Caution: Singularity Ahead [DEFUNCT]

As seen on TV: Mola Ram: I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that crazy archaeologist and his stupid dog! (No, that isn't a slight at either of Indy's companions on this adventure.)  

Speed Racer Saw it in IMAX. Harmless family fantasy fare. We went in expecting an eye-candy homage to the cartoon and weren't disappointed. I can't imagine ever watching it again, but it entertained us. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian My bar: "Was it good enough that they'll make Voyage of the Dawn Treader ?" Apparently, yes - $96M so far. Yay. The actual plot of the book itself is rather short, and unlike LWW or VDT focuses on atmosphere, character development, and parable. (In the lovely form of "If your friends didn't have the faith to jump off a bridge, why should that stop you?") It can be summed up as "the Pevensies appear in Narnia, note that it has aged a thousand years, meet a dwarf who provides details in flashback, and trump across the world being teased by Aslan. The boys arrive in time to rescue Caspian from some nasties in a cave, then defeat his uncle in single combat, while Aslan and the girls wake up the pagan...

Nothing big to report, but for posterity I should probably say something... At the end of January, my grandmother (June Fahey) passed away. I'd expected this for a long time... and basically dreaded phone calls from my parents for several years, anticipating the news. On February 8th we flew to Disneyland for the weekend, courtesy of a co-worker who has a small plane. Lovely flight down and back. Caspian enjoyed the Indiana Jones ride (finally tall enough!) but freaked out a bit in line the second time when the spiked roof started to descend. Ah well - we made it through. Will post pictures at some point. Caspian is taking ice skating lessons on Saturday afternoon, and having a great time. He's quite enthusiastic about it. Occasionally, he even listens to his instructor. He's still taking ballet on Mondays, but his yoga mat and clothes got left on a cable car, so Su took him to the dance store... and they came home with tap shoes. He's very excited about them. We...

When moving last year we relegated a lot of our stuff to some storage containers at a local facility. We recently put together a list of some things we wanted out of storage and several additional boxes to put into storage, so we made a trip to "visit" our boxes. The trip was successful, and Caspian is now stoked with several additional Star Wars toys, and an old Macintosh SE in his work area that's entirely his. After we finished, I was putting away a cart and realized I was in a scene from Indiana Jones. Thanks to a poor quality camera phone, I get to keep the memory... in a blurry and poorly lit sort-of way.