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I took myself to see
Tuner right after work last week, and while I would hardly call it a masterpiece, I would say it's far better than most crime thrillers out there. I really, really enjoyed it. And sure, it's still within the B- / B / B+ range I've given all of the last 14 movies I've gone to see (if not for a couple of nitpicks I might have gone ahead and given it an A-), but it was still the first B+ I have given in nearly a month. I loved how original it was, and I found it thoroughly entertaining.
I also saw this movie unusually late in its theatrical release: it opened on May 22. Even my originally scheduled day to go see this movie was Friday, May 29—a full week after release—because the weekend of the 22nd was when Gabriel and I went to Lummi Island; I was home on holiday pay Monday the 25th for Memorial Day but I saw
I Love Boosters instead (I would have been better off seeing
Tuner); and originally i was going to see
The Mandalorian and Grogu on Tuesday the 26th and then have Action Movie Night on the 27th and then go to the Grand Reopening of Westlake Park with Laney on the 28th. But: I had my bike accident in the morning on Tuesday the 26th, which wiped out
all plans for the rest of that week, at least until Alexia came to stay the night on Saturday; I didn't go see a movie in a theater again until Alexia and I saw our rescheduled
Mandalorian and Grogu on Sunday the 31st.
I could have gone to see
Tuner sooner, on one of the days of the week of the 31st, but I already had
Pressure to go see Wednesday and Shobhit and I did First Thursday Art Walk on Thursday and then I had plans both days over last weekend; I just didn't want to over-extend myself. In fact, I was afraid I may have actually missed my window for seeing
Tuner in theaters, but it's actually still got one showtime each day this week. And since there was nothing else playing that I wanted to see, I finally got to see it—and it was the best movie I've gone to in a month.
I will say this: with yesterday being my first day back in-office, and tacking on the movie right after work, by the time I was headed home it did feel like a little much. (Sure, I did go see
Pressure right after work last week, but it's a little different if I haven't left home all day before going to the movie.) But, as I noted to Alexia during several text exchanges after the movie:
Oh well, I want to live my life! I noted that I was still taking the bus home and will likely walk to work and then bus home for the next week or two. She replied in part,
Keep living your life! Walking to work makes sense. Moving helps keep you from getting completely stiff. There's probably some truth to that.
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Still, I bussed to work again this morning—and this time I didn't even have a weighted down backpack to worry about like I did yesterday when I brought all my stuff back to my desk. I had planned to walk to work this morning, but Shobhit told me I should take a bus. He was worried about it raining and the possibility of my slipping and hurting myself. Usually I think he worries way too much (and that's actually usually true), but the truth is, if I
were to slip and fall on the sidewalk somewhere, I actually could do some real damage while my organs continue slowly healing.
So, since there was once again a #10 about to arrive, I went ahead and went downstairs and caught that bus down to 5th Avenue, where I then walked only the last two blocks to work.
Yesterday being Monday, hardly anyone else was here in-office. Today's a different story, although several people, including Noah and Frank, are out of town at an industry conference in Chicago today through the rest of the week. But Kevin was here, and when I said good morning he asked how I was feeling. "I've been better," I said, "but I was also way worse, just two weeks ago!" Kevin commented on how I was moving like I was still a little sore, which is indeed true.
That's the thing: it's been two solid weeks since the accident as of this morning, and thus 12 days since I came home from the hospital, and I have yet to waver from my thrice-daily doses of two Extra Strength Tylenol. I'm going to keep that up until the pain actually fully goes away. I only took a partial pill of the methocarbamol before bed twice last week, and I have to date still only taken a cumulative single pill of that since I left the hospital. I am sleeing just a tiny bit better each night, but I continue feeling slight pain and moderate stiffness each time I get out of bed. None of this feels unsurprising, given the edict that I not do any activities that could result in "bodily impact" (including bike riding) for six weeks. I'm only two weeks into that stretch right now.
My hope and expectation is that I will be notably, if not remarkably, better by next weekend, when Shobhit and I drive up to Whistler for our anniversary. Shobhit was looking at tickets for the Peak 2 Peak Gondola this morning, and we're thinking about prepurchasing those tickets for the day we arrive. As long as we head out early in the morning, that should work fine, and gets the thing I want to do way more than he does (though I think he'll also enjoy it) out of the way on the first day there, and then on Sunday, the actual day of our anniversary, we can focus on things we both want to do equally.
I did look up places to have Afternoon Tea in Whister, and to my surprise, there don't seem to be any. We've done that in both Victoria and Toronto now; we should find a place to do it the next time we stay in Vancouver. It seems kind of nuts now that we've never done it in Vancouver; we've now done it in
four places, three of them Canadian: Waterton Lakes National Park in 2008; Victoria in 2022 (still my favorite); Toronto in 2024; and then Seattle in 2025. Victoria and Toronto were also both anniversary trips, so it would be fitting that we found a place in Whistler for it, but there doesn't seem to be anyone there doing it!
Whistler will be by a wide margin the smallest place we've ever stayed in Canada, though (population roughly 14,000), so that probably has to do with it. I'm still surprised given what a tourist destination it is, but then, people go there for hiking and skiing, not for Afternoon Tea.
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[posted 12:29pm]
