I guess I have just been in a blogging mood lately. Even with dial up access, I still have the desire to log on and express my (random) thoughts. I worked an hour late last night and almost 2 hours late tonight hosting more training for people in Mexico. I did have an interesting meeting with a lady in Romania this morning (another country to add to my list). I am still continually impressed with people who have learned how to speak English. It has to be one of the hardest languages to learn I would think. I was IM'ing with a lady in Pennsylvania today about deciding if I was the important one on the call (when dealing with non-Americans) or if they were. My (American) ego wants to think that I am important but if I am honest with myself I am still the one with but one language to chose from when communicating. I suppose it does not matter. The fact that I deal with so many international people gives me a little more job security and that is enough. We did polish off a movie this morning (watching it in only 3 sittings).
- Swing Vote: An election year comedy that really delivered. The wife and I spent a little too much time trying to figure out where we had seen one of the minor characters before (Whose Line Is It Any Way) and the supporting cast were all great (Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, George Lopez). Kevin Costner was very convincing as well in his role. Overall a nice, smart comedy. One thing though is depicted in the below screen captures from the DVD. During the opening credits the left scene is displayed showing a bowling alley in town that offered 12 lanes. Now this fictional town only had 400 voters so it is unlikely they had more than one bowling alley so imagine my surprise about 70 minutes in when they are in a bowling alley with only 8 lanes (right screen capture). I might be the only one to have noticed this and my wife just rolled her eyes this morning when I pointed this out to her (and queued back and forth to show her this glaring error). So other than this faux pas by the continuity people, this was a great movie.
Tonight I revealed a secret to the son. We are going to go see his favorite band (Stellar Kart) in concert next month. They are not going to be in Indiana at all so we are making a 5 hour trek to Illinois and then spend a night in a hotel. He is way pumped about this (shocked was how he described it as I was putting him to bed). We will be in South Haven, MI over Labor Day weekend and this concert is on Labor Day so I will be taking the next day (Tuesday) off of work to pull this off. I have not been to a concert in a while (since Stryper's reunion tour - to which I also drove 5 hours to Detroit and was glad a I went). I will be sure to fill you in on how it goes (as will the son on his blog).
We started 10,000 BC tonight but it might get abandoned as it seems a little hokey. Well bedtime approaches.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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