Sleepy Sunday Morning

My cat, Jasper seems to express how I feel this morning. Sleepy, lethargic, want to be left alone. Wasn't feeling well again yesterday. Took a couple of naps before I realized that I forgot to drink coffee that morning. Also went to a pancake breakfast and the food didn't sit well with me. I took my daughter and three of her friends and we went to the park next door after the breakfast. I swung on the swings. That could have contributed to the sick feeling.

Didn't get much accomplished after that. I rented two movies for the girls. Shrek 2 and White Chicks. I really have to tolerate the second one. I have mentioned before that I am not a big fan of "bathroom humor." This movie is full of that. I saw the Shrek2 at the theatre, so I slept through this running.

My nephew stopped in to visit. Took his sister to a movie. This is the first they have visited since she got her speeding ticket. Which, by the way I have not received in the mail, yet. We don't know when the court date is or anything.

After the movie, he and I talked technology. He is upgrading his computer again and building a server for home. He builds servers for work all the time, and he finally will get the chance to build one at home. He got a new toy, a Replay. He was showing me remotely all the stuff he can do with it. I am thinking about getting one. I want to be able to record movies and dump them to my PC for later viewing. My nephew is so far into this stuff. He is a true sci-fi fan. All his set recordings were sci-fi programs.

My Mom was a big original Star Trek fan. The original series from the 60's. I would sit and watch them with her. (I think she had a crush on William Shatner). I don't have a problem with that. We also watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel together. And, one of my very favorites: UFO. I think it was their snazzy cars with the doors that opened up instead of out. My Mom and I shared this twisted and strange dramatic interest. We also would watch some horror movies on Saturday afternoon together. This was as close as I could get to watching scary movies - on a Saturday afternoon with my Mom. How safe is that!?

This special time my Mom and I shared turned into eventually watching PBS together on Sunday afternoons. This was before cable television or just around the beginning of it. We lived in a small town where cable had not reached us yet. Our t.v. viewing was very limited. Two stations and a PBS station. I was deprived of the ABC channel when I was growing up because our antenna was positioned a certain way. Living in a huge two-story home, nobody was brave enough to venture to the roof to turn the antenna.

For those of you too young to remember before cable television, we had three major networks. ABC, NBC and CBS. And there was PBS. On Sunday afternoon the PBS network began playing Brideshead Revisited. My Mom and I began watching it because the scenery was so pretty. Horses and lush green grass. Then we became intrigued with the British accents. After that the story line hooked us and we became fans. I got the book by Evelyn Waugh from the library and read it. Evelyn is a man.

Omigod. Quizzilla even has a "What Brideshead Character Are You?" quiz. I am Lord Marchmain. Goodness me. I never would have guessed that one. But, then again...