Watching the TV show INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE (Netflix), which is so well written despite the gore. Also watching THE LINCOLN LAWYER (NETFLIX), MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, (MAX) SHRINKING (Apple) and a lot of docs. Why make a doc when you aren't able to use more than a line or two of music (Joni Mitchell, LADY BLUE) ?
Saw WE LIVE IN TIME, which I didn't care for despite two good performances.Do people really want to see a movie that is almost entirely about dying from cancer? From the very first scenes? I should have read the reviews more carefully.
Going to see STRANGERS ON A TRAIN with Josh and family (play). On Tuesday, I fly to DC and a friend and I are going to New Hope, where we were waitresses in 1964. And where I met Phil in 1965.
Be back in a week. Will put up a Monday post for you guys to communicate on.
Hope next we meet, we have the first Black female President.
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I voted. (Yay!) Since voting in America is a private affair, I will not mention whether I voted for the one hope we have for democracy and the Constitution to prevail or for the orange-skinned, senile, Fascist, felon, rapist. pedophile, lying, narcissistic, low I.Q., golf cheating moron with no business sense and his cat lady hating cohort. How I vote is nobody's business but my own.
Although we'll be heading out to Albuquerque over Thanksgiving to join Mark up with his furniture and with Kimchi, Lucy, and Bumblebee -- his three snakes, Mark evidently got lonely for ophidian company, so he got himself another snake -- a Vietnamese Blue Beauty snake. Now he needs to name it. Amy suggested Fangis Khan or David Hissehoff. also on the snake front, Mark's zoo just got a King Cobra to replace the one who died shortly before Mark arrived. Mark is very happy about it. Also, the zoo held its ond-day onlu Boo at the Zoo this Saturday and got 10,063 visitors; In comparions, the zoo here holds its Boo at the Zoo over three weekends and last year got just abit over 2000 visitors.
In other animal news, Erin's hedgehog Pine cone turned three years of on Friday. and Newcat still is avoiding me, although she loves to cuddle with everyone else. (**sigh**)
Christina has asked for thought and prayers for the third grade teachers and staff this Halloween week. Evidently the lead-up to Halloween is just as hard on the third graders as the sugar rush they'll have on November 1. Also this week is pumpkin carving time and I'm not sure what to carve. (With Florida heat and humidity, pumpkins only last a few days after they are carved.) Also this week marks my natal anniversary. In my mind, I'm twenty-five years younger than my age; in my body, I'm twenty-five years older. Go figure.
To be continued.
Crafting this Saturday was embroidery, something I have never done before and something I never want to do again. I embroidered (with shedding blood, I might add) the sign language symbol for "I love you" -- which is also my only tattoo, one got in honor of Kitty because that was her one and only tattoo. It didn't come out too bad. Jessie did and elephant (with it's trunk raised, of course). Try embroidered three cute little dinosaurs. Christina did a golden Retriever. Erin and Amy each knocked it out of the park with their mad skills. Erin did a hedgehog tableau with flowers and mushrooms, and Amy did a beautiful, intricate moth design on the sleeve of her sweatshirt. Because Amy's an overachiever she did not finish, spending over three hours stitching with black thread; she has much more to do with more black, and yellow and white thread.
A warm day Sunday at the beach, with a gentle breeze and few people (well, it is the last week in October). A group of at least five rays kept swimming back and forth about two feet from the shore. Magnificent. (These were just ol' ordinary rays; if they were manta rays or stingrays, they'd be called a "fever" of rays.)
Television included the usual, including AGATHA ALL ALONG, which everybody keeps raving about and for which I have no affinity whatever. Oh, well.
Books read this week include to Miss Pickerells: MISS PICKERELL AND THE WAR OF THE COMPUTERS and MISS PICKERELL AND THE BLUE WHALES. Miss Pickerell is ever middle-aged, old-fashioned, persnickity, loyal, and brave. she is fierce when it comes to doing what is right. We need a few more Miss Pickerells in this world. I also read Lee Child's collection SAFE ENOUGH AND OTHER STORIES, John Farris's strange thriller SOON SHE WILL BE GONE (my FFB), J. A. Konrath's thriller THE LIST, and Richard Osman's latest, WE SOLVE MURDERS. Coming up is the third "Doc Savage" novel from James Patterson and Brian Sitts, MURDER ISLAND, because every so often you have to read a book that you can gripe about. (If you're interested in Doc Savage, you're better off reading the newer novels by Will Murray.) Also coming up, maybe this weekend, is the annual Pensacola Greek Festival , with much wonderful food.
I really think you should go trick or treating, Patti. Have a great weekend and stay safe.
That book about Hammerstein sounds really interesting, Patti! I hope you enjoy Strangers....
We returned from our Ohio trip just in time to watch the Buffalo Bills beat the Seattle Seahawks 31-10 after we saw HAMILTON at Shea's Performing Arts Center. We had frost on our lawn last night but our weather-guessers claim Western NY will approach 80 degrees on Tuesday! Rain is forecast for Halloween.
Patrick spent last week in Singapore and now he's relaxing in Bali. Katie booked our Broadway plays for our Thanksgiving trip. Diane is doing trip laundry and I'm going through the stack of mail, newspapers, magazines, and AMAZON packages that arrived while we were in Ohio.
