Last Logan, EV meet up, second dose, galumpkis

Cindy and I got out to see Logan Saturday night.  Instead of going to Coconut Point we went to Paragon which is sort of a lower level Silverspot with preassigned “luxury” seating.  The seats in Paragon are actually power recliners which on paper sound good.  The reality is they don’t actually recline far enough for me to ever be comfortable.  I was constantly shifting position the entire movie.

So I did zero research going into the movie.  It was a Wolverine movie so I knew I would enjoy it, I always do.  Well within the first couple minutes when I saw extreme gore and the F bomb being thrown around nonstop I realized that they decided to go the Deadpool route with Logan, another R rated super hero flick.  I am the farthest thing from a prude you could find but it was a little over the top even for me.  I never thought I would hear Patrick Stewart say “fck” in a Xmen movie, until Saturday.

I also didn’t realize the movie was intended to be the last in the Wolverine series even though I did recall Hugh Jackman saying awhile ago that he would not be able to keep playing the role for much longer because of the physical demands.  So anyway I liked the movie although even at the end I was still fuzzy about exactly what caused Logan to be ailing as he was.  I also was annoyed that even though this was a Marvel flick, I sat through nearly 10 minutes of post movie credits and didn’t get the mini-preview payoff of whats to come that has become the norm, just a black screen.  I am going to miss the Wolverine character for sure. I’d give the movie a solid A-.

Sunday morning I got up early to run, once again increasing my distance by two laps which worked out to just over 5K distance.  It felt quite challenging to complete.  I am on week three of the running reboot, hopefully things get a little smoother soon.  My right knee today is feeling a little tweaked.

Cindy and I met up with a mutual friend of ours from the running club and his daughter to do some EV riding at the Greenway.  Mike has a HUGE off road electric skateboard that sounds like a tank as it rolls along.  He let me get on it briefly in the parking lot but I felt VERY unstable on it.  He thought my Msuper was extremely cool and couldn’t believe the speed and range it offers.

Mike’s daughter was very cute and quickly adapted to riding one of our Minipros that we brought along, Cindy rode the other one for most of the ride.  Cindy and Mike’s daughter immediately hit it off and had a lot of fun during the ride acting silly.  Once we got back to the parking lot Cindy pulled out her electric unicycle and did fantastic, not even needing a hand support.  She went straight to free wheeling.

We were at the Greenway for a long time, a full two and a half hours.  The weather was pretty much perfect and we took full advantage of it.  We all agreed we had to get together again in the future and Mike will be looking deeper into the world of electric unicycles soon.

Mid-afternoon I headed back out to pick up Sadie, get some groceries, and go for another ride.  I brought my MCM4 this time and did the big square outside the water park as well as riding inside the water park as well.  When I do rides by myself I normally have a lot more to say.  See for yourself.

At the store I picked up stuff for Cindy to make galumpkis, something my ex-mother in law used to make years ago.  We had a bunch of healthy cabbage in the garden so it was a good way to get some use of it.  Of course we didn’t use the ground beef and ground pork pure galumpkis utilize.  Cindy substituted veggie crumbles and it still turned out quite tasty.

Last night we watched the latest Netflix rental, Ben Hur.  Cindy was excited to see this, me, not so much.  I knew absolutely nothing of the Ben Hur story and had no idea it had ties to Christianity.  I was very tired and fell asleep during large chunks of the movie but what I did see was not very impressive.  Perhaps knowing the back story would have helped some but as is, the best I can rate it is C+.