So, in other news…

Found out Monday night that the best player on my dart team, great photographer (see my masthead), and one of the good guys, will likely be leaving Korea soon.  He’s a contractor with a company whose contract was not renewed, so after 12 years in Korea it appears he will be moving on.  He’s got an offer in DC already and interviews in Germany, so he’ll do fine.  But Dave will definitely be missed in these parts.

Watched a downer of a movie Tuesday night called Two Weeks.  It was about how the siblings dealt with the final two weeks of their cancer-stricken mother’s life.  Sally Field played the mother and gave an outstanding performance.  But the film pulled no punches and it was just plain ass sad.   Made me think of my friend Linda’s final days and what Kevin of Kevin’s Walk is dealing with now.  Mortality bites, that’s for sure.

Darts on Wednesday at Dolce.  Just for fun and practice.  Good turnout though.

Thursday I watched an old Robert Altman film called Short Cuts.  I hadn’t remembered seeing it before (it was released in 1993), but it was all vaguely familiar and by the end I knew what was coming.  Still, it was well made with an all-star cast (before they were stars) and if you ever wanted to see Julianne Moore naked, this film is your chance.  Damn it was long (over 3 hours) but it was good nonetheless.

Friday was Dolce Vita again for the dart tourney.  I managed to take first place money twice, so there was that.  I am still not all the way back to form, especially on the bull shots, but as I said previously, I’ve decided to let it be.  I would love to be a great darts player, and I will continue to work at it.  But truth be told, I’m a good player who occasionally plays great.  Nothing wrong with that.

Saturday was just be lazy, which is something I am great at (see, practice can pay off!).  Sat on my ass most of the day playing CIV IV: Beyond the Sword.  It’s a new (for me) version of the game with a few new wrinkles and lots more civilizations.  You know, my first 3 or 4 plays I couldn’t be beat and had my highest CIV scores ever (including one of 20,000 points).  I thought I was ready to move up to the next difficulty level but have subsequently had my ass kicked like 10 times in a row.   No comprende.

I had an interesting experience at the gas station saturday.  My gas tank door wouldn’t open.  Screwed around with it for ten minutes or so, but without someone to push the release while some other hands were prying the damn open, it was hopeless.  Took it to the nearby auto care place and together we popped it open.  Spayed on some WD-40 and tested it a few times and it seems to be working again.  Gassed up, so I won’t have to worry about it again for a month or so.

Had some Korean friends over last night and grilled up some ribeyes.  One of them said (through an interpreter) that he had seen American movies with folks barbaqueing and he had always wondered what that was like and he thanked me for “making his dream come true”.  Heh.  My pleasure.  I must admit the steaks came out pretty good this time.

No darts tonight.  We are missing two team members because of the exercise, so we had to reschedule.  I’ll probably go out and take some photos for the dart bars series in lieu of playing.

And there you have a slice from my pie…