Ironically, I am sitting in the far too air-conditioned living room with Sopranos blaring in my left ear instead of outside pulling vetch out of the garden in the heat. Vacation at home is never the same twice. I get to see familiar faces and places, but the hectic schedules and other things that need to get done make coming home an adventure in it’s own right.

Swimming, movies, reading, gardening, eating, drinking, walks, fixing my bike… the only thing I am missing is a canoe trip. Shame I don’t have the time.

My mom and I went browsing the used book store today for back-titles of popular authors. As usual, we decided we have too many books on the go right now as it is and left empty handed, but with books on our respective wish-lists. We had a good laugh earlier over a self-published local author and looked for his books as well. Now, don’t think I don’t know how hard it is to publish and how rewarding it can be to self-publish. You honestly can’t expect to make much without proper distribution though, and quality (of writing and production) will suffer.

I figure, if a book is really that great but turned down by the big houses and they still don’t pick it up after the fact – it was not meant to be.

So. I got to see Piranha 3-D! I loved every minute of it, even all the boob minutes. There was just enough gore to suit me but not enough good looking men. In fact, there were only two alright looking guys in the whole thing. I was really struck by the imdb discussion though. Apparently, a lot of people have been bringing their kids to see this movie. Seriously? What part of rated-R do you not understand?! I suppose the theatres across the border are far more lax than ours when demanding identification or telling parents that they can’t come in with little ones. That decision certainly rests in large part with the parents, but why would anyone let a child under 12 watch this? I was a seasoned horror vet by age 12 and even then my parents either already had seen what I was watching or watched it with me. No way would they have let me sit through this one.

Granted, the trailer makes it look pretty tame. The film contains people being eaten alive, skinned alive and even beaten to death. It is all very well done, extremely gory and in frickin 3-D. This is all information you can glean from a quick search on the internet or adhering to the respective rating system.

Actually, I would love to work for kidsinmind.com. How cool would it be to document every gorefest, every swear word or flash of buttocks? Sounds like a fun job to me.

Looking forward to an end-of-summer BBQ tomorrow and seeing close friends before fall sucks us into vacuums of school and work until winter.

So far, I have taken 386 photos in the last three days (one of which is the yummy green tomatoes above) and I will be sorting some into a nice photoblog once I am home and settled.