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My evening last night was taken up pretty much entirely by taking myself to see the movie
Crimes of the Future, which I didn't really like that much—C+. I came home afterword and wrote
the review, which was a bit shorter than average but I was unusually satisfied with; I always like it when I can get the review shorter but still feel like I said everything I wanted to say about it, and no part of the review feels like filler or rambling.
It still took me a while to get finished, though, in part because my fucking computer is so slow, and constantly freezes the Chrome browser with the "rainbow wheel." I tested the internet speed and it was "very fast," a message came up that I should be able to run multiple things on the network with no problem. It's clearly not the internet connection, but the computer itself. I refuse to believe it's just the many browser tabs I always have open—Shobhit is always convinced that is the issue, except I can have no browser open at all and it still takes several minutes just to get a single app open, like Music or Excel. It's fucking crazy making, and none of the "tricks" I find online are ever helpful. One of these days I need to get back on a chat with an Apple Care person and see what they can tell me. The trick there is to have the extra time needed for an inevitably long chat (and sometimes phone) session, which can be hard to come by with my schedule. That's very self-imposed, I have to admit.
In any case, I was so satisfied with my review that it almost made it worth sitting through the movie itself. It gave me something to go out and do last night, in any case.
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The movie was at 5:45, and I left home to go back downtown at about 5:25. This gave me about twenty minutes after riding my bike home from work, to feed Alexia's cat Cassie next door, feed Shanti and Guru, and make myself a sandwich to go, which I ate also with a contraband Zevia soda after arriving at the movie.
I was one of only two people in the movie theater screening room, by the way. I always wear a mask when inside and not eating, but I totally spaced after I had my sandwich and did not even think about the mask again until the movie was about two thirds of the way through. Realizing it probably made no difference at that point, I still put it back on. The lady in the front section wasn't wearing hers through the movie either, although I saw her putting it back on during the credits, for her walk back through the common areas of AMC Theaters and Pacific Place. I guess if nothing else, my risk was still low by two major factors: a) I recently recovered from a covid infection; and b) my exposure during that 70 minutes or so was just to that one person. I have those things to hold onto, at least.
I also
finally finished my library book, reading it while walking both there and back and then finishing it in the kitchen right after walking back into the condo. It took me 38 days to read. I dropped it off at the Capitol Hill branch library on my bike on the way to work this morning, which means my account is no longer suspended, woohoo! Unfortunately it also means I no longer have my next book to read already ready and waiting. I may just have to bring one or two magazines along for the trip to Victoria, which might work better under those circumstances anyway. I'm always bringing a book on trips thinking I'll have lots of time to get pages read and then never picking it up very often. Magazines are easier to read in those sorts of fits and starts.
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[posted 12:24 pm]
