Another cold week. Hopefully this is the end of it.
Did not do much outside the home.
Watched STEAL, THE PITT, THE SEVENTH KNIGHT, Saw the movie SEASONAL VALUES again with some friends.
Had dinner at a great Chinese Restaurant.
Read the graphic novel, THEY CALLED US ENEMY by George Takei and BUCKEYE (Patrick Ryan)
How about you?
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Another quiet week. The weather couldn't make up its mind and bounced from sold and rainy to not-as-cold and sunny. Punxsutawney Phil couldn't make it to the Panhandle this year, but a neighbor went to the store and stocked up on beer, so I guess we're headed for six more weeks of winter.
The big news this week is that /Erin and Trey have set the date! They will be married on April 3, 2027. This meant wedding dress shopping, so Erin, Christina, Jessie, Trey's mom, and Erin's bridesmaid all headed out Saturday in search of the perfect dress. The problem, as Christina explained to me, ws that every dress she tried looked beautiful on Erin. Nonetheless, they were able to find the most beautiful and most perfect dress for her on their first day of shopping. I do not have to wait for almost fourteen months to know that she will look lovely.
Flight have been booked for early march for us to visit my brother and his family in Massachusetts. Looking forward to it. Miss being there to help out with my brother's illness, and am really looking forward to seeing my two grand-nieces -- Lily is now two years old and is at the age where Uncle Jerry can teach her nasty tricks that her mother will not appreciate, and her sister is six months old, but her time will come!
Started the new seasons of FATHER BROWN (enjoyable but still a little too twee) and GRACE (highly recommended) while finishing the latest SHETLAND and SHAKESPEARE AND HATHAWAY.
Read TOM SWIFT AND HIS TRIPHIBIAN ATOMICAR by "Victor Appleton II" (James Duncan Lawrence this time), a Tom Swift Jr. adventure that can't hold a candle to the original series. Also read a Stephen Marlowe Chester Drum mystery/thriller from the late 50s, KILLERS ARE MY MEAT (also my FFB this week). Robert Harris's THE FEAR INDEX is the February selection for Erin's Book Club, a financial thriller that pulled you along despite some shaky plotting and a time-worn ending. The latest Jack Reach by Lee & Andrew Grant was also enjoyable but flawed, relying too much on coincidence and having a murkily portrayed central character. I read Elle Cosimano's FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS 'EM DEAD, the second book in the series, without having read the first, but was easily able to catch up. I'm not usually interested in romcom mysteries but this one kept me turning the pages.
Now it's time to turn the page and look forward to another week. I hope yours is fantastic, Patti! Stay safe.
Congratulations, Jerry. She got the wedding dress 14 months in advance?
How great it must be to have a family that big and active and mostly near by.
We've had two weeks of cold weather here - mostly cold for Florida but occasionally colder than that - and so glad we're not at home. Our next door neighbor who is getting our mail is keeping Jackie informed on how bad it is.
Great defensive performance by the Seahawks last night. Not one commercial where I thought, "that was funny ( or cute, or otherwise memorable): I'd like to see that again.
I you tubed the Bad Bunny half-time show and loved it. Although I never will get that crotc-h grabbing.
Western NY will emerge from the Arctic Cold---it was -7 this morning--and the temperature is predicted to hit 34 degrees tomorrow. Our snow blower has not been repaired yet (2 weeks!) but there's no snow in the forecast this week.
Patrick flew back from his vacation in Greece. Katie landed in Boston late last night after her visit with friends in San Diego. But of my kids have to contend with cool, cool weather now! Patrick shocked his Lyft driver when he entered the vehicle in NYC in shorts!
Diane and I checked in with the Super Bowl every half hour or so. The game was mostly boring. And, Jeff Meyerson is right about the Super Bowl commercials: dull and boring. Stay safe!
Shorts! We thought Floridians in shorts were nuts last week, but our neighbor told Jackie that it was brutally cold in Brooklyn. Patrick is really nuts.
