After all, it’s Sunday. I figure any real comics fan saw it by Friday.

Personally I loved it. SO much better than Iron Man 2 (which I despised). Robert Downey once again makes the argument that no one can play Tony Stark the way he can: he comes across as a combination of arrogant and vulnerable, dealing with a massive case of PTSD after the events in “The Avengers.” Gwyneth Paltrow’s Pepper is more a damsel in distress than ever, but somehow manages to make it work. And the villains are great, especially Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin who will doubtless drive many of the long time fans nuts, but yet somehow totally works.

3D is wholly unnecessary. Save money and see it in 2D.

PAD

Things continue to improve for Peter slowly.

He can now touch the thumb of his right finger to his pinkie with pretty much normal effort. He has started to type again for limited amount of time. Between that and Dragon Dictate, he is able to get work done. It might not be as fast for him as his pre-stroke speed but he is getting a lot done for various projects.

His gait is returning to normal. He is only using a cane for very long distances. His stamina is returning slowly.

He is bowling again and starting to get his game back in order. He is throwing closer to his average these days.

Each normal activity that he can do is a victory.

And like any recovery we have our good days and our bad days and our OK days.

Next month is a busy one for us. Ariel is graduating from college. We have Phoenix Comic Con at the end of the month and a lot to do the rest of the month.

Caroline is doing fine in school. She is happy to have her ELA and Math tests behind her. She has her math and social studies left. Her flute practice is continuing. She is learning the flute part of the Star Wars theme.

My neck is doing fine, thank you. I am adjusting to things as they happen. I had my annual wellness visit and, after I take some other tests, I will find out if I am “well”.

You, dear reader, can still help us by spreading the word about Peter’s books and other works. We do still have some pretty steep medical bills coming in. The insurance company keeps deciding how much they are going to pay and how much we are going to pay. Just when I think we might be pretty much caught up on things, we get hit with another charge that was sorted out by all the other parties. It does wear one down but with your help I can say that I am not as worn down as I might have been.

Oh, in other forms of excitement, the brakes went on my truck and I managed to get to the service station before they were totally gone but it was pretty scary there. I was the only one in the truck at the time.

I am going to open this up to questions. So ask and I shall answer the best I can. If I can’t answer, I will tell you that I can’t and I ask that you respect that. Yes, you can post again.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us. We would not be here if it weren’t for your help and know that we are very grateful.

We’re experiencing some very heavy load on the servers here, and we’re taking comments offline for a while so we can deal with the problem. There may be other unannounced outages here in the next 48 hours or so. We’ll keep you posted.

I don’t know where most of you live, plus I have no idea if any of you decided to run in the Boston Marathon. So feel free to use this space to sound off that you’re okay.

PAD