Entmoot 2004: There and Back Again, a Hobbit’s Tale
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004The plan this morning was for the NASA crowd (Hair, Ramius, and ecurbh in one vehicle, the g’nads in their van, and SuziQ with JenB in their van) to get going at 8:00….I believe the last van left at 8:30. For breakfast I dared use the Toaster of Coulter Castle to toast a bagel. Took a picture of the “Toaster of Doom at Coulter Castle Falls in with Evil Companions” (the likker bottles are there on the window sill behind it.) It’s best not to unplug the Toaster….do not unleash the Toaster! After the breakfast dishes were done I got my laundry going followed by the towels. There were lots of towels! We had Bugs Bunny on as background noise. Mrs. Ksen is sacked out on the couch, ksen and his boys are playing pool and have Celtic music playing on the box. Rosie and her siblings and Wneighbor are talking about different things….SAT’s, country music, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks (….and Jen’s missing it!)
It was another lazy day at the beach…the kind I like. We decided that it wasn’t the Toaster that was evil….it’s the Couch. Once you settle it, you have to fight your way back out of it. Wneighbor, Rosie, and I watched Casablanca. (I made periodic trips downstairs to keep the towel laundry process going. Ksen’s boys seem to be getting bored already….wandering around, in and out, etc. Ksen was playing pool with them for a while. Rosie’s siblings played cribbage or did a puzzle or something at that table beside the telescope. They eventually settled downstairs watching Anime (I keep wanting to type “amine” as in –NH2…. At some point someone opened the sliding glass door and the door to the garage to air that lower level out.
Mrs. Ksen’s folks came over to visit for much of the afternoon (her mother, father, and an aunt – I think – and they brought a cute little peke dog. They hung out at the pool so the ksen kids ended up being not so bored after all. At one point Bilbo was out on the back deck playing the bagpipes and later, his canter. Wneighbor had a couple of hours of naptime before heading out to the pool (Mrs. Ksen’s family had left by then. I spent a couple of hours reading on the back deck and getting some sun. Outside of the fact that the sun feels so good, I need to look like I’ve been to Florida when…gasp…I have to go back to work.
At some point, ksen obtained a coconut from the neighbor: he just asked for it – it was as simple as that so we have no tales of clandestine coconut thievery to tell. Ramius should be happy….The Code has been upheld. Wneighbor presented it to Hair without revealing for a long time where/how she got it.
Lunch was whatever you could find in the refrigerator: wings, pasta, grilled chicken, salad, broccoli. I believe it was Mrs. Ksen who cut up a couple of cantaloupes. We got the ice machine working a bit but needed to get some store-bought ice and water.
I put Fawlty Towers on. Ksen’s daughter watched as many of them as I played which was all but the last two. Well two and a half. …we switched in the middle of Kipper and the Corpse to watch the Bakshi version of LOTR that SuziQ rented on the way back from NASA.
But first…..supper! Wneighbor made taquitos, bean dip, and guacamole. We also brought out the salsa now that the herbs have had a chance to blend. I don’t usually go for Mexican food, but that was vey good!
A post from Corin: he thinks he left a pair of Addidas soccer slides or something….I’ll have to go back and check. I’m not quite sure what “slides” are. He wanted to know if we found a pair. Someone did (they look like sandals) and Hair posted a picture of Corin’s shoes sticking out from under the toilet seat. Corin thinks his slides are going to go the way of Flat Frodo and I’m afraid he might be correct. He won’t need those until spring, right?
Back to the film. The Bakshi film was voted the worst LOTR film ever made by Entmoot 2004. I had to take it with whiskey, neat. ( Actually, I wanted to try the Wild Turkey Reserve – 10 years old – without anything else interfering with the flavor) followed by Irish Cream. Most everyone in the movie was was wearing mini-skirts, even the Rohirrim. Hmmmm…….do men of Gondor insist on no skivvies even when wearing mini-skirts? Aragorn had skivvies with his little outfit. Rosie thought she saw Boromir’s skivvies but no one confirmed. We had had enough of Bakshi for one night and no one wanted to watch it again. After that they put on an action movie that I don’t remember the name of…some flick with a lot of cussin’, car wrecks, explosions and stuff. The anime group convened downstairs. I was freeping through the action flick and then went downstairs and caught the last couple of episodes of Escaflowne …or whatever. I’m sure I didn’t spell it right. This is the one with the spontaneous sex changing character…..okaaaaayyyyy. Time for bed at around 1:00.
Rosie and her siblings and Wneighbor are talking about different things….SAT’s, country music, Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks (….and Jen’s missing it!)
Heh...I'm not sure we did a very good job of bringing her up to speed during Entmoot, did we? She didn't even watch Casablanca!
That was also Bakshi day number one, though. Maybe it WASN'T such a good day...
Oh..... I get it....