Week in Review

Another quiet week at work, mostly spent immersing myself in an
unfamiliar area of law for a new case. We had an enjoyable visit
with my parents this weekend; among other things, we went to see
Ghosts of the Abyss, a 3-D IMAX movie about an
expedition to the Titanic. I didn't see the movie
Titanic, and have no great emotional connections to
the ship Titanic, but this was quite well-done and
even moving in spots. As a technology, however, 3-D is still not
ready for prime-time: either I didn't notice it, or it was actively
distracting (and in my case, painful. My motion-sick self isn't
doing that again.).

We brought another eight boxes of books down from my parents',
which is the last of the lot. I have many more books than I'd
thought. The hardcover shelves will do for now, once we rescue one
of them from the paperbacks, but even there, we don't have as much
free space as I'd thought we would. I didn't even touch the
paperbacks tonight, too much work.

Finally, a post-script to last weekend's power outage. At 6:45
p.m. Sunday, I pulled into the driveway, picked up the glasses case
that I'd dropped on the ground, saw that the lights still weren't
on, and headed back to the hotel to spend a miserable,
uncomfortable, mostly-sleepless night.

This week, one of our next-door neighbors told us that the power
came back on, not around 7 a.m. Monday as we'd thought, but around
7 p.m. Sunday.

Timing really is everything . . .