Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It Again
The kitties just get used to hanging out on two of us most of the day when, suddenly, whammo. The nice one leaves. In her defense, this trip had been planned way back when we looked to have two elderly cats indefinitely.
So now it’s just me and them for a couple weeks and it’s a good thing that we’ve kittenproofed the house.
They have entirely different schedules than the one that I’m used to. I’m used to the elderly cats saying “oh, you’re up? I guess we’re going downstairs” after they watch me get dressed in the morning to give them breakfast. Then they walk down a couple of steps behind me and wander to their places waiting for me to clank the dishes together as I walk them over to the eating corner.
Kittens? They’re going to try to kill me.
First: Get up! Get up! Get up! There is light outside! Get up!
Second: Oh, you’re getting dressed? Well, let’s try to kill you as you’re putting on your pants.
Third: Oh, you’re trying to go down the stairs? That’s a *GREAT* opportunity to try to kill you.
Fourth: Oh, you’re walking around in the kitchen? Plenty of opportunities there!
Fifth: When he’s clanking the dishes and yelling about how it’s chow time, he’s paying the least attention to where he’s stepping!
And the first time I tried to take a basket of dirty clothing downstairs? I knew the second I picked it up that I needed to be TRIPLE careful and I did the “one step at a time” thing but, still, they’re trying to get me to have a gravity incident.
But after breakfast it’s time for the morningtime Survivor Series, followed by naptime until around 1ish where it’s time for the Royal Rumble, then naptime, and then supper. After supper, a post-prandial nap, and then it’s time for Wrestlemania all over the house. It starts on the main floor, wanders to the basement, and then rushes upstairs about 3 minutes after I fall asleep.
I had forgotten.
This weekend is going to be one of light fun and trying to keep the kitties distracted until Saturday, when my nephew is celebrating his 21st birthday. I’ll probably get a nice bottle of wine and give him a glass of it (and encourage everybody else at the table to help make sure that there’s none left for him to have a 2nd glass).
OH! And maybe the Ren Faire on Sunday. Maybe.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Featured image is “Avocado”. Photo taken by Jaybird as evidence of proof that they’re still okay.)
Oh, and I just finished my first batch of 3lbs of Pepper Bacon.
Mmmmmmmmmmm.Report
Someone on the King’s Quest III team must have had a cat.Report
I’m currently singing the entire “Evita” soundtrack to my kitties and I’ve realized that Andrew Lloyd Webber must have had two or three.Report
This is my last weekend of parental leave. My company gives 4 paid weeks, even to the men, which has been awesome and everywhere should do it. I am going to try to take it as easy as possible. Main goals are some time at the pool with my oldest and hopefully a walk on the bike paths with the baby, provided temps won’t melt the stroller (or the child). I’m sure I will also find some time to check in with the O’s who are giving me the best season since I was a kid. Text messages are already starting to circulate about the playoffs, which is insane.Report
Con-grats/dolences. The first month is always the hardest month from the new member of the household perspective. A happy mix of chaos, sleep, and no-sleep. Which is odd, because mostly the baby just sleeps, when you think about it.
I’m not bitter/jealous/old when I say that 20-yrs ago we tried to target a Thursday so we would have a long weekend to transition back home before work started…Report
Technically the leave actually did start on a Thursday! Which I suppose means that the parental leave ended yesterday, but my boss was generous enough not to make me come back on a Friday. It is way better than being on a work call in the delivery room on a Friday then going right back Monday like last time.
We will see how the return goes. With our first I would say the newborn insanity probably peaked at the 6 week mark which has me going back in the thick of it. However work remote has the potential to be a game changer. We will see. Either way it is nice to have a baby around again.Report
Tom Cruise and I are of an age… well, he’d be more of an older brother; but where I grew up, some of my friends’ older brothers were a little like Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
Anyhow… 40 years later, one of us grew up and the other is riding motorcycles over cliffs and parachuting into piles and piles of money that he uses to master the dark arts and grow younger each year.
So, to enable his bad behavior, we’re going to snub the Barbenheimer nonsense and see Mission Impossible: 7(?).
Someday Jonathan Coulton will be proved correct, but not today Jonathan, not today.
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Somehow, I have managed to avoid seeing any of the Mission Impossible movies. Do the early movies hold up, or would I be better off just jumping into the new ones?Report
The first one is pretty good as a time capsule. It’s *NOTHING* like movies 4-whatever. It’s solid. If you watched the old television shows, this one will have your jaw on the floor. If you never saw a single episode? It’s skippable unless you like time capsules.
The second one is agreed by many to be execrable but, if you like John Woo, it’s John Woo as heck. I’d say it’s skippable unless you absolutely *NEED* more John Woo in your life.
