Queegmire

Wow. It’s hot out theya.

I went running last night, or I went walking, then running, then walking, then running last night, I somehow managed to walk/run three miles, but was extremely surprised at how red my face got and how my slow my legs move in heat.

Note to self: do not run marathons in hot places.

DONE!

I finished the Caine Mutiny, which is NOT Mutiny on the Bounty like everyone thinks. Just so you know.

But, I loved loved loved Caine Mutiny. Very pleased. The book is hilarious and awful and does such a marvelous job of switching our allegiances. When we first start to notice the deviant behaviors of Captain Queeg, we hate him! Oh we hate him so much. We are right there with the crew that this man is out of his cotton pickin’ mind. But its nothing violent, its nothing that you can put your finger on, and by the time the crew has to back up what they believed about Queeg on the boat, they can’t quite put it into the right words, and of course Queeg comes out smelling clean and we as the readers start to wonder if maybe he wasn’t that crazy after all…its just fantastic the way Wouk leads us down the path.

It also has one of my favorite character traits of all time.

Captain Queeg often says “kay”.

OMG it cracks me up and I love it so much. The book takes place during WWII and here’s this crazy captain, freaking out, being Mr. Navy guy and he says “Kay”.

Like:

“Typhoon coming! Kay, everyone on alert!”

Or:

“Someone stole the strawberries out of the messhall? Kay, I want the truth about the strawberries!”

It is just so funny. I don’t know why it tickles me so, but it really does.

So anyway, I highly recommend some Caine Mutiny; I really enjoyed it a lot and read it outside of my normal reading times.

I’m now onto Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

There’s nothing to watch on TV, so John and I have been watching lots of movies. We watched No Country for Old Men which of course I really enjoyed, even with my suspicions about The Coen Bros and my severe hatred for the Cormac McCarthy's book “Blood Meridian”. I’m still confused about the end but the attention to detail was extraordinary.

Last night we watched The Fast & the Furious. That was just as good, with a better ending.









Kidding.