Message 396

Yesterday afternoon I read more of the CIA history and watched The News Hour on PBS. What is happening in Iran is very interesting. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie The Departed. It had an amazing cast, about three times the number of major stars that you usually see in a movie. It was a reasonably well done crime thriller too, so I give it four stars.

Message 395

I just got back from Heidi's Pies. Because Beech is out of school now, our Thursday schedule has changed. Beech and I and Sam, who is the 18-year old son of a friend of Maureen's who arrived at SFO last night from England, went to Heidi's Pies while Vanessa and Annie went to Annie's playgroup.

Last night I watched a DVD of the movie Out of Sight. It has a great cast and is based on an Elmore Leonard book. Like all Elmore Leonard stories, people's behavior is borderline strange, almost bizarre sometimes. There is a lot of violence in the movie, but it is basically

Message 394

Yesterday was a nice day but I stayed in my condo all day reading the CIA history and watching The News Hour etc. on PBS. It is very interesting to see what is happening in Iran. Maybe it is time for a change there too.

Last night Joshua brought in pizza for our dinner. He, like Julian has been working long hours on a big project that is nearing its end. He is not yet working weekends though. He stayed and watched Frontline with me to follow the story of Bank of America and its merger with Merrill Lynch. He went back to his lab afterwards to finish another screening.

Message 393

Yesterday I had another quiet day in the condo reading the CIA history. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie True Romance. It was a thriller comedy with a lot of violence, but mostly only bad people get killed and it has a happy ending, so I give it four stars. It has a terrific cast, and was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.

Vanessa called this morning and said she and the kids have been up at Blue Lake for the past few days. Everybody is having a great time. Julian has been working seven days a week writing a proposal for the Federal Reserve of New York, so he will need a vacation by the time we go to Sandbridge.

Message 392

Yesterday I had a quiet day. I did not leave my condo all day. I got a lot more of the CIA history read. I am more than half way through it now. In the evening I watched an old DVD movie from my collection. I had seen it before, but I had forgotten most of it. It is the Rob Reiner movie called the sure thing with John Cusack when he was seventeen years old. It is a light hearted comedy and fun to watch. I give it three stars.

Message 391

Today is my Boniva day, so I am in the process of waiting an hour before I eat or drink anything. Yesterday I finished reading The Economist, in addition to reading more of my CIA history book. Last night I watched a DVD of the movie High Plains Drifter. I had seen it before, but I had forgotten almost all of it except that it was worth watching. I have been watching a lot of Clint Eastwood lately, so I thought it worth visiting another his earlier movies. I give it three stars.

Message 390

This morning I went to Starbucks and did my Safeway shopping as usual on Saturday. Yesterday I went to dinner and a movie with the Morrills and the Ariagnos. We saw The Taking of Pelham 123. It was fast paced and was fun to watch. I give it three stars. I actually road the subway to Pelham once when Sarah Jane lived there.