OK then...

...once again I have outlasted the old people and I am the only person who isn't snoring very loudly in this condo right now. I wanted to be sure that my father was asleep so I walked out onto the balcony and peeked in his bedroom window to be sure he wasn't still sitting in there with an angry scowl on his face. He was asleep...and not just dozing off asleep, he was 100%, curled up and snoring asleep. That meant that I could do a few naughty things.

I turned the TV up past 40 (his preset decibel level audible only to my father and a couple of neighborhood dogs.), I cranked that AC from 79 all the way down to a nippy 76 and I watched The Family Guy instead of The O'Reilly Factor. If he had been awake he would have slapped me silly for all of that. I'm beginning to see why I married so young and so poorly. I just had to get the hell out of the house. I grabbed the first thing that walked by and when that didn't work, I grabbed the second thing that walked by. After that I waited a few years, choosing instead to suck beer on a regular basis. Then I really fucked up. Hence...this blog.

Oh well. I did see a good movie. Rick was right about that anyway...The Departed was a really, really good movie. It made me think that if I were Italian, I wouldn't be happy about those Godfather movies. Those Irish kids in The Departed didn't turn out too well either...they must have been related to my nutty Irish ascendants. The whole movie just reinforced my understanding of why my family of origin appears a tad askew. But I've just decided to believe that everyone in the world has a nutty family and that mine isn't any more nuts than any other family that I've ever seen.

I could almost rewatch that movie again just to catch the parts where I couldn't tell Matt Damon from Leonardo DeCaprio. I didn't know which one was which for the first half hour. I see how black people might have a problem telling us apart...not that there's anything wrong with that...but I can understand how it could happen.

I spent the entire Fahrenheit 451 trying to figure out if the same chick was playing both female roles. They looked so much alike that I thought it was the same chick until I checked the credits. And in THAT movie, the two characters were never in the same scene. I was really screwed. But tonight I could tell the two dudes apart because they acted so differently. That Leo guy is a pretty good actor. And apparently...he really IS good looking.

Not that anyone needed me to tell them that but my daughter saw him at a museum and didn't know who he was. She just thought that he was a good looking tall dude until she started trying to figure out why he was running away with a bunch of people running after him. That must suck, 'ey? At least he's a tall guy...Matt Damon doesn't strike me as the tall type although on a movie screen, he looks pretty damn good the way he is. Of course, I wouldn't have any respect for him once I looked down at his blonde head...but in the meantime, he does LOOK good.

Anyway, they BOTH looked good in the movie so that was a bonus.

I have to do one more thing before I can fall asleep and that is clean the kitchen. I think my dad was annoyed because I didn't empty the dishwasher before he got to it. That's not my fault...I just have a higher tolerance for full dishwashers than he does. I hate people with a low tolerance for a mess. They clean up when the mess bothers THEM and then pound their chests as though they've done something really wonderful and not only is it a wonderful thing that THEY did...but you're supposed to be grateful to them for doing it. When it bothers me, I'll get to it. In the meantime you're only being selfish if YOU clean the kitchen. You're cleaning it for yourself and that's no big fricking deal...I do the same thing, I just do it later which could almost be considered EARLIER than the NEXT time you were gonna do it so DAD...GET...OFF...MY...BACK!!!