Monday 15 March 2010

Awake: 6:56am     Temp 51     sleep 6+58     sunny     overnight @ Las Vegas, Nevada.

About 11:30am, we walked to the office, met Barbara the campground manager, & paid our fee for a week's stay.

Later in the day, I called Wayne on the other side of town; we spent some time with Wayne & his wife Sandy last year @ a rally in Branson, MO. We made plans to rendezvous tomorrow at their campground.

Nick called while walking home from work; it was Kathy's turn to talk. He told Kathy that he was getting ready to go to the b'day party of a colleague last Sat evening. (3) min before he was to leave to catch the bus, Jerry, who was sitting on his lap, threw up all over himself & Nick. They saved the couch from the mess, but Nick decided to forego the party. Jerry did seem to feel somewhat better afterward.

Dinner: Tuna steak, brown rice with golden raisins, asparagus, mixed salad & cutie oranges.

Evening movie; we finished watching: "Reds" with Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Nicolas Coster, Gene Hackman, etc. Sprawling ambitious film about American idealist/journalist John Reed's involvement with Communism, the Russian Revolution, and a willful, free-thinking woman named Louise Bryant. Provocative political saga is diffused, and overcome at times, by surprisingly conventional, often sappy approach to the love story (climaxed by Bryant's Little Eva-like journey to Russia over the ice floes). 1981. Based on a true story, these 3.5 hrs of watching "Reds' were most intriguing, fascinating & simply amazing to comprehend.          

Lights out: 11:44pm.