I bought a new computer monitor on December 22. AJ and Ben set it up for me on December 24, only to be greeted by a big line that turned into a long black rectangle on the screen; the screen was cracked. So, on December 27, as Christmas was officially over and everyone was gone, I traveled to Lubbock to get another monitor. That was the only errand on my list. Seemed wasteful to drive all the way to Lubbock for just one thing.
I had seen ads for the movie Song Sung Blue, had not been many movies in quite a while, love Neil Diamond’s music, and would have all day to watch a movie, so there you go. The fact that I had not been to the movies in “quite a while” is important to this story. The last movie Bill and went to the theater to see was American Sniper in 2014. I always enjoyed going to movies more than Bill, but not long after that, he just decided he wasn’t going to the movies any more.
So, I wound up not going to many movies. I went to see Dr. Strange in 2016 in Marble Falls when I was at the lake and wanted something to do that night, and it was the only one that sounded reasonably worth going to see. I watched The Accountant in 2016, too, and found it intense but interesting and well done. Pat and i went to see Top Gun-Maverick in 2022 in Clovis. Then in 2025 when The Accountant 2 came out, I was also at the lake and wanted to see it, so off I went to Marble Falls again…