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14 November 2005 - 10:25 pm
This past weekend was a busy one.
On Friday I had dinner and drinks at CJ Muggs and then forced Jeremy, Ben, and Steve to play in a four-player TimeSplitters death match (a GameCube game).
On Saturday, I completed my search for a new kitchen table when I found a table that I liked at the Treasure Island thrift store/antique mall on Big Bend. This is a big deal because I've devoted a good portion of the last four Saturdays to visiting consignment shops, thrift store, and a variety of other furniture merchants. It turns out that decent-sized new tables are much more expensive than I'm willing to pay, so I decided to go the second-hand route. This was a partially successful decision, as I now have a decent-looking $50 table. (Here's a picture. The seller thinks it's a Duncan Phyfe table. It is in keeping with his style -- use of mahogany veneers and the three-legged pedestals, for example -- but I suspect its more in the style of Duncan Phyfe than an actual Duncan Phyfe creation. Regardless, the price was right.) But I'm now left with the problem of finding four or six matching chairs. I'm not sure that I'll continue with the second-hand route for the chairs though. Chairs are tricky because fabrics decay and frames take a lot of abuse that often leaves them in less than stellar condition. So I might try to find some inexpensive new chairs. But I'm not sure about that one way or the other.
On Saturday evening Jeremy, Ben, and I tried to see "The Squid and the Whale" at the Plaza Frontenac theatre, but all of their 7:00 shows were sold out. So we fell back to plan B and saw "Good Night, and Good Luck" at the West Olive 16. We got there early, which was good as the theatre looked sold out by the time the movie started. The movie was very good, but I thought it struggled a bit to build drama. It certainly had a message that it was pushing though: there aren't always two equal sides to every story and reporters can editorialize not only by pushing one agenda but by holding a false idea up as equal to an opposing truth. For full disclosure I should admit that I happen to subscribe to this theory and edit its fan club magazine, so that might have colored my take on things. But my number one complaint about the movie was the unbearably hot temperature in the top row of the theatre. It was like a sauna in there.
On Sunday Jeremy and I played some tennis and then a lot of football was watched and a lot of laundry was cleaned. Oh and I checked the mail on Sunday and discovered that my insurance agent thinks I can save $400 by switching my policy to a different company. So I'll be doing that today.
Posted by on 14 November 2005 at 9:34 AM
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