the Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.), which I remember watching on late-night TV while visiting my aunt and uncle in Seattle when I was 10 or 12. The credits listed like four guys for contributions to the story idea but none of them was Herodotus. In an entirely different vein, Legally Blonde was very, very, very funny. Can't wait for R. to see it too. Didn't have time for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, though I did consider fast-forwarding through it so J. could at least see the swordfight with the Kali statue. Something to look forward to next summer.