Mmm, turkey leftovers

To all my fellow Amurkins, here's hoping that you had a fabulous Thanksgiving and got to spend the time with your loved ones. I'm very pleased to have had a fine, fine Turkey Day here at MurkNorth, where solarbird, spazzkat, risu, and I were joined by mamishka, kingchiron, darthhellokitty, citrine, and cow! Jenga and You Don't Know Jack were played. Tasty food was consumed. Lovely conversation was had. And it was all accompanied by a fine falling rain to clear out the air inversion we've had around here lately, which should improve the air quality considerably.

(Speaking of cow, HI COW! Y'all welcome Cow to my Friends list.)

Anyway, I made a specific point of getting on the treadmill this morning because oof, too much food. Here at MurkNorth we are awash in the expected leftovers, and we expect to be in food coma mode for most of the weekend. Says Dara, "BRAP!"

kathrynt is supposed to come over today for a bad movie marathon, the "Sci-Fi Pictures Original" Mosquito vs. Battlefield Earth. I think we're on to a tradition here. And a plan is in the works to go see the new Harry Potter flick on Saturday!

In the meantime, I am reading my way through Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War, finally. More on this when I'm done!

Friday miles: 2.2 (treadmill)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 509.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 51.9
Miles to Lothlórien: 410.1

Booma booma booma

We're having quite the storm here in Kenmore. We just had a helluva flash and a boom strong enough to rattle the house. And I mean physically rattle the house. That was actually scary!

We think we may have angered the movie gods having watched Mosquito and Battlefield Earth. We may have to appease them by watching Citizen Kane or The Manchurian Candidate.

Consensus, by the way, is that Battlefield Earth is hands down the worst of the movies we've watched so far in the Movie Suck-Offs. Go see solarbird's tally of the damage. We're taking it back to the video store down the hill tomorrow. It's not due back till Wednesday, but we're not letting it stay in the house any longer than absolutely necessary. The lethal anti-quality field it's emitting may start sucking quality out of the movies in our actual collection, after all.

And the only reason I'm not taking it back to the video store right now? Because we're having a storm with lightning and thunder close enough to RATTLE THE HOUSE.

More Friday miles: 2.1 (walking)
Miles out of Hobbiton: 512
Miles out of Rivendell: 54
Miles to Lothlórien: 408