Movie Night

It's been a good day today, and a nice end to the week. The BP people have every second Friday off and although there is not real change to our work schedule, the day is just somehow different and more relaxed. If the traffic isn't too bad I should arrive home in a pretty good mood.

Fiona's mahjongg get-together went well, she even won a game. Casey behaved herself, which is not always the case when large groups of people invade the home. Apparently we now have our pick of dog-sitters. I've got to hand it to her, that dog has charm. She could convert a cat person.

I'm making a stop on the way home, hoping to pick us the necessary ingredients for my mildly famous crab cakes. Combine those with a couple of frosty brews currently chilling in the back garden and my evening is set.

It's setting itself up for a couch and movie night. We have a few things on the DVR, including Doubt. As much as I think Meryl and Phillip Seymour-Hoffman would do a bang up job, it seems a tad depressing for the end of a good day. Maybe we could save that one for a rainy Sunday. Problem is, there is not a lot good out there right now. We could head out and see some of the Oscar contenders - it's been a bad year for us, we've only seen Up and Avatar - or try and wrap our heads around the new Alice in Wonderland 3D extravaganza, but the popcorn is better at home. Why I am I the only one in this country that thinks sweet popcorn at the movies is morally, ethically and fundamentally wrong?

We have been catching up on some good stuff that we missed or passed over. We caught two Josh Brolin movies in one week last month that were both fantastic. One was highly critically acclaimed ("No Country for Old Men"), and you could see why, but I think we both enjoyed "W" more. "the Reader" had us both yelling at the screen and is well worth seeing, in a "Schindler's List" kind of way. "the Spirit" was visually stimulating, but you get the same effect with a better story in "Sin City".

Perhaps the satellites will shine brightly over our house tonight and bless us with a mindless comdey-action-adventure. You can never see Die Hard too many times...