Overdue Update

Has it been a month already? Ugh. Having that joke there for that long makes Baby Jesus cry.

In that time, I've managed to severely exacerbate my plantar faciitis. When I stretch that calf, it feels like I'm rubbing a blister against the heel of my shoe. Except I'm barefoot. So I am back to icing and naproxin/Aleve. I just can't wear the therapeutic sock, the one that keeps my foot at a right angle, because I just do not sleep well with it. I wake up every time I need to roll over.

Two movies we saw are 1408 and Ratatouille. Both were good for completely different reasons. 1408 impressed me with the reasonable (and even not-so-reasonable) actions the protagonist took given his circumstances. Ratatouille was just a joy--an animated film that was clearly aimed at adults with humor thrown in for the kids, rather the reverse. The quality of the rendering and animation was actually distracting for the first ten minutes. It also showed yet again that you can still have state-of-the-art CGI while maintaining the tradition of stylization and caricature rather than having "realistic" human forms.