I wasn’t too sure we needed a new remake to The Manchurian Candidate, but decided to see it anyhow (thanks to Netflix.

It was surprisingly good. They adapted it pretty well to a more modern setting. Hollywood usually seems pretty bad about remaking old movies. They either try and just remake it exactly as the older version (then why are they bothering? Probably a director that really loved the Original), or change
it so dramatically that it has nothing to do with the Orig version except the name (possibly an attempt to get people to see it who know the first version).

This Version had just enough changes to make it “feel” modern, and enough changes to make you want to watch to see who or what was going on. Denzel Washington did an excellent job. I would recommend this movie.

Well, another weekend gone by and only one weekend of faire left this year.

Friday I picked up a new foster dog. She’s just shy of one year old (Her birthday is next sunday,..the last day of faire). She is totally full of energy (as you might imagine at her age) and very cute. Unfortunately, she doesn’t seem to get along with the other greyhounds very well. Not sure if it’s an alpha/dominance issue, or she’s just stressed out and can’t handle it. Otherwise she’s very nice and loves people all the time.

Ebony:

Saturday was hot hot hot out at the faire. There were some clouds that rolled in and it did end up raining, but not until very late in the day. In the morning, Ebony the foster dog was ok, but in the afternoon she started having issues with espcially the girl dogs. Luckily I brought a muzzle for the car ride home and there were only minor snaps.

Sunday was much nicer. Clouds rolled in pretty early and kept up a pretty good cover over things.

On Saturday I did manage to finally see a 5:30 Iris and Rose show. A very amusing time. I wish I could make it down there every day.

Pictures are up in the usual place.

I’d just like to point out that I am pretty tired of the 100+ degree days we have had all week.
Makes it really hard to go outside or take the dogs for their walk or get fresh air into the house.
Faire is gonna be super hot this weekend too. I just hope there are some thunderstorms to cool things off (sorry Kurt, my thunderphobe dog).

Well, after the long bike ride friday night, it was time for another faire weekend. It’s sure a way to burn up a weekend. The usual schedule is to get up around 6:45-7am, get all dressed up and try and get the dogs to eat their breakfast and everything packed up. Then I leave my place between 8:15am-8:30am. It’s around 45-50min down to the faire site when there isn’t traffic, and there is usually traffic. Setup the booth before the 10am cannon, and man the booth all day until 6:30pm closing cannon. It usually takes us 30min or so to pack up the booth, count donations and get back to the car. After the drive back, it’s usually right around 8pm. A 12 hour day.

It’s a nice place to hang out though, the dogs love it and there are a bunch of very nice friends I have met down there. We really do a lot of good for the greyhounds there. It’s amazing how many people expect them to be hyper and high strung and require a LOT of exercise.

Pictures are up at the usual place

Friday evening I went up to Fort Collins to visit my friend L and go for a bike ride.

I haven’t been bike riding in a while, so It was good to get out on the bike again. The ride was very pleasant, but long. We went up west on the spring creek trail to it’s end, then north along overland trail road until we hit the Poudre Trail, then down the river until we hit the east end of the spring creek trail and back west to L’s house. For the most part the trail was in good shape, although there were sections of the Poudre Trail that had nasty bumps, and there was a section of overland trail that was under construction and very washboardy.

Stats on the trip: Total distance: 23.7mi, average speed 8.9mi/hr, max speed 22mi/hr.

My friends K and A were up visiting from New Mexico this last weekend. I didn’t get to see as much of them as I would like since I was running the booth out at faire this weekend. I did get to see them in the evenings at least, which was something.

I have put up some doggie pictures for the last few weekends over at greytalk, which you can find
here if you are into that sort of thing.

Now I don’t have people visiting for a while, which I am kinda looking forward to. Nice to have the house back to myself and the pups.

Last time I upgraded wordpress I messed up my .htaccess and broke all my RSS feeds.

Should be fixed now. Sorry for those reading from the nirikrss livejournal feed that probibly got spammed with several posts at once.

yessire, it was a busy weekend. R and E came in on thursday night late. Their flight got delayed about an hour, which wasn’t fun, but could have been much worse. Stayed up pretty late chatting and catching up on things. Friday I got up early to answer a client call so not much sleep was to be had. Ran some errands in the afternoon and picked up supplies for the weekend, then went up to boulder to have dinner and play around on pearl street. The Med is a lovely place for dinner. Finally got to sleep around 2am or so.

Saturday was a faire day, so after not much sleep got up and dressed and off to the faire. The weather was pretty nice, overcast and not too hot. It was a good day out at faire. My friends D and J and their 2 kids showed up shortly after opening and I did get a chance to go and wander around with them. Faire is always nice when you are there with young ones around. They see everything very magically. Around 3ish my friends T and J and her two kids showed up, so we had a pretty big crowd.

After the long day of faire, I stupidly had planned a cocktail party at around 8pm. We managed to get back to the house around 8:10, and luckily no one showed up early. We had a few minutes to clean up and then folks started arriving. It was a good crowd and we drank cocktails until the early morning.

Of course sunday was also a faire day, so after not much sleep we got up and got garbed up and off to faire. Sunday was a bit cooler and nicer yet weather wise. It was pretty hard to stay awake and talk with folks at the booth, but I managed. We were all dragging sunday night after closing up the booth. Just enough energy to go back home and eat some very hot indian food and then pass out early for once.

Monday (being the day we celebrate the freedoms we once enjoyed and hope to enjoy again) we got up somewhat early and went hiking paster nederland for a while. We did probibly a 5mile hike or so (hey, thats enough to work off a margarita!) and it was quite lovely up in the mts. There wasn’t even that many people out there. After the hike we came back and got setup for the BBQ. Pretty nice turnout of folks for that and a lovely time was had by all.

For some reason this weekend my house decided to fall apart: My front door latch fell off. My downstairs toilet wouldn’t stop flushing and when the offending part was replaced it wouldn’t stop leaking, my back sliding glass door handle got pulled off, and at least 2 light bulbs burnt themselves out. Perhaps my house just doesn’t like that number of people visiting at once.

You can find pictures here in the regular spot.