Has The Ice Cube Melted?

Tomorrow morning I am going to see a sneak preview of the new movie “Are We There Yet”, starring Ice Cube. It’s supposed to be a family comedy about a guy that takes his girlfriends kids on a road trip to win them over. Come on? Ice Cube one of the innovators of gangsta rap is doing this kind of movie? Has he gone soft? Has the Ice Cube Melted?
I got this pass from a woman who works in my building. She runs some kind of movie club, and is always handing out free passes like this. I had nothing better to do at 10am on a Saturday. Why not? I’m not so sure about how this movie is going to turn out. I’ll have to check back in with you to give it a review.

A noteworthy change seems to be taking place at my job. As you may, or may not, know I’m not a fan of my boss. Over the past two years she’s done some completely unreasonable and unbelievable things to my co-workers and me. I won’t get into any real details. Let’s just say she has a reputation among her peers; and it’s not a good rep. She recently had a kid and returned from maternity leave. Since then she’s been oddly nice, and dare I say…human. We’ve just gone through a very stressful and busy system change in which we are switching to a totally new way of collecting, reviewing, and reporting on the financial data. This has resulted in working a serious amount of overtime. The old version of my boss would have given us a very hollow ‘thanks for hard work’ followed by an implied ‘now get back to work’. This new incarnation of my boss offered us a heartfelt thanks and a comp day off. This may not sound like much, but for my company, for my organization, and for my boss, this is nearly groundbreaking. I have to ask the question again. Has the Ice Cube melted?