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Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Nov. 20th, 2016 10:33 amWowzers. Two posts in under 24 hours. And a pretty good batch of hours at that.
Last night, we saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first of five-promised one-offs from the Harry Potterverse- this one written for the screen by JKR herself, directed by David Yates (who did the last several), and introducing a mostly-new cast of mostly-unheralded actors; other than Eddie Redmayne in the lead role and Two Guys You've Heard Of in villain turns (spoilers, sweetie), most of the rest of the cast were new-to-me's. Including the female lead played by Katherine Waterston, as in one of Sam's kids. I wonder if that will lead up to a guest wizarding appearance by Dad sometime later in the series.
I did have some trouble with Wizard Math, though. Not really spoilers in this, at least not in terms of anything important to the story, but I'll cut it anyway in case it's boring:
( You can't take 1980 from 1926, 1926 is less than 1980... )
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Some snow finally arrived here in the night; we were spared all of what hit as near as Rochester a few weeks ago, and this dusting was nothing compared to what points south got. Still, it got Ebony excited enough to go rolling in it when I let her out first thing, and she then got even more happies when not only I but Eleanor accompanied her to the dog park at 8 this morning.
A nice time, if chilly; Ann and her Ursula caught up with us quickly and we took one lap around before heading home. I may take some more swings at clearing a massive leaf pile out of our back yard; the pin oak finally dropped its load last week, and Stupidhead here didn't get to it when it was 70F on Friday or even upper 50s yesterday morning. Plus, we only have one can to haul it out to the curb, since we've loaned all our other extra cans to our neighbor's niece and nephew to help in the decluttering of Betty's house. (One of their kids may move in for the winter, just to keep the place up and running.)
Meanwhile, if anyone's got an extra wand laying around that works on leaves,...
Last night, we saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first of five-promised one-offs from the Harry Potterverse- this one written for the screen by JKR herself, directed by David Yates (who did the last several), and introducing a mostly-new cast of mostly-unheralded actors; other than Eddie Redmayne in the lead role and Two Guys You've Heard Of in villain turns (spoilers, sweetie), most of the rest of the cast were new-to-me's. Including the female lead played by Katherine Waterston, as in one of Sam's kids. I wonder if that will lead up to a guest wizarding appearance by Dad sometime later in the series.
I did have some trouble with Wizard Math, though. Not really spoilers in this, at least not in terms of anything important to the story, but I'll cut it anyway in case it's boring:
( You can't take 1980 from 1926, 1926 is less than 1980... )
----
Some snow finally arrived here in the night; we were spared all of what hit as near as Rochester a few weeks ago, and this dusting was nothing compared to what points south got. Still, it got Ebony excited enough to go rolling in it when I let her out first thing, and she then got even more happies when not only I but Eleanor accompanied her to the dog park at 8 this morning.
A nice time, if chilly; Ann and her Ursula caught up with us quickly and we took one lap around before heading home. I may take some more swings at clearing a massive leaf pile out of our back yard; the pin oak finally dropped its load last week, and Stupidhead here didn't get to it when it was 70F on Friday or even upper 50s yesterday morning. Plus, we only have one can to haul it out to the curb, since we've loaned all our other extra cans to our neighbor's niece and nephew to help in the decluttering of Betty's house. (One of their kids may move in for the winter, just to keep the place up and running.)
Meanwhile, if anyone's got an extra wand laying around that works on leaves,...