Things I've Enjoyed Recently... a book, a movie and a moose

Two books actually:

Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud by Jonathan Safran Foer
this is a book about a young boy who has lost his father in the World Trade Center attacks. He and his father used to have scavenger hunts and after his father has died, the boy finds a key. The rest of the book is his quest to find what the key unlocks. There is a side story about the boy's grandmother and grandfather which is a little sketchy, but just read really fast through those parts... ;-)

Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
Nothing morally wrong here. Tepper, a direct mail guru, likes to sit in his car and read the paper. Clever idea and lots of fun characters, but the plot moves a little slow. The mayor of New York City is trying to get him to stop parking; but no matter what law is passed, Tepper continues to find a legal way to park his car and sit and read the paper.

The Dinner Game
Foreign movies are usually scary but this one was pretty good. The story is a comedy about a group of men who get together once a month for dinner and they "compete" to see which of them can bring the biggest idiot as dinner guest. This plan fails Pierre, the main character, when his back goes out and he can't go to dinner, but his idiot still shows up. The rest of the story is how the evening goes wrong, the doctors is called, many phone calls are made, feelings are hurt and marriages are almost wrecked, but all is put back together in the end by the hands of the bumbling idiot. There is also an audit for tax fraud.

We saw a moose on the paper route a while ago. Rachel saw a ton of them while I was home for the funeral, but I saw one too! They are huge. Just like in the pictures and movies.

The Office
Thursday nights at 8:30 we are glued to NBC. This show is full of dry humor, a touch of slapstick, and just the right balance between office-romance and insane-boss-antics. We love it.


Oh, and about the promised duplex pictures, they will have to wait. Things are not so clean just now...

Sheesh! I hate being a grown-up!

I had gotten thus far when I was interrupted by my manager. He told me that we are supposed to watch the lot so that when (if) customers come, we can greet them, answer questions, and otherwise be friendly. I guess I have to work at this job I have...

About three weeks have past and now I again have some time.

Tomorrow.

Thursday is my day off this week and I will have time to get excited about blogging again.

Things to look forward to:
a) real moose sighting!
b) I have sold some cars!
c) the car I want to buy
d) duplex pictures
e) phone book delivery

got to run!