This was the second book in Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy. I didn’t like it as much as the first one, but it was ok. I’m hoping he has a strong finish with the final book, but I’m going to read a couple other things before I start on that.
One thing about this book that was hard to follow was the number of characters. At the end of the book, he lists them all for some reason and there are over 70. How am I supposed to remember all of that?
My rating: 3/5
I just love Dan Levy and his sweaters! This was a decent movie about grief–it was not overly sentimental. Nowhere near as good as Schitt’s Creek, but I look forward to seeing more from Dan Levy in the future.
My rating: 3/5
After being in for a month, Jake went back to Virginia today. It was nice seeing him (and Amelia) for an extended length of time. Who knows if that will ever happen again? It was also nice having some company for dinner. And, I really hit it lucky having him home for the two snow storms. Haha.
While he was in, we worked on a puzzle that we’ve been working on for over a year. I guess I’m going to have to wrap it up myself because I just want it to be done at this point. We also played a new game I got for Christmas, Go. It’s fun, but we’re still figuring out the rules. It seems simple, but it is not. I’ll probably take it on our cabin trip this summer, which I just made reservations for this week. I’m already looking forward to it!
He’s not scheduled to be in again until May (for a work thing). I guess it’s possible they’ll be in at some point between now and then, but it would probably just be for a weekend. So I guess I just need to be thankful for the time I did get to spend with him.
This comedy was written and directed by Bill Burr. It was about, well, old dads. Something he knows a little about. This was not a hilarious comedy by any means, but definitely more amusing than anything I’ve seen in recent months. If you like Bill Burr and you’re a Gen Xer, you’ll probably like it.
My rating: 3/5
Ralphie doesn’t allow me to trim his nails so I take him to the vet about once a year for a sedated trim. The last time we went (a little over a year ago), he wouldn’t let me put a muzzle on him, so I ended up having to hire a dog trainer to teach me how to get him to wear a muzzle. That went well, but he will always remove it after a period of time, so I have more work to do.
Yesterday, he had another sedated trim scheduled, as well as a checkup, and vaccinations. I didn’t have any problems getting the muzzle on him, but when the vet and vet tech came into the room, he knew what was up so he ripped it off. I was expecting this and tried to hold it in place, but he won that battle, multiple times. Did I mention that he weighs 85 pounds? He’s a big boy and can do whatever he wants. After a couple of rounds of this, we did the same thing as last time–I started walking through a door with him, they closed it on him midway through, and gave him the shot while he was stuck.
Thanks to his adrenaline, it took him about 30 minutes to fall asleep. For safety reasons, I remuzzled him and the vet did an exam and gave him his shots. Then a tech came in to do his nails and started with the back. Ralphie kept pulling his foot away, so he got another tech to help and was going to do the front when Ralphie stood up because he wasn’t having any of that. They left the room in order to give him a chance to fall back asleep. Once he did, I grabbed the nail clippers and did them myself. I felt like their presence was causing him to wake up. In either case, mission accomplished.
He received yet another shot (I think that was number 4) to reverse the sedative and woke up pretty quickly, so we went home where he proceeded to sleep until this morning (only getting up to eat supper and have a 10:00 snack). He still seems pretty sleepy today. I’m sure he’s sore as well, from all the shots. Poor dog. I don’t know why he’s like this, but it definitely makes going to the vets unpleasant for everyone involved.