Bryce Moore's Blog, page 335

Officially 31

That's right. I'm almost through with 31 years of life. Better yet, I'm not feeling like I'm in agony any time I move anymore. You might have noticed I disappeared from the face of the earth last week--my flu or whatever it was returned with a vengeance. For four days, all my muscles felt like someone was trying to stab them with daggers anytime I moved. Now they're all just really tired. Tired enough that typing this isn't the easiest thing in the world for me. (I'm going to keep this short ...

The Joys of Home Ownership

Today was supposed to be pretty straightforward. We were going to have an outlet put in for the wood stove, and double check that the chimney was okay to have a wood stove on it.

But the chimney is not okay.

There's a big half inch cracking running through it, and you can see the lining through it. That's not exactly something that says "your house won't burn down," which means there's no way in Hades I'm going to run a wood stove until it's fixed. Calls are out now to local masons to come and ...

Movie Review: My Dinner with Andre

So I'd been hearing more and more about how great My Dinner with Andre is, making me break down and move it up in my Netflix queue. I'm happy to report that the buzz was true: it really is a fantastic movie. But at the same time, it's not necessarily a movie. It's one long dinner scene, consisting almost solely of two characters (Wallace Shawn--better known as Vizzini from Princess Bride) and Andre Gregory) talking to each other. That's it. It's not a film you watch to really be entertained b...

Me and Sick

So I got sick again Friday night. Some sort of strange flu-thing that lasted all of 12 hours or so. (Is there a 12 hour flu?) Anyway--I debated even mentioning it, but hey--it's my blog, so I can mention what I want.

That said, I also wanted to make a general announcement:

I'm well aware that I get sick a lot.

Really. You don't need to point it out to me. I've heard most of it before, and when you catch colds and flus and whatnot all the time, it gets a little old when people remind you that "Ge...

Book Review: Knife of Dreams

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
What a relief. I so did not want to hate Robert Jordan's last book, and I'm happy to be able to report that, on the contrary, I enjoyed the book very much. In fact, if GoodReads would let me, I think I'd give it 4.5 stars. Why, you ask?

Well, I'll admit that some of it might well have to do with expectations. After the Epic Fail that was Crossroads of Twilight, my expectations for this book were right around the level of "hope and a praye...

Two Definitions

Definition of a good feeling: when you go to your Kindergartener's school's open house, and you talk to his teacher to see how he's doing, and she has nothing but glowing things to say about him. Now granted, I expect she tries to have nothing but glowing things to say about all her students, but still . . .

I think I'm allowed a bit of fatherly pride.

Definition of a bad feeling: when you get an installation cost estimate for that wood stove you're planning on getting, and the installation co...

Sunny Weather and a Movie Review: Chisum

It's definitely getting fallish outside--can even see some leaves changing colors already. Can I say how much I love fall? If only I didn't have 80,000,000 things to do at work, life would be very pleasant right now. By the end of September, we should have the siding on our garage repaired and painted, a new wood stove installed, and maybe even some of the floors inside our house un-paintified. (Paint + hardwood = fail, IMHO.) At any rate--we should be plenty busy in the weeks to come. Wish u...

How I Got Really Sick, then Better, then Proceeded to Do Something Really Stupid

The first part of this story is fairly easy to tell. Last Tuesday, I started getting this itch in the back of my throat. A little tingle of things to come. By Wednesday morning, it had ballooned into the full flu, and I spent Wednesday, Thursday and Friday completely focused on Not Dying. I'm happy to report I was successful. By Saturday, I was starting to feel at least 25% better, which was something. (It really helped that BYU beat Oklahoma that evening--what a game!) Sunday took care of an...

Book Review: Crossroads of Twilight

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan


My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Yikes. I'll say that one more time. Yikes. If you've been reading these reviews, then you know that I'm a Wheel of Time fan. But no amount of fandom can salvage this book. I almost bumped it up to two stars, since the last 150 pages actually had some pretty cool stuff in them (Egwene's capture and Mat's courting of Tuon), but even those 150 pages really only have about 50-75 pages of Good in them. The rest of the book is filler.

F-I-L

TRC Goes to School

The big day has come and gone. TRC is now officially a Kindergartener. I'm proud and happy (and relieved) to say that he had a fantastic time. DKC and I waited with him for the bus this morning, along with DC. He was practically bouncing off everything in sight, he was so excited. The bus finally came, and then I think it hit him that this was the Real Deal. He hesitated a bit before he got on the bus, but on he went, and that was that. DC saw him go on the bus and drive away, and she about star