keeping up with the weekend

As I mentioned in the previous blog post Carol and I attended a play Thursday night. "City of Angels" at the Lyric Music Theater in South Portland. It was a benefit performance for the Cumberland/North Yarmouth Lions Club. Ian and I bought the tickets for Carol's birthday in January and I got to go with her. The theater itself was a small venue and the place was only half filled though that didn't make any difference to us, we were at a play, we're going to enjoy it and that we did.

'The musical weaves together two plots, the "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screen play,and the "reel" world of the fictional film. The setting is Hollywood, late 1940s, with the two story plots occurring simultaneously: musical comedy and a detective story. City of Angels won six Tony Awards, including best musical, Best Book and Best Score, and was nominated in five other categories.' Bruce M. Merrill, Theater President.

It took a little getting use to, bouncing from one reality to the other but for me it hit home near the end of the first act when the line of realities crossed. This is only the second theater production play I've been to and given the upcoming circumstances of the Carol's early morning travel departure I'm glad we went.

After dropping off the the sisters at the airport I was at the office by 4:45am in somewhat of a zombie state as I had only 2 hours of sleep. Left to get breakfast at Marcy's, floated through the rest of the morning on large quantities of coffee and left for home at 2pm. The day before my new laptop computer arrived so I removed that from the box and began the process of setting that up until I decide it was nap time. Whew, that was a pick me up. Afterwards I loaded up the dogs in the truck and I took care of a few errands. Later I tried to watch the Netflix movie and dozed off, woke up to a call from Carol in the hotel she and her sisters were staying in. Heard how things were going (good) then tried to finish the movie, that didn't work out so I went to bed, finished it Saturday evening. Wasn't very good, a Russian SciFi-ish fantasy Called the Night Watch. Won some awards though I'm not sure why. It did have some good stuff, gruesome at times. When I'm home alone for the weekend I sometimes pick movies that are a little out of the realm Carol and I will watch together.

I ended up spending a lot time setting up the computer, mostly trying to get it to network with Carol's laptop. My new one is a Dell 1525, 2 G Hz Intel processor, 3 GB Ram, and a 320 GB hard drive. Runs on Windows Vista. So far I think it's a very nice machine. I named it Cormac after a character in some of Neal Asher's books. I thought about naming it after one of the AIs in Asher's stories but a laptop isn't self aware so I went with a favorite human character instead.

Preparing this blog on Cormac.

I did manage to get out of the house and did a three mile walk each day. Today Carol sent me a cellphone photo of where they were, one of her and Lois' favorite stores, IKEA.

This is the photo I received from Carol while I was walking.