Christmas is over. Time to relax, but innstead of relaxing, I spent the last two days looking for a
lost receipt. I didn’t find it, but I did some much needed organizing in my
office. It is amazing how much printed material I had stacked up, even in this
day of ‘going paperless’. I threw away and shredded pages and pages of old
files and needless stuff. Suddenly, I have so much room in my filing cabinet
and things will be easier to find. In fact, one of my New Year’s resolutions
will be not to print out everything under the sun and just create organized
files in my computer. With 2 TB of memory on my hard drive there certainly is
enough room.
Why do I print out so much? The thing is I still like to
look at printed pages and it is easier to have information handy, especially
when I’m writing. For every story I have to create characters, make outlines
and have back stories for the main characters, which means I have to be able to
look through the material as I’m writing the story. When I print out the
information, all I need to do is flip through the pages. That is more difficult
if I have to look it up on a file in my computer.
I’m slowly getting over my cold. It helps to stay home for a
few days and to drink a lot of water, which means many trips to the bathroom
during the day. We are not getting caught up in the Boxing day/week madness. No
sense to buy something just because it is on sale, especially if you don’t
really need it.
There isn’t much on TV right now, mostly reruns, so we’ve
been watching some movies. I downloaded for free (OMG I committed a serious
crime!) the movie ‘The Interview’, just to see what all the fuss is about. I
think North Korea
should be much more concerned with the quality of the movie instead of getting
upset about the content. We only watched about ten minutes of it and then we
stopped it. We could not take any more of it. There is no danger many people
will see this movie. It is supposed to be a comedy. Sorry, that type of comedy
escapes me. The movie is stupid, the acting poor, and I feel sorry for the
people who paid to see it.
Instead of #‘The Interview’ we watched #‘Edge of Tomorrow’, a
Science Fiction film with #Tom Cruise. It was another ‘invasion of the Earth’
movie, but actually quite good. A few days ago we watched #‘Gone Girl’ with #Ben
Affleck. It started a bit slow but then it picked up and it was another movie
we enjoyed.
My wife is a fan of #Arnold Schwarzenegger. One of his latest
movies #‘Sabotage’ was okay. He plays a DEA agent and the movie ended with a bit
of a twist. Not one of his best but still enjoyable, if you like Arnold.
A couple of weeks ago we started watching #‘Extant’. Also
Science Fiction. It is about #Androids and alien invaders. What a great series.
We were watching 3 episodes an evening sometimes. It ended with episode 13 and now
we are hooked. Hopefully, it comes back next year.
