Silver Liningness Sunday

The first unofficial week of summer is complete.  It was pretty laid back as the kids all settle into the idea of not going to school (without much difficulty).  The tutoring schedule is in scaled back mode, and the crossing guard vest is in storage.





Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell(s)

For one slothful activity, we watched an interesting movie.  Moon is a sci-fi film about this guy, Sam, who has been stationed on the far side of the moon for nearly 3 years.  He oversees the mining of the earth's major source of energy - Helium 3.  His only companion is the onboard robot, Gerty.  Well, he does have some plants and he receives taped messages from his wife, but there is no real-time communication with anyone.

He's coming up on the end of his contract and is fully looking forward to going home at about the time he's injured in an accident.  He wakes up in the infirmary and then things get weird. 

I won't give away anything else as that would deprive anyone who reads this, and hasn't seen the movie, of the "fun". 

I liked the movie.  Unlike most sci-fi movies that I watch mainly because I'm the lone female in the house, this one left a good lasting impression.  It's not filled with a bunch of CG animations and violence, but is instead very thought provoking.  Perhaps what made it so absorbing for me is that it could actually happen - unlike say, an overwhelming love for a vampire?  An alien race of robots that transform into Chevy's and such? 

It also made me sad.  Just a warning there.  Even now, several days after watching the movie, the kids will point to the moon when I'm around and say, "Awwww...", just to remind me.  Yeah, thanks for that...

In the meantime, we're finalizing some plans for a road trip.  Magnum is the meticulous researcher, so I'm leaving most of the planning to him.  I've reminded him that I don't stand on the side of the road all school year in all kinds of weather and deal with bad drivers just so we can stay in some roach motel.  Plan accordingly.