‘Lost City’, ‘Akira’, ‘Metropolis‘ (posted from home)
(this post covers 29 October to 1 November)
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Wednesday, 1 November-
Today was supposed to be threatening rain but was warm and a sunny 70 degrees. Labashi has a large mailing going out for one of her volunteer projects so we took care of hauling boxes of books to the post office and shipping them off. I then decided to check a couple of gun shops I found in the yellow pages for the holster I’ve been looking for. I could call, I suppose, but then I’d not get to look around the shops. I took the Miata today and went searching, but I had no luck at all. Two of the three shops in the Yellow Pages are now closed and the other didn’t have what I wanted.
After striking out there, I drove to Rocky Ridge park and thought I’d try the end-to-end jog I had been doing in the heat of summer. I’ve not been doing nearly enough jogging to expect much so I was surprised when I realized I was going to make it the whole way. Time today was 94 minutes even.
This evening we started the anime film ‘Metropolis’ but abandoned after only about 15 minutes. Looks like we’re not going to become anime fans.
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Tuesday, 31 October-
Today was a spectacular day, weather-wise. Labashi’s daffodil bulbs arrived yesterday and she’s heavily into that. She will be planting her 500 bulbs for days to come but still says she doesn’t want me to help—in fact she chased me away. But she did have an appointment in Hershey to pick up some heavy packages so I volunteered to take care of that. In the meantime I had another appointment to check on progress of my dental implant so I took care of that, then spent an hour or so browsing around at Bass Pro’s gun shop before going to the appointment. Back home I decided it was just too nice a day to stay inside so I went for a five-mile walk along the creek near our home. I saw a pretty sight along the way. A small ridge parallels the road but sits about 150 yards across the field on part of my walk. A car passed me and stopped, I thought to look across the field at something on the hill or back in the field. And sure enough on the top of the ridge and in silhouette against the setting sun-lit clouds were three deer making their way across the ridge. When I turned back, I saw the guy get out of his car and approach a sign along the road—he had just stopped to read the no-hunting sign. But what great timing for me. Those deer were like ghosts; too far for any sound to reach me but bounding easily along, backlit by the red clouds of sunset. It was fully dark by the time I reached home and there was Labashi just putting away her gardening tools. She had just finished the first ‘drift’ of daffodils under our paw-paw trees and had a big smile.
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Monday, 30 October-
This morning I added a dot of white paint for an undercoat then a bright-orange color dot of paint on top of it on the front sight of the pistol. I’ll give that a try before possibly adding some color to the back sight. Opinions on whether the back sight needs the paint are mixed on the owner’s group. I then took the Miata to the shooting range on Route 74, about a 20-minute drive for me. This time I was working on adjusting stance and establishing a better trigger-pull. I only shot 35 rounds and decided that was enough until I have a chance to do some more reading. I then drove over to nearby Pinchot park and jogged for 45 minutes from the east parking lot to the campground and back. Along the way I heard what sounded like a low-flying plane. That turned out to be an airboat. I’d think that engine would be exceeding the horsepower-limit for the lake but maybe they’ve increased the limit. My jog was a bit of a struggle; I just couldn’t seem to get into it today.
That evening we watched an anime feature. I had asked the local video store guys to recommend a beginner’s anime and they recommended ‘Akira’ and ‘Metropolis’. We watched most of Akira but lost interest about two-thirds of the way through. Labashi went on to bed to read and I finished off the movie but wasn’t into it. The movie had too much gratuitous violence and the director was particularly fond of streaming a lot of very-bright-red blood over everything—much like a video game. I did enjoy some of the graphics, particularly those depicting futuristic motorcycles and helicopters.
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Sunday, 29 October-
This morning I updated my blog and did my email and normal web work, including some reading on the owner’s group web site for my new pistol. I also spent some time reading my Traveler’s Guide to Gun Laws, particularly with regard to laws about transporting it through states where my permit will not be honored and into Canada. In the afternoon I rode the Concours down to the Gander Mountain store in York, looking for a holster and a lock-box for the pistol. I bought a reasonably-small lock-box but the holster brand I’m looking for is tougher to find than I had imagined. I stopped by the Wal-mart and picked up two bottles of fluorescent-color model paint so I can brighten up the teeny-tiny little sights on the pistol. At the gun show I had seen some special (and expensive) paint for this purpose which is supposed to glow in the dark but that’s only true if the paint has been exposed to light for some period of time; it wouldn’t work for a pistol that’s holstered almost all of the time.
That evening we watched ‘Lost City’, an Andy Garcia film about the fall of the Baptista government and Havanna in the late Fifties. It’s obviously a labor-of-love for Andy but we found it a little uneven. Watching the extras helped us understand just how much this 16-year project meant to Andy and that made it a worthy rental for us. Fans of Cuban music might appreciate it for the extensive use of music.
