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My evening last night was filled mostly with my going to see the Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts, which played at 4:45 at the Uptown Theater and were thus an easy walk from work; busing home from there; then writing my overall-solid-B
review. Getting the review done took a lot longer than desired, because my computer was moving at a truly glacial pace as I was trying to find the images from each of the five shorts and get them saved to my hard drive for use in this review. It was a huge pain in the ass, and should not have happened given that I shut down my computer before leaving for work every morning, and I had only just restarted it. What the fuck is this?
Anyway. That bullshit must have taken a good half or so of the total time it took me before I actually had the review finished. Which I rushed through writing so for all I know it's riddled with typos. I don't really know.
Anyway, as usual, some of them were better than others. I look forward to seeing the animated shorts tonight, especially since the overall run time will be a bit shorter—no doubt with a few "honorable mentions" as usual just to pad out that running time. I hope to get the images saved early to save me some time once I get home this time.
Shobhit got home from work while I was still working on saving the images, and he made an easy but tasty dinner, a couple of Indian meal packets with frozen naans baked in the oven. I combined mine with the very last of the rice made a few days ago. Which was honestly a bit hard and stale by this point, but, oh well.
Once I finished writing, even though I wouldn't normally start an episode of TV as late as 9:30, I went out to the living room so Shobhit and I could watch this week's episode of
The Gilded Age on HBO Max. The episode was okay.
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I have the aforementioned Animated Shorts to watch tonight, but tomorrow has both tomorrow and the next evening off. I hope to remember to stop by the box office at the Paramount Theater on my way home from work tomorrow, to pick up the tickets to Fortune Feimster on Friday night which I will be seeing with Jennifer and her boyfriend Matthew, up from Shelton. In other words, I have a busy weekend coming up—starting with Shobhit, Tracy and I all going to see the first showing of
The Batman after work on Thursday, which I am more excited to see than I've been to see any other movie in years.
I've reserved the rentable "guest suite" at The Braeburn Condos for Jennifer and Matthew on Friday night, the first time I've had guests come stay there since Dad and Sherri came up to ring in the new year in 2017. Then as now, it was largely to make things more comfortable for everyone, as Ivan is living in the guest room which is thus not available to guests. I do have a hide-a-bed I can pull out in the living room, but that's a lot less comfortable than the bed in the building's "guest suite," which also has its own bathroom and shower. I need to remember to get photos of the space this time; I can't believe I didn't take any when Dad and Sherri stayed there.
I also prefer this since Matthew has refused to get vaccinated. I'm a little more comfortable with his visit since he's getting a PCR test done the previous day, as that is currently required for nonvaccinated people to get in for events at The Paramount Theater. Shobhit tried to tell me not long ago that I was being contradictory by allowing this because I have been strict about not letting unvaccinated people in, but there are two key differences here: first, none of the other unvaccinated people wanting to visit (such as, say, Sachin's girlfriend before she finally got vaccinated) were coming having just been tested; and second, I also always made it clear that my boundaries regarding this would shift with the daily case rate numbers, which are steadily dropping right now. A bunch of local policies are actually being loosened this month, and it's possible The Paramount won't even be requiring proof of vaccination by Friday; I don't even know. The state and county requirement is lifted
as of today, in fact, but allowing businesses still to impose them if they wish. Seattle Theater Group has yet to update their COVID information page, so based on that, they will still require it. And I already told Jennifer I will feel personally a lot better if he comes having just been tested anyway.
Anyway! I hope to go see the Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts, a rather long total program, on Saturday. Then Karen and I are going to see
Cyrano on Sunday. So, between Thursday and Sunday: three movies and one live show.
Shobhit leaves for India Tuesday the following week.
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I just walked with Tracy, at her request, up to the little café/restaurant just a couple blocks north of the office called
Gourmondo. It's on the north side of a large public space with tables that is where we all go to congregate during fire drills. Anyway she asked if I wanted to walk with her and I said yes; I decided I wanted to try one of their "gourmet" Ding Dongs, which I've seen her eat many times and thought looked good. I don't know if I ever will again. I haven't eaten it yet but with tax it came to $4.35. Tracy said it's "life changing" but we'll see! Honestly at that price it better be.
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