Over the weekend I also resolved to get up at 8 AM all week, which I did on Monday morning after going to bed about 4 AM and then rolling around in the heat, unable to sleep. I hit the snooze button a few times and ended up getting out of bed before 9 AM. By 10 AM I was ready to leave the house and ride the bus downtown to deposit some checks, but Pat called minutes before I was to leave. He invited me to see the new Harry Potter movie with him, and that turned into a full day away. By the time I got home again, I was so tired that I hit the bed almost immediately.
Today I did not get up at 8 AM, as I was so tired from the day before and had a second fitful night's sleep. (The first half of the night was marred by frequent waking to a series of Lost-inspired dreams, where I was in competition to control an island. The competition was more like a game, however.) I had intended to attend the retiree's lunch which I mentioned a few days ago, but that didn't happen. The morning was too rough for coherent sleep, and I didn't fully awaken until the lunch had already started. That only left a hoped for trip to Starbucks to enjoy something iced, and I did finally accomplish that in the evening.
I packed my notebook for the trip to Starbucks, intending to work on the horror story that I falsely started last week, but I didn't end up working on that. My laptop needed a bit of updating so I had it out the whole time, and I instead worked on some programming exercises from a C# book I'm studying. I also downed a venti iced mocha and two venti iced teas... ensuring that I won't be going to bed any time soon or sleeping well for the first few hours after going to bed. *sigh* This is how the sleeping-in cycle gets perpetuated.
I've been making some progress on the website I am building for my brother's company. It was decided that the existing header logo should not be used so I put something else together, and I was very happy with the way the new header worked out. I think it pulls the site together nicely. I am, however, convinced that I am the only one who thinks so since I asked my brother and my cousin, Ernie, to give me their thoughts on the change, and neither one of them has said anything for two full days now. It is the artist's lot to be under appreciated in his time. :-P
I rather enjoy web programming more than I remembered so I may try to find more jobs of this nature.
As for the new Harry Potter movie, I quite enjoyed it. I have enjoyed all the HP movies so far, to greater or lesser degrees. That is, I give a thumbs-up to each and every one of them, but I am more enthusiastic about a few of them. This one— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince— is good, but it is not one of the best in the series. I wearied of some of the teenager pre-sexual shenanigans in the movie, and the movie suffers from a few slow spots. In addition, the subtitle of the book is almost completely ignored until the very end of the movie when a character announces himself to be the half-blood prince. In the book there was some attention given to figuring out who this mysterious person might be, but this was all cut out for the movie. The young characters wonder briefly who the half-blood prince might be early on, and then that plot is completely forgotten until, as I said, it is resolved at the end of the movie in a spoken sentence. On the other hand, this movie features an extended performance from the Dumbledore character, and it is wonderful to see him finally get a meaty chunk of the movie. Even better, the new character, Professor Slughorn, is delightfully portrayed by Jim Broadbent, and he steals every scene he is in. I consider his performance to be supporting-actor Oscar-worthy.
Well, that'll do me for tonight. Back soon!
"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter."— J. K. Rowling
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