A love story ... from France ... young love, passion, heartbreak. I enjoyed it. Adèle was born in 1993 ... she looks like she's 17 in the movie but I guess she was 20 when it was made. Running time is nearly three hours though. Extended graphic sex scenes earned it an "NC-17" rating. See it if you get the chance. In the old days a kid in Omaha could never see a movie like this, but now all she has to do is go online; everything has opened up, there are no secrets anymore.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- September 5, 2014
Got long the gold last June after that huge jump, to reverse a previous mistake, which turned out to be another mistake. Taking the loss and getting short the gold now. Timing in gold has been terrible this year. ;-)
30 Day Challenge -- Day Seven
(All 30 day challenge posts in reverse chronological order)
Inscrutable notes:
4K row
87.6 24.0
08:42 mush (fresh squeezed soy milk, blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, cashews, apple, pear, banana)
09:20 half a daban bingpi
$508.56 Carrefour cred
10:34 bottle chrysth tea
11:38 handful wasabi almonds
12:25 120g beef tenderloin, meatballs, pickle, olives, asparagus, one avocado (too hard to make guac), 28 g Tostitos scoops (for failed guac)
13:11 2K row (making up missed time from last week)
13:58 BM
14:14 scooter in motion to library (green)
14:25 arrive library
$15.40 library fines
15:43 bottle chrysth tea, large handful dried cranberries
Must buy T a graph paper notebook
16:26 slice of watermelon
17:53 half bowl rice, edamame, pickle, olives, bottle chrysth tea, 28 g Tostitos with salsa, raspberry yoghurt
18:30 bottle chrysth tea
Played with kids in courtyard
$64.40 April Gourmet
large handful wasabi almonds
large handful dried cranberries
Not too terrible a day, though tomorrow is a holiday (mid-Autumn festival, aka mooncake day) which means the staff will be away and I will have to fend for self plus deal with the stresses of being home.
Movies Watched -- Lone Survivor
Only made it five minutes in and quit ... suspect it's more war porn, like the Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty and dozens of other detestable movies in the genre ... could be wrong, but probably not ... with Marky Mark, the 5'6" pot smoking underwear model as modern warrior. That's not him below, just some other beefcake in barracks.
New Yorker Contributors
Contributors to Fierce Pajamas, An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker, by year of birth:
- Clarence Day (b. 1874)
- Don Marquis (b. 1878)
- Upton Sinclair (b. 1878)
- Alexander Woollcott (b. 1887)
- Robert Benchley (b. 1889)
- George S. Kaufman (b. 1889)
- Groucho Marx (b. 1890)
- Ruth Suckow (b. 1892)
- Frank Sullivan (b. 1892)
- Dorothy Parker (b. 1893)
- James Thurber (b. 1894)
- Robert Graves (b. 1895)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1896)
- Vladimir Nabokov (b. 1899)
- Ludwig Bemelmans (b. 1898)
- E.B. White (b. 1899)
- Wolcott Gibbs (b. 1902)
- Ogden Nash (b. 1902)
- S.J. Perelman (b. 1904)
- Phyllis McGinley (b. 1905)
- W.H. Auden (b. 1907)
- H.F. Ellis (b. 1907)
- William Shawn (b. 1907)
- Leo Rosten, aka "Leonard Q. Ross" (b. 1908)
- Peter De Vries (b. 1910)
- Elizabeth Bishop (b. 1911)
- John Lardner (b. 1912)
- Philip Hamburger (b. 1914)
- Roger Angell (b. 1920)
- Howard Moss (b. 1922)
- L. Rust Hills (b. 1924)
- Donald Hall (b. 1928)
- Michael Arlen (b. 1930)
- Bruce Jay Friedman (b. 1930)
- Donald Barthelme (b. 1931)
- Mike Nichols (b. 1931)
- Thomas Meehan (b. 1932)
- John Updike (b. 1932)
- Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
- Woody Allen (b. 1935)
- Bruce McCall (b. 1935)
- Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
- Roy Blount Jr. (b. 1941)
- Marshall Brickman (b. 1941)
- Veronica Geng (b. 1941)
- Daniel Menaker (b. 1941)
- Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)
- George W.S. Trow (b. 1943)
- Steve Martin (b. 1945)
- Charles McGrath (b. 1947)
- Chet Williamson (b. 1948)
- Martin Amis (b. 1949)
- Jack Handey (b. 1949)
- Mark Singer (b. 1950)
- Ian Frazier (b. 1951)
- Christopher Buckley (b. 1952)
- Bill Franzen (b. 1952)
- Polly Frost (b. 1952)
- Frank Gannon (b. 1952)
- Louis Menand (b. 1952)
- Cathleen Schine (b. 1953)
- Susan Orlean (b. 1955)
- David Owen (b. 1955)
- Nancy Franklin (b. 1956)
- Adam Gopnik (b. 1956)
- Lisa Walker (b. 1956)
- Paul Rudnick (b. 1957)
- Andy Borowitz (b. 1958)
- Larry Doyle (b. 1958)
- David Brooks (b. 1961)
- Scott Gutterman (b. 1961)
- Anthony Lane (b. 1962)
- Frank Cammuso (b. 1965)
- Noah Baumbach (b. 1969)
- Michael Gerber (b. 1969)
Movies Watched -- The Grandmaster
Made it five minutes in ... have no interest in kung fu movies, even ones made by Wong Kar Wai, maybe especially ones made by Wong Kar Wai... rain drops in slo-mo. The only good kung fu movie I ever saw was Kung Fu Hustle.
30 Day Challenge -- Day Six
(All 30 day challenge posts in reverse chronological order)
Inscrutable notes:
Slept in.
09:43 4K row
86.8 23.5
09:51 mush (fresh squeezed soy milk, blueberries, sunflower seeds, walnuts, almonds, cashews, apple, pear, banana)
10:05 1/4 daban bingpi mooncake (flavor I didn't like so only 1/4)
10:30 bottle chrsyth tea
11:19 bottle chrsyth tea
Played with baby in morning
12:17 beef noodles (made by Mommy, couldn't refuse), 175g steamed broccoli, black sesame chicken, bottle chrsyth tea
12:43 large handful dried cranberries
13:58 4K row (making up Friday's missed row)
13:59 seven Lulu dates
14:13 large slice watermelon
14:42 few pieces cantaloupe
14:55 BM
17:12 large handful of dried cranberries
17:20 bottle chrsyth tea
17:40 100g beef tenderloin, pickle, olives, 19 tater tots (bilingual T calls them "teeter totters"), bottle chrsyth tea
18:39 scooter in motion (to massage)
18:42 arrive massage ( 3 mins seems quick?)
18:44 three bottles chrsyth tea
Tried to watch "The Counselor" during foot massage but it was so terrible I gave up after 48 minutes ... should've quit sooner of course.
19:40 foot massage over
21:17 body massage finished (Masseur Wang explained at length that the US knew where Osama was all along, waited for best possible PR moment to execute him ... I enjoy the weekly lessons he gives)
$100 massage
21:18 scooter in motion
21:26 arrived home (8 minutes, this makes more sense, no idea how I made it there in three)
21:57 large handful wasabi almonds before bed.
Well, it wasn't a super bad weekend day like they usually are, stress-wise I mean. This is a dreaded three day weekend though so it's going to be tough to hold together before the weekday routine kicks back in on Tuesday and I can stay on track.
Movies Watched -- The Counselor
Actually I didn't watch this. I made it 48 minutes in before throwing in the towel. Man, was this terrible. Embarrassingly bad. Sheesh. How many Worst Movies of 2013 lists did this one make?
Dragonvale -- Daydream Dragon
Complained about it last time, which made it quickly appear: Hypnotic + Mirage.
Bonds on Friday
Here's my view of the bonds on Friday ... TBT is the UltraShort 20-year Treasury bond fund ... liquid enough to day trade.