another good week rolls by

nothin' much to report; just another good, normal week. work went well and i made some good progress. a different team is heading off to china and we got them all squared away for success. lindsay had a busy week at work and almost every night involved making some dinner, playing with jake, and plopping on the couch for a rest before heading to bed.

we received 3 netflix movies in time for the weekend and i tried to crank them out over the weekend. we only have half of one left, but that's ok because the mail doesn't run today (happy mlk day! i'm at work!). if i haven't mentioned it, i'm trying to watch all of the afi top 100 movies (well, 99 of them. there's this one from 1915 that's a 3 hour glorification of the kkk that i don't care to see) and then i'll continue on with the imdb top 250. according to the number of movies i've rated on netflix, i've seen over 830 movies, but only 26 of those are on the afi top 100 list. anyways, this weekend, i watched duck soup with the marx brothers and city lights with charlie chaplin. i got them both at the same time because they were pretty short and easy to knock off the list. my response was pretty polar to them - i disliked the marx bros. flick and really liked the charlie chaplin flick. looking back, i realize that it's just the style of humor in the marx bros. flick that annoyed me and that people in 60 years will probably be annoyed with jim carrey in the same way. the chaplin flick was silent, but even jake was laughing at some parts. without words, there is more physicality in chaplin's words, but not too much of just being silly. this flick is a love story and it was fun to see those emotions played out without words.

next up: finish chinatown - from 1974 with jack nicholson at his finest. (though i recently saw one flew over the cuckoo's nest and he was pretty incredible in that too.)