T-16 hours until my first sim. Whee! There are a billion evaluations tomorrow to make things go wrong. Whee! But Jose passed his cert sim today. I’m officially the RPS trainee. Whee!
I have been messing around on Flickr lately. Up to this point I’ve basically used it as a way to get cell phone photos to my blog. But in the past few days, I’ve been surfing and oh boy, am I discovering (as so many others already have) that it is addictive. There are always new photos to see.
On Tuesday night I went to the Astros game with a 4-week-old. Carina never got too fussy, perhaps because she is used to the sounds of the stadium from all the games she attended in the womb. The game was a doozy. The Astros managed to tie it in the bottom of the 9th when Carlos Lee of all people beat out a throw to first. Or, rather, the umpire called him safe. I highly doubt he was actually safe, considering the fact that he runs about as fast as a bulldozer. The game continued for another 4 innings, with Hunter Pence hitting a walk-off homer in the 13th. That made the post-game pre-4th fireworks a happy event, though Carina and family had already left.
My holiday was extremely relaxed. I slept until noon, and woke up to more gray skies and drizzling rain. We went to the movies and saw Transformers at 2:20. The theater was absolutely a madhouse, due to the combination of bad weather + everyone being off work. Transformers was funny and entertaining. Paired with Die Hard 4, which I saw over the weekend, they are the perfect summer movies. Big, loud, shiny, and entertaining without making you think too hard. Over the top.
Jose and I followed the movie with sushi. Japanese food in honor of Independence Day. It was good, and the xin xin roll was awesome. We watched another movie at home. Donnie Darko. It was…interesting. The jury’s still out deciding my opinion on that one. We paused halfway through to watch fireworks from a distance from my balcony. We saw at least 5 or 6 different shows, and heard at least 2 more, enough that I couldn’t even figure out where they were all coming from. Pasadena, La Porte, Baytown, Seabrook, Kemah…?
I’m glad to see you around Flickr. I love your style of photography and I’m glad more people will be exposed to it. Now just join a few more of the Houston groups and you are set.
I avoided Flickr for a long time. But I have met a lot of nice people and seen a lot of great shots. It is a very welcoming community.
You’re just now watching Donnie Darko? Isn’t that movie like 6 years old? 😉 How can you not love a movie with ol’ Jake? Plus you have to admit that was one of Patrick Swayze’s best roles… I loved that movie!
I loved Donnie Darko!