Prep, Hubble, sneaking up
Last night I tried to knock out several to do’s since Randall will be coming over this weekend. I have a few more things to get handled before he shows up. He originally was going to pull in some time this evening but the schedule has shifted a bit, I should see Randall’s smiling face bright and early tomorrow morning instead.
Once he arrives we are almost immediately going to be heading back out the door to do a run. Randall is on a training plan to do his first ever half marathon. He is scheduled to get a 6 mile run in this weekend. My knee still has some minor swelling in it but it’s nothing a couple Advil can’t handle.
The rest of the weekend has a loose framework and may include a random combo of shopping, drinking, eating, game playing, biking and laughing. I also will have the dogs this weekend to add to the fun quotient.
Last night I watched my latest Netflix rental, Hubble 3D. I had spent some time scouring Netflix for 3D Blu-ray titles to put my 3D Blu-ray player and tv to the test. So I pop in the disc and start the short documentary. I immediately notice that the TV didn’t give it’s normal heads up when 3D video is being displayed of “Put on your glasses”
Without the glasses the display looked normal instead of the slight blur which is normal with 3D images. Well evidently the copy of Hubble 3D that I got was a 2D version. Oh well. Also, when the film started I realized I had seen this before when I went to the Kennedy Space Center with Charlie. Even with seeing it before and even without it being in 3D, I enjoyed the film.
It looked great on the bedroom tv and the sound bar and subwoofer filled the room with window shaking sound. The images the Hubble captures are beautiful, awe inspiring and thought provoking. When you try to wrap your brain around just how massive the universe is and how microscopic our tiny little piece of it is, it shifts your perspective. How can it be that the light we see filling the night sky actually left their source thousands of years ago. How can there not be thousands of other planets in the universe that support life as we know it? Now if they would just hurry up and invent warp speed engines.
Because Thanksgiving this year was as late as it possibly could be it feels like Xmas is coming on like a freight train. I have not done hardly any Christmas shopping yet and before I know it the yellow shopping alert will turn to red. I need to get things moving in earnest, I hope to get some of it knocked out via the power of the internet today.