Friday, November 25, 2011

Friday's Dispatch













  • Zac and I started watching the series The Adventures of The Swiss Family Robinson on HULU last night in bed. I remember when it first came out in '98, but never saw it. I zonked out after about 30 minutes or a little more. I awoke three hours later- well into the fourth episode. Zac, are you awake? I whispered. Yes, I'm watching this show...

  • We took big brother to catch his ride to Tarleton so his pre Army training group could do some halftime show and meet an area soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan. Knowing the guy was wounded in the right hand by an AK round he said,"I guess in the Army you can't shake hands with your left?" Knowing the opposite was true, we looked him up. He was also wounded in the left hand by shrapnel.

  • That must have been one bad day in Wardak Province. Hey, there's the title to his story: A Bad Day In Wardak.

  • The other day I took a cup of solid ice out of the freezer that hours before I'd intended to allow to chill there for 10 or 15 minutes then drink. I let it melt a little, then poured water in the cup to have ice water. It may have been my imagination, but it tasted salty- I wonder if salt precipitates out of ice, but we never notice since the volume of water is normally larger in a glass of ice water with the normal amount of ice in cubed form?

  • Zac brought a Bible to me last night and asked me to read it to him.

  • The word on the street has it Zombieland is going to become a television series. I'm predicting terrible.

  • Men In Black

4 comments:

aroundthecorner said...

Revealing the word of God to him at that age is a good thing.
God bless our wounded soldiers, may peace and pain free lives be in their future.

RPM said...

Oh God, please don't let them make Zombieland a TV series. I could possibly see a sequel if they used the original cast, but there's not enough zombie humor for a series.

Opus #6 said...

Real Bible stories are educational. Noah's Ark is OK for kids.

el chupacabra said...

ATC- Thanks. I hope I can give him that ONE thing to hold on to...

R- I know. If you think about it it was set up from the start to be a series- 'Zombie kill of the week'. It leaves a bad taste to even think about though.
It is destined for failure- I hope I'm wrong, we can't have too many good zombie shows/movies, but I'm predicting badness.

Lady O- We read for a while that night, but oddly I can't remember the story. We've talked about Noah and Moses.