We got around to seeing the new Star Trek yesterday, and while I had some reservations about the whole “reboot” aspect, I was pleasantly surprised. I think it was the fact that you could recognize all the characters as their original counterparts from the start, at least I did. I think the franchise had reached at end up to this point. There wasn’t much left to do with it, and the universe is now fresh and ready for something slightly different.
I haven’t mentioned the Spook Show much lately, mainly because we just haven’t had the opportunity to go in the last few months. I seems that something always comes up that takes over our weekend schedules and ties us up on different projects. The good news is that we got the chance Friday night to head over to East Atlanta and catch one of the Blast Off Burlesque shows. All I can saw is WOW! After seeing them do routines through the skits before movies once a month, it was amazing to see a full blown adult burlesque show. I can’t explain the cool retro vibe that was there, so I’ll just let you see for yourselves.
It’s Monday, and the kid is off for the week. His dad and I got together and decided to lift the grounding/video game ban because I personally will go insane if he has nothing to do but sit around and read books and expect me to entertain him for the whole week. On a good point, the two weeks of no fun appears to have made an impression as his room is clean, not just clean by picking things up but clean to the point that I’m not afraid of my parents coming this weekend to visit clean. He is also sitting on a 95 in math so far this period and the other grades are showing a bit of improvement as well. Now to see if I can live through a week of Smash Bros. and Halo.
Do not stay up until 2am trying to get quests done on a newbie toon when you have to wake up at 6. Children grounded from video games will mock your state of tiredness and you will potentially be without witty retort, leaving you with options such as “Bite me” and “just wait until I’m coherent” the later of which should be said while taking a swing at the kid’s head and missing because your reflexes are shot.