Ode to the Laundromat
Well, not really. The fact is I prefer it to doing the wash at home. The one in Westminster is very clean, nice machines, well-organized. I come in and feed the sacred machines quarters and leave in a little over an hour with clean, folded ready-to-go laundry! The two loads I did in the “double capacity” there would be an all day wash, dry, fold event at home. The down side is it costs money, of course. Then again, they’re still drilling a new well at that house up the road from us! We have an emergency water supply of about 10 gallons. Enough- barely -for two days. It’s not the drinking, it’s the washing and um-flushing. I want to get a rain barrel; just hook it up to one of the downspouts and I’ll have 50 gallons for the yard, etc. I’ll be glad when the drought is over.
Weekend film roundup: First we watched The Holiday with Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet (part of the ongoing Kate film festival) I liked it. As a movie it’s like a C+, but as a chick flick it’s a solid “A”- in the tradition of Love Actually. I’d never seen Jack Black act before and he’s rather engaging with a “just a regular guy” quality. The other film, which might seem far off from what we usually watch, was 300. I like epic and historical; if there’s a Scotsman with a sword I’m totally there! But this one took a story from history and turned it into a graphic novel with mutant monsters. I wonder what’s the point of taking real actors and making them look like animated drawings? And somebody please tell King Xerxes that Disco is Dead ;-) It wasn’t bad but with a handsome gorgeous guy like Gerard Butler- I want Technicolor, Cinemascope, hell, IMAX might be pretty neat too.
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