Update

Ahhh! That shower felt gooood. Even if it was colder than a Neo-cons heart.

Water service was restored late Saturday afternoon. Our agua calentador (water heater), however, having vacationed from working for a week, now refuses to return to the job. I have a call in to our plumber, but alas, it is Sunday and I have only achieved a message left to his answering machine.

El Hombre Lobo, The WOLFMAN, Benecio del Torro starring as the beast, was everything you could want in a remake of a B Movie classic. A grizzled Anthony Hopkins co-stars and gives his usual most excellent performance portraying Benny's father and the villain of the pic. The film's photography is terrific and had me wondering if a Blue-ray gismo will be my next techno upgrade. Every scene was moody, atmospheric and almost three dimensional. There were no real scares, of course, for we veteran horror buffs, (one indication of a movie's ability to successfully frighten its general audience is that it will generate the sale of toys and games related to it. Remember all the sharks after Jaws and the alien...dolls(?) after Alien and its sequels?) but there were thrills and acting strong enough to have us invested in the characters and storyline. I gave it four Eviscerated Corpses out of a possible five.

Football season will begin in a week and the weird, other-world, but somehow still lifelike feeling that exists when it is not here will fade and be replaced by the knowledge that all is again right in the universe. I can hardly wait.