Passport Follies (again) and Beard Demise

Excited for Today's Arrival of the Other Grandpa for a Visit

Those earlier reports of my wife flying to Panama toady were grotesquely overrated. Everything was going swimmingly as we had no traffic getting to the airport, courtesy of the Columbus Day holiday, and even the ticket line was moving quickly. I was assisting my wife with her large suitcase array (all just under 50lbs. each) when I heard the ticket agent inform my wife that her US passport had expired a couple weeks ago! This qualifies as a genuine “Yikes!” moment since she couldn’t fly to Panama without a valid US passport to re-enter.

Wife Says I Should Have Used This Picture Yesterday

We changed the tickets to Wednesday and hope to do the emergency thing tomorrow in Boston. We couldn’t do anything today, again courtesy of the Columbus Day federal holiday. So if all goes perfectly I’ll only have to make the early morning Boston trip three days in a row. I somehow think the traffic will be a little more challenging. I do get to spend a couple more days with my Favorite Panamanian which is never a bad thing.

Yesterday's Beard Update

It Dies Tonight

After returning from New Hampshire yesterday we were energized as the Red Sox finally showed some fight and drilled the Astros for a truly enjoyable game. We held out some hope today as they were leading going into the next to last inning only to blow it on what would have been typical Bosox fashion, if not for the last thirteen years that is. This provides a little peek into what growing up with the Red Sox prior to the magical year of 2004. Again, at least they showed some fight this year and the future looks promising.

The future does not look promising in Blade Runner 2049, a movie I was really “jonesing” to see. I finally got to the cinema to check it out and was definitely not disappointed. While the filmmakers were genuine to the original classic this sequel was told in a huge and sweeping fashion versus the crowded original. Deckard’s story is picked up thirty years later as the blade runners are now replicants themselves hunting down older versions of themselves. Ryan Gosling is fantastic as the dedicated blade runner being played by at least three competing groups. I was most struck by the photography depicting a vast and dying world which is genuinely complimented by a sneakily good musical score. The movie centers of the people (and replicants) though and repeats the earlier film’s premise of questioning what true “humanity” is. I loved it.

Getting Her Gymnast On

She's Always Up for Adventure

The Bad Cinema project count rises to #27 out of 100, with Laser Mission, which wasn’t sci fi at all and Killers from Space which definitely was (duh).