Thieves' Highway, another Jules Dassin noir that I don't think I've seen before. Interesting, but the protagonist is hard to like at all (and is often stupid), and the ending resolution seemingly comes out of nowhere.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, very 2001, the beginning has a ridiculously long shuttle ride fly-by of the Enterprise, despite the narrative haste the characters are supposed to be in, yet later the ending happens so fast you barely get a denouement.
Rereading Locas the past few days. The earliest stories are a bit hard to get through these days, but after 200 pages or so Jaime really starts coming into his own. Always forget how little we actually see of Maggie and Hopey as a couple. In the earliest ones Maggie is often away on her adventures, then not too long after Hopey goes away on her tour (and iirc they never really get back together as such).
We were watching a lot of baseball the past 2 weeks, since the Phillies were in the play-offs (fair weather fans). A number of exciting games, though the World Series ending games were a big thud.
Bathroom renovation starts next week, and I've been slowly organizing a temporary shower set-up for our basement. I'm still not sure it will all actually work or if it does how awkward it's going to be to use for... a few weeks.
