Today was truly excellent.
The morning began with an 8 AM rise and a run/jog/walk around Arthur's Seat, the first in several months. Heck, it's cold out there.
After that, I bought the Daily Telegraph, which is running a Jane Austen special this week: just bring the coupon to a Costa coffee shop every day to claim a free book. Fair enough, but I spent three hours tracking down a Costa that would accept the coupon. In any case, the afternoon was mostly lovely, nearly 50 degrees and partly sunny, and I enjoyed the walk. I also did the Telegraph's giant five-grid Sudoku, which was a fine diversion.
Tonight was great fun: dinner and a movie. If you liked Shaun of the Dead or anything Will Ferrell has ever been in, find a cinema that's showing Hot Fuzz and see it already. It's hilarious. The script was quite obviously written by a couple of thirty-something British men who have seen far too many bad American cop movies and feel Britain would be much better off if everyone in the countryside had assault rifles. And a sea mine. And probably a few handguns, for good measure. The movie is over the top and the (theatrical) violence is gratuitous, but it's a great laugh.
To top it all off, we saw a lunar eclipse while walking home, and Cali reminded me of a particularly fun childhood pastime: pouring half a cup or so of sugar into a bowl of Rice Krispies, eating what little cereal there was, then scraping the milky sugar off the bottom of the bowl. Man, those were good times. No one tell my dentist, eh?
The morning began with an 8 AM rise and a run/jog/walk around Arthur's Seat, the first in several months. Heck, it's cold out there.
After that, I bought the Daily Telegraph, which is running a Jane Austen special this week: just bring the coupon to a Costa coffee shop every day to claim a free book. Fair enough, but I spent three hours tracking down a Costa that would accept the coupon. In any case, the afternoon was mostly lovely, nearly 50 degrees and partly sunny, and I enjoyed the walk. I also did the Telegraph's giant five-grid Sudoku, which was a fine diversion.
Tonight was great fun: dinner and a movie. If you liked Shaun of the Dead or anything Will Ferrell has ever been in, find a cinema that's showing Hot Fuzz and see it already. It's hilarious. The script was quite obviously written by a couple of thirty-something British men who have seen far too many bad American cop movies and feel Britain would be much better off if everyone in the countryside had assault rifles. And a sea mine. And probably a few handguns, for good measure. The movie is over the top and the (theatrical) violence is gratuitous, but it's a great laugh.
To top it all off, we saw a lunar eclipse while walking home, and Cali reminded me of a particularly fun childhood pastime: pouring half a cup or so of sugar into a bowl of Rice Krispies, eating what little cereal there was, then scraping the milky sugar off the bottom of the bowl. Man, those were good times. No one tell my dentist, eh?
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