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Monday, November 8
Nov. 9th, 2021 01:00 amToday I am grateful for:
My sweetie and I called a friend of ours and wished her a happy birthday. We talked for a while, and made tentative plans to get together at some point. Not sure what we'll do, what with Covid and all.
My sweetie did a few more small "winter prep" jobs, like taking the battery out of the lawnmower and putting it in the heated garage, and putting some fuel additive in others (or the fuel gets condensation in winter).
We walked around the horse pasture with Roxy a few times.
I'm not terribly happy about absolutely nothing being done on the addition again this set of days off. I tried to get him to commit to working on it, and I didn't want to turn it into a fight, but nothing happened. He says he needs to figure out the best way to do a vapor barrier. Well, okay, but that's why we stopped work the last time he was home two weeks ago. He could have done some kind of research in the last two weeks. He didn't even look into that while he was home for four days. So, all I got was a vague comment when I asked him what he needs to do to find out how to do the vapor barrier; something like "I have to ask someone, I guess"'. Wow. Couldn't have done that at any point in the last two weeks.
He's been back at work, six weeks now, we've put up four sheets of drywall in the addition. That's it.
Yes, we've done all kinds of ordinary little things like putting away stuff and getting tires changed for winter, but that's not progress on the house. I would actually like to have the main floor of the addition finished this winter, and there's absolutely no reason why it can't be, but it takes steady work on it.
Once again, I am tempted just to get tough with him and say I'm going to hire someone if I don't see anything happening, but why does it always come down to me being nasty and making things into a fight? Why can't he just manage his own time so that we get something done?
Anyhow, he did leave for work again.
I decided to go into town to see "No Time to Die" on the big screen before it was gone from the theater. I also got a few groceries to make the trip worthwhile.
On some levels I really enjoyed the movie. The chase scenes were wonderful, I loved the exotic locations, I loved seeing the great cars and gadgets, I love the high production values and the beauty in every frame. Not so much: a very unconvincing, not very menacing, bland villain with no believable motivation, a woman introduced only so she could be very sexy, but Bond doesn't sleep with her which seems very un-Bond-like. She was also insanely young, so it didn't even feel like there was any believable chemistry. Bond becomes an instant Dad and "husband", which sets up important plot motivation at the end. I am not sure if I like this or not. It kind of ruins his Bond-ness, as the whole thing is a fantasy about him only caring about getting the bad guy at all cost, not about protecting his family. The whole premise of Bond is that he is a bit emotionally unavailable and is driven to catch super criminals and is utterly free to do so without other emotional ties. It does work with the ending (which I won't give away). Bond's girlfriend is also crazy young and there isn't any believable chemistry between them. It feels more like she is his daughter. There's a woman who is now 007 since Bond retired, but she ends up feeling kind of pointless. Like they were already working really hard to fit in lots of time with every other cast member, and she felt like an after thought and just made the movie feel crowded. Since Bond is retired, whenever he interacts with people he used to work with, it feels absolutely casual, like he and his former boss are just buds now, and there's no sense of pressure. It feels almost like how "The Expendables" feels; like a bunch of buddies. In other recent Bonds, you felt some actual tension between Bond and M, where she was hard on him for his actions or the potential international tension he created.
So, my overall score is maybe a 7/10. A good movie, but a lot of these elements could have been done a lot better, or WERE done a lot better in other Bond movies.
My sweetie and I called a friend of ours and wished her a happy birthday. We talked for a while, and made tentative plans to get together at some point. Not sure what we'll do, what with Covid and all.
My sweetie did a few more small "winter prep" jobs, like taking the battery out of the lawnmower and putting it in the heated garage, and putting some fuel additive in others (or the fuel gets condensation in winter).
We walked around the horse pasture with Roxy a few times.
I'm not terribly happy about absolutely nothing being done on the addition again this set of days off. I tried to get him to commit to working on it, and I didn't want to turn it into a fight, but nothing happened. He says he needs to figure out the best way to do a vapor barrier. Well, okay, but that's why we stopped work the last time he was home two weeks ago. He could have done some kind of research in the last two weeks. He didn't even look into that while he was home for four days. So, all I got was a vague comment when I asked him what he needs to do to find out how to do the vapor barrier; something like "I have to ask someone, I guess"'. Wow. Couldn't have done that at any point in the last two weeks.
He's been back at work, six weeks now, we've put up four sheets of drywall in the addition. That's it.
Yes, we've done all kinds of ordinary little things like putting away stuff and getting tires changed for winter, but that's not progress on the house. I would actually like to have the main floor of the addition finished this winter, and there's absolutely no reason why it can't be, but it takes steady work on it.
Once again, I am tempted just to get tough with him and say I'm going to hire someone if I don't see anything happening, but why does it always come down to me being nasty and making things into a fight? Why can't he just manage his own time so that we get something done?
Anyhow, he did leave for work again.
I decided to go into town to see "No Time to Die" on the big screen before it was gone from the theater. I also got a few groceries to make the trip worthwhile.
On some levels I really enjoyed the movie. The chase scenes were wonderful, I loved the exotic locations, I loved seeing the great cars and gadgets, I love the high production values and the beauty in every frame. Not so much: a very unconvincing, not very menacing, bland villain with no believable motivation, a woman introduced only so she could be very sexy, but Bond doesn't sleep with her which seems very un-Bond-like. She was also insanely young, so it didn't even feel like there was any believable chemistry. Bond becomes an instant Dad and "husband", which sets up important plot motivation at the end. I am not sure if I like this or not. It kind of ruins his Bond-ness, as the whole thing is a fantasy about him only caring about getting the bad guy at all cost, not about protecting his family. The whole premise of Bond is that he is a bit emotionally unavailable and is driven to catch super criminals and is utterly free to do so without other emotional ties. It does work with the ending (which I won't give away). Bond's girlfriend is also crazy young and there isn't any believable chemistry between them. It feels more like she is his daughter. There's a woman who is now 007 since Bond retired, but she ends up feeling kind of pointless. Like they were already working really hard to fit in lots of time with every other cast member, and she felt like an after thought and just made the movie feel crowded. Since Bond is retired, whenever he interacts with people he used to work with, it feels absolutely casual, like he and his former boss are just buds now, and there's no sense of pressure. It feels almost like how "The Expendables" feels; like a bunch of buddies. In other recent Bonds, you felt some actual tension between Bond and M, where she was hard on him for his actions or the potential international tension he created.
So, my overall score is maybe a 7/10. A good movie, but a lot of these elements could have been done a lot better, or WERE done a lot better in other Bond movies.
