July 29, 2015

Once again I forgot to mention something. My dreams of maybe buying a new pair of shoes kind of went out the window yesterday when I spent nearly $400 on textbooks for the Fall semester. The only thing worse than spending that much money on textbooks is the fact that over the next several months I will be reading five textbooks from front to back.

Today was a day off. I spent a lot of time thinking about my budget assignment, which is good because it requires a lot of thinking, but I didn't actually put down any additions to it. I figured taking a step back was a good thing. I'll hit it hard tomorrow and see how far I can get. I've got over a week to finish it but I wouldn't mind getting it over with sooner. This weekend is a little too ambitious but we'll see what happens.

I didn't really do much with my day other than watching videos and reading things. I'm okay that. Tonight was Chipotle night. There was pretty much only one person working the line because the second guy was moving in slow motion. The girl with him was probably doing 80% of the work, and she handled it pretty well.

After dinner I showed videos and my sister also showed a couple with the lead singer and one of the other members of Shinedown. They apparently put out a couple CDs of covers and I am now intrigued. Shinedown was one of my favorite bands and the songs my sister played reminded me why. After the videos, I moved a dresser into the basement for my mom. It went a lot better than I thought it would. Not that I thought it would go badly, but I was expecting more of a struggle.

Tonight I watched things. I started with The Cobbler. It starred Adam Sandler and had Dustin Hoffman and Steve Buscemi. It came out last year and I had never heard of it. I guess only Sandler's comedies get a marketing budget. In the movie Sandler plays a cobbler who discovers a magic sole stitcher passed down through his family and when it is used on a shoe, there wearing takes on the appearance of the shoe's owner. It was an interesting movie.

Following that I watched The Expendables 3 because I have wanted to see that since it came out but never got around to it. It was pretty freaking great. Just what you want from a 90s action movie and what you expect from a movie in this franchise. I can appreciate the addition of the young blood but I couldn't have cared less about them. None of them really had the charisma to make you care. The best character by far was played by Antonio Banderas. He nailed it.

I ended he night with the first episode of Arrow. I have only ever heard good things about it but never got around to it. I get the hype now. At least based on the first episode, it is good. They did a good job with the action and the story has me intrigued. I'll have to keep watching it and see if it manages to hold my attention.

Now I'm going to go to bed because it is late and I have to get up early because the plumber is coming to fix the mistake that was made during the building of the house that has lead to the washer sucking water out of my toilet and replacing it with bubbles. I will be babysitting dogs. And maybe working on my budget assignment. Or responding to the critiques of the group website.