Message 720

Yesterday I stayed home all day and worked on my memoirs. In the evening I watched three documentaries about warfare on PBS. Before Charlie Rose I read some more of Sleeping Where I Fall. I am half way through it now.

Message 719

Yesterday I picked Beech up at school and took him to McDonalds for lunch. Afterward we worked on his homework for a while and played some Wii games. We also talked about The Karate Kid which I gave him on Sunday. I gave him the three-DVD set because he is spending so much time and effort on his Kung Fu classes. In the evening Joshua came over and watched the Sharks game with me. They lost 2-4. If they do not start getting some breaks, or if Chicago does not stop playing over their heads, we may not make it to the Stanley Cup finals. I am heartened though by the fact that Philadelphia trailed Boston 0-3 games and were behind by three goals in the fourth game before they came back and won the series. Friday afternoon's game will be in Chicago, so it will not be long before we see how it is going to go from here.

Message 718

I went to PAMF in the morning yesterday to have blood drawn for an annual PSA test and to refill my prescription for my antibiotic for injecting. During the day I read the new Science, and in the evening Joshua came over to watch 24 with me. Next Monday will be the two-hour series finale. After Joshua left I read some more of Sleeping Where I Fall, and then watched Charlie Rose.

Message 717

Yesterday in the early afternoon I watched the Sharks lose 1-2 to Chicago in the first game of the Western Conference championship series. It was a very fast and rough game, and it could have gone either way, but Chicago came out on top. Joshua and Jason were at the game, and I am sure they were as disappointed as I was. The next game is Tuesday night. In the late afternoon Julian brought my Sienna back after Vanessa's trip to the mountains, and took me with him and the kids to Una Mas for dinner. In the evening I watched the last episode of Foyle's war on PBS. I also finished reading The Economist.

Message 716

Yesterday morning Julian came down and traded cars with me so Vanessa could drive the Sienna to the mountains with a bunch of her friends from the mothers group. One of the members has to move with her family to Texas because her husband was transferred to Dallas. After that I met Helen and Jim and Joan at Starbucks. Dave is still too sick to get out of bed, but Joan says he is somewhat better now that he is on a new medication. During the day I read some of The Economist and in the evening I watched a DVD called Alone in the Wilderness. It is a documentary about a guy who builds a cabin by a lake in Alaska and filmed himself doing the work with a camera on a tripod. He lived there by himself for thirty years until he was eighty years old and moved back to the lower forty-eight. This documentary was recommended by Joshua's friend Jim at Genencor when he heard I had built my house in Alaska. My house was much bigger than the one in the documentary, but I had a lot of help and used more store-bought materials. If it was a movie I would give it three stars.

Message 715

Yesterday I went to dinner and a movie with the Morrills and the Ariagnos. The movie was titled (in English translation) The Secret in Their Eyes. It is the first movie I ever saw that was made in Argentina. It is a complex film with a lot of flashbacks and alternative versions of the same scenes. It is a thriller, comedy, love story, political allegory, and psychological mish-mash that deals with fantasy and reality and the line between them. It is a worthy try, but for me it was more trouble than it was worth to try to read the subtitles and follow the story at the same time. It is well made and the actors were good although completely unknown to me. I am surprised that it won this the Academy Award this year as the best foreign film. I would give it three stars.

Message 714

Yesterday I had breakfast at Heidi's Pies with Vanessa and Reggie. For the rest of the day, in addition to watching news I watched Disk 2 of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I also read more of Sleeping Where I Fall and watched Charlie Rose.