The third one is where you could start, if you were inclined to start watching them but have no attachment to either the television show or to John Woo.Report
Contra Jaybird, the first one was so terrible it disabused me of the notion that I’d ever want to see another one. Caveat emptor.Report
Ditto. Insulting to the original series. Also incomprehensible in an unleashed Brian De Palma way.Report
I agree with JB’s synopsis… but I think the primary way to think of it is without any regard to Mission Impossible. It’s purely a Tom Cruise Action/Spy movie that happens to have the words Mission and Impossible attached to it… and not much spying, and when you think about it, usually not a mission in the proper sense of a mission.
A slightly different flavor of Tom Cruise running really fast, leaping an impossible leap, helicopters helicoptering, and riding a Motorcycle in all the ways your mother told you not to.
Could be Knight and Day, Collateral, Oblivion, etc. The ‘plot’ that he’s part of anything other than the Tom Cruise adventure brigade is stitched on with the delicate attention of a ballpark beer vendor.
But yeah, usually pretty harmless and stupidly fun.Report
We went to 7 a week or two ago, and I prepped by watching 1-6 because I either didn’t remember or didn’t watch them.
1-3 are terrible. Just…bad. No, really. 1 was so terrible it had me wondering how any of the other ones got made.
4 is forgettable. Better than 1-3, but still maybe just ok.
5 & 6 are fun action movies, as is 7. There are some cool stunts and some cool gear and Simon Pegg being Simon Pegg.Report
Man, that Coulton guy writes him some good songs, don’t he?Report
Yeah, so many quotable lines. Shop Vac is my sleeper pick.Report
That one is excellent for those of a certain age and set of experiences. It’s what sucked my wife in, so to speak (my gateway drug was Code Monkey).Report
That was my first Coulton experience, but First of May is unsurpassed.Report
I was already familiar with the couplet that inspired that one, so it didn’t have as much of an impact for me — mostly I just wondered whether he had come up with the idea independently or if that was his source (subsequent research showed the latter was correct).Report
Saturday here is graduation for the summer semester, and they pulled a switcheroo on us – now every department must send at least one representative, regardless of whether or not they have graduates. Because I “got paid” (at the adjunct rate, because small class) this summer, I am on deck. (Though my colleague has it worse – he’s having to go and sit with his wife, who is having to have a biopsy today). It’s going to be 105. Fortunately it’s in the basketball arena.
If it weren’t 105 out, I might have considered going after graduation and going antiquing or doing something fun; this has largely been a fun-free summer. But it’s SO hot. I get exhausted running 2 or 3 errands here in town. (Once again wondering if there’s ANY way I could afford a decent place to live about 1000 miles north of here once I retire)
I also got a tetanus booster (I was due, and in a couple weeks I start fieldwork again, and I don’t like to maybe risk tetanus) so I don’t feel GREAT. (Next up is the shingles series but I need to let this shot settle down first)Report
That sucks. We’ve been blessed with days in the low 90s and, still, that’s enough to turn us into puddles.Report
This weekend is the annual baseball trip with my son. We started when he was 11 and now he’s been buying the beers for more than a few years. I look forward to it every year. Next time we do it in Wisconsin, however, I gotta remember to avoid the EAA fly-in. Hotel rates are a little nuts.Report
I see the Cubs are away this weekend.
Does that make you Sox guys?Report
Shhh… it’s embarrassing for him to have to admit publicly.Report
The less said the better.Report
Tubing the river is my agenda. A slow, sunny day floating down a cool wet river sharing beers and stories with friends, and a Hawaiian food feast at the end.Report
That sounds fun… haven’t been tubing on a river in ages. Can you tube to a winery?Report
LOL sadly no. Wine is for sundays.Report
This is one of those songs that will only make sense to the folks who are in the parts of the Venn Diagram that include the “ASTROLOGY” circle.
Saturn, according to astrological theory, has to do with, deep breath:
By contrast, Moon is associated with (deep breath): a person’s intuition, emotional make-up, unconscious habits, rhythms, memories, moods, femininity and their ability to react and adapt to those around them.
Anyway. I discovered Francis Dunnery in the 90’s while driving around with Maribou. I have since purchased all of his albums. If you have no idea what “Too Much Saturn” might mean, I can’t say that I recommend listening to him.
But if you grok what the whole “astrology” thing is going for?
Seriously. He’s one of the people that I wish I had more of.
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He’s also got a lovely song called “Whoever Brought Me Here” opens with this positively luminous verse:
Who brought me here to this world so long ago?
Who shaped my young face and welded my bones?
Who watered my hair and twisted my nose?
I need a light to see where I’m going
So whoever brought me here will have to take me home
This is one of those songs that I can only recommend half of. It starts off wonderfully then turns to crap and then finishes off wonderfully again.
I see what he was going for, though.
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