Just regular folks.

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…

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!

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.

Vince and Edda on our flight to Austin.

The family at Town Lake trail. Vince doesn’t quite get the idea of the timer on the camera.

VInce and Josh at Josh’s last soccer game of the season.

Soccer mom Sheila with Edda.

Vince at the BookPeople storytime. This does not even begin to show you how many people packed this place.

Vince enjoying his first airplane trip without a car seat. And he sits by himself on a small regional flight.

I’m just twiddling my thumbs today at work.

Rachel, my boss, is out sick today. Jonathan, my teammate is out for the rest of the week on vacation. Ellen, my teammate, left today to go to Italy for 6 weeks.

I don’t have any access to sign up for benefits and such either, and someone seems to be taking their sweet time with it. Otherwise, I had a good lunch at the Thai Cafe. Spicy chicken. Yum….

Back to twiddling….