The Butler

We saw this today (for some reason the French version amused me), and it was OK. Great acting but it suffered from what one review called "an uneven script." It seemed to flash by interesting things and linger on other stuff that was more mundane. Also, we thought it would be about his life at the White House but very little of it involved that, it was mostly about his family and the civil rights movement. Then as we were driving home Mari looked the inspiration up...turns out that aside from there being a black butler that served the White House for 30 years, everything else in the movie was made up. We were under the impression it was semi-biographical, but it's not at all so that kind of knocked our opinion down a bit as well.

Navel Gazing

I love my wife.

Far Cry 3

Hard to give a final consensus on this game. The gameplay was fantastic, which I guess is the most important thing. But the plot was thin at best and most of the voice acting was terrible, with the exception of one character named Vaas who was so well done he was wasted on the plot.

Flash Unflood

And just like that, most of the water is gone and the fire department is packing up. Our theory is something was blocking the drainage pipe and the firemen fixed it because it all drained out in a hurry. Our house is fine and I'm thrilled once more that we got the water heater moved because I know our crawl space is/was flooded. Off to work.

Getting High

The houses across the street have flooded and it's getting higher, this doesn't do it justice but that's a lake in the street (not the one they blocked off which is even deeper) and our house is just up that curb. Getting nervous.

What The Flood?

It's been raining pretty steadily the last few days, which culminated this morning in a flood similar to the one in 2010, only somehow worse. It was bad enough the fire department came and blocked off the street when the water got too deep. For reference check out the water level on those cars to the right, and that's not in the deep area which is farther up.

WOTM

August comes rolling in, just like it has since 45 BC. Entertaining and informative? We do it all here at "the Snack" (tm).