I finished a huge project at work yesterday which severely compromised
my naval contemplation activities. It
involved a lot of data mining and the use of Excel. I think I understand why accountants
can be so angry after a solid week of cruising that delightful software. On the upside I actually solved a couple
problems with formulas on my own without summoning the IT experts. The scary side of being a civilian.
I’m ready for the weekend since I seem to still be operating
on the sleep disruption of my past weekend fiesta times. It was so much easier to bounce back in my
younger days. Speaking of younger days
we have a young employee here who’s fascinated with my prior military
service. He swings by every now and then
to impress me with his latest adventure demonstrating how macho he is. He went tandem sky diving over the past weekend
and said I should try it. I showed him
this picture which a friend had posted on Facebook recently. I told him my thrill meter (not to mention
some badly aging compressed knees and ankles) was pegged after a couple hundred
of the military jumps in my own youth.
Wing Man starts the California trek today so my thoughts are
with him as he starts out on that new adventure. My daughter and Pee Wee the Spineless remain
in NYC for a couple more weeks.
My son just received some fairly fantastic news in the form
of a new job. The company he is currently
with wasn’t setting the world on fire and another opportunity came up. He applied and thought he’d priced himself out
of the job during the interview. He said
the interview went for more than three hours and I told him that if they spent
that amount of time with him they were very interested. Over the weekend he
received the news about what they thought in the form of a very lucrative job
offer. He’ll start the new job after the
holidays.
Date night was delayed by New England weather until last
night when we went to see Horrible Bosses 2.
I loved the first movie which was raunchily funny throughout. They weren’t able to maintain the magic in
this second outing. The three leads were
still funny but the Jason Sudekis character wandered into the idiotic personae of
Charlie Day’s which meant Jason Bateman was the only sane one in the bunch. There was still a lot of really funny banter
between the three boneheads who now try their hand at kidnapping instead of
murder and it goes predictably and very entertainingly south. Bateman remains the absolute master of the offhand
hilarious comment.
This one was nowhere near as funny as the original because the
three guys were supposed to be regular Joes caught in a bad situation not of
their own making. Here they are buffoons
and a long way from the likable trio of the first film. The best parts are saved for the supporting characters
who are uniformly awesome. Kevin Spacey in
his Shark mode, Jennifer Anniston channeling her naughty side again, Jamie Foxx
as MF Jones and new bad boy Chris Pine completely steal the movie and I found
myself anxiously waiting for them to reappear on the screen. Overall, still a funny movie, but the
original set the bar too high.
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