I finally figured out how to watch a DVD with commentary turned on last night. Wait - that sounds bad. I always knew how to do it, it’s just that I found it annoying and pointless. Anyway, the secret is that you don’t actually watch it. You have it on in the background, while doing something else, like say, washing dishes. Then if they say something that requires you to look at the screen, you can. Otherwise, treat it like a radio broadcast.

I can’t watch commentary tracks usually, because it’s to frustrating not being able to hear the actual audio from whatever show the commentary is on. When they say something like “I love this line - this is my favorite line of the whole movie” and you have to be able to read lips to figure out what the line was, that’s frustrating.

I actually played a little bit of Smuggler’s Run last night, which I hadn’t played in a long time. It can certainly get frustrating, but it’s a neat game anyway.

We’re having Erin’s grandparent’s stay with us this weekend, because there is a Grand Opening for the new Taoist Tai Chi center in town, and they’re going to attend it. It’ll be good to see them, and good for them to see William. He’s grown so much since they’ve seen him, and he changes so fast, it’s not even funny. Until you actually see him wandering around with a toy in each hand, talking away (nonsense words still) it’s hard to believe that this is the same boy that we took home from the hospital a little over 11 months ago.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Shh! Some people are trying to watch the movie.” - Hans Moleman