Leakier than a sieve

Of death and taxes, I expect to experience the latter far more than the former. I installed TurboTax this weekend, so I can officially say that I’ve started my taxes. I even entered the information from one W-2. But nothing more than that.

I read a novel called Restitution by new author Lee Vance. It was a decent thriller written by a guy who knows a lot about high-level stock traders (he’s a former Goldman Sachs Group employee). Of particular interest—the book features a character who stages a billion-dollar swindle in a manner similar to what just happened in France a week or two ago. The book has a The Firm feel to it, lots of forward momentum, and some good reversals at the end. Fast-paced and a fast read. A strong first novel.

We finally got to see the end of Volver this weekend. Good movie with lots of laughs in spite of some dark themes. We also watched A Mighty Heart (Angelina Jolie plays Danielle Pearl’s wife), The Bourne Ultimatum and Copying Beethoven

The latter stars Ed Harris as Beethoven, and I confess I had a hard time seeing him as the musician. He did sink into the character from time to time, but I kept seeing Ed Harris and would have preferred someone more anonymous (like Tom Hulce was in Amadeus) playing the part. Bourne was fun and exhilarating, but it had some ultraconvenient situations that kept cropping up. Where did he get all those key cards, for example. Every time he came to a locked door, he had the necessary key, without explanation. And it’s impossible to imagine that a covert CIA group would have windows so huge that a person with binoculars across the street could not only see the people inside moving around, but read their secret documents as they put them in the safe. They kept talking about establishing perimeters a block or two or four wide, but they couldn’t even find people inside the building! Mindless entertainment. Keep me moving along fast enough and I won’t have time to think about these issues.

I’m up to 21,000 words on the novel in progress. At some point I’m going to have to stop and take stock of where I am, because it’s been a headlong dash so far and I know I’m leaving stuff out or getting details confused.

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