Have fun in DC! Stay safe! Go Kamala!
My wife and I visited Boy #1 in Minneapolis over the weekend. Plenty of time in the car, stopping for lunch, and buying stuff like groceries and a CostCo run.
After listening to UNDER THE SKIN I checked out the author's novel THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS. SciFi novel where a missionary travels to a new planet to proselytize to the beings there. Very , very light on science and space travel. Heavy first person perspective by the missionary who never minds the details. A human colony populated by workers with zero interest in the local flora and fauna. Enjoying it quite a bit so far (13 hours left) and the narration has been great.
Also listened to Donald Goines's NEVER DIE ALONE. NEVER feels like Goines had two novels he was working on and just smooshed them together.
Still alternating between hopeful and worried for the election.
My birthday is on Election Day and I am not looking forward to that. We always celebrate my birthday the weekend before so the election won't really ruin it. No matter how it goes it isn't going to be a good day. We will be taking our ballot to a voting box in the next day or two.
We are now watching some of the broadcast shows (streaming on Paramount). We watched the first episodes of NCIS Season 22, NCIS Origins, and MATLOCK with Kathy Bates. All were good, especially MATLOCK. Last night we watched MURDER SHE WROTE, CSI (Season 14), and THE ARK. John Rhys-Davis was on MURDER SHE WROTE.
I recently finished reading BIG SKY by Kate Atkinson (Jackson Brodie #5). I enjoyed it very much. Lots of humor. It is very hard to describe. In some ways it felt like just another Jackson Brodie story but since I enjoy Jackson Brodie and his odd approach to life, that was a good thing.
Glen is still reading THE WAGER: A TALE OF SHIPWRECK, MUTINY AND MURDER. I think it would be a good read. It is set in 1740 and has some good maps.
Patti, I hope you have a good time in DC.
Maybe the wrong place for someone worried about the election. But we will mostly be in PA. Kevin just sent out 12 applications for college. I think one was U-Wisconsin.
I enjoyed the first MATLOCK but I don't get Paramount Plus and will probably not be able to pick up missed eps on CBS. I love Kate Atkinson-LIFE AFTER LIFE my favorite is on Kanopy if you get it. I keep meaning to reserve THE WAGER. Thanks for the reminder.
Patrick is always on the road. Does he ever regret having the more sedentary life of a college professor? Probably not.
I haven't been having the usual problems lately, so didn't bother saving a copy of my post or send it to you, and it vanished,
Oh well, have a nice trip.
Patti, even when Patrick was teaching at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque he was traveling to conferences and workshops. I'm guessing that after Patrick's GOOGLE days are over, he'll go back to teaching.
Sorry, Jeff. Thanks.
Down around my current and former digs (Philly-area, DC area). Enjoy the old grounds! I suspect we will have our first woman-president-elect, first half-Asian, first half-Jamaican likewise. It is remarkable how many people have Trouble with the mixture of ethnicity thing...not at all unexpected in the drooling Drumpf, but surprising in people one can expect better from. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/08/politics/kamala-harris-browns-town-jamaica-dg/
We're trying to puzzle out the local Sheriff and school board candidates...Harris and Walz will take NJ handily. People know the real Drumpf too well around here, where he managed to mess over locals.
Happily, if a multiply-chauvinist jackass attempt-at-a-comedian helps bring down Drumpf, from his MSG Bund rally, I am OK with that. Particularly since it will remind certain voters, at least, of Drumpf hurling paper towel rolls at them and cousins and our fellow citizens in PR.
This is bizarre. We're watching TOTAL CONTROL. For absolutely no reason - possibly because she wanted to show off her 55 year old body and (as Jackie put it, "perky breasts"), there was a gratuitous scene of Prime Minister Rachel Griffiths naked after coming out of the shower.
Weird.
Wow. You just never know. Not familiar with that show. Haven't seen her since SIX FEET UNDER.
We will probably pass right by you, Todd.
Jeff just sold me on watching TOTAL CONTROL.
Best of luck to Kevin in the application process. I likely complained before about my kids dawdling during the process and getting waitlisted.
When I was in Champaign, IL a couple weeks ago I went with my mother to visit her attorney. The attorney mentioned that U of WI is a prized location for many of the IL teens she knows through her daughter's dance activities. I don't know why that is so. It is certainly a good school - any Big 10 school is a fine choice.
Except, don't get me started on the bizarre expansion of the Big 10...
When I was considering colleges, I definitely weighed possibly applying to the likes of Berkeley and Madison, but stuck with in-state schools (UHawaii Manoa, NOVA-Annandale, Geo. Mason U), so that I could go it on my own w/o loans when and if possible. My parents were kind enough to pay for about half my undergrad, which was a ridiculous drop in the bucket 1982-86 by today's standards. First two semesters at UH $318/semester each, IIRC.
College costs have certainly outpaced inflation. In 1989 my college offered a tuition program where you pay $1,500 (or whatever the fee was) to have a guaranteed limit on tuition increases over four years.
My children are incredibly fortunate that overall family wealth supports most expenses. One of my goals was to have them graduate without a ton of school debt. That should happen - through no skill on my part - and I am grateful for it.
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