Claire and I are back from a good Step & abs class. I took her out for a smoothie afterwards. Now I'm going to be VPN'd into the office for a few hours.
Took a break from work to take the twins to Confession again. Tomorrow they make their 1st Holy Communion.
Learned today (9 months late) that Netflix now does Saturday DVD processing. Awesome! In our case they received a VeggieTales DVD today and are shipping us another season 2 "Chuck" DVD. I guess this started last summer but I missed the announcement.
Used a pair of gift cards and took the family for dinner at the Nashua AppleBee's.
Bookmarks I made today:
Masterpiece Theatre: Anna Karenina
Comment: I had a bit of trouble sleeping early this morning so I watched two episodes of this to see how closely it followed the Tolstoy novel I'm working through. It did a good job but it is funny to watch BBC Brits grow scruffy beards and try to be 19th century Russians.
Excerpt: A very married Anna Karenina begins an affair with a soldier but, separated from her son and without the support of her upper-class peers, her infidelity comes at a cost that might be too high for anyone to endure. Making its original appearance in the U.S. on PBS, this adaptation of Tolstoy's renow...
Funny Airplane jokes
Comment: Thanks Rob. I needed the laugh. It was, like all good humor, grounded in truth.
Excerpt: lol a friend sent this to me
Accents - AVIS Commercial
Comment: As a transplant from the midwest, I loved this. For my first year in NH I was smiling inside whenever I heard this type of talk. [Thanks Lynne!]
Excerpt: Accents shows a New England native's first day on the job in an Avis office of New York Yankees fans
One More Production - "Pixels"
Comment: As someone who spends his days worrying about pixels (well, texels actually) I loved this tribute to old school gaming.
Excerpt: New York Gets Destroyed, 8-bit Style
Amazon.com: Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Comment: Using Amazon's Video on Demand to rent Sherlock Holmes for tomorrow. Downloading it to the 1st floor TiVo.
Excerpt: Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.