Saturday, Oct. 27

For some reason, my Thursday and Friday blogs flip-flopped, so now this blog follows the Thursday blog, instead of the Friday one.

Slept late this morning, until around 8 a.m. After breakfast, I did stair stepping, resistance bands, and weights exercises.

Once I was ready for the day, I spent most of the rest of the day cleaning my laptop...deleting photos, and sending others to an online storage site, and then downloading the files to a CD.

It was necessary to do this before I could download anymore photos to the computer. Finally made enough room for the photos from our recent trip, which I then uploaded to my social network page.

Took quite a while to deal with four or five huge files, so freeing up space is going to be a long process that I'll need to do as time permits. When I finish with the laptop, I'll need to do the same with the office computer.

Mother opted to stay home today and rest up after the trip, but I saw that she got her lunch and supper.

This afternoon Hubbie and I watched our favorite college football team as they played to a very disappointing loss, again. I don't think anything can save our team this year. It's painful to continue watching them lose, but we'll keep watching the games to the bitter end. However, we're ready for basketball season to begin.

Tonight, we attended a film festival primiere movie, scripted and directed by a local woman. The movie was shown at a storefront church downtown. The church has a huge screen mounted way up, so that audience view is completely unobstructed. This church once was a popular movie theater, but it fell into disrepair after years of neglect.

We really didn't expect a large audience for the showing, and were surprised when we found we had to park a couple of blocks away. The church was nearly full. Later, we decided that many of the folks were ones who had helped produce the film.

We knew lots of other folks, though...mainly people who, like me, support the film festival each year. Two women that we know sat with us. We hadn't seen these ladies in a long time, so we had a great time visiting before the movie began.

Funny: both of the ladies were wearing exactly the same pendant necklace. I laughed and commented that I was apparently out of step. It turned out that one of the ladies had hosted a jewelry party, and the other lady had attended. They'd both bought the same necklace, but neither knew that the other would wear hers tonight.

The movie, called "45 RPM," is about a woman artist, who has received funding to produce a work for a gallery, but her creativity is blocked by the need to find a particular 45 RPM record of a 1960s song by a band her father played in. Somehow, the record and a bathtub she sketches over and over again, are intertwined.

She finds a record dealer in Memphis, who convinces her to go with him on a road trip to locate the record. They travel all over creation, visiting vintage music stores, flea markets, and garage sales, looking for the record.

The movie is described as a "dark comedy that extends the world of classic American Road Movie into multiple mediums, while exploring rich Southern history." It's well done, and we enjoyed it.

There was a question and answer session afterward, featuring the stars and some of the cast of the movie.

We were back home around 9 p.m., and since it was such a cool evening, we enjoyed cups of hot chocolate before bedtime.