Day 31: Friday probably

Today was a day.

What I'm watching today

Team America: World Police (2004, HBO Now streaming) - My wife has made the claim in the past that this is her favorite movie of all time, so when we happened upon it while browsing HBO's titles, it was an automatic selection. Man, this movie. This thing dances between bouts of brilliance and sloppy sophomoric humor, but every minute of it is funny. Heck, the opening scene features a marionette performing a show using an even smaller marionette. I personally wouldn't call it my favorite movie of all time (I'm working on that list BTW), but I do love this movie. It is perhaps the best application of satire that is truly funny and goes out of its way to celebrate the First Amendment. The movie itself is a form of activism that calls out the nonsense of many acts of real-life activism. If you're scrolling through HBO and in need of entertainment, give it a watch.

What I'm doing today

DIYing - A while back I was sitting at the dining room table at my brother in law's house when I leaned back and the chair back kept going, all the way to the floor. A few weeks ago I finally got around to structurally repairing the chair back. It involved drilling and inserting nine-inch dowels into the frame of the chair to reinforce the wood. Unfortunately it left the painted finish pretty badly mauled. I finally was brave enough to venture out to Lowes today to get some paint to finish the job. Now I have no eye for color, so I had a miserable time matching paint colors. So I gave up, and just carted the chair into the store. It was a little awkward propping up one end of the chair so that the Lowes employee could stick the other end into the color-matching scanner thingy. But then she told me that someone brought in a barn door earlier that day, and I didn't feel so bad. I was skeptical of this so-called "color match" technology, but Lowes nailed it. You know what that means: Some day soon I'll be painting, and sanding, and painting, and sanding, and painting, etc.

Climbing - The snow melted. The temperature

warmed up. It was time to get these kids out of the house. Armed with some brand new homemade masks made by my mom, we saddled up and ventured out into the neighborhood. Since the kids hadn't seen their cousins in over a month, we trekked to their house, which is exactly 1 mile away and 100 feet higher in elevation. We were doing pretty well until the 7yo got a stitch, so at one point I was pushing the two little ones in the stroller with a 7yo on my back. But eventually we made it, and got to spend some time waving and talking to the Care Bear cousins through their storm door.

Picking up - Colorado is a lawless place right now. Tonight we ordered tacos from an awesome restaurant down the street. How about this though? They had curb-side pickup for margaritas. Yeah, I got a margarita to go.