When the spell check fails

Signs like this break my heart, a little.

Shanna is, of course, speaking of crocheting–the thing with yarn and hook–rather than the game of croquet–the thing with wickets and mallets.  Writing this post, it turns out I can’t spell crocheting either, without spell check helping me. Luckily for me, my inability to bring together the letters in the correct order is paired with an ability to picking out the correctly spelled word from what I’m trying to say from a list.  Shanna seems not so lucky.  I would also guess from her handwriting that she is older, and perhaps not familiar with computers and word processing.

I hope that Shanna did get some interest and was able to create a book of everyone’s creations.

Matt’s birthday is celebrated

Matt wanted to do an escape room for his birthday, so we visited Portland Escape Rooms for their Steampunk-themed escape. We made it out of the dirigible (although we did neglect to find that last life jacket for the captain.  He said he was fine to go down with his ship)

Matt, myself, Greg, and Burt joined five other people we hadn’t met to conquer the various puzzles presented to us.  This room had a reset factor, which kept everyone occupied the entire time.  Whenever people were standing about, the costumed actors would tell us the flux-capacitor (or whatever it was) needed to be adjusted. I quite liked this as it eliminated the need to beat previous teams’ times.

It was also my first time with employees as characters in the room.  They were very fun.  This was an improvement over the guy who sat in the room with us, but was not a character.

After, we went to eat and I caught a picture of this group of men through the window.  Their age span makes me think this is a family group, but they could also be enthusiasts of some kind.

Three sentence movie reviews: Dunkirk (in 70mm)

Manages to be both quiet and loud, slow and fast.  The triple timeline narrative is brilliant; it kept my mind stitching things together as the stories unfolded.  If I’m going to like a war movie, it’s going to be a movie like this one, capturing the stifling boredom, random chance, brutal cruelty and human goodness.

Cost: $15.00
Where watched: Hollywood Theater in 70 millimeter (gorgeous!) with Matt.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2017/dunkirk.html