Message 906

Yesterday I finished The Economist. I tried to watch the Raiders, but they were blacked out. I saw on the news that they lost anyway, so it was just as well. In the late afternoon Mimi and I had dinner with Julian and Vanessa and the kids. They had all come back from the mountains late the previous night to avoid the holiday traffic and the new snowstorm. Julian fixed spaghetti for dinner, which is one of my favorites. In the evening PBS was having a fundraiser, so we watched a DVD of the movie Across the Universe. I first saw it in Houston with Liz and Sean. I picked up several new things this time, especially when I watched it again with the writer’s commentary turned on. I did not realize that Bono played the Ken Kesey character, nor did I realize that Joe Cocker sang one of the songs in three different makeups. I give the movie 4.6 stars. I was surprised at how moved I was again.