THE DAILY DIVERSION

I was recently told that my posts were way too long, so I'm going to try to turn over a new leaf and try to make them less of a marathon and closer to a mini-marathon. You have to understand that I'm a storyteller, and a long-winded one at that.

Luckily for anyone that may be reading this, I don't have a lot to talk about today. We didn't do much of anything this weekend. We're going to be on the road during every weekend, for the rest of the month, so we thought we'd just lay low.

About the only exciting thing we did was go see "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". It was, as expected, excellent. When has Johnny Depp made a shitty movie? Well, take out "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and we'll be on the same page. I'm a little disappointed with the ending of this episode of "Pirates", but I understand what is going on. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the next episode though.

I will say this about our viewing of the movie, then I'll close for the day (in order to slim this post down a little bit)... Why do parents take small children to see movies like this?

I couldn't imagine, as a 6 or 7 year old, seeing this movie. I'd have nightmares for months. The movie is dark and scary, just like the first one, if not worse. Not to mention, one of the previews prior to the movie was for "The Descent", which is rated R and extremely scary looking. They actually showed lots of blood and the creature-people going after the main actors.

As for kids seeing "Pirates"... I guess that's up to the discretion of the adults. They make good, solid decisions all the time, right? Well, I know I don't, thus I don't have any children yet.

Lastly, we watched the final match of the World Cup yesterday and it was pretty good. Those crazy Italians pulled it off. I'm still scratching my head over what Zidane did late in the overtime. I'm going to go now and do some reading. Maybe he actually did an interview and said what really happened. I'm still perplexed over it!