(this post covers 29 October to 1 November)
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Wednesday, 1 November-
Today was supposed to be threatening rain but was warm and a sunny 70 degrees. Labashi has a large mailing going out for one of her volunteer projects so we took care of hauling boxes of books to the post office and shipping them off. I then decided to check a couple of gun shops I found in the yellow pages for the holster I’ve been looking for. I could call, I suppose, but then I’d not get to look around the shops. I took the Miata today and went searching, but I had no luck at all. Two of the three shops in the Yellow Pages are now closed and the other didn’t have what I wanted.
After striking out there, I drove to Rocky Ridge park and thought I’d try the end-to-end jog I had been doing in the heat of summer. I’ve not been doing nearly enough jogging to expect much so I was surprised when I realized I was going to make it the whole way. Time today was 94 minutes even.
This evening we started the anime film ‘Metropolis’ but abandoned after only about 15 minutes. Looks like we’re not going to become anime fans.
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Tuesday, 31 October-
Today was a spectacular day, weather-wise. Labashi’s daffodil bulbs arrived yesterday and she’s heavily into that. She will be planting her 500 bulbs for days to come but still says she doesn’t want me to help—in fact she chased me away. But she did have an appointment in Hershey to pick up some heavy packages so I volunteered to take care of that. In the meantime I had another appointment to check on progress of my dental implant so I took care of that, then spent an hour or so browsing around at Bass Pro’s gun shop before going to the appointment. Back home I decided it was just too nice a day to stay inside so I went for a five-mile walk along the creek near our home. I saw a pretty sight along the way. A small ridge parallels the road but sits about 150 yards across the field on part of my walk. A car passed me and stopped, I thought to look across the field at something on the hill or back in the field. And sure enough on the top of the ridge and in silhouette against the setting sun-lit clouds were three deer making their way across the ridge. When I turned back, I saw the guy get out of his car and approach a sign along the road—he had just stopped to read the no-hunting sign. But what great timing for me. Those deer were like ghosts; too far for any sound to reach me but bounding easily along, backlit by the red clouds of sunset. It was fully dark by the time I reached home and there was Labashi just putting away her gardening tools. She had just finished the first ‘drift’ of daffodils under our paw-paw trees and had a big smile.
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Monday, 30 October-
This morning I added a dot of white paint for an undercoat then a bright-orange color dot of paint on top of it on the front sight of the pistol. I’ll give that a try before possibly adding some color to the back sight. Opinions on whether the back sight needs the paint are mixed on the owner’s group. I then took the Miata to the shooting range on Route 74, about a 20-minute drive for me. This time I was working on adjusting stance and establishing a better trigger-pull. I only shot 35 rounds and decided that was enough until I have a chance to do some more reading. I then drove over to nearby Pinchot park and jogged for 45 minutes from the east parking lot to the campground and back. Along the way I heard what sounded like a low-flying plane. That turned out to be an airboat. I’d think that engine would be exceeding the horsepower-limit for the lake but maybe they’ve increased the limit. My jog was a bit of a struggle; I just couldn’t seem to get into it today.
That evening we watched an anime feature. I had asked the local video store guys to recommend a beginner’s anime and they recommended ‘Akira’ and ‘Metropolis’. We watched most of Akira but lost interest about two-thirds of the way through. Labashi went on to bed to read and I finished off the movie but wasn’t into it. The movie had too much gratuitous violence and the director was particularly fond of streaming a lot of very-bright-red blood over everything—much like a video game. I did enjoy some of the graphics, particularly those depicting futuristic motorcycles and helicopters.
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Sunday, 29 October-
This morning I updated my blog and did my email and normal web work, including some reading on the owner’s group web site for my new pistol. I also spent some time reading my Traveler’s Guide to Gun Laws, particularly with regard to laws about transporting it through states where my permit will not be honored and into Canada. In the afternoon I rode the Concours down to the Gander Mountain store in York, looking for a holster and a lock-box for the pistol. I bought a reasonably-small lock-box but the holster brand I’m looking for is tougher to find than I had imagined. I stopped by the Wal-mart and picked up two bottles of fluorescent-color model paint so I can brighten up the teeny-tiny little sights on the pistol. At the gun show I had seen some special (and expensive) paint for this purpose which is supposed to glow in the dark but that’s only true if the paint has been exposed to light for some period of time; it wouldn’t work for a pistol that’s holstered almost all of the time.
That evening we watched ‘Lost City’, an Andy Garcia film about the fall of the Baptista government and Havanna in the late Fifties. It’s obviously a labor-of-love for Andy but we found it a little uneven. Watching the extras helped us understand just how much this 16-year project meant to Andy and that made it a worthy rental for us. Fans of Cuban music might appreciate it for the extensive use of music.
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