So the roof is moving forward. I picked out the color and the materials should have been ordered, and should show up sometime this week. No more water in the attic is a good thing.

Suprisingly, I've gotten some reading done. I finally finished "Valient" by Holly Black. It was good, but not on par with her first solo novel, "Tithe." I also sped through "I Am Not Esther" by Fleur Beale. Freaky book about a teen-age girl who is abandoned by her mother to live with super fundamentalist Christian relatives. Yikes. Currently, I am listening to "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown on audiobook in the car, which is turning out to be just as facinating as "The DaVinci Code."

Over the weekend, Robert and I went to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. We had a coupon for buy one get one free, so it was reasonable to get in. Robert's not much for roller coasters, so I had to bypass Chang and the wooden coasters, but the water park's wave pool was awesome -- especially since it was about 90 degrees Saturday. It's a small park, so the lines were really reasonable, compared to, say, King's Island or Cedar Pointe.

Last night, four of us got out to see "X-Men: The Last Stand." OK, I read the X-men comics quite religiously for several years, and I had issues with the movie because they took characters and then just wrote a whole new story for them. And some characters, like Angel and Kitty Pride, seemed pointless to the movie -- they played hardly any role and had no character development. They took these super interesting characters out of context and made them 2-dimensional. Not to mention the whole re-write of the Phoenix Saga. Yikes. And hello -- killing off the main characters?! I can't get past the filmmakers playing so loose with what was a fantastic story originally, so for the time being I have to give it a thumbs down. Perhaps with time I will soften my opinion. It happened with Harry Potter 3 -- kind of.

Thanks to my friend Oz for the following cartoon, in reference to my recent experience and enjoyment of the "Firefly" series.

Posted by lgauthier at July 3, 2006 12:46 PM