Last day of vacation

Today was the last day of my vacation and I have to go back to work tomorrow. Oh well, all good things must end. All in all it was a good vacation. I didn't accomplish as much as I would have liked to, so I'll just have to work at the rest a little at a time.

We watched our latest Netflix movie tonight. It was called Apocalypto. It got some mixed reviews when it was in theaters and was condemned for it's graphic violence. However, I have studied Indian culture and didn't find what was depicted in the movie to be unduly graphic. This movie is set at a time when life and death were much different than they are now. I do not like horror movies because often times there is blood and gore just for the sake of the shock value and corresponding ticket sales, this was not in the same category. Although this movie did contain some graphic scenes, I felt that it tried very hard to depict historical events as they actually occurred, without the sugar coating that many try to apply.

We love our subscription to Netflix. My sisters and brother-in-law gave us the subscription. I've got several things on my list that I want the kids to be able to see. I've added some tv shows that I enjoyed when growing up, some of them just to show the kids what I'm talking about. An example of that is Wonder Woman. Randy and I were trying to explain how the comic book character could have been drawn about Linda Carter instead of vice versa. Another tv show that I want them to see for reference is the original Charlie's Angels. The kids have seen both of the movies (starring Drew Barrymore, Luci Lu and Cameron Diaz), but Randy and I have both tried to make them understand how over the top the movies are compared to the tv show. I thought one episode of both of these shows would be enough to get my point across. Then we can move on to something different. So far we've had good luck picking movies. There has only been 1 or maybe 2 that we didn't thoroughly enjoy.

We've had more rain today. It is raining right now and is expected to rain during most of the night. There is a chance of some severe weather. I hope that doesn't develop. One good thing about this system moving thru is that my headache finally disappeared sometime early this evening. What a relief, after having a headache for 3 days. I don't know how much rain this system will give us, but I hope that we will at least get a couple of inches out of it. We need the rain very bad. If only we could get rain on a regular basis we might be able to recover from the deficit that we have right now.

Of course the weather has prevented any work on the CRX. There is a chance of rain tomorrow, so the earliest that Randy could start back to work on the car will probably be Tuesday. I hope he is able to get it fixed soon. It makes things harder on all of us for Jeremy to be without a vehicle. It also makes it harder for Jeremy to hunt for a job. Thus far he hasn't had luck in his search. He's put in applications at several places, but so far nothing. Maybe he'll get a call soon.