Saturday, July 1, 2006
Volkswagen: Unpimp Your Ride III on YouTube is hilarious, and so is that series of commercials. This is marketing genius on so many different levels—I love it! Read from Kavalier and Clay (still). Grocery shopping at Mollie Stone's (formerly Tower Market) with Patrick. Painted touch-up paint on the car mostly on the bumpers but also a few other spots. Winamp 5.2.3 had been locking up lately and even Windows XP would have difficulty forcing it to quit. I completely uninstalled it and installed 5.2.4 in its place. Lunch: two turkey burgers with cheese for me, one gardenburger for Patrick, Ore-Ida "gourmet" onion rings. Napped. Snack: pina colada yogurt. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, mashed potatoes, peas. Patrick and I watched a PBS American Masters documentary about the life of Julia Child. Neither of us had known much about her early history, and we had not known that Paul Child figured so prominently behind the scenes. I enjoyed the documentary very much—it's obvious they went to painstaking lengths to get just the perfect historical footage, background music, and interviews (and everyone not only looks great but contributes well). Patrick did some painting yesterday and today. He painted the edges of the phoenix canvas and the red horse and rider canvas—previously he had left them blank (white). He also very nearly completed the pear tree painting which I don't like but he's happy with (and this disagreement caused him some consternation but I told him that it's not necessary for me to like all his work). I asked him why he doesn't sign his work and he said, "I just don't." I asked, "Maybe on the back?" and he said, "Maybe..." Weight training: push up, plank.