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Ten Years Ago

Ten years ago today, after a nearly a month of exchanging emails trying to set up a date to meet, Ben and I—on very short notice—finally connected in person at Starbucks on that warm Sunday afternoon.

And the rest as they say, is history.

And believe me, meeting such a wonderful, caring man at 50 was the absolute last thing I had been expecting. But then, most of my life since somewhere around the year 2000 had not been what I’d been expecting.

It’s been ten years of adventures, both good and—stressful. And as I sit here and look through our Instagrams, I am reminded how wonderful it’s all been.

This year was one of those “landmark” years and we had such plans for celebrating (I seem to remember a trip out of the country being discussed at one point) . I was turning 60. Ben was turning 35. We’ve known each other ten years, and in a few short days from now we’ll be celebrating 5 years married. But life has intervened—as it is increasingly wont to do these days. So instead of jetting off somewhere, tonight Ben fixed a delicious steak dinner for us and afterward returned to the scene of the crime…

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Name Three Movies

Name three movies that no matter how often they show up on cable, you’ll stop to watch.

For us, they’re:

● The Fifth Element
● Pitch Black
● Resident Evil

What are yours?

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Turn Back Time

Have you ever thought about that sci-fi trope of going back in time to kill baby (fill in the blank – in most cases, Hitler)?

For the sake of argument, let’s say that it’s possible. You go back and successfully take Hitler out of the equation. What then? You immediately change all the future timelines of anyone and everything that Hitler touched. Yes, you saved the lives of 6 million Jews but it could then be argued that there’d be no need for the state of Israel to be formed. Einstein and German rocket scientists remain in Germany, leaving the very real possibility that the German flag would be flying on the moon, not to mention they’d most likely be the first country to possess a nuclear weapon.

No World War II, no baby boomer generation, and probably none of the myriad scientific advancements that came out of the US and its allies because of the war.

My view of this thought exercise is that someone will rise fill the void to recreate the timeline as much as possible. If there’s no Hitler (or Trump), there would be someone very much like him that brings about the same general timeline that you attempted to change.

And who’s to say someone from our future has not traveled back to our time to take out someone who creates a future hell?

What say you?

 

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How Much Longer?

Humor is one thing, but now it’s increasingly obvious that he is BAT. SHIT. INSANE, how much longer do we have to suffer through this Trump nightmare?

It’s going to be a miracle if 3/4 of the country (your host included) isn’t diagnosed and being treated for varying degrees of clinical PTSD when it’s all over.

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Quote of the Day

Sometimes I think it’s useful to think of this presidency as a hostage-taking situation. We have a president holding liberal democracy hostage, empowered by a cult following. The goal is to get through this without killing any hostages, i.e., without irreparable breaches in our democratic system. Come at him too directly and you might provoke the very thing you are trying to avoid. Somehow, we have to get the nut job to put the gun down and let the hostages go, without giving in to any of his demands. From the moment Trump took office, we were in this emergency. All that we now know, in a way we didn’t, say, a year ago, is that the chances of a successful resolution are close to zero.” ~Andrew Sullivan

When Andrew Sullivan starts sounding sane, you know we’re in trouble.

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