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Trump Supporters

IMHO, this movie (Bird Box if you haven’t heard of it) deserves every merciless, hateful meme it’s generating. A cheap ripoff of the general idea of A Quiet Place (which I thought was excellent, by the way), it’s obvious Sandra Bullock’s bank account was getting more than jus a little lean when she agreed to participate in this travesty. If it was playing in a theater I would’ve demanded my money back. It’s that bad.

 

 

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Don’t Laugh. I’m Sure It’s Been Discussed…

At some point in the future:

Me: Picks up my phone to call a longtime friend. Punches in the number and presses the call button.

Popup on Phone: We’re sorry. It seems Michael Xavier at 555-1212 is not an Apple customer and not in our database. Would you like to allow us to add him?

Me: WTF? Presses NO.

Popup on Phone: We’re sorry. We cannot complete the call as dialed. Please check the number or allow Apple to add Michael to our customer database before proceeding.

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Our Dogs’ Circadian Rhythms

Our dogs have always been relatively early risers, but over the last year or so it’s gotten ridiculous. It started last summer when the older of the two dogs needed to go out much earlier than he had been needing. I guess that’s the burden of a geriatric bladder.

In any case, their internal alarm clocks have slowly inched earlier from around 6 am (which coincided to my usual wake up time) to 5:30. I was thinking it was because it was getting light so much earlier, and hoped that things would return to normal as we headed back into the winter months.

Well, not only did that not happen, but their wake up time now averages 5 am. That’s not a bad thing since I’m working again and need to be at work at 7:30. This morning (and a handful of times over the past few weeks) he was making it known that he needed to go out at 4:30. This is unacceptable, but since I didn’t want him to pee on the bed (he can’t jump down on his own to pee on one of the training mats), I reluctantly cast off the blanket, put on my socks, and let the both of them outside to do their business.

Unlike weekdays when they’re up at 5, I did not immediately feed them breakfast when they came back in. Instead we all went back to bed and slept to a much more reasonable 8:30 am.

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Want!

When I finally get my first full paycheck (which is going to be a while because of the multitude of unpaid holidays I have to endure this time of year as a contractor) and have a bit of wiggle room, this is going to be my first splurge.

I have The Man Machine on black vinyl; in fact, it’s one of the few recordings from my original collection to have survived the purge in the late 80s and remains in pristine condition, but damn…that red version is so sexy. I originally spotted it on Instagram, which in turn led me to Discogs. The pressings aren’t that rare even though they seem to have been limited to distribution in France, but they aren’t cheap, either.

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50 Years Ago Today

“The vast loneliness up here of the Moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from here is a grand oasis to the big vastness of space.” — Apollo 8 astronaut Jim Lovell

From NASA: Fifty years ago today, this iconic “Earthrise” photo was taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders. Before humanity ventured to the Moon, our view of our home planet consisted of what we could see from horizon to horizon. It was not until this stunning photo (along with many others) came back to Earth with the three Apollo 8 astronauts in December 1968 that we saw Earth as a vibrant, delicate, blue and white globe framed by the velvety blackness of space. This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.