Movie Friday

We've taken to downloading movies though Apple TV and watching them with Mom on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. This Friday I made stuffed peppers for dinner and Mom came over for dinner and a movie.

There wasn't much choice this week (we've either seen most of the movies or don't want to), but I found a foreign film that I thought would be cute and acceptable to all. The name of the film was Quill, a true story of the making of a guide dog from birth to the final hour. It was such an engaging and moving story we all had tears in our eyes at the end.

Movie Tuesday (a little late)

Last Tuesday we saw Savages an intense film directed by Oliver Stone. Although we were a little leery of seeing a movie about drug dealers on both sides of the border, we did enjoy it. It was a tough movie, though; not a romantic comedy for sure.

Kitten update

Sorry to keep you in suspense...the kittens are all fine. None of them had to wear an E-Collar; it was, in fact a nonevent. They are happy and healthy following their surgery.

Kittens in Hospital

I took all four kittens to be fixed this morning. I forgot not to feed them after midnight, so they had to stay all day. I'll pick them up tomorrow. Word is they are doing fine.

Movie Tuesday on Thursday

It's Thursday, but here's the Movie Tuesday review:

Mom, Dennis and I saw The Amazing Spider-Man in iMax-3D. I'm still not sure what iMax is--it seemed just like 3D--but the movie was pretty good. It starts the spider-man series all over from the beginning with a new actor playing spider-man. I really liked Toby Maguire in the role and it took some time for me to warm to Andrew Garfield. He was a bit of a brat  in the beginning but came around eventually. If you like the spider man movies, go see it.

Is your computer infected?

If you didn't see the news tonight, you may not know that there is a computer threat out there that may have infected your computer. There's a simple way to check:  go to www.dcwg.org and click on the green Detect icon. This will send you to a page describing the problem and solutions. Skip down to the link "http://www.dns-ok.us/." Once you click on this link, you will be taken to a page which will tell you whether or not your computer is infected. If you come out ok, there's nothing else to do. If your computer is infected, solutions will be provided. 


If you don't want to take the first step to read about the problem, you can just click on the link above and it will automatically check your computer.

Best wishes, Michael and Lina

On Saturday afternoon, Mom and I drove to La Jolla to attend Lina's wedding shower. She and Michael Martinico are getting married in September. She seems to be a lovely young lady, tiny compared to Michael, who is tall like his mother.

There were about 50-70 women there, all but 8 of them from Lina's family. Michael is marrying into a large Mexican-Jewish family. They were all very nice and very happy for Lina. Michael made an appearance late in the afternoon after lunch. Poor guy, the only man in an ocean of women. He looks much the same as he did as a child except, of course, grown up...and up and up.

Mom and I sat with Vince's Linda and John's Linda and Jacqui from our side of the family along with two of Linda's long-time friends who were the mothers of Michael's best friends and the girlfriend of one of those friends. It was very noisy so we could only talk with the people nearest us.

After lunch, we viewed a video showing Lina as a baby and then growing up with her family; after that we saw some photos of Michael and his family. I recognized many of the Christmas photos Linda sent of the kids through their growing years. There were some family shots, too. Jacqui and Linda were tearing up and it was emotional for me, too.

We wish Michael and Lina all the best. They seem very much in love.