This was a pretty good mobster movie, but by no means a classic. It told the story of James “Whitey” Bulger, an Irish mobster in Boston. But I guess that’s probably redundant to say–where else would story about the Irish Mob take place?
Definitely worth a watch if you enjoy this genre.
My rating: 3.5/5
Speaking of pain…I woke up Saturday morning with back pain (in the vicinity of my right shoulder area). This has happened to me many times in the past, but it’s always super annoying to go to bed fine and then wake up like that (I mean, it’s not like I was doing anything in my sleep). Needless to say, this put a damper on the day as I was unable to do a bunch of planned activities (such as going for a motorcycle ride, weeding the garden, painting outside, etc.). But, it did not stop us from going out to dinner with our friends Carol & Bob. We met up with them at Franklin Street Bar & Grill. This was the first we’d been out with them in over a year. Hopefully, the next time will be sooner than that.
Jacob was fooling around with his friends on Sunday and sprained his knee. I took him to iCare on the 4th for x-rays and such. They didn’t feel that there was any ligament damage, but it’s still bothering him. So, if this keeps up, I guess we’ll be making another trip to the doctor. Luckily, he didn’t have to work until Wednesday this week, so that gave him a couple of days to rest his injury.
I guess I shouldn’t complain–this is the first incident like this ever. Not bad for 16 years.
Brian and I celebrated our 20th anniversary on June 28th. Since one of our Thunder afternoons off work was canceled due to the weather, we decided to take the afternoon of the 28th off instead.
We took a motorcycle ride to Yellow Creek State Park in the afternoon. It was a nice day for a ride. Then we went to the Boulevard Grill for dinner. It was just the two of us as Jake was at work. Then, in the evening, we had a fire on the patio to cap off the night.
It’s hard to believe it has been 20 years. Most of the time.
We kicked off Thunder by going to Richland Bike Bash on Wednesday night. We were supposed to take Thursday afternoon off work, but it was cold and rainy, so that got nixed. We did make it downtown later that day (after the rain finally stopped), but it was a ghost town so we didn’t stay long. We went downtown Friday and Saturday night, too. We ran into a lot of people that we knew and it was nice to catch up with everyone.
We took Friday afternoon off and rode to Duman Lake County Park. Saturday afternoon, we rode out to Pool N Pork in Nanty Glo. We were surprised to be charged an admission fee. I can only hope that party picked up in the evening as there really weren’t any people there. We did not stay long.
Sunday, we put Lizzy in the sidecar and went for a quick ride through downtown and Richland. She enjoyed it, as always, but it was pretty hot out.
While Thursday was a washout, at least the weather was nice for the rest of the rally.