Waking up at 5:30am on a dark Saturday morning for no reason just sucks. Going to try to fall back to sleep but I think it’s just wishful thinking. Need to get out the fall/winter blankets... … [Read more...]

Chapter Two. Two years ago, I wrote the first chapter of what was going to be my first book. I wrote it on the bus ride home from Beautiful Downtown Minneapolis to the Beautiful Suburb of Apple Valley. It took all of forty five minutes to write. Upon posting it as the beginnings of a serialized chapter book on the old blog, it was promptly forgotten about. Things got in the way. Life got in the … [Read more...]

Watching last episode of “The First”, staring Sean Penn. Its more drama revolving around the lives of the astronauts (before leaving the Earth to travel to Mars) than Sci-Fi, at least this first season is. It’ll be interesting to see what happens next season. For a long time, I didn’t like Mr. Penn, but with Mystic River, “I am Sam” (especially this one), and Milk, he’s grown on me. And I now … [Read more...]

My mom would have been 94 today. Thinking of you today, Mom. My dad passed away four years ago, last week. Forgot to mention it. Thinking about you, Dad. I wish I could have been a better son than I was. Both of you help me become the person I am today, and for that, I’m truly grateful. … [Read more...]

Here is a comment that someone posted to one of my status updates from 2010: “...at Blockbuster now, so you can guess what we'll be doing after we eat.” === What the heck is a “BlockBuster”?? Lol … [Read more...]

Boy, I’m in a “piss-poor” mood today...not sure why. Need to re-adjust my attitude (somewhat). Hmm, how do I go about to do that?? Pizza? Ice cream?? Might be time to head out and get me a Five-Guys burger...I just might in this stupid mood since I’ve been “starving” myself for the past day/week or so. Or, should I go get me some chipotle?? Huh. Decisions, decisions. I wonder if it has … [Read more...]

So, I just started watching a French espionage tv series a few minutes ago, it’s (obviously) in French, with English subtitles. After a few mins of watching, I reach for the remote to turn up the volume. Not sure why, since I don’t speak any French. 😱🙄😉🤓 … [Read more...]

Been loving this beautiful September weather these last few days here in the Twin Cities. But, just noticed it’s totally dark now at 8pm, argh. … [Read more...]

A great quote. Charlton Heston wrote in his autobiography, In the Arena, that The Omega Man (the 1971 movie) was Rosalind Cash's first leading role in a film, and that she was understandably "a little edgy" about doing a love scene with him. Heston explained, "It was in the seventies that I realized a generation of actors had grown up who saw me in terms of the iconic roles they remembered from … [Read more...]

Wow, oh, wow. I don’t check my personal email more than once a day, and only usually check it at lunch time or in the evening. So, I was just checking my email an hour ago, and i saw an email from 6:30am, from eBay indicating I had just changed my eBay email address to something new - not indicating what the new email address is, but did indicate the ip address of the request - the ip address … [Read more...]

Quote of the day from a young (seemingly racist) lawyer in Orange County, CA: "If you have no malintent, you didn't do anything wrong." … [Read more...]

[I don’t think I’ve included any spoilers here.] In the middle of S2 of Ozark - it just keeps getting better and better. Love Jason Bateman and how cool (calm) his character is. Love “Wendy” stepping up and getting more involved. Love “Ruth” and her attitude. Still love “Buddy” and his old guy sense of humor, and wisdom. Glad to see they’ve brought back (slowly) a few characters from last season … [Read more...]

I just don’t get how these things work. I’m talking about free grocery delivery. First, let me say this (since I wouldn’t want people to think I’m totally stupid), yes, I know, Amazon has big pockets and their most profitable division (AWS) is probably propping up the grocery delivery services. But, there is now, “Instacart”, and “Shipt“, as well as perhaps, many others. I’m assuming everyone is … [Read more...]

Today’s Most Presidential quote: "Our Justice Department and our FBI - at the top of each, because inside they have incredible people - but our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now," Trump said. "I wanted to stay out, but at some point if it doesn't straighten out properly ... I will get involved and I'll get in there if I have … [Read more...]

re-binge-watching Ozark, S1, since S2 comes out in a few days. Cannot wait. … [Read more...]

This is one of the most hilarious scenes I’ve ever seen. I laughed my head off all throughout it. I’m sorry to say, if you don’t know the context, you may not think it as funny as the people who’ve seen the beginning of the episode, and/or understand the context of their “friendship/relationship”, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuFulZY6Qz0&feature=share … [Read more...]

Was eating at Chipotle the other day - hadn’t eaten there in months. Apparently they have a new item: queso dip/sauce. Best ever! I had some left over from my hard shell tacos, so I took it home with me. Not going to share what I put on, but, let me tell you, it’s quite good. Yum, yum. [ok, calm down, I’ll tell you. I had some left over Papa Murphys (pepperoni and green olive) pizza from last … [Read more...]