Bubba Hotep

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On Friday night Vicky and I watched Bubba Hotep, which turned out to be excellent: Elvis and JFK, reports of their deaths greatly exaggerated, spending their last days in a nursing home in Texas, discover that an ancient egyptian mummy is preying on their neighbours, and decide to something about it. Funny and sad.

On Saturday I made my way to the Winter Ale Festival for lunch and to meet up with ali_anarres who turned out to be in Cambridge, and who seemed to be well. A select group of other familiar faces turned up too. No cider left, sadly, but the venue was a good one.

Wandering back thru town I continued by recent rediscovered habit of being distracted by bookshops and by the time I got away I'd got a book on Rome from prehistory to Constantine, which should fill some gaps left by me previous readings, and the autobiography of Gichin Funakoshi. After dinner I returned after something of a gap to Rome: Total War but have got bogged down fighting endless small groups of Greeks in southern Italy; I've not lost a battle yet but my army gets smaller each time round and this can't go on.

I've been reading Anthony Beevor's book on the fall of Berlin, which actually starts with the initial Soviet invasion of Germany; a horrific event in an already horrific war. Interesting and detailed.