Every year I try to watch at least one war movie in the run up to Remembrance Day, and what with everything going on in the world right now, couldn't bring myself to watch anything too brutal... I'm angry enough already. So I chose Stalag 17, which combines some seriousness with a fair amount of humour and ends with a bad guy getting shot up. Frankly, after watching the nasty little anti-Semites who have been running rampant on Western streets these past few weeks, I was in the mood to see a fictional Nazi get some ballistic therapy. I'll talk more about the film in a later post this week. Other than that, I haven't really been watching much... I've been really busy with work this past week; my counterpart had a medical emergency and wound up in hospital, so I've been trying to do both her job and mine, which has resulted in some long days with files, invoices, and fielding her calls/emails as well as my own. She's on the mend though- and out of hospital- so hopefully will be back at her desk sooner rather than later.
As I mentioned before, this is the new read for the online book club I'm in- The Violent Bear It Away. I've just started, so don't really have anything to say about it yet. I just bought and downloaded the third book in Andrew Klavan's Cameron Winter series and plan to begin reading that this week as well. I thought that the first book in the series was good and the second was really good, so have high hopes for this one. On Saturday night I had to do some baking for the church potluck- we have one the first Sunday of every month, as you may recall, like good little Baptists. I was making an apple pie and apple crisp, so I set my laptop up on the table while peeling apples and started Stalag 17, the 1953 film about a W.W. II POW camp. I finished watching it while the pie/crisp were in the oven. Every year I try to watch at least one war movie in the run up to Remembrance Day, and what with everything going on in the world right now, couldn't bring myself to watch anything too brutal... I'm angry enough already. So I chose Stalag 17, which combines some seriousness with a fair amount of humour and ends with a bad guy getting shot up. Frankly, after watching the nasty little anti-Semites who have been running rampant on Western streets these past few weeks, I was in the mood to see a fictional Nazi get some ballistic therapy. I'll talk more about the film in a later post this week. Other than that, I haven't really been watching much... I've been really busy with work this past week; my counterpart had a medical emergency and wound up in hospital, so I've been trying to do both her job and mine, which has resulted in some long days with files, invoices, and fielding her calls/emails as well as my own. She's on the mend though- and out of hospital- so hopefully will be back at her desk sooner rather than later.
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