Potted Out

20 November - Woke up early and had a light breakfast before waking up my housemate, Mark, and setting off for a run down and around the local lake. It was a very cold morning and the fog was still very thick but it was really good to get out for a run again. T was pretty short but Mark is keen to make it a regular thing so i'm hoping we can get up to some good distances. Unfortunately didn't do the local half marathon that I think may have been today but there are a couple of others coming up. I find myself really in need of physical rest after fifty or so hours of riding every week but it should all be sending me in the right direction anyway. Slouched around and watched a documentary and did a bit of internet stuff before heading into Metrotown with Rene to watch the latest Harry Potter movie. He was adamant that we go to the brand new big screen big seat big sound cinemas (i was quite happy to see it at the local cheapo down the street) but it turned out to be sold out and it would have been a two hour wait before we could see it so we went to another smaller cinema that wsa pretty cheap and, perhaps due to the spartanness of its facilities, not sold out. Still had to kill some time so we went to A&W, a completely awful chain hamburger store that must have cooked their chips in diesel oil but also spent about half an hour playing Time Crisis before we headed in to the film. Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire was my favourite HP book, it was really the one that made the franchse the smash hit that it became. The first three had a lot of devoted readers but when the fourth arrive it became a phenom not seen since John Grisham made it big and not equalled until Dan Brown's literary excrement broke all the records. One of mfavourite memories about Harry Potter was seeing a ten year old schoolkid and a fifty year old businessman sitting next to each other on the bus both reading the Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire and both being completely nonplussed about anyone judging them on their reading age. The movie managed to cram in just about every salient aspect of the book but it was so rushed that it felt more like the longest trailer ever seen for what could have potentially been the longest movie ever made. As it was a the two and a half hour montage was pretty entertaining and I came out of it thinking i'd got my money's worth although the highlight of the screening was the Marlon brando narrated teaser trailer for the new Superman. I can't f**king wait.