It was a pretty intense week at the old office, several proposals and PowerPoint presentations kept me hopping so by the time Carol and I got home Friday evening my brain felt like it had been through a veg-o-matic. Once we checked out the household we loaded the dogs up in the truck and took off for Windham. Carol wanted to pick up some mulch for a weekend flower bed project so we stopped and ate a couple of sandwiches at Subway then swung over to Lowe's Garden Center. She bought rubber mulch, a new one on me, and a roll of ground cover to put under the bouncy mulch. I hope the dogs or the cat don't jump between the flowers or they may bounce a ways. Actually the rubber is thin and shredded. Once home and evening chores were taken care of we had the Redsox on TV and watched an episode we had missed earlier in the week of "Lie to Me" on Hulu.com. Hulu is a pretty cool website where you can watch many new and old TV shows, movies and documentaries for free with acceptable amounts of advertising. After we watched the show I was browsing through their "recent additions" section and came across a documentary on Don Rickles, "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project", "An Emmy winning docu-comedy about the famous stand-up comedian Don Rickles with interviews from Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Sara Silverman, Clint Eastwood, and more", 
released in 2008. This ran for an hour and a half and I enjoyed it very much. History and interviews intertwined with a performance of Rickles at one of the casinos in Las Vegas. It seems that I'd been watching Don Rickles for a lot of the early half of my life and he is still going strong today as you can see in this production. There was a lot about his personal life and the people that are his friends both famous and behind the scenes. Even his mother who was involved in his adult life as many of us are with our own mothers. Seeing scenes with Johnny Carson, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. brought back memories of a lot of shows we watched growing up, and era of television never to be matched again. I'd lost touch with what Rickles was about now a days and now I've caught up much to my benefit. I recommend this movie to the young and old. Meanwhile, the Sox were on the TV playing the Yankees and this began a sports theme for the weekend. The series with the Yankees, both Friday night's and Saturday afternoon's games were wild with great hitting and less than stellar pitching and the Redsox winning the those two games and the now the final game of the weekend series is taking place as I type this. The NFL draft was taking place yesterday and today so I checked in regularly to see who the Green Bay Packers were adding to their roster. The Boston Celtics playoff game today with the Chicago Bulls went into double overtime and unfortunately the Celts lost to even the seven game series at two wins each. Also today's NASCAR race was one thrilling joyride, which often enough is not usually the case. This one came down to the last lap and included an airborne crash at the finish that blew me away. Look up this video of the finish on the web if you haven't seen it. Amazing that no one was killed. Besides all this going on the weather was the best there's been so far this spring and due to a couple of side computer projects I'd work on I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked outdoors but that will change beginning this weekend.
released in 2008. This ran for an hour and a half and I enjoyed it very much. History and interviews intertwined with a performance of Rickles at one of the casinos in Las Vegas. It seems that I'd been watching Don Rickles for a lot of the early half of my life and he is still going strong today as you can see in this production. There was a lot about his personal life and the people that are his friends both famous and behind the scenes. Even his mother who was involved in his adult life as many of us are with our own mothers. Seeing scenes with Johnny Carson, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. brought back memories of a lot of shows we watched growing up, and era of television never to be matched again. I'd lost touch with what Rickles was about now a days and now I've caught up much to my benefit. I recommend this movie to the young and old. Meanwhile, the Sox were on the TV playing the Yankees and this began a sports theme for the weekend. The series with the Yankees, both Friday night's and Saturday afternoon's games were wild with great hitting and less than stellar pitching and the Redsox winning the those two games and the now the final game of the weekend series is taking place as I type this. The NFL draft was taking place yesterday and today so I checked in regularly to see who the Green Bay Packers were adding to their roster. The Boston Celtics playoff game today with the Chicago Bulls went into double overtime and unfortunately the Celts lost to even the seven game series at two wins each. Also today's NASCAR race was one thrilling joyride, which often enough is not usually the case. This one came down to the last lap and included an airborne crash at the finish that blew me away. Look up this video of the finish on the web if you haven't seen it. Amazing that no one was killed. Besides all this going on the weather was the best there's been so far this spring and due to a couple of side computer projects I'd work on I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked outdoors but that will change beginning this weekend.
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