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Ben was rather clingy yesterday; he wanted a lot of petting. I'm not sure I gave him as much as he wanted, but he seems to have forgiven me.
I watched the DVD version of 1776 last night. It's a considerable improvement, I think, on the videotape. The "Cool Considerate Men" number doesn't do much for me, but the restored bits elsewhere were good. Scene transitions were less choppy, and there were some nice architectural elements. For instance, both versions include an exchange between John and Abigail in which he grouses about his shortcomings and she reassures him; the last item on his list is pigheadedness, and she admits defeat. ("There you have me, John.") The DVD version, though, also includes a roughly parallel scene much earlier but running in the opposite direction. It's a good movie, despite my reservations about historical inaccuracies, some of which I mentioned in a post some time back.
I'm not doing much else. The weather has been intermittently stormy all weekend, and will continue to be so through Wednesday. I'm going to schedule the vet trip for Thursday or Friday. It's a fairly long walk, and I don't relish being caught by a storm half a mile from home with one of the dogs. Thursday's supposed to be nice. In the meantime, I've been making quick progress through In the Bleak Midwinter and rather slower progress through Jurgen. I'll probably have comments to offer on both when the time comes.
I watched the DVD version of 1776 last night. It's a considerable improvement, I think, on the videotape. The "Cool Considerate Men" number doesn't do much for me, but the restored bits elsewhere were good. Scene transitions were less choppy, and there were some nice architectural elements. For instance, both versions include an exchange between John and Abigail in which he grouses about his shortcomings and she reassures him; the last item on his list is pigheadedness, and she admits defeat. ("There you have me, John.") The DVD version, though, also includes a roughly parallel scene much earlier but running in the opposite direction. It's a good movie, despite my reservations about historical inaccuracies, some of which I mentioned in a post some time back.
I'm not doing much else. The weather has been intermittently stormy all weekend, and will continue to be so through Wednesday. I'm going to schedule the vet trip for Thursday or Friday. It's a fairly long walk, and I don't relish being caught by a storm half a mile from home with one of the dogs. Thursday's supposed to be nice. In the meantime, I've been making quick progress through In the Bleak Midwinter and rather slower progress through Jurgen. I'll probably have comments to offer on both when the time comes.
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