The Process of Elimination
"I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work." - Edison
Meaning that while the weather has been, to say the least, adversarial, the day will be spent off digging a few more holes. I need to take bigger samples, process more dirt, even if they're there I won't find them in the first few buckets, I'll have to commit to moving a few meters of dirt a day, and every place I look is another star on the map, it's the process of elimination, I don't need to find them, just find where they're not...
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Don't Breathe
The daughter today, film and dinner at NoTables. Dinner, good, surprisingly she's not so familiar with finer dining. The boy's been privileged in having a far better education, so far, she's enjoying catching up...
The film, well, I thought a good pick for a teen-age girl. Don't Breathe. Don't all teenage girls like horror flicks? Maybe she did and just wasn't telling me...it would be like her...
The film, good. A bit long, for a while there it began to feel like I was trapped in that god-damned house as well. Horror done well, without the invocation of dark supernatural forces, well written, possibly (but not likely) low budget (no reason to spend a lot of money on this), well timed, thought out, and while I didn't find it "enjoyable" - it was a horror film, after all, it was a good film and had a few completely fucked up moments where it both adhered to and defied conventions...
Good, I'd say. I like film, not necessarily Horror, but this was well done.
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Rumours
And tonight, returned to work, a long break between shifts paying bills....the nephew has some news...
The Nephew is the world's most unreliable witness. Witless. That the owner's been working on a sale to a group of Lawyers, it's almost done, when it's done we'll be paid as well, a couple of thousand, enough...when? Soon...
I don't know. I get he'd want to sell, this recession, it's without end, and the restaurant has been a headquarters of sorts for commercial real estate agents, but what will he do? He's not someone with a lot of other interests or hobbies...Still, if he's selling it saves me quitting, if he's selling - soon - it makes sense to wait until the deal is done, can have the parachute of EI if required, the only problem is I'd like a date, the ability to organize some plans, the nephew doesn't have this and the owner's said nothing, he's preoccupied with his own worries...
...and I wonder about the reservations we've taken, months in advance, and what his plans are there, but his concerns, necessarily, are more immediate, and so it's ride out September and see what October brings...
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CIFF 2016
The Calgary International Film Festival - September 21 - October 2. Various venues, a lot of promising films. Check it out and make your plan...
CIFF: http://www.calgaryfilm.com/
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