the father movie

 this morning i watched a DVD movie, a redbox rental, 'the father'. i recognized anthony hopkins in it. the cast was a minimal one, but i am aware of how it was based on a play. this one was on my list as it was an oscar winner. it was hard to watch at times, but when it is about the main character having memory loss one shouldn't expect it to be easy to watch. notable to me was a few scenes where one sees nobody, depicting things such as a leaking faucet and showing the rooms of the flat (apartment). it made sense after a while when the main character saw some people in who was talking, such as the other daughter. i did end up yelling at the movie when i saw the son-in-law, as some mean-spirited things were said. 

once the movie was done it was time to get started on errand running. both e-bay orders were waiting at the post office, and i saw the loopy employee there. then it was to the gas station where i dumped the movie and got lunch, a little godfather's pizza. after i ate i went to the dollar store nearby and got a CD-taylor swift- and a DVD- a biopic about steve jobs.  i listened to some of the CD already, and said 'here's to the healing power of music' when hearing songs such as 'shake it off' and bad blood'. i recall both being played at sporting events by organists who found appropriate times to do so. i also played a CD from an earlier dollar store visit- george strait- and it sounds like there is a 4th 'ex in texas', for a long time it sounded like there was three. i moved up going to aldi for my weekly grocery order, as i had a ticket for the st. paul saints baseball game in the evening. i may have had a ticket for the berm area but noticed there was plenty of seats available in the general admission section, so i sat there. the saints won 8-1, and never trailed in it, having scored 2 against the iowa cubs in the 1st inning. after i got back from the game i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 65 cents, so i have reached the next save-up goal, a bag of chips from the vending machine at work.