Scrubbed again

Due to thunderstorms, NASA scrubbed the shuttle launch again today - until Tuesday.

Elizabeth and her grandparents were bummed. They had just arrived at the launch area when NASA announced the delay.
Rubi's parents are going to stay in Florida long enough to catch the shuttle launch Tuesday and then come home.

Note to Mother Nature: Cooperate with NASAs weather planning so they don't delay the launch again!

Scrubbed again

Shuttle launch scrubbed for today.

Phooey. Elizabeth is down there with her grandparents (Hi mom and dad!) to watch. She's bummed that it's not happening today, but excited that they'll try again tomorrow. So everyone cross your fingers, and think "liftoff!" tomorrow.

Shuttle launch scrubbed for today.

So very loud.

I just got home from teaching at Arts Smarts camp. A summer arts camp at our church for kids, there are 644 enrolled. Of course, I'm only teaching one class, not all 644 kids. But it's very, very loud. So I'm anxious to get home for some peace and quiet. The new CD we purchased at camp today is blaring, Kev and Elizabeth are having a running, screaming, and banging rubber band fight, and the little kids are howling with laughter at them.

Ow. But in a fun way.

So very loud.

Kind of a movie review of The Lakehouse

Rubi and I went to see "The Lakehouse" last weekend.

Good movie for a chick-flick (gotta love Sandra Bullock), but the ending made my brain hurt.

It's basically about these two people living two years apart but still writing love notes to each other - one in 2006 and one in 2004. The letters magically appear in the same mailbox, sometimes while they wait.

That's kinda cool.

But then Sandra Bullock goes messing with the timestream and tries to change the past/future/present (??) with one of those notes.

Then the paradox kicks in. Or at least it did for the scifi geek that I am. That's why my brain hurt. By changing her past, and his future, wouldn't she have changed her own present and none of the movie would have happened? Or did she create an alternate timeline, therein leaving her out of the nice outcome anyway?

But! The movie isn't really clear on when she changed the timeline! It seems like she changes it before the event happens in her time, but that doesn't really make sense. Is it late winter/early spring at the end of the movie or is it autumn?

Rubi did an internet search looking for an explanation of the timeline. What she found basically said "don't try to understand it, just enjoy it". The movie was based on a book - I wonder if the book explains it better.

Yes, I'm writing this review almost a week later, and I still can't change the past.

Kind of a movie review of The Lakehouse

oh yes

Spiderman 3

 

That so rocks.

 

 

oh yes

Thac0

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

I can handle "plain, predictable, and trustworthy".

And yes: my life is better for having taken this quiz and posted the results online. (Mostly because I haven't updated in a week, and this at least puts something new here.) Now if someone would just design a quiz to see what kind of fast food leftovers found on the floor of a car I'd be, my life would be almost complete.

Thac0

Book Review: Dark Fathom

Christian Fiction novel Dark Fathom by Tom Morrisey is the 2nd in the "Beck Easton" series. I haven't read the first (Deep Blue). But that's okay. This one stands on its own.

 

It's a pretty good book. I find it interesting that the main character is not a Christian. In fact, he's basically a secret assassin for the US Government.

 

This book has action, intrigue, a love story, and Biblical elements to keep the Christians in the story faithful to their Christianity.

 

The book has several endings, each one to wrap up plot threads. The terrorist incident thread gets wrapped up in an interesting way, quite exciting for a secret agent story. The love-interest story actually gets at least a couple of endings. First it's over, then wait! There's more story! Then, another ending for the love-interest story that is oh so very predictable. But the predictabile ending was executed in a way that made it interesting - kind of "I knew that was going to happen - but I didn't know it would happen that way!"

 

The terrorist incident plot takes place in the couple of years preceding the events of 9/11/2001. And the story ties into that event as well.

 

 

 

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