This and That 

No matter how good Hollywood's make-up artists do their job, most aging attempts in movies are generally obvious.  The problem?  They over do it. 

          Ted Cruz is like that class jerk you had to be nice to in 5th grade         because you thought you had to.

       We pretty much decimated flu this winter.  I think a smart                   option for next winter are masks, for those who choose so. 

       I've always been anti-DH for the National league, but recently           changed my mind.  Let's make it uniform for both leagues.

Rewatched Dunkirk again this week (HBO Max).  I watched it originally at the theater when it first came out.  It was just as good the second time.  Action starts with the first scene and keeps going nonstop for the next couple hours.  There are three story lines, Land Air and Sea, and the real time for each get a little confusing going back and forth, but when you get that understood it is a non-issue.  No love sub stories or exposition scenes that bog most films down, this is hot out of the barrel from the git-go.  When Kenneth Branagh as one of the naval commanders utters "Home" twice, you can get skin willies if you still have a heart.

I thought my dog, Whizzbang Zoom, loved me only, but turns out her main joy in life is the dog park.  It is there she can be a true dog, I guess: sniff ass, herd, run like the wind and cavort with her own kind.  Even with all that she will pull herself away from the fun and walk with me on the path.  Guess she likes me after all.

Winter is over down here.  The days of 50-60 degrees are over and we are back to 70-80's.

 

 I have a subscription with Illinois Lotto and I won $62 bucks last week.  I've probably milked all I can with those numbers - better get some fresh ones.

Because of Covid, I have pandemic hair.  Haven't had a haircut since last August, I think.  It is my last hurrah before age and thinning follicles besot me.  I had originally decided to cut it after my 2 vaccines but rethinking it.  I may just let it go for a while.  Goddamn hippies never die, they just recede away. 

 I saw a corner stand at a gas station selling t-shirts this weekend.  Didn't have time to get a picture.  Signs everywhere: $5 T-Shirts.  And another sign said: 4 for $20! 

One of our (Me and Whizzbang Zoom) favorite walks is to Datsko Park, around the small lake by the road and then through the Tech Center back home. 

Yikes.  I guess we better watch where we are stepping.

Does anyone really believe Chris Berman voluntarily signed up for Car Shield?  According to the Wiki machine, he is worth 30 million. 

I hate Spring Training articles.  Everyone is going after the Cy Young and batting champion.  They are cheesy, inflated, bordering on hyperbolic and geared toward the 10 year old in your household.

I get upwards of 5 or so spam calls per day.  No extended car warranty calls but my phone does a good job of screening unwanted calls.  These are invasive and borderline harassing.  Wonder why we allow them?

The 21 year-old Asian shooter in Atlanta told police he is obsessed with guns and God.  Boy, there are factions in America that are really fucked up.