Month: November 2011

End of the long weekend

A quiet Sunday here at the old homestead, with my sister and brother-in-law heading back home and me mostly just working on the Sunday crossword and getting caught up on The Walking Dead. Doing some reading this evening, then calling it a night. It’s back to work for me in the morning.

Movie day

This afternoon, shortly before we got the wifi in the house running again, I finished watching Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time on my iPad. I wish I could say, after three days of watching the movie, that it was worth it. The acting’s not too bad, despite some scenery chewing by Ben Kingsley and Jake Gyllenhaal’s questionable accent, but the the story — and the script — are a little too dumb. A couple of the stunts have genuine humor and intelligence behind them, but not so much the rest of the movie.

This evening, I watched The Lincoln Lawyer, which wasn’t perfect, was a little predictable, and at times strained credulity. But it was pretty good nonetheless, an intricate and intelligent legal mystery and a good lead performance by Matthew McConaughey.

In between those, I most puttered around the house, did a little cleaning, watched a little TV, failed to get the wifi working again all by myself. (My father and brother-in-law did pretty much the same thing I’d done, power-cycled the modem and router, but for them it worked.) Tomorrow’s the last of my four-day weekend, and I think by then I’ll be rested enough to go back to the office.