Life, Fannishness, and Thespic Infatuation

Today was a trip to Kitty Hawk to the Wright Brothers Memorial. Very interesting to see where all the work in Dayton finally paid off. Also very interesting to see that the hill where they took off from has moved 450 feet to the southwest from where it stood in 1903. The terrain, of course, was all sand at the time, so yes, it did move. The winds and the sand were why the Wrights chose Kitty Hawk for their flights.

(It was also interesting to hear the people around me reading or explaining to their children that the Wrights were from Dayton, OH.)

We ate lunch at Jimmy's Seafood Buffet. Jimmy's Buffet. Get it? The food wasn't great, but it did have that beach bar ambiance. I didn't realize that Geo's side of the fam was so fond of crab legs. Me, not so much, but I was delighted to see all the veggies on the hot bar.

I finished Shirley Jackson's The Haunting today. I'll post more thoroughly in a different entry, but if anyone has read it (and seen the original movie?), I'd kind of like to discuss it. Geo also mentioned watching the remake, since I've read the book now.

Tonight Newphew16 and I watched "In My Time of Dying."

( Cutty-cut for spoilers, just in case )

I spent much of the day inside today, due to being in some pain from my burn. Late this afternoon, Nephew16 and I got a chance to watch some SPN. We watched the pilot, "Hell House," and "Dead Man's Blood."

I think he got a kick out of "Hell House," and I was particularly amused by one comment he made. It was just as Dean discovers that Sam put super glue on the beer bottle. Nephew16 chuckles and says, "Ah, brotherly love." "You speak from experience?" I ask. "Yeah," he replies with another chuckle.

He also asked me how much the season cost, so I'm thinking I've got his Christmas present taken care of. Heh.