Well, actually, what I meant to say is that it’s chilly outside.  Our area had a great weather for the past three days–sunny, warm, pleasant.  Now today it’s cloudy and chilly.  Typical spring weather here in the Pacific Northwest.  

Of course, in the Underground where our offices are and down in the tunnels, it’s always on dank side–damp, chilly, dark.  Yep, all those things that go into making a work environment pleasant–NOT.   Sorry, don’t mean to be a downer, but my M’s are playing like they’re on a teeter-totter: up one day, down the next.   I’ve seen them make plays that are state of the art and then kick the baseball like they should be back in T-ball.  

How long until football season anyway?   

At least the weekend was quiet.   Alexis parked herself out in the sunshine to read JR Ward’s newest book.  She’d been saving it for a day when she could just read  . . . and  read . . . . read.   She started the book Saturday afternoon and finished it early Sunday morning.   Tell me–what is about a guy with a mohawk and purple eyes (sorry, real guys don’t say amythest) that had her in tears???   Sheesh.

She also was happy dancing because she bought tickets to two more concerts this summer–Los Lonely Boys and Keb ‘Mo.    I’ll have to let you know what I think after I hear these guys in person.  

Well, back to work. 
DJ

Okay, I admit it.  I’m a Trekkie.   Have been since the first series.   Really liked Next Generation.   Deep Space Nine had its share of moments, especially when it came to Warf.   Voyager, although not my fav, had some of my favorite Q episodes ever.   Even Enterprise had some memorable characters.  I thought the best two were the Vulcan woman and the chief engineer.   The movies have been all over the ballpark, with the one where Kirk and company went back in time to bring back some whales being Alexis’s all time favorite.

Well, at least up until now.   The new movie was one major hoot, from beginning to end.   The casting was impeccable.   The guy who played Spock was dead on, as was Kirk.    Scotty cracked me up big time.   Alexis thought it criminal that they made Eric Bana all but unrecognizable as the Romulan.   Evidently she has a thing for him–no surprise there if you’ve ever seen him in Troy.   Or at least that’s what she tells me.   However, my personal favorite was Karl Urban’s portrayal of Dr. McCoy (Bones.)    He stole every scene he was in as far as I was concerned.     

Don’t want to include any spoilers, so I’ll just say that I personally give the movie two thumbs up.  

Okay, I think we can all agree that a Paladin can swing a mean blade.  We know swords.  And we know axes.  Well, throwing hammers, too, but that last one isn’t really pertinent to this discussion.   But right now, I’m feeling a wee bit envious of someone else’s prowess with blades.   Okay, a whole lot envious–I’d describe me as pea green about now, not to mention pretty damn grumpy. 

 Just who is this paragon of blade ability, you may ask.   And I may answer.   Okay, I will answer.  

Wolverine.  

Yep, Alexis dragged me to her favorite movie theater last Friday night to see the premier of Origin, the new X-Men movie.   She loved it.  In fact, she was wishing they’d had the DVD already available in the lobby so she could by a copy so she could watch it over and over and over again at home.  Geez.  Yeah, it was good, and explained a lot of the mystery about Logan, but she could show some sensitivity.   I’m just a mortal man (well, not exactly, but a lot closer than Wolverine is), and I sure as heck don’t have handy, permanently sharp blades that pop out the instant I need them.

She kept trying to reassure me that Wolverine isn’t real, that he just a character in a movie.   Well, that’s like saying I’m not real, that I’m just a character  in a book.  How much sense does that make? 

Anyway, all of that aside, we both loved the movie, lots of action, lots of cool cinematography.  The special effects were well done as well.   It will come as no surprise that  Alexis is kind of hoping her friend will ask her to go later this week so she can see it again. 

Hope you all had a great weekend.  Alexis was part of that Romance Extravaganza thing at the library.  She had a great time and got to meet some new fans in person.   She had a big poster of Jarvis’s cover at her table when she was autographing books.   I guess it was admired by a lot of the people who came, and she had several offers from friends to see to it that Jarvis got a good home.   Rather than play favorites, she brought it back home.   Great, now I get to look at it.   Like I said, damn grumpy. 

DJ