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Another Exciting Day

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So, the night before last, you got just a picture. There was no post yesterday, so you didn’t get any words to go along with the no picture. Tonight you get both, but the picture has nothing to do with the words…


 
Started out like a normal Friday: breakfast, grocery shop, buy a latte, make a cameo at the coffee clatch, 2-mile walk, lunch, and dinner in front of a baseball game on TV. Shortly after finishing eating, a text pops up from neighbor Tere: Interested in joining me at the dice game tonight? Me: I’ll be outside in 9 minutes.

I didn’t even know there was a dice game; I didn’t have anything happening, so I met her outside, and we walked up to the community center. In it was a private party; actually, it was a celebration of life for someone. Everyone was all dressed up, and I was in shorts, and Tere was sporting a camo hoodie. As an added plus, everyone there was African-American. Felt a little like in the movie Animal House when the Delta’s are out with dates and stumble into a black roadhouse.

After we backed out and gathered our wits, I asked her, “Where did you get this intel?” Another resident told her it was on Tuesday and Friday nights at 6:00pm. So I called the said resident, and Tere asked what’s up? Her source knew of the private party but didn’t know if the game had been moved or was cancelled. Stymied, we headed back down the street to our respective homes.

One more movie reference: in Star Wars, as Obi-Wan is handing Luke his father’s lightsaber, he says, “Your uncle didn’t want you to have this. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade.” Today, along with the other day’s ride along with her to a car wash, leads me to believe I might have a bit of Luke in me to her Obi-Wan. Uncle Owen would not be happy.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 97.9%

 

Right Between

Ahhh, Andor. A week or so ago I mentioned watching the second season of the show but could take it or leave it. I did take it but almost did quit at about the halfway mark of the season. Then the show started to tick up on the scale. And the last four episodes were great. Which made me, directly after finishing all twelve episodes, jump right into watching the Rogue One movie. Which slots in the timeline right between what I just watched and the OG Star Wars movie, A New Hope.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 72.7%

 

Faux Sunday

Because today was the day I was supposed to ride the exercycle, I opted to do the Sunday ride today. I had my usual latte and muffin at Stomping Grounds, and I was home at 8:30, and, since I had some time this morning, I watched the first episode of Season 2 of Andor.

I finished off Season 1 last night. And while I am enjoying it, if I stopped right now, I’m pretty sure I would carry on with my life just fine. This afternoon after the Red Sox game I watched the second episode, so I guess I’m in it now.

On a side note, the Sox won the game; it was their twelfth in a row. But as a true fan of the team, I know it is only a matter of time before they revert to the “loveable losers” I know them to be.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 54.6%

 

Viewing Space

I had contemplated seeing Project Hail Mary in theaters but preferred to wait and watch it in the comfort of my own home. This way I could control my own intermission. 🙂 At the beginning of July, it became available on Prime Video. I sat down to watch it all excited, and I turned it off after about 5 minutes of Ryan Gosling failing around.

Truth be told, when I first started reading the book this movie is based on, I didn’t care for it and stopped. Even tried a second time and didn’t get too much further. So I thought I should give the movie another shot. I started where I had left off, and after a minute or so, it segued to before when our protagonist was launched into space. He was a science teacher, and his teaching style seemed like he was failing around there too. Turned it off.

I had stumbled onto a YouTube video about Andor and it was being discussed as the best Star Wars property ever, a story for adults. So at lunch today, I restarted watching Episode One. That’s right, I had once, several months back, started to watch the series and quit on it halfway through the first episode. I backed up about 15 minutes and started. I just finished Episode Nine of the first season…

Eight is Twenty-Two

This afternoon I watched Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. In the pantheon of twenty-nine Star Wars properties ranked on IMDb, today’s entry is number 22. Tomorrow’s final installment of the nine main movies is ranked four further down the list at #26.

It was a no-car day. I walked to Stomping Grounds for my latte. Not long after I complained (March first last year) about how noisy it was and the amount of traffic and said I didn’t think I’d do it again, it was actually not bad. Timing helps, early morning on weekends and mid-morning on weekdays.

I also finished up another jigsaw puzzle, I watched the Red Sox win again, and I caught up on YouTube. I also cooked a dinner for myself instead of my go-to lazy weekend meal: a mini bag of Orville Redenbacher washed down with an Ensure.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 43.0%

 

Star Wars

This past April I started to rewatch the Star Wars movies. The original trilogy first and then the prequels (in B&W). But somehow I never got around to watching the sequels. I forgot all about this until today. While trolling YouTube for mindless time-wasting videos to kill some time, I stumbled on one that discussed the making of the originals.

Mindless? Yep, I’m pretty sure I didn’t learn anything. Time-wasting? You bet, it clocks in at over two and a half hours. Maybe tomorrow I’ll cue up the sequel trilogy, AKA the worst of the movies. I sense some black-and-white viewing.

Red Sox chances of making the Wild Card round in the 2026 playoffs: 36.6%

 

More Black And White

So, yesterday I watched Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, AKA Star Wars Episodes 2 & 3, again in black and white. First up was Attack of the Clones with its sappy romance between two actors with zero chemistry with each other and the sheer amount of screen-filling, fast-paced CGI just because they could. The lack of color did not help at all. After a dinner break I waded into Revenge of the Sith, where we get to watch the creation of big bad Darth Vader. Here is where Hayden Christensen did have chemistry; he really nails the angsty teen, pissed at the universe, persona. Still way too much excessive use of CGI to the point of distraction.

This afternoon I went ahead and cued up The Empire Strikes Back in B&W (remember I watched the OG Star Wars very recently). Stopped a little more than an hour into Episode five because the Red Sox game was starting. I’ll finish it after the game.

I wonder if I like this black and white thing because we didn’t get a color TV at home until I was almost thirteen?