Weekend Round-Up

So, I finally finished Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" on Friday. I was impressed. The series is easily one of the best I've ever read. When asked what the "moral" of the books is, Lemony Snicket a.k.a. Daniel Handler famously said "When you see Count Olaf, scream and run away."

Nevertheless, the series has a multitude of complex and entertaining lessons for readers of all ages. The overarching, I think, is that life is a series of ebbs and flows, ups and downs, lefts and rights, ins and outs, villains and heroes, safety and danger, night and day, black and white, and that different people see things in different ways. Also, despite the fact that the opinions and concerns of the young are often disregarded, our elders themselves make unfortunate, ridiculous, and devastating mistakes on a daily basis.

...but Mr. Handler still summed it up best.

I also watched "Zodiac" this weekend, which was good enough to keep me up until 3 in the morning, when I was ready to fall asleep at midnight...

My brother, Wayne, visited this weekend, along with his wife Rita and my niece Abby. He's a neuroradiologist at Ohio State. He took a look at my X-Rays and confirmed that the Orthopedic surgeons assessment was probably dead on...so surgery is indeed in my near future. My niece, Abby, is a dancer and photographer, which, I think, makes her one of the few members of my family interested in the arts...keep it up!


Now I'm just relaxing...getting ready for the long week of work I have ahead of me...gotta build up some comp time for the surgery...

Oh....and WATCH "THE HOST" PEOPLES!!!....that's all I'm a sayin'...