There was little to report today. It is, however, hard to believe that I was in Honolulu just this morning. I'm currently in Portland, getting ready to sleep.
I found a hotel for the night. I'll be home tomorrow afternoon. I will take some time then and write an official closing post to end this 50 states travel log. From there I will go back to work and get my affairs in order.
Once I've settled in I will begin to work on other projects, some of which I have mentioned in the past, others more personal. I just want to emphasize that I am not taking these projects lightly. I intend to tailer them so as to get the very most out of them, all the while sharpening my writing skills as I document those experiences. But I will explain in more detail about that tomorrow.
Right now I am obligated to give you my three cents on Jurassic World, as I did watch it while hurdling at 500 or so MPH strapped into a massive chunk of steel over the Pacific Ocean. I'm pretty sure that is magic, by the way. If dinosaurs, plus flying, plus hunks of steel over the Pacific doesn't equal magic than I don't know what does. I mean, how do you explain that one? Even in an infinite universe, who would have ever thought that non-flying, 70 million year old dinosaurs would somehow find themselves immortalized, not in rock and dirt, but in digital form inside of a little tablet onboard of a machine that utilizes aerodynamics to give lift to an 800,000 pound chunk of steel while being powered by, get this, fossil fuels! All of which is then pondered upon by creatures that never even had contact with their species but regularly and even on this specific flight partook in eating there descendants in the form of a teriyaki chicken bowl. It's all magic voodoo and there is nothing that can be done about it!
Anyway, never really being much of a fan of the original series, I don't have too much invested in the movie. That said, I feel like I can point out a good movie here and there. Without too much depth, I'd give it a simple positive review. It was a fun movie. I wouldn't pay to see it again, but than again I wouldn't pay to see about 99 percent off movies unless I was trapped on board of a dinosaur fueled flying machine for several hours.(I have to, due to my conscience, point out that fossil fuel is not actually dinosaurs in the respect that we typically think. Simply, it's from plants and animals from 300 or so mya. Millions of years before the dinosaurs.)
Basically, I'd put it up there with Star Trek. Not a masterpiece, but a ride, nonetheless--a ride that is blatantly dismissive of continuity by crassly exploiting time travel plots to do whatever they want to do while manipulating their heroic fan base to fund their wild and un-called for antics essentially fundamentally making a mock of the original series... But I'm sure they didn't do that in Jurassic World. I'm secretly a bitter person!
Anyway, I am really tired now, so, goodnight. See you soon, SLC.
You know, it just dawned on my that I should have been ending all of these posts by saying, "good morning."
Good morning!