Saturday, July 26, 2008

Yep it's been a while. Sorry just got tied up with the reunion and then have been tired/busy ever since. Workouts similarly lapsed, although I did make it 3.5 miles on Monday 7/21 and 3 miles today, so 6.5 miles for July, 185.5 for 2008. No idea if I'll make 200 miles by the end of the month, but I hope so.

I've been enjoying No Common Power, but definitely needed something to break it up - I'm still only two-thirds of the way through it. In between I've read Dragons of the Highlord Skies (new Weis/Hickman Dragonlance book - fairly good), The Giver (young adult book that Wife liked when she was in school - good idea but obviously had no idea where to take the story), and am on the third book of the original Deryni trilogy, which is actually better than I remembered.

Moviewise, I've been even more prolific: Wall-E - great animation, enjoyable, but not my favorite animated movie by a long shot; Get Smart - fun, better than I expected; Hancock - excellent story, unimpressive ending, I think a sequel would be better; Dark Knight - truly excellent all around even being so long; The Jacket - surprisingly really good; The 13th Warrior - pretty good once I could tell the Vikings apart; The Kingdom - better than expected; Stealth - surprisingly decent, much better story than expected; Michael Clayton - underwhelming, good performances but very eh ending. Main moral: make sure you see Dark Knight without any young kids.

Will try to post again before too long.
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