Presidents' Day Weekend: French Connection - Breach - Borneo - and Mom

Friday eve we stayed warm at home with a fire and watched The French Connection. B hadn't seen it before and I had many years ago but remembered none of it. Great classic.
Then, Saturday, Breach: worth seeing...yes! Disturbing but not in an overwhelming sort of way. Utterly fascinating too. I really "enjoyed" seeing this flick with P, P & P.

and tonight.....
Expedition Borneo on Discovery Channel. Saw places no human has been known to traverse -- in modern times, anyway. Unbelievable footage of the rare, the previoulys unknown, the beautiful and the weird. Shocking, breathtaking and totally amazing. I have decided I want to spend one day (not a night - just a day - thank you very much) of my life as a gibbon, swinging thru the huge trees in this tropical rain-forest.

Exploring the amazing cathedral like caves...well.. I'll leave those for the dreams of the "Jet."
It's awesome to know that the work of this scientific / photographic team in documenting this rain-forest helped to result in the creation of the Heart of Borneo signed into being just last week (2/12/07)! One third of Borneo will now be preserved, as it well deserves to be.
Curious?? This 2 hour presentation will be repeated once more: Thursday night, 2/22 at 9PM on The Science Channel.

Today also included a visit to Mom and Connie over in the Berkshires. It was great to see them. Connie says he doesn't have as much get up and go as he did. Well, at 93, after all he's been thru in the past 2 years, and after pneumonia in the Fall, that's not surprising. We hope the Spring will provide him with some of his 'ole spunk.
Tomorrow: it's off to collect a few FreeCycle treasures and then B and I will walk up to the Amherst Cinema with Pete and Pam to see a new 35 mm print of the 1939 French film: The Rules of the Game (Renoir)

Then it's back to the "real world" on Tuesday.
Hope you've had a good weekend.