Busy, busy, busy! I’m not normally like this, I swear. But I didn’t like it when I wasn’t busy, so having a lot of stuff to do is a good thing, a happy thing. It’s what I’ve been working towards for a while now.
Last night I met my youngest nephew after work (me) and school (him) and had dinner – pizza, naturally – and saw a movie that his parents have no interest in seeing, “Resident Evil: Extinction”. Seeing the movie with a teenager helps me see how silly and light these movies are. Yes, I just called a movie about a bio-engineered super weapon in the form of Milla Jovovich kicking zombie ass “silly and light”. Zombie dogs are nothin’. This time around there are zombie crows. OK, so the movie steals from a wide variety of sources, like Hitchcock’s “The Birds”, or the Mad Max movies, or even other zombie movies. Having someone with the same sense of humor to lean over and whisper “they should have shot that zombie in the head!” (they really should know better) and getting an enthusiastic response back makes the whole evening so much more entertaining.
This evening I’m going to my second-oldest nephew’s wedding reception. The actual wedding was a month or more ago, in Lake Tahoe, with just his and her immediate family; the reception for the full sets of families is being hosted at the Bridgeport Brewery in NW Portland. (G’head and click on that link – as of my posting there’s a PHP error. Now that’s classy.) My nephew works for one of the beer distributors and that means that the beer is going to be free. Yes, free as in beer. I invited Tracy and her daughter as my guests, and the nephew in question is somehow related to Wecker, the notorious blogger of family and memories, so he shall be attending as well. Another fun evening!
As if all that wasn’t enough for a full weekend, I’ve got three, count ’em, three events on Sunday! Not sure I’ll make them all but I’m going to hit two out of three.
In the morning, is the Race for the Cure 5K, the annual benefit for breast cancer and breast cancer survivors. It’s one of the largest races of the year in Portland. Boobies are awesome and they put a smile on most everyone’s face, so I’m proud to do my part to preserve this endangered resource.
Sunday afternoon I’m hoping to attend Earl Blumenauer’s Town Hall, 1 PM at the Hollywood Theater. A month or so ago I emailed Blumenauer about starting, just starting, with impeachment of then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Rep. Blumenauer, or his staff, sent back an email after several weeks. The upshot of his statement came in two parts: first, that impeachment requires a lot of investigation before Congress can proceed, and second, that the current administrations statements on the record in front of Congress and in the press do not already demonstrate an incredible lack of respect for the rule of law in this country. Needless to say, I could not disagree more strongly, and I suspect I am not alone. Let’s see if I, and others, can get that message through to this cowardly Democratic Congress.
Finally, Sunday evening will be spent with more family as we celebrate my sister’s husband’s birthday. Damn. He got an iPhone for his birthday. How lucky is that?