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Brief update today, because I already told you all about the Styger Family Dairy farm visit in Chehalis
when I posted about it last night.
I will just add this, though: I managed an unusual thing and have actually added captions to
all the photos in
the full photo album (36 shots) on Flickr. I did this mostly because of the people I intend to share that with who would not likely be reading this blog. As such, most of the text from last night's post was broken up and added as captions on most of the photos. What few photos in the album were then left without captions, I just added captions to those as well.
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I guess I could mention that, after Shobhit got back from a meeting last night and I barely finished up with my blog post, I was up a bit later than usual as we watched the final three episodes of
Palm Royale on Apple TV+. I enjoyed that show, even though I am somewhat ambivalent about how much weirder it gets as it goes along.
Oh! And just
before his meeting, I actually walked downtown with him. I had no other agenda other than just walking with him, as was his intent, as it thus gives him a point on the next Social Review—at present, he and Laney are neck and neck, both with 9 points. Unfortunately for him, Laney's going to gain another three points over the next week while he's out of town, so we'll have to take several more walks to get him ahead of her again, probably.
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I'll be seeing little of Shobhit for the next week or so. This weekend he's participating in a "48-hour Film Festival." Apparently he has a conference call to attend tonight, but his services as an actor won't be needed just yet. Writers will go back to do their writing after that meeting is over, and then Shobhit will be needed probably early in the morning, wherever the shooting will wind up taking place. Production then ends early evening, I believe, on Sunday.
In the meantime, I'm going to a movie with Laney this evening; meeting up with Tracy at Tacoma Pride tomorrow afternoon (turns out I can't catch a ride with her after all and I'll be busing down there and back just as I did last year, which is fine); and then a picnic Happy Hour with Laney on Sunday afternoon.
From Monday through Friday next week, though, Shobhit will actually be out of town. As a local SAG-AFTRA board member, he'll be going to Yakima to attend a labor conference. I will, of course, just go to another couple of movies during that time, but have nothing notable planned otherwise. The Saturday after he gets back, though, Alexia is coming into town from her new place in Issaquah to join me for an architecture tour before finally getting back to our Harrison Ford-athon directly after.
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One last thing! I sort of stole some extra minutes at the end of my lunch break today, because I was too close to fully finishing
Dune, and I finally finished it! I got through the Appendixes, and then the Afterword in this 2005 edition written by Frank Herbert's author son, Brian. Even though the narrative of the novel ends on page 617, by the final page of the Afterword, the page count is 687. I could probably count on one hand how many novels I have read that were this long. (Granted, three of these would be Harry Potter books, with a fourth that comes rather close. The only other novel I can think of that I've read and was certainly longer was the unabridged version of Stephen King's
The Stand. Even Kim Stanley Robinson's
The Ministry for the Future, which I read in late 2022, was "only" 576 pages.)
I started this book on May 12, the day I checked it out of the library. Thus it took me a solid two months to finish it. I never had any problem with this, though, as I loved just existing in its universe. I shall miss not being able to pick the book up and re-enter it again, at least for the time being anyway.
I will be writing my book review for the annual Book Log shortly. But, I can tell you this much:
Dune is easily one of the greatest, most spectacular novels I have ever read—and I say this even with the caveat of its subtly homophobic depiction of the Baron Harkonnen—and I can easily imagine a time I will read it again. Over time, probably sooner than later, I will also read at least the next two novels in the series, especially knowing that Denis Villeneuve will also be adapting the second one,
Dune Messiah.
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