Well, dear readers, the poor motor car needed a major servicing, which was very expensive, and then, of course, it needed a lot of other stuff, which they found out when they did the major servicing. Since this happens every single time one does wonder if it’s all really true. So, what was already pricey doubled in price. I gotta tell you. So, all of that was going to take a long time, so they gave me a loaner – a brand new Q50, which seems to be the new version of my G37. It’s quite a nice car – it basically looks very similar to mine, but the interior design has been prettified and it drives very well. With all the dough I’m about to spend on my own car, I should hope it would drive equally well. The problem I was having the night before was, as I suspected, due to a dying battery in the keyless fob. So, they’ve replaced the battery in it and my spare fob.
I was up at seven after only about four hours of sleep, and to the car place by eight. I came back home and did some work on the computer, the packaging went in for approval, and I got everything ready for the shipping of the vocal selection books – those are all going out this morning. I did some banking, then went and had a Chinese chicken salad and a bagel. As always, writer D.C. Fontana was there and I told her I’d just seen her in that Star Trek documentary about Next Generation. After eating, I picked up one little package, then came home. I then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I finished watching Jurassic World. It was certainly entertaining, but the writing was pretty rancid and I’m not sure it was so entertaining as to its now being the third highest-grossing film in the history of the planet and environs, grossing over a billion dollars. That good it wasn’t. The effects are very good, and I really like Ron Howard’s daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, although her character in kind of ineptly written. It’s loud, fast, and some fun and thankfully under two hours even with the long end credits.
Then our very own Juliana Hansen came by to pick up some CDs, and we went out for a bite. I had a chicken stir-fry thing that I hope was calorie friendly. We had a lovelier than lovely chat and then I came back home and sat on my couch like so much fish again.
Last night, I watched another DGA screener, this one entitled Sicario, one of those drug cartel pictures that seem to be all the rage, this one starring Emily Blunt, Benecio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. While I don’t think it’s the best film of the year (many seem to), it’s pretty okay for what it is, but what it is isn’t really my cuppa. No need to go into the plot, other than to say what seems like a film about the FBI and other groups trying to get to the crime head of a cartel, it’s really just a revenge film in the end, with a few other things on its mind. The director previously did Prisoners, with Hugh Jackman, a film I pretty much hated. It’s all well done, but, you know, I can pretty much live without these kinds of films. Another DGA screener should have been left by UPS but wasn’t, so that one, Black Mass, will be here today.
Today, I’ll be back at the car dealer by ten to pick up the motor car, then I’ll come right home and we’ll get all these sheet music books in the mail. After that, I really have to buckle down, Winsocki, and write a few little commentary things for this birthday party soiree, and then for our Kritzerland show. I’ll eat (I’ll cook something here), I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, and then I’ll relax and perhaps watch Black Mass, which is the story of Whitey Fulger, a gangster. I watched a documentary about him on Netflix about six months ago.
Tomorrow and Friday are meetings and meals, Friday night is a little rehearsal for the Sunday birthday soiree, and then I think I can relax on Saturday and you know what’s what on Sunday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, pick up the motor car, mail out vocal selection books, eat, hopefully pick up packages, write various and sundried commentaries, and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that the motor car will once again be in tip-top shape.