Blogging Avoidance

47,001 Reasons

I have a lot of reasons as to why I haven’t written anything real here, the Monday car posts don’t really count, in almost 2 weeks.

Fourteen of those reasons are I decided to rewatch, for possibly the 4th or 5th time, that 20-year old short-lived space western, Firefly.

A quartet of those reasons is I discovered The Brokenwood Mysteries. There are 8 seasons with a total of 36 episodes, but only 4 are available on Prime Video. Like a lot of mystery shows that tickle my fancy, this is one also has a quirky detective whose personality is mirrored in their car. Like Columbo with his old Peugeot 403 convertible and DCI Vera Stanhope with her Land-Rover Defender 90 Tdi. In this show, set in New Zealand, Senior Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd drives a 1971 Holden Kingswood. Come to think of it, all three of them come from the “almost leaving, but before going, turn around and ask another question” school of detectiving.

But, most of those reasons are because nothing exciting has happened to write about, until this morning. When I got in the Mini to run to the store the odometer read 47001.

Run Aground

Up until a couple of days ago I have posted here for nearly a month straight (almost as prolific as I was back in the early days), but now I have missed 2 of the last 4 days. I blame it on the fact that now we have sort of settled down into a routine. Eat 3 meals, mostly here in the AirBnB, check our mail at our new PO Box, go to the Y, and visit Fred Meyers every other day, just like we visited Kroger’s back in Aiken.

The rest of the time is spent binge watch TV shows from Netflix’s Geriatric Section. So far we have watched all 16 episodes of 2 season’s worth of The Kominsky Method with Michael Douglas (75-years old) and Alan Arkin (85). Also, we are in the middle of the 3rd season of Grace and Frankie which is exactly halfway through their 6 season, 68 episode, run so far. This stars Jane Fonda (81), Lilly Tomlin (80), Sam Watterson (79) and Martin Sheen (79).