Mad Scientist

Mad Scientist, originally uploaded by Sandra Maynard.

Brenden is slowly adapting to his new bed - getting him to sleep is a bear, but he is staying there for the most part. We put up a gate once we put him to bed and he'll stand there in front of it and complain. Finally he gets tired of us getting up and saying "go to bed!" so he'll just stand there. Then he realizes he's just plain tired and finally go to bed.

He loves his new bed, by the way. He just doesn't like to sleep in it. He's definitely one of those kids that hates to miss out on any of the action.

He's not really sick any more, which is helping, too. The medicine the doctor gave us to help his cough and help him sleep helped with the cough, but also revved him up. A stoned Brenden is twice as hilarious, but not at 9 pm.

What we're watching:

License to Kill Bad Bond, James Bond. Timothy Dalton's 2nd and last Bond movie. My opinion of it still holds - it's too scattershot to be a good Bond movie. One thing of note - one of the Bond Girls saves his ass several times. Bond is too much of a jerk to thank her, of course. That's just staying in character.

Thunderball More Bond. This movie is old style James Bond, back when he wasn't just a jerk, but many of his actions towards women would have had him arrested in this age. The best part of this movie is snerking at all the ideas Mike Myers stole to create Dr. Evil.

Delta Force II: The Columbian Connection Chuck Norris kicks evil bad guys in their faces!!!!
What the hell did you expect?

Toy Story We haven't seen this one in a while - it's as cute as it's always been, and I was amused to note how far Pixar animation has gone, as well as how far other CGI animation still needs to go to catch up to even this 1995 movie. One surprise in the credits: Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's creator) has a screenplay credit for this movie. I bet some of Sid's actions (the cruel kid) and the toy's revenge on him were Whedon's twisted ideas.