Trivial post

Went out and bought a bottle-corker.

Stopped for lunch at the Scary McDonalds. I don't think I've written about the Scary McDonalds before; I think the other time we were there (it's by the homebrewing store, which is in Woburn) was before I started the journal. (Would have to be, since it was early posts that involved the colour of the wine I was brewing.)

It has a sign on the door saying that they now accept phone-in and fax orders. Also, just inside the doors, a pair of little booths that let one place order and pay with a credit card, and then follow the red clown-feet imprints to the register to pick up the food so ordered. Both of them were out of order today, though.

Came home. Still cold. I'm all about the sneezing today. I'm wondering why that is. Need to prep the corks for bottling the rest of the cyser. Would have gotten the stuff to make Dad's birthday present only I didn't have the ingredient list on hand and anyway I can't get a bottle of sherry on Sundays. Large grocery mission therefore planned for tomorrow. Especially if I can find the book the recipe's in.

Must make plane reservations. Reminding teinedreugan now. (Will email you, brooksmoses, and post them in caomh.)

Those of us who are easily amused have more fun.

One of the cable stations is having one of its repetitive "Let's show The Mummy several times in a row" festivals, and we watched one of them. When it went into the repeat, teinedreugan put in The Mummy Returns.

Punctuating this, starting about two thirds of the way through the first flick, teinedreugan had been commenting that he had an idea for a new D&D campaign, though not the plot arc to go with it -- the setting parts. Which I'm finding amusing, as I've been dabbling in bits of Egyptian symbology for pondering another tattoo design vaguely; he and I do seem to get caught by similar notions a lot.

Anyway, we were commenting on the epic-accomplishment nature of the heroes in the Mummy movies, the flipping, swordfighting, hail of gunfire, all like that there. Catch the knife by the tip and fling it back, that sort of thing. And there's a fight scene early in the movie where there are a lot of goons, and going back and forth, and the youngster upends a bookcase and drops it on one of the goons.

I turn to teinedreugan and said, "The kid's not bad for a first-level librarian."

He lost it.