Date: 01 June 2007 23:04:40
And at my wits end: work is still rather more busy than I'd like. Today [Saturday] will see me doing some more catch-up work -- I kicked something off last night which *should* finish around noon today; God willing, Sunday may be free. I'm planning to head to our church's recently-started Saturday morning Liturgy[*] -- I need a worship service: as well as being physically drained I feel rather spiritually drained at present too -- then set off to work. And, while this project has taken up an extra week of my time, other things have slipped a bit. Oh well: I have very understanding management and what happened was unforeseen (as most things in IT are!) -- despite extensive, and I mean, extensive, testing, a move from development to production always brings a few issues.
Though, as you can see from my posts below, it hasn't stopped a fun week: the process I'm running takes about 18 hours to run and I can only kick it off after processing for the day has completed, so my evenings have been relatively free of work drama. Last night I went off to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Much has been made, down here at least, of its length [168 mins], the numerous (potentially confusing?) sub-plots, its length, whether we are over Pirates after two of them, and, did I mention, its length? So I did go with some trepidation: but, after a busy and stressful week at work, and after seeing the drama and tragedy of Romulus, my Father, I was in the mood for a joyous jaunt with pirates in a world of complete fantasy -- and that is exactly what I got.
I'll admit I did find it long, but moreso in terms of some scenes rather than the movie as a whole -- I thought some scenes, even the exciting fighting ones, went on, and on, and on. But, I did enjoy it: it was just such good fun. And while there were a number of sub-plots, I didn't find them to troublesome to follow. Johnny Depp continues his magical portrayal of Capt Jack Sparrow; Chow Yun-Fat makes brief appearances as a Singaporean Pirate; Geoffrey Rush is wondrous as Capt Barbossa, and Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley put in great performances, as did the supporting cast including Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett -- don't you just want to see him come to grief?
That said: I hope that's the last one. I couldn't stand a four-hour Part IV!
Once I got in my car to drive home, and wound down the window, I got a rather nasty surprise by finding a spider was climbing up the outside of my window -- and a rather large one at that. I, after checking the rear-view mirror (safety first), slammed on the brake and wound up the window as fast as I could. I hoped, by the time I got home, on a chilly night and after a few 70km/h zones, it may have flown off. Once I got home there was no sign of it -- thanks be to God.
[*] edit several hours later: our priest has the flu, so Liturgy was cancelled. Please remember him in your prayers.