Just got back from seeing the <a href="http://movies.go.com/movies/M/matrix3the_2001/index.html"Matrix Revolutions</a> . If you are a Matrix fan, you'll probably go see it no matter what anyone says. If you are not a Matrix fan, you probably won't see it unless you are married to or otherwise attached to a Matrix fan. Any way it happens, you will be disappointed.

The conclusion of this trilogy follows what usually happens to book trilogies -- somehow the last book of the series as grown to 600 pages and it's like no one can tell the author that they need to tighten it up.

Sigh. Most of my dislike of the movie is my disappointment at what could have been. And that's much like the Starwars movies. Disappointing.

Today is being spent doing tasks around the house. The remodel is almost done so I'm doing finish work (sealing the tile, chalking, adding fasteners for tile access panels) and any time left over will be spent moving into te new area. My family has it's priorities -- the computers move first.

Then there are regular home tasks: snaking the downstairs shower, mowing the lawn for the last time this year, raking leaves. And the kids want to see the new Matrix movie tonight.

Can't say I'm not alive.

Krispy Kream finally came to Portland. With much fanfare, one opened on the east side of town. I heard stories of lines of cars around the block. Then, about two months ago, they opened one on the west side of town. This one is in the middle of the Silicon Forest -- lots of tech people to suck up those donuts.

I can see the bright neon lights from the highway as I drive by twice a day. But I don't see lines of cars or a packed parking lot. I see a donut shop that you can walk into and get a dozen without waiting. I'm not sure if it's that Portlanders are not attuned to donuts or whether the thrill of the Krispy magic is passing.

Made it through Halloween. There weren't as many trick-or-treaters as there usually are -- I don't know if the cold weather kept them away or if there are fewer little kids this year. I took pictures of some of the ones who did come to our door.

But there are teenagers around. We woke up to find that someone (or, more likely a groups of someones) had taken most of the carved pumpkins off the porches up and down the street and smashed them. The drive down the block was slippery.

It's time to carve the pumpkins!! Halloween is getting close. I plan on moving the LivingroomCam onto the front porch so you can see the trick-or-treater's as they come to the door.

Happy Halloween!!