Trip

We went to San Diego over the weekend, but our camera's batteries died, so no photos. We didn't do much; tried to relax. It was chilly down there (as it is up here). Thursday is the big trip to Florida; none of us are looking forward to it so much, but it's hard to complain about Christmas in Florida, especially given the weather in most of the country right now.

We've been watching movies with numbers in the title. Not sequels, but movies with actual numbers mentioned somewhere. We figured it would get us to watch some films we might not see otherwise. So we started with Capricorn One, a classic example of late 70s paranoia: astronauts are supposed to go to Mars, but they don't: instead, it's faked, with the Mars scenes shot in a studio. It stars James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and...O.J. Simpson. Elliot Gould is the journalist who exposes the scam. Not such a good movie, but fun enough.

Back

I'm doing Daddy Day Care until the end of March, so I'm going to be blogging a lot more often, I'm guessing, if only to maintain my sanity. We also plan to take A LOT of classes together, Emily and I.

Since I haven't posted for awhile, I'm including a more recent photo. Today Emily and I spent the afternoon together; we did laundry and went to the playground. She became very interested in standing on manhole covers and got very angry when I made her come home. Oh, and we had brunch with our former French teacher, Christine, who lives in this gorgeous spot on the Mesa. You can see UCSB from a deck they have over the ocean, on a clear day (it's about fifteen miles up the coast). The water was very blue and Emily spent most of her time climbing the stairs.