Spiderman!

I almost got into work early this morning. 9:00. I was trying to make up for work that I was going to miss in the afternoon. I'm so close on having the support web site ready. But then my computer crashed and wouldn't recognize the system hard drive for a few minutes and I got sidetracked for a few hours making sure the hard drive wasn't corrupt and backing up the data in case it was (I put it in CVS. But if the hard drive hadn't come back up, I would have lost several weeks of work). For lunch I tried Carl's Jr.'s low-carb six dollar burger. I had a coupon. It's just kind of weird not to have the bun. And messy. I did like having a lot of lettuce though. Way too much mayonnaise. I've got to start asking them to hold the mayo. Then I went to the 3:10 showing of Spiderman II in American Fork with the company (it was our semi-annual "training film"—the company pays for everyone to go). I brought Angela with me, and she had to go in at 7 this morning to get the afternoon off. I don't say this very often about summer action flicks, but it was really good. I only saw Spiderman a few months ago and up until that time, I had been very skeptical of the whole comic-book movie enterprise, but they did a great job both in the first one and in this one of exploring society's need for heroes. And also of exploring the self-sacrifice necessary to be one. Reminded me a little of Unbreakable in that regard. Beyond that, character development is about as good as movies get, with Peter, MJ, and Harry. The tension between Peter and Harry is great, and I can't wait to see the third one. Oh, and complex bad guys. I liked this one even better than the least one—especially the opportunity to redeem oneself at the end, as opposed to what could have been a very tedious and prolonged fight scene. Yeah, there were parts where I almost lost my suspension of disbelief, but the plot kept me suspending it long enough to ignore those parts. Anyway, cool movie.

Meanwhile, Frisbee was fun tonight. The quality wasn't the best (though I was on top of my game, even though I was barefoot because I forgot my orthotics—yes, that's part of what caused me to need orthotics in the first place). Very few of the really good regulars were there, but we've got a lot of newcomers, so that's good (there was an older guy named Jon there from Southern Utah—he's a biologist down there for the summer, and had heard about our games. Apparently there's not anything down there). We played until almost 9:00, the latest so far this season. I was afraid I'd gotten there too late because of more traffic (Center street was closed for the parade rehearsal). I didn't start until 6:30, but of course they started at 5:00. After that, I came home and lifted weights. I was still pretty sore from Monday, but I think I'm right back where I left off at as far as weights go. So that's good. Aerobically, though, I think I need some more training. Theo and I watched Newsradio as I did that. And then I burned my finger from steam from my soup when I went to uncover it after cooking it in the microwave. That kind of hurts. And wow, this is a long entry. Hopefully that means July will be a good month for journal writing. Good night.

Posted July 01, 2004 (11:16 PM) | Comments (1)