Sep. 26th, 2021

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1. Sigh, it's shark week - or shark attack - a pseudonym for painful gushy period from hell - which apparently are symptoms of the transition into menopause.
women's health - or gushing periods during perimenopause )

2. Decided to try the new Apple TV series Foundation today. This is the television series that they adapted from Isaac Asimov's classic sci-fi novel series of the same name. A couple of tid-bits about Asimov's novels - 1) they were written in 1942-1981. To say they are dated is a gross understatement.
tidbits about the Foundation Series or Caveats )

Anyhow, