Monday evening, playing Boomshine

So I had a pretty full weekend--two viewings of POTC3 and lots of rum, for starters. The Lovely Emily took some pictures of the dogs for me, which I'll put up when I get them. The thing is, I wanted them because Sam was getting his summer cut on Saturday, and said cut has turned out so badly that I wanted a good picture of him all befurred before it happened. I mean, you lose two dogs in one year (and the only pictures, other than the few I've posted here, of them are trapped on my now-internetless cell phone), you start to think about these things. And it's a good thing that I did, because we asked for his fur to be cut down to about two inches long, and they shaved him. Our vet was so mad at the groomer that he (allegedly) fired him, although I have to think that there had been problems before that. We also got a letter that said our vet had made "a sizable donation" to veterinary research in Meko's name, and he told us shortly after we adopted the new pups that "it was a privilege" to have us as clients. So, he's kind of protective of us, I guess. Although it kind of makes me wonder what his other clients are like.

And then we watched The Fountain this afternoon, and I slept a lot. I ended up drinking so much Coke at the two movies that I didn't sleep at all there for a couple of nights. Like, I'd just lie there slowly going insane until five in the morning. At one point I got up and made the bucket icons (see previous entry) just to have something to do. Oh, and I got new glasses on Saturday, because--as you may recall--I was sitting in my first viewing of POTC3, and about an hour in, the damn left lens fell out. ( The Somewhat-Less-Exciting-Than-You-Might-Expect Adventures of One-Eyed Cleo )

Also, istoo has reminded me that I need to make a book-related announcement. You may have gotten an Amazon UK email or seen the page for a book called Cut: Movies in Fifteen Minutes. This is, in fact, the paperback version of the original book; there is no second book (yet). I actually had no idea that the title or cover art had been changed until--actually, I believe it was Gunther at trailer_spot?--showed me the new page a while back, and I kept forgetting to mention it. I'm mostly afraid that people are going to buy it thinking that it's a separate book, which it isn't, but as far as I know, the content is the same as the hardback, if you really are in the market for a copy.

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