Jeff very kindly gave me a lift to the airport so I am now at the gate and waiting to board, which will be in an hour. In a couple of minutes I’ll get up and go grab something to eat and drink. I ordered a bit of food for the outbound flight as it’s cheaper than ordering on the plane. In Ottawa I’ll grab a booked car and then drive to Sandra’s place. If everything goes according to plan then I’ll go to Toronto and possibly London.
If that doesn’t happen I’ll go to London in October – Phyllis will be 90 and I’d like to participate in her birthday festivities if she and family consider it appropriate. I’ll give her a call when I get to Red Deer Cabins. Hey, book a vacation there, you won’t regret it… it’s like a little piece of Canadiana from the 40’s.
There was a lot of hate for the movie Transcendence when it came out and I don’t get it; I watched it and quite enjoyed it, although I think Johnny Depp was miscast (not that he cares, he’s never watched a single one of his movies which is wise.. and he’s reputed to have gotten a heck of a payday also wise now that he’s paying alimony). Everybody else was good to very good. It just wasn’t a big box office movie and the special effects come late and weird in the movie unlike Noah where the SFX were front loaded. I quite liked the Pfister version of Grey Goo.
45 minutes before we load. Wow, I didn’t know that it’s airport fashion to walk around with your flipping travel pillow around your neck (bleugh) or that you can get Spidermanâ„¢ themed travel pillows, although technically I guess you can get Spidermanâ„¢ themed anything. I got a reasonable night’s sleep, which is good, because I have a hell of a day in front of me and 3.5 hours stooging about at YOW and getting the car and driving to Sandra’s into the sunset (yes I brought my hat and sunglasses) which will be tiring in and of itself. And somewhere in there I need to stop for beer and cilantro, a bizarre but brief shopping list which I imagine I should be able to do on my way out of town. I’ll wrap it up now I guess.
Tomorrow Paul and Keith and Jeff are going to get together and watch The Internet’s Own Boy, which I am hoping to watch at some point, and I can’t think of a nicer way for them to have a late celebration of Keith’s b-day – they are apparently planning on participating in ritualized cooking of fowl over flames.