500 Days of Summer

Dad and I went to see a movie at the new Showcase Cinemas today. The theater is out near where I used to work during my last couple of summers of college. Norton Company is now some French company, but it looks about the same. Lots of old brick buildings all together with smokestacks, cooling towers, railroad tracks, and bag houses. I couldn't remember which building I worked in, but it had to be one of the taller ones because I remember the 4 or 5 flights of stairs that I ran up after riding my bike over there. They were good summers, with games of horseshoes with the old workers at break time and swimming in the Greendale Y pool during lunch hour.

We saw "500 Days of Summer" today at the cinema. I got some Whoppers and a coffee, and have promised myself to going back to eating better again when I return to San Diego. It was good during the first part of the summer, but I've gone back to old habits during the two weeks here and probably have put back at least 10 of 25 pounds that I had lost during June and July. The movie was good. Romantic comedies are some of my favorite movies. This may not be among my favorites but it was enjoyable, funny, and had a nice ending. Dad seemed to enjoy it as well. It was nice spending time with him and even nicer getting out of the 85-degree heat.

This morning we visited the "Art in the Park" exhibit at Elm Park. We were able to find 17 of the 20 exhibits and I've posted some nice photographs of the art and the park on facebook. This one was my favorite. It's made entirely of piano parts, presumably from a single piano. The frame forms the door, and the strings are wound up into circles that line the edges and are filled with the hammers and other parts. Quite fascinating.

It's been a good day. We're having fresh salmon for dinner. We walked over to Tatnuck Sea Food yesterday morning; it's the same place Dad's been buying fish for the past 41 years. The man at the counter has probably been working there that long, and his father was working there before that. Dad says he's the only one there, and that they had another guy behind the counter, but he had offended too many customers, so the owner let him go and is now the sole proprietor, so to speak.