Weekend recap

Alternate title: Sometimes, doing nothing is just what the doctor ordered.

• Bubbles, burgundy and Beethoven never happened, but I did spend a significant amount of time Friday/Saturday with the book - one of Kathy Reich's Temperance Brennan books.
• Saturday slept late (8:30! Sluggard.) and spent the rest of the day doing laundry, cleaning, reading and watching movies, more or less in tandem. Put load of laundry in, read for several minutes while first movie is running, get up and vacuum living room, go switch over laundry and repeat process. In the end, I finished the book, watched two movies, did all the laundry, rearranged the living room and thoroughly cleaned both the living room and bedroom. Nothing like multitasking.
• Movies - I rented Allan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls expecting it to be bad, and was not disappointed. Years ago I read and enjoyed the H. Rider Haggard novels, and saw the (equally bad) version of King Solomon's Mines with Richard Chamberlin. This one...they did shoot the film in South Africa; the scenery is stunning. They used authentic Zulu reenactors for the tribal sequences. After that, they ran out of money and started paying the actors by the word. Honestly, that's why I was able to finish reading the book during the movie - not much dialogue to speak of. The second movie offering of the weekend was The Waterhorse: I absolutely loved it. It's charming and sweet, with special effects that aren't obvious and are totally believable. The expression on Crusoe's face after he stuffs himself on the goldfish in the pond is priceless.
• Le voiture est noir. After church I thought I'd run through what I've done so far on the Rosetta Stone French program a friend has loaned me. In the process of poking around in the software, I found that one of the learning options is to have the computer say the phrase, so you can type it. Oy. I spent the next couple of hours sailing through the lessons, and permanently messing up my typing skills. You see, when you are working in that option, the computer automatically converts your keyboard to whatever language you are learning. So...the "q" on our keyboard is the "a" on a French keyboard (I can't tell you how many times I hit the tab key while trying to find the "a"). The semi-colon key on a U.S. keyboard is the "m" on the French; the period is our comma key, but with a shift.
• Take and bake pizza for Sunday dinner, while watching yet another movie - The Voyage of the Unicorn. I'm not generally much of a fantasy fan, but this was cute. Too bad I couldn't stay awake to watch the whole thing. The weekend of mostly doing nothing took a lot out of me.

Now, back to the salt mines. The locusts auditors arrive today. The State Fair opens Thursday. It's gong to be hot and humid all week.

Peachy.