a potpourri of blather

i never go out to lunch

 i usually

 head down to the cafeteria

 grab something

 bring it back

 eat at my desk

 but

 the last two days 

i had visitors 

first

a blog friend who lives in australia

 we met a few years ago

 when she was living here in nyc

 with her daughter son-in-law and their new baby

 well now there's a newer baby 

he and his mother

 (my friend's daughter)

 were here for a conference 

she and i had lunch

 so nice to catch up

 then

 another blog friend in town for a conference

 managed to find time to meet me for lunch

we hadn't seen one another since last year 

when she was here for the same event 

another wonderful catch up 

been reading a lot again

 i finished

 anna quindlen's still life with crumbs

it was

 so good

 really

 i will admit it was a little predicable 

but still really good

 i also read something

 i don't usually read

 non fiction 

an auto biography

 by

 larry mcmurtry called hollywood

 it covers his time in tinseltown

 involvement with the production

 of

  last picture show and lonesome dove

as well as

 some other books to movies and made for tv mini series

 he wrote or produced 

there's nothing to watch on tv

 all the shows 

we watched over the fall/winter

 have ended for the season

 mad men was the last to wrap

 there's only one or maybe two more

 game of thrones

 we do still have the second season

 of 

house of cards

 we're watching that slowly

 because 

its so good

 we at least i

 want it to last a bit longer 

so 

last night 

we watched a movie

gambit

 a remake of a good 1960s caper film

with michael caine and shirley maclaine 

the new version shares only the characters names

 it written by the coen brothers

  don't get excited 

not even

 colin firth and alan rickman 

could save this

 it was pretty bad

 the animated opening

 should have been the tip off

 rent the original if you want some entertainment 

okay thats it blather over