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Laundry day all the way! Awoke early this morning. There was a lot of noise and bustle around the complex today. People coming and going all day long (while I was here--I too was in and out a lot).

Spent a good part of the day fiddling with the new toy (laptop) and discovering lots of fun things. I see Apple is going to a 2-step login to circumvent some security problem. Just when I was about to get used to the old ID and password system! Oh, well! Gotta be secure!

Watched a Russian film this evening--Silent Souls. It was a mystical road trip down the Styx (or is it Volga) river. One man makes a purchase of two "bunting" birds (Russian love birds perhaps) and returns to his home town with them in tow. His boss calls him aside and tells him that his (the boss's) beloved wife died the previous night. The boss asks the man to accompany him on a trip to a river where the wife will be cremated and her ashes put into the river. The entire burial ritual is part of an ancient tradition that the man is trying to write about in his spare time. The man agrees and the mystical journey is underway. Both men have flashbacks of their earlier days as they deal with the rituals and the corpse. En route back from the cremation locale, the boss tells the man that he knew that his dead wife had been intimate with the man. When they started the trip, the man had to bring the caged birds with him since he had no one care for them in his absence. Mystically, the birds (buntings) was a word that was part of the middle name of the ex-wife. And so it went right on to the dark ending where the birds cause an accident. The film was beautifully photographed and seemed longer than its listed 75 minutes. There are several other strange elements that are in the film--the man's father's typewriter, the men dancing around the lighthouse, the men meeting up with two younger women on their way back home, and other symbols and such.

I'm buzzed out now! Heading for the bed! My face is turning red! Nothing to be said! Nothing that I dread! Pulling back the spread! Now I lay my head!