California Not Dreamin'....

Today was spent, pretty much, on Pacific Standard Time, thanks to changes in longitudes caused by yesterday's surgery. Not Eleanor's, per se, but the push-back consequence of one of the doctors' earlier surgical appointments having gone bad.  Whereas her first surgery was over and done by 8:30 in the morning, this one didn't finish until early afternoon.

Her followup appointment, which I'd expected to be between 7 and 9 this morning, wound up scheduled for after 11 today (presumably because they need something like 24 hours of healing time). That meant that I had to reschedule my own out-of-town appointments into the mid- and late-afternoon. So 10:30 became 3, 11:30 turned into just-past-4, a 4:30 dinner replaced my usual noonish lunch, and I didn't get home until past 7.

The belated appointments went well. More importantly, she's seeing much better. Maybe so much so that it's a bit overwhelming, getting used to it all at once.  But it's not a bad problem to have.

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While in Rochester today, I found a reference to a rather amazing-sounding film:



“Tim’s Vermeer" follows the journey of Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, (Video Toaster, LightWave, TriCaster) as he attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically – 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning eight years and edited from over 2400 hours of footage, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces; on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney; and eventually to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen’s Vermeer. Directed by Teller, “Tim’s Vermeer” was produced by Penn Jillette and Farley Ziegler and features Tim Jenison, Penn, David Hockney, Philip Steadman and Martin Mull.

No screenings here that I can find- yet- but it does open at the Little next week.

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In other important Rochester debuts, Emily's thesis animation had its initial screening this past weekend. We've watched it, sans sound, and it's amazing. It got positive feedback, and we're looking forward to the final version:)

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That's about all for now. Tomorrow will definitely be back on Eastern Standard and I've got three hours to Leap back.