Monday morning stuff

Well, as a resolution to the grill situation, my landlord said I could have one, but it has to be charcoal. She's nervous about having propane around. I guess I can deal with that. I've never done charcoal grilling before, so I guess it's time to learn. Supposedly it's more flavorful, so that's pretty good. The summer of grilling is soon to return.
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Saw V For Vendetta finally on Saturday. I was never a big fan of the book. I thought it was good, but a bit dense (as is all of Moore's stuff that I've read) and a bit meandering. Moore is one of those critically acclaimed comics guys who I do enjoy to some extent but seems just past that line of being a little too smart for me to read comfortably.

Anyway, the movie was pretty great. Very much a film of ideas. Moreso than you'd expect than from seeing the trailers, which bill it more as an action film. Dumbed down a bit for Hollywood (and for Chris) it took a very smart book and turned into a smart movie. And much like how seeing Fight Club helped me decipher how to read a Chuck Palahniuk book, I'm wondering if seeing this will help me appreciate the comic more. I'll have to give it another run through.
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The godfather strikes again. My cousin Melissa asked me to be the godfather for her son Aiden. The christening is May 18th. So there's a tiny little problem. From May 10th-16th I'm going to be in New Mexico and Arizona with my folks. I fly home on the 16th, and have to get right back on another plane on the 17th and fly down south. Oof!

I just have to figure out how to work this now. The rest of my week is pretty much shot as far as work is concerned. Since the christening is on Thursday morning, I'm not going to fly home Thursday night just to go to work on Friday and save myself the vacation day. So I might as well stay down south until Sunday. But where and how are the questions.

My two choices are to stay at my folk's place in South Carolina. It's in the middle of the sticks but only about a 40 minute drive to Savannah, which as proven one night last summer, is a fun place to hang. Or I could stay with my sister up at her place in North Carolina, as she is the godmother and driving down for this. There doesn't seem like much to do around Cary where she lives, but I honestly haven't seen that much of it. And I could hang with my nephews.

All things being equal, I think I'd probably rather stay in SC, but it's a good deal more expensive to fly in and out of Savannah than it is Raleigh-Durham. Also, since I'm using up a good amount of my vacation time this early in the year, I was thinking of inviting some people down to the folk's house to hang for a few days, so I can at least do a little vacationing with my peeps, much like myself, Matt, and Brian did last year. Unfortunately it's not particularly convenient to get to, but I think I'll at least offer around because last year was fun.

Anyway, I guess that means I should start researching some flights and such to see if it could financially happen.

Later, y'all.