This told the biographical story of Navy SEAL (and sniper) Chris Kyle. I’m a sucker for a good war movie and this was definitely one of those. I guess there was some controversy over the movie due to the subject matter, but the guy was just doing his job. Conversely, watching this movie made me want to go out and buy a flag. ‘Murica!
My rating: 4/5
Today is the first day of Jake’s sophomore year. So, like any pair of responsible parents, we took him to see the Foo Fighters last night. What an amazing show! I opted out of their last tour due to the ticket prices and have been kicking myself ever since. So, there was no way I was going to miss them on this tour–I’ve had the tickets since December.
We had new sewer lines put in our investment property yesterday. It’s a relief that project’s finally done. If the place should sell, it was going to need to be done before the sale went through. In the more likely event that we end up renting it out again, it’s good to know that it is already done (so that we won’t have to inconvenience the renter(s).
We are getting an estimate for the office today. I can’t wait to find out what that’s going to cost. And we might have to replace the lines at our house, too, though that won’t be this year (thankfully).
One down, two to go.
Yesterday was busy in a social kind of way. We went out for lunch at Asiago’s to celebrate the birthdays of my mom, dad and grandmother (who all had birthdays in the past week).
And, Sunday night, Judy came over to catch the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead. Despite some technical difficulties (Sling TV–get with it!), it was a fun evening. I guess the positive thing about the Sling TV outages was that it gave us extra time to talk. As for the show, I thought the first episode was a little slow, but it looks like the SHTF in the next episode, so I am hopeful that this is going to be a good series. It’s definitely an interesting take on the existing story.
For someone who doesn’t like to be the center of attention, sometimes I have to question myself. Brian, Lizzy and I took a motorcycle ride to Ligonier yesterday afternoon. This was Lizzy’s 2nd major ride and she was the perfect passenger. Since it was an absolutely beautiful day, people were out in full force and we did not go unnoticed–there was a lot of pointing and smiling. While traveling through Ligonier, we passed another motorcyle/sidecar combination–those people seemed particularly happy to see us (though I don’t know why you’d have a person in your sidecar and not a dog–to each his own).