Sean’s House

David’s Grandma is in town visiting for a few weeks, so we were afforded a rare opportunity to see some movies in the theater. We went to see Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I can’t really think of a bad thing to say about Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr. *is* Tony Stark, full stop. Effects, excellent. Acting, pretty good. Story, reasonably good. Teaser after the credits? Moderately goofy. As for Indy IV, expectation management ruled the day. Cate Blanchett was pretty awesome. Everyone else ranged from good to boring. I got the distinct feeling that Lucas and Spielberg felt they had to top Raiders’ climax and I wasn’t that impressed, really. In the end, it felt forced. We came to the conclusion that someone had written a first draft, and someone said, “Ok, shoot it!”

Grandpa Joe came to visit for David’s birthday and we went to visit Roaring Camp up in the Santa Cruz mountains. They have a really cool fully working steam locomotive, and the ride is really fun. Of course, I tried to take a bunch of pictures, but a good portion of them didn’t come out.

So last week I managed to get not only an ear infection, but a skin infection too. (which sounds creepier than it actually is) And I went in this morning for a followup. The skin infection is gone, but my doctor couldn’t figure out if the ear infection is actually gone (she and I think it is, since my ear doesn’t hurt) because my ear canal is so windy. She gave me a referral to an Ear/Nose/Throat doctor for a follow up. In the meantime I still have a bunch of crap in my ear because it won’t drain. It hasn’t affected my balance or anything but it’s just annoying to not be able to hear well out of my left ear (which is the ear I normally use when talking on the phone.

Rebecca’s mom is visiting us for a few weeks (David withdrawal was getting to her, I guess) so we’ve been showing her around the area. She’s not up for walking a lot, so mostly we do driving tours. Today we drove up to San Francisco. We crossed the Golden Gate bridge, but there were so many people there it wasn’t worth trying to find a place to park to look around. On the way back we drove up Geary and I saw the remains of the Coronet theater, where I saw Mars Attacks! on opening night. I don’t know when it closed, but it’s a shame. That theater was huge (single screen) and well taken care of when I was there. We made a small attempt at driving up Lombard to go down the windy hill, but there was just too much traffic. (to be expected) After a slow jaunt through the Wharf area (mmmm.. Ghirardelli) we took Mission to 4th and got the hell out of dodge. Dinner was at the Palo Alto Creamery in the Stanford shopping center. I highly recommend their milkshakes.

I haven’t really posted anything on the web about it yet, but on May 13, 2006 my wife Rebecca gave birth to our son, David Beckett Goller. I haven’t decided when I’ll set up a website for him, but I’m trying to avoid doing dorky crap as much as possible. At birth he was 7 pounds, 6 ounces, and 21 inches long.

He never ceases to amaze me. Right now he’s sleeping about a foot away from me in his swing, and every time I look at him I want to make sure he has every opportunity possible. He just fucking rocks. It’s that simple.