Ladies and gentlemen, the great Phil Collins.
Hello again everyone. I know it's been a while since a lot of you had heard from me, so I thought I'd do another post to let everyone know how I was doing. I've had a pretty unique week this week. I'd say it was amazing, but the second half of it has kind of sucked for various reasons. There's been a sort of entropy or decay over the past few days where things have gone from great to not-so-great.
I should start by reporting that I've had the house entirely to myself all this week because my dad has been on a trip to Colorado as part of his vacation. He had all of last week off too, but he spent all of it at the house, which made me feel a bit constricted. So this trip of his kind of balances things out. Dad left town last Saturday, and I ended up using that day to party. I mean I didn't invite over a bunch of people for some drunken bash, but I did cut loose.
By a fortunate coincidence, the day of my dad's departure coincided with a trip that my aunt and I had been planning to make to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha (near where I live). My aunt and I usually try to make a trip out to the museum once a year, and we had been unable to do so last year because my aunt had to get her hip replaced that summer. So it was nice to finally get back out there again. The museum made some major improvements to the wing that houses the more classical pieces in their collection. This trip had also allowed my aunt and I to go to the local Barnes & Noble and replace this damaged book of H.P. Lovecraft stories she had purchased for me last month as a gift. I had almost gotten to the end of that book during the same month and was very dismayed to find that some jerk had torn a large hole in one of the pages. Thankfully, we had been able to get the book replaced without any difficulty.
Later that afternoon, right after I had returned home, I went ahead and streamed the movie, Captain America: Civil War from Netflix. I had been kind of curious about that movie for a little while (mainly because I'm a fan of the Iron Man movies), and what made me want to see it even more was that I had heard that the new version of Spider-Man showed up in it. I had been thinking of seeing that new Spider-Man: Homecoming movie that came out this month after my dad had mentioned it had been getting some great reviews, so I thought I should watch Civil War in case seeing it was necessary to know what was going on in this new movie. So I watched Civil War (not a bad film, by the way), and by the end of it I was feeling pretty pumped. And at the end of it I thought to myself, "What the hell? I'm gonna go out and see that new Spider-Man movie tonight."
As it happened, Spider-Man: Homecoming was playing at my hometown's local theater, so going out to see it was no great problem. It was a pretty entertaining film; much better than what I had expected. This movie was certainly a different kind of Spider-Man story. They did things that had not been done before in previous versions of this franchise, and I think a lot of those differences worked very well for this movie. One thing I liked was having Iron Man playing a sort of mentor to this young and really inexperienced version of Spider-Man. Really though, this movie to me was more of a teen comedy than a superhero movie, and a pretty funny one at that. The only issues I had with Homecoming were the way they kind of left out the backstory of how Spider-Man got his powers (though they told that story already in two previous versions of the movie franchise), and the song that they had used as the movie's theme (dang song got stuck in my head for five days).
All in all, this week of my dad being out of town started out amazingly. On Sunday, I pretty much just stayed in the house all day and binge-watched old episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The next couple of days that followed were pretty much just business as usual, other than my dad being out of town. It's been yesterday and today where things have sort of been going down hill. The biggest problem I've been having is that a friend of mine on FanFiction.Net has been contemplating suicide. He's actually thought about doing this before, and I guess this idea of his hasn't really gone away. I'm pretty worried about him right now, but there's only so much I can do to help him.
I mean I think this thing with my friend has been building for quite a long time. He's been having a lot of financial issues and issues with his family. It's been getting harder and harder for him to find reasons to keep on going. The bottom line is that he's hanging by a thread, and I'm afraid that thread could snap at any time. I guess I need to prepare myself for the worst, and I think I already have a little bit. Well, that's pretty much what's been going on with me this week. Until next time, thanks for reading.