I mostly watched the Super Bowl. I enjoy defensive games so I was happy with the game play. Mostly tuned out the commercials. Never listened to Bad Bunny before but the sets and show were impressive. I have not paid much attention to the NFL all year so I was not particularly eager overall.
Our local winter festival, Knickerbocker Ice Festival, was this weekend. Each year has several downtown and frozen lake activities. Ice golf, frozen fish toss, ice block carving, so on, so forth. On Thursday afternoon I got a call from the guy organizing the ice block carving and I was recruited into carving the ice block in front of the library. It was a case of, "Somebody's got to do it." The results were not impressive. It was definitely a learning experience.
Finished the final season of RESIDENT ALIEN and the series wrapped up pretty well.
Been listening to CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. Until now CANTICLE was on my long list of Famous But Never Read It. At first listen I was spacing out during the narration and switched to a STAR WARS novel. Then, I'm pretty certain I already heard the STAR WARS one. So, I switched back to CANTICLE and have been enjoying it.
Have the audio version of Nick Cave's FAITH, HOPE AND CARNAGE up next along with Ray Bradbury's OCTOBER COUNTRY after last week's mention.
Meanwhile, today is a heat wave at 35 degrees.
Last week's building expansion update to City Council was positively received. We keep working away at fundraising. Now, I need to write the library newsletter.
We have two more episodes of The Night Manager to go, one more of Riot Women, two of The Beast in Me. Jackie is watching The Red Road, which she says is a monumental downer, plus she knows it ends on an unresolved cliffhanger. We like Holly Hunter on the new Star Trek, but otherwise I find it only soso.
I hope spring's on its way to you, too, Patti. I keep hearing that The Pitt is really good, though I haven't watched it yet. I probably should....
THE PITT is a tough watch and this season Dr. Robbie has become a real trial. Not sure where that is going. I doubt I can watch Hugh Laurie another season. Bad guys reach a limit for me.
True. But really want to see him get his comeuppance once and for all...assuming he does, of course.
Hence part of Drumpf's animus: "We Hire people to do that for us."
Good luck on that last!
Sadly, medical series do tend to be leaning toward the downer, given what they are about, even with happy outcomes. I will continue catching THE PITT and DOC, but am unlikely to do too many marathons. (That nearly all the women I've been involved with romantically have already been in or eventually did take on some sort of medical career might explain some of that.)
Further congratulations! And condolences in re your brother.
As I noted on George's blog, I agree with your assessment of BOOKISH...mildly diverting.
Though the duo of episodes "Such Devoted Sisters" adds a bit of emotional and sociological weight to the series.
This morning we got up early to go to a Dr's appointment for Glen. The doctor is readjusting his blood pressure medication. We are going to walk more and went on two walks in the last few days, one to a local park and the other on the bicycle path we live next to.
We are continuing to watch PERRY MASON MOVIES, COLUMBO episodes, and MIDSOMER MURDERS. Also catching up on the new season of ELSBETH while waiting for the CSI shows to come back.
Glen is currently reading METROPOLIS by Philip Kerr and enjoying it very much. This is the last book in the Bernie Gunther series, but it goes back one of his early cases as a policeman, in Berlin in 1928.
Last night I finished reading VIOLENT WARD by Len Deighton. It is not spy fiction, which he is best known for. The setting is Los Angeles, the main character is a very shady lawyer in financial trouble. I enjoyed the book; it was a lot of fun. I have read almost all of Deighton's spy fiction, and some of his other fiction, but reading this has inspired me to read more of his books.
I will try that one, Todd.
Phil was a big fan of Kerr and Deighton.
Though, Patti, if you've seen later episodes, the New Aspect might already have been an established aspect, if it wasn't more or less dropped.
May the new med regime help Glen and the walks be mutually beneficial, Tracy. I still like ELSPETH, almost as much as WILL TRENT among the US commercial broadcast network crime dramas.
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