I had figured last night that we’d have a sandwich from Publix for lunch. By the time I woke up that had been decided. The Yankee asked what I’d like to eat today as she was already heading for the door. It’s nice to know someone shares your thoughts. It’s odd to think they have to be in your head to do that.

But you can’t make little coincidences like that into big productions. People will begin to question your taste in entertainment if you start yelling “Scanners. Scanners!”

That movie, incidentally was set in the far off future of 1985. Did you know there were two sequels? Me either. And a few spin offs. And, of course, somewhere the inevitable relaunch is being fussed over. (Thankfully it has missed it’s release date by two years. Maybe someone got to them.)

The second movie has a complete summary on Wikipedia, but few details on IMDB. The third one has a one-sentence blurb on Wikipedia. It is as if the writers there watched this for 20 minutes and then ejected the VHS knowing no one would ever feel the need to read about the film in great depth. They would be right.

Which is, I’ll grant you, a random way to start a Saturday. Especially since I’ve never even seen the films. But I did enjoy that sandwich. The nice lady at the counter, after she put cheese on The Yankee’s side of the sandwich by mistake said “Well you’re paying for it, so I’ll put it on this side.” My side had extra provolone. It was already an excellent day.

In the World Cup Germany pummeled Argentina, 4-0. It had to catch up to La Albiceleste eventually. They play passionately and freely and without a lot of defense this time around and the Germans just picked them apart. At least they didn’t mentally implode and pout quite like Brazil. Spain swatted away Paraguay 1-0 after that bizarre exchange of three penalty kicks (that were really two) that yielded no goals. David Villa later found himself alone in the box long enough to touch the ball three times and then rattled the post to send Paraguay home.

So we have a good mix of teams going into the semifinals next week. Netherlands will face Uruguay who are still in it on a prayer. Spain and Germany will face off in what should be a fantastic match.

Moved stuff around in the garage today. It’ll be clean by the middle of the week. This is the big push. Do I still need my eighth grade protractor? Do I still need so many VHSs since I don’t own a VCR? (A sentence which will be an ambiguous mystery far more quickly than we realize.) Many boxes of old things I’ve stored for years will be donated or dumped.

So we moved and shuffled and cleaned a bit down there today. Just getting started.

Then The Yankee and I introduced Wendy to DeVinci’s in Homewood. She had the manicotti. The Yankee had the gnocci. I branched way out and tried the lasagna. (It’s cheap, there, and filling.)

We visited the bookstore, because Wendy wanted to pick up some things. She’s preparing to go back to school and is studying for the GMAT. (Go Wendy!) We bought a kids’ book for a friend and some Mad Libs for us.

I know, I know.

We played those far into the night. We played enough that one of them actually made contextual sense. The law of averages demands to be recognized, occasionally.(Monkeys are typing this, just now, as part of their warm up for Shakespeare. That’s why this started with Scanners.)

Did you see that coming?

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