Friday, July 04, 2003

I’ve been lazing at home today. I have no plans to go out for fireworks (crowds, heat). I’ll watch them on TV in the comfort of my nicely air conditioned apartment.

I was online for a while early this morning. You may have noticed the tweak of the background. I updated my reading and listening lists. And I tried to figure out why my text boxes aren’t working still. That is a mystery, because I haven’t changed anything that should affect them.

I watched Spartacus and Spider-Man on DVD. I had never seen Spartacus before and borrowed it from my mom. I liked it but thought it was a little too long, I did doze off a couple of times, and it was very dated. No doubt it’s a classic story and I’m sure it was excellent in 1960, but it was hard to watch at times because of little things like the cheesy woods/forest set that was used three times for three completely different (unrelated) scenes. I know I’m speaking heresy to classic movie buffs. Remember, I said the story was good, ‘kay?

So now I’m online again while trying to decide between pasta and eggs for dinner (I need to go to the grocery store) and if I can handle another movie before flipping between the various channels that will have festivities coverage. Sounds sad, huh?

Actually, my parents are on their way home from a vacation at Niagra Falls - we plan to celebrate the 4th tomorrow with the requisite b-b-q (I think). And our church postponed the usual July 4th picnic to next weekend to make it a “Welcome to Your New Church Home” picnic for our new pastor, who just moved up this week.