Cold Snap!

Last night I went for a swim in the neighborhood pool because it was 70 degrees out and they don't close it down for the Winter. The water was a lot colder than 70 degrees though! Then last last night a cold front came in with big thunder storms and a tornado warning to drop the temperature into the 30's in just a couple hours. This morning we awoke to ice everywhere. Before going to pickup Zara from a sleepover this morning I had to scrape off the car. Turns in the weather can be so exciting!

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't seen Rogue One you should probably stop reading now. I saw it. It's darker than most Star Wars movies. There are lovable characters. Chirrut Îmwe is probably my favorite because he's kind of a funny warrior monk. Cassian Andor has too much sang froid to root for him as he uses Jyn Erso to get closer to her father for the purpose of murdering him. And after seeing him murder an informant rather than letting him be captured we're left with little doubt that Cassian will do whatever is necessary. Then there's the main villian, Orson Krennic, who we're all happy to see get his comeuppance when a weirdly CGed Tarkin steals his pet project, the Death Star, from him. And then there's the CG Leia, who looks even weirder. We could have just seen her from the back, but they just couldn't resist. Shades of the weird looking Yoda from the Phantom Menace. As the story builds we lose character after character to death at the hands of the empire until literally no one they introduced in the movie is left alive. Not one of them.