Rare southern NM snow.

Took the girls for a walk to my mom's house.

Gandalf

Put on the extended Fellowship of the Rings today, and while I was moving around doing laundry and stuff during a lot of it I made sure to stop and watch the "what to do with the time that is given to us" Gandalf speech. Love it.

Eye-roll

Me: You think there's a dungeon back here?
Paige: Whatever, dad.

Happy Pre-Xmans Eve!

Happy Pre-Xmans Eve!

Vacation 😌

Van-aerobics

Carrie asked Paige to help her carry in the groceries, came back to find this. She also spends most of her time while watching tv doing similar feats and frankly it's starting to make me feel bad about my lack of physical activity.

Ready Player...sigh

Last night I watched the end of Ready Player One. I'd put in two sessions of about an hour apiece already so I figured I might as well finish it. It was super uninspiring and trite with a bunch of nerd pop culture pasted all over everything. I enjoyed the book for the latter, but it had some of the former in it too so the movie result is maybe not too surprising. Spotting the bits of nerdery in the background was more enjoyable than watching the action, for sure.

After it was done I fired up No Country for Old Men because I wanted to watch something good and I hadn't seen it since it was in the theaters over 10 years ago. The nihilistic elements make me squirm more these days but the movie is still fantastic. Also, drinking Coors Banquet in chub bottles while I watched it felt like some kind of synergy was going on.