I totally missed Bastille Day. But Borepatch put up a nice post.
(And he’s right. I think that is one of the best scenes from “Casablanca”.)
In my defense, it was a hectic weekend. I was at an event most of the day on Saturday (from early in the morning to late in the afternoon), went from there to Half-Price Books, from there straight to the dining conspiracy, from there to Lawrence‘s for movies, and from there home around 2 AM.
Sunday afternoon, Mom and I went out for lunch: after that, I went to the gun show in Dripping Springs, came home, picked up Mom, and we went over to the big Half-Price on North Lamar.
The thing is, I noticed on the way over to Half-Price that I was really tired: I found myself starting to doze off in the car, which worried me. I got a bottle of water while we were there, which helped some, but when I came home, I went upstairs to lay down and slept from about 5 PM to 5 AM this morning.
Either I’m getting old, or something’s wrong.
Anyway, in case you haven’t guessed what with all the trips to Half-Price, this week was another coupon sale. Unfortunately, the pickings were really slim:
Especially when it came to gun books. The only really worthwhile thing I found was a copy of Helmer’s The Gun That Made the Twenties Roar for $12 (after 40% off coupon) plus tax.
Other than that: a blu-ray of “The Revenant”, which I missed in theaters and kind of wanted to see, for roughly $8 with a 20% off coupon, a copy of Boessenecker’s biography of Frank Hamer (which I’d been trying to find for a while, and got for $6), and Ben Macintyre’s book about Kim Philby. (I believe that was also about $6.)
Maybe next weekend I can catch up on sleep. And I have some gun porn I want to post, but I have to take the photos first.
Getting old ain’t for wimps. :-p
True that, and it is better than the alternative, but I’m usually able to hold up better than that.
The only thing I can think of is that there was some other stuff going on that had me tied up in knots most of the weekend: it may have been a combination of that stuff plus a busy schedule that had me wiped by Sunday afternoon.