puppetmaker | RTBTCKI: Who brings Soup to a Wedding?

Last night I was having a weird dream that was all over the place. I remember that I broke my favorite high-ball glass by accident and that I had a bad cut from it. But the last thing I remember was someone saying “Who brings soup to a Wedding?” Haven’t a clue what that’s all about other than my brain is a very strange place.

Speaking of Strange, the trailer for Dr. Strange was at the front of Captain America: Civil War. It is even more amazing on the large screen and the sequence with Mikkelsen gives you an idea how trippy this is going to be in 3-D.

As to Captain America: Civil War, or as I call it Avengers 4, wow. That was one heck of a ride. It clocks in at 146 mins but doesn’t feel like that at all. Lots of great fight scenes and for those who thought the Widow didn’t fight enough in Ultron, they have your back for this one. Everyone had their moment to shine. The introduction of the Black Panther was well done and ever minute he was used on screen was great. My favorite, behind Wanda and the Vision arc, was Spiderman. Great use of the character. Didn’t feel shoehorned in and he acted like a teen-ager who is in awe about what he is asked to do. The post credit sequences are good. There are some things left hanging but that’s not a bad thing.

I will give one caution if you want see it in 3-D and shaky cam makes you motion-sick, go for the 2-D version. There are one or two cool tricks but nothing as amazing as was in Ant-Man. I spent the rest of the evening nursing a delicate stomach and a raging headache.

Peter is off to Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing New Jersey for Free Comic Book Day for the Level Up event. He will have his original work with him along with comic book scripts and the like.

Caroline and I will be staying home as she has some social obligations over the weekend and I have some work to do on some puppets before next week.

Inky has, since Mille passed, become more attached to me. She is outside my door when I wake up wanting me to pet her. After I feed the cats, she hops up next to me for more pets and then settles down and sleeps at my hip. Millie use to, after his breakfast, settle down in my general vicinity for his morning nap. More often than not, right next to me. And Inky let someone, outside the immediate household, pet her which is really big. So we continue the domestication of our formerly feral house pet.

Neck hurts this morning. I figured that I slept on it wrong and I forgot to wear my mouth guard that keeps me from grinding my teeth at night. Not going to forget that anytime soon.

Peter and I talk about the fact that he finds openings of books hard but once he gets to a certain point it flows to the end. Opens are easy for me however conclusions can be like pulling teeth within the word count. I can do it. I know what the ending of the story is. Getting there can be an adventure.

I will say since I have been focusing on working my core muscles, my episodes of back pain have gone to close to nil. There was some after driving from Knoxville to home but nothing like it had been in the past and I was over it in a day or so. There’s motivation for me.

I am grateful for a lack of back pain. Very, very grateful.