The Gum Tree for 2004 July 29

Well, Yesterday was a fine day. We got up in the morning with plans to do many things. Louise was going to go to Salt Lake for the last of her training and also for a meeting with a counselor for something. Well the counselor called and cancelled her meeting, and Louise had already taken the day off from work. I also didn't have much going on se we decided to take a day off and go to Park City. We enjoyed the ride, and since Louise had never read Farernheit 451 we borrowed that from the Library and listned to that on our drive. There's nothing like a good book and a beautiful drive through the lakes and mountains of the countryside. I also wanted her to get a taste of the allusion that Michael Moore was making in his "Op-Edumentary" (to quote the maker of the movie), and I also got a better idea of how the themes of that book have been intertwoven into other cultural fabrics. We also borrowed the Grapes of Wrath to listen to later. It is interesting to see all the things that we take for granted in our fusion of cultures. Differences have been good in our relationship because they help us to get a better angles at making decisions. We came home and after cleaning up a bit we decided to cap off our day by watching a descriptive movie "Terms of Endearment" (a movie that has the descriptions of the visual cues that blind people miss) that we had mailed to us from the State library. Even though it is rated PG and won five Acadamy Awards, we didn't like it that much and decided to turn it off and go to bed. It was partly a distaste of the style as well as the substance that didn't quite satisfy our palate. We got a quick update of the DNC and then it was off to dreamland. Today will be back to work and back to routine.