Saturday, January 24, 2009

Message 250

I am writing this while I wait for the call from Helen and Jim to join them at Starbucks. Yesterday Julian took the day off work and borrowed my van to take Beech's school on a field trip. Julian drove my van and Vanessa drove their van, so only one other parent had to drive. Afterward I went to Jeffrey's (where Ken's Pancake House used to be) for burgers and milk shakes.

Last night after Washington Week on PBS, I watched a DVD of the movie Conan the Barbarian. I had never seen it and was curious about how Arnold got his start in the big time. I give it three stars. It was a great visual spectacle, and was a good rendering of a comic book to the screen, but of course everything else was pretty simplistic, except the fighting was well staged.