Hello May

here it is, the dawn of a new month and the more things change the more they stay the same. it's another sunny day in the alamo city and the weekend is here. yesterday spent it out and about and caught the new movie Iron Man. it's the new Robert Downey, jr movie and i have to admit he's a pretty good actor.....when he's sober....honestly, i had never seen him in action since he comes out mostly on chick flicks and you know me, i stay away from those like the plague. but now that i've had a chance to see him he seems like a good actor. the movie in general was good, it was 2 1/2 hours long but this was one of those movies where you don't even notice the time go by. it's about this weapons manufacturer who gets kidnapped in afghanistan and force to build a missile for the bad guys. instead he builds a body armor that allows him to escape his captives. once free again, he stops making weapons and focuses on this armor thing and in the end transforms himself into Iron Man the superheroe. i loved it, it even had stan lee in a cameo performance. if i had a chance to watch it again i would. and i say that about very few movies, actually.

this week was the new episode of house and bones. had to record them because we had to go out. our neighbor Kathleen Martinez passed away on the 24th and they had the wake on monday. we were unable to attend the funeral because there was no way they'd let me out of work for that because it's not immediate family. it was sad because it is so different when you've actually interacted w/the person before. we'd do favors for her around the house when she needed some manual labor done and to thank us she invited us to her home for dinner one day. we weren't exactly friends but we spoke to her on occasion. oh, well, such is life. may she rest in peace wherever she is.

anyways, the new episodes this week were okay. even house was so so. criminal minds was cool because one of the "victims" that had gone missing turned out to be the suspect. he walked away from his life to escape his abusive father who drilled it into his head that being gay was evil so the guy ended being a killer who searched out gay guys and killed them. wow, was that a twist. it took me a couple of seconds to figure it out but as a writer myself i was, like, wow, that was a brilliant twist. my hat is off to the writer. even smallville and supernatural had new episodes but i can't remember what they were about. i do remember that on reaper sam finally told the girl the truth about who he is and what he does. at first, of course, she didn't believe him but when she inadvertenly helped to get the soul she was freaking out but accepted it at the end. on friday i had to record midnight because dr who comes out at the same time and i'd rather watch that. this time they ended up in pompeii the day before the volcano erupted. donna wanted him to save the entire town but he could only help one family. this show reminds me of quantum leap in the sense that supposedly in the original "history" the whole planet gets destroyed but he managed to make it so that only that town gets buried. that was cool. on midnight i guess i missed an episode because he only gets to enjoy being human again a little bit but he ends up having to be "turned" again so that he can help, oh, i forget the name of the woman. oh, well, the point is he turns into a vampire again and is almost "ousted" when he becomes the body guard for a celebrity. you know, because of the papparazzi and stuff. today is the two hour season finale of dexter. man, last sunday i thought he was going to kill the ex husband but he only ended up planting evidence so he could get locked up again and leave him and the woman alone. i can't believe i actually said, aw, man , he didn't kill him. i think today his sister is gonna be in danger since she's dating the ice-truck killer and she doesn't know it. it's also a new episode of cold case. it's gonna be a long night.

the 31 of this month is david's high school graduation. i hope we'll be able to go but it's still too far away to know. aside from that, it's been quite. sorry i can't talk about work because that's a whole other drama.