A Guy, a Computer, and Entirely Too Much Caffeine

          Wednesday, 17 July   •   Feast Day of St. Hyacinth; Birthday of P.D.Q. Bach, a.k.a. Peter Schickele
 

Wow -- I actually got totally caught up at the office this morning. Surprising thing is, it took neither the smoke and mirrors of files mysteriously re-routed at the last minute, nor flights of Arthur Anderson-type accounting fancy in tallying my workload. Yes, it may have helped that work has suddenly slowed somewhat again, but I prefer to think that it's due more to my being a proofreading dynamo. Some guys excel at pumping iron. Myself, I do a pretty mean job of pumping paper -- and with only minimal use of steroids.

Here's something that may not qualify as breaking news, what with a fast-approaching freshness date, but it still seems worth passing along. When Judy was visiting last weekend, we managed to make it over to K.U. for Michael Feldman's live radio road show, Whad'Ya Know? Cool program, for those of you who haven't caught it on one of the many NPR stations that air it. It features interesting guests, good music, and wall-to-wall offbeat humor...and this last show found the host in top form. Not everybody's cup of tea, perhaps, but definitely right up Yours Truly's alley. We also took in the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival's production of "The Taming of the Shrew." Loaded up on Shakespeare, soda and hot dogs, and so enjoyed a remarkably bug-free evening of theater in Southmoreland Park.

On Sunday we flipped a mental coin and saw "Road to Perdition" at Shawnee's newest ultra-mega-multi-plex, the unsightly Westglen Dickinson. (I'll save my gratuitous architectural rant for another day.) "Road" isn't the movie to see when you're fishing for something light, but if you have a taste for intelligent movies in general, and don't have a problem with the occasional grim tale and stark violence, you may find it well worth $7.50 and two hours of your time. Both of us certainly did, at any rate. As with most movies, there are things I could enjoy quibbling over (I'd have been more daring in casting, for instance), but I definitely look forward to giving it an encore screening when it hits Blockbuster. (The movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins, if you're tempted to check out the book first.)

And with that, Dear Reader, it's time to start winding down and nuke some tea before calling it a day (nothing like a little pre-bed caffeine), and before plopping down in front of a rerun of "Buffy" -- or maybe "The West Wing."  Anyway, night, now...and I'll catch up with you again later. 

 

Thought for the Day: "The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up."  -- Anon.

 

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