{"id":10619,"date":"2013-07-07T21:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10619"},"modified":"2013-07-07T21:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T01:18:51","slug":"sunday-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10619","title":{"rendered":"Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My lovely four-day vacation, during which I didn’t even once glance at my work e-mail, is pretty much at an end. I don’t return to the office until Tuesday, but the work e-mail will have to be re-opened again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It was a pretty uneventful long weekend, the 4th of July holiday (and the fireworks that have commenced that and every evening since) notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

I watched a couple of movies, Death Race<\/a>, which surprised me by being dumb but entertaining, and also Dredd<\/a>, which was pretty much just dumb. It shows a few glimmers of being something other than a dark and generic sludge, mostly near the end, but it continues a long tradition of Karl Urban making no real impression on me. (Seriously, the only thing I’ve ever really liked him in are the Star Trek<\/i> movies, where he’s basically just doing a very passable DeForest Kelley impression. Here, you never even see the top of his face.) I also re-watched Rushmore<\/i> this morning while I did the Sunday crossword. I’d forgotten how good that movie is.<\/p>\n

And that’s pretty much it. No writing group this week, although I chipped away a little at a short story, not making much progress, but needing to get back into it all the same. (I’m thinking I may start doing “morning pages” again tomorrow.) And I spent a good chunk of the long weekend listening to the audiobook of Stephen King’s The Drawing of the Three<\/i>. I’d read it a few years ago — read the first four Dark Tower<\/i> books, in fact — but I’ve wanted to get back into the series, and I’ve really been enjoying listening to it.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I gave the dog a quick bath this afternoon.<\/p>\n

A quiet (aside from the fireworks) set of days, pleasant (aside from the heat and humidity) but now, alas, at an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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