Dec 27
Over the course of a couple days, Marcia and I watched “War of the Worlds” starring Tom Cruise. This is the Steven Spielberg production based on H. G. Wells famed book, made even more famous by Orson Welles’ radio broadcast many years ago.
For those of you that are not familiar with the plot of the book, and movie, Earth is invaded by aliens. And quite honestly, in both Hollywood and in print editions, this is just too overdone. Sure, it’s a classic book. But maybe it should have been kept that way. Or the movie kept to the time frame that events in the book happens. After all, we basically had this same thing...
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Dec 27
Had a pretty good Christmas. It was nice staying in one place this year, given that we had Nigel. The only thing missing was lack of sleep. When everyone came over on Sunday, I was snoozing on the chair in front of the TV down in the basement. I came up and almost feel asleep there in front of everyone. This lack of sleep in really making me cranky. I don’t know how Marcia is putting up with it; both her lack of sleep and my crankiness.
Dinner was very good, and the cookies were even better. My Mother-in-law makes some great chocolate chip cookies. Nigel made out quite well with gifts. Got some very nice clothes, and bigger sizes (he is starting to really fill out the 3 month old stuff). He also got so more money to...
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