turkey day

hanging in niceville. yesterday was momentous, as dr. wintermute gave her parents' garage its first cleaning in 28 years. no exaggeration. we found library books from the early 1840s and newspapers from lincoln's inauguration. i kept waiting to uncover a 'dewey defeats truman' newspaper. in all seriousness, we did find a ceramic doll from germany (where dr. w's mom lived for awhile as a child) that is apparently worth several thousands of dollars. dr. w cleaned for twelve hours yesterdasy; i pitched in for a few hours at the end. the result: 15 bags of trash.

today we went to buy bins to organize what is left.

j-town and the cheese arrive tonight. i'm hankering for some frosty beverages, as dr. w's family's house is a tee-totaling one. ok, really, i'm ready to get plastered. not sure where we will find a willing bar. things here close at 9 pm (not kidding--we actually called around to a couple of places). there are one or two dives that stay open later; we'll see if the kids are ready to rock. the cheese's parents were supposed to join us, but alas, they've caught a bug. their visit was actually a major motivator to clean the garage (among other house cleaning). more importantly, i was looking forward to meeting the cheese's fam.

the upside is that i can continue growing my beard.

saw beowulf in 3D this week. anjalina jolie naked looked good, but overall, the rotoscoping effect (where they animate live actors) still has some distance to go. also, why does beowulf insist on fighting completely naked? i don't remember that part from the book. the movie goes through several convoluted austin powers-esque camera tricks to hide beowulf's dong (e.g., one of his soldiers holds up a sword as beowulf turns around). i don't think it was meant to funny, but i almost laughed out loud.

happy turkey day.