Lovely day.

We had a really nice day today. I spent a lot of it up at Bard, playing with Andrew, the little boy across the street from Bob and Katherine’s house. It was so beautiful outside. Vince and Andrew make a nice pair, Vince ran up to him and gave him a hug and then they held hands all the way to the sandbox. Graduation is on Saturday at Bard and the campus is just freshly painted and groomed waiting for the parents to come and celebrate with the new graduates. Ruby was so excited to see us, she’s been in the house by herself for days now. Bob just got back from Budapest.

Campus

It’s a bit strange to be on campus now. Everyone is sporting an iPod or jabbering away on their cell phones. It’s a different atmosphere.

I have to say that the one thing that truly makes me cringe is watching all the bicyclists flying by. It really really hurts me when I see people riding bikes that are like 3 times to large for them or hearing everyone’s drivetrain squeak and groan or looking at folks who have the seat down and their knees never go straighter than 110 degrees. oh well.

Revenge of the Sith

Last night, I went to see Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith the AMC Mercado (the highest grossing AMC in the country).

They actually cancelled all the showings after 8ish, and were letting people into the theaters around 9. The showings started at 12:01am.

Of course, we got there at like 9:30 and had to wait 3 hours before our start time at 12:30. Personally, I think I’m too old to do this anymore, but whatever, a lot of people were watching it so what the hey. we ended up play hearts, spades, and some poker with chips on the floor even!

Here’s my review of the movie… I’m going to give out some spoilers here, but I figure I’m safe since I don’t think anyone’s going to watch it.

It was better than the first 2 for sure. More action and a lot of limbs getting lightsabered off. The dialog sucked of course. For me there was almost very little interesting about the plot. I’m not sure you learned anything more about the past that you wouldn’t have thought about already….

anakin kills a bunch of jedis, palpatine becomes the emperor. Obi-wan and anakin duke it out. It seemed just like, lucas came out and said, well, this and this and this have to happen in order for anakin to become darth vader. And then he just mechanically set out to hit those points.

so yeah, it was okay…

July 4th!

Family reunion is going to happen at Sheets Farm Road over July 4th weekend! Our plan is to drive down to DC in our two cars and Ruby and fly out of DC to LA… Hang in LA for a day and then LA to Singapore… Hope you all can make it. We’ll do a BBQ!

Made it home.

So I survived a plane ride with my two kids by myself! With a layover in Raleigh-Durham no less. It was much, much better than I anticipated. The toughest part was getting out at JFK (staircase deplane-ing and then the elevator was broken to get to baggage claim. But a few people came by and helped us out and Ben helped me get the luggage and the car seats out to long term parking. I didn’t get lost on the way home either. Woo hoo.

Ben Wen invited me to his wedding. It’s right near us, in Catskills, NY. I’m really bummed I can’t go, we’ll be going to another wedding on the other side of the ocean.