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Good light day again, so I had my camera handy, got some great shots of the boys. Their grandparents are going to be overjoyed at that. Other than that, pretty low-key Sunday for me, just fighting the frickin' cold. I'm worn out today. I was due for a cold -- it's been quite awhile since I last had one, so, I'm not really complaining. It's not in my nature to complain, anyway.

B1 has such a head for math. I can see it already, how effortlessly he processes numbers. He's got a keen insight into strategy as well -- like in games we play, I can see him thinking through things and assessing things. He's got a sharply analytic mind. I'm going to do what I can to help him with that -- both encouraging him to grow in that area (with stuff like chess and music) and also to help him emotionally, so he's able to effectively make use of his talents while remaining balanced, as well. He's going to love physics; I can tell already. I think I've mentioned that before, but as he's getting older, it's in sharper focus. That's good -- mathematics is a vital aptitude to have. It'll serve him well.

My folks saw "The Ides of March" in Santa Barbara, at some special screening, and Paul Giamatti was supposed to turn up and speak afterward, but the director had said that Giamatti couldn't make it, so they had somebody else to come speak (and the audience was like "Awwww" in disappointment), and the alternate speaker was none other than George Clooney! Can you believe it? The attendees were floored. My mom just about died. She was gushing about having seen him, said she was just a few rows back in the theater, said he actually looked younger in person than onscreen. Anyway, I'm sure that made her day.

Laundry

Doing laundry this morning. Somebody left a bunch of celebrity tabloid mags in the laundry room, which leads me to ponder this question: do you think Jennifer Aniston is supremely annoyed with the whole "Poor Jen" storyline they always run with her? She's a famous celebrity, likely makes a lot of money from residuals from "Friends" and what-not she gets from whatever movies she's in. She's at least conventionally good-looking (not my type, but I get it). But the tabloids always run the "Poor Jen" storyline when covering her. She's got to be thinking "Oh, shit, let me not have another breakup and/or something happen to me, so those pricks won't run another 'Poor Jen' story." Sandra Bullock is in that place, too. Poor Sandra. It's just weird, and has to be annoying for somebody who wanted to be famous, and was lucky enough to have found a measure of success in that respect. Poor Jen. Bahah!