View From the Bushes

I've got 15 minutes of dead time before my next meeting, so we'll see what we can vomit forth in that time. I introduced one of my brothers-in-law to Magic (the card game, not the rabbit out of the hat) and apparently he's already hooked. He e-mailed me this morning with a bunch of questions and all but admitted that he had been hooked. I've done a lot of, shall we say, less than laudable things in my life, but introducing people to costly, time-consuming gaming addictions is probably what's going to tip the balance and result in my buns being toasted for all of eternity.

Other than that, despite my best efforts (I really try to avoid movies with a tomato rating of less than 20%), we ended up watching The Big Bounce on Saturday at the big male get-together. It was okay, but quite obviously something that should have been left a book; it just didn't translate well. I think part of the problem was there was way too much going on. To cleanse my palate I watched the original Manchurian Candidate last night, which I had never seen and which I quite enjoyed.

In any case that's all the time I have, so until tomorrow.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross