A sense of normalcy is returning to the casa and all reports
emanating from the tropics indicate Panama survived the return of the PanaGals. Getting back to the early morning and evening
routines around the house are akin to putting a comfortable sweatshirt back on but
at the same time there’s a haunting sense of loss. The past few weeks were so much fun seeing
friends, family, the wedding (of course), and the inexhaustible entertainment of hosting
the PanaGals.
Buddy’s gastric system seems to be on the mend as well. He pushed his adorability to unseen levels to
beg food from unsuspecting amateurs, not used to resisting his ploys. My wife emerged from her 24 hour recovery
period and was feeling well enough to comment (somewhat tartly) about my lack
of fastidiousness. As stated above, the
routines are back in place.
My wife does feel the vacuum of departed Latinas sharply
though. To mitigate those emotions she’s
taken to importing house guests this week.
Tonight the daughter of the Virginia Musquetera will be stopping by to
spend the night on her way to a weekend wedding further north. Tomorrow the Maine Musquetera herself will
put in an appearance (she’ll probably be late).
She will be coming back north after dropping her daughter off for the
first time at college in Pennsylvania. I’m
sure emotions will be expressed.
One of our reinstated routines was last night’s date night
which involved that noted thespian troop performing in Expendables 3. This movie was a wretched attempt at moving
the franchise into a younger generation.
I was surprised that they chose to veer away from the entertaining
by-play between the aged mercenaries to play to a non-memorable group of
youngsters. Even the aggressive use of performance
enhancing drugs cannot hide the onslaught of time on Stallone and Schwarzenegger
although it was good to see Mel Gibson back at work as a passable villain. Even Harrison Ford showed up for some unknown
reason but at least he had the class to look slightly embarrassed.
The earlier two movies were entertaining if cartoonish. The new director decided to go all the way
into cartoonish and completely forgot to be entertaining. Stallone also wrote this movie which was a surprise
since he’s still a pretty good writer, if not judged by this. The biggest failures were the young
Expendables who dropped the baton which was being lazily handed to them by the seniors.
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