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Family visit
Jul. 4th, 2023 12:01 amAs you may have heard we've had major air quality issues in Wisconsin lately due to wildfire smoke. I hate it so much! I am trying to remind myself that This Too Shall Pass. I can also count my blessings, but also recognize that it sucks. One way in which is sucks is that food tastes and smells burned. Or rather "burnt," that's more evocative.
I recently spent a little over a week at my parents' place, with extended family. We mostly just hung out, ate food, talked. I got the kids playing Apples to Apples and I played cribbage with my dad and aunt. I sound like such a curmudgeon but I wish the kids would get off their devices and go play outside, ha!!
With my dad I watched some DVDs:
The Italian job, the one from the 2000s. This has a Smurfette sexism problem but is otherwise a fun movie. The heist genre is a good one.
Leatherheads (2008) with George Clooney, Rene Zellweger, John Krasinsky. I had no idea that Clooney directed an old-fashioned screwball comedy!
Clooney plays a guy trying to kick-start professional football in 1925; his team is the Duluth Bulldogs. They hire Krasinsky, a war hero, to be their star and attract fans. Zellweger plays a journalist on a mission to muck rake. The screwball RomCom parts are wonderful. A good time was had watching this film!
I recently spent a little over a week at my parents' place, with extended family. We mostly just hung out, ate food, talked. I got the kids playing Apples to Apples and I played cribbage with my dad and aunt. I sound like such a curmudgeon but I wish the kids would get off their devices and go play outside, ha!!
With my dad I watched some DVDs:
The Italian job, the one from the 2000s. This has a Smurfette sexism problem but is otherwise a fun movie. The heist genre is a good one.
Leatherheads (2008) with George Clooney, Rene Zellweger, John Krasinsky. I had no idea that Clooney directed an old-fashioned screwball comedy!
Clooney plays a guy trying to kick-start professional football in 1925; his team is the Duluth Bulldogs. They hire Krasinsky, a war hero, to be their star and attract fans. Zellweger plays a journalist on a mission to muck rake. The screwball RomCom parts are wonderful. A good time was had watching this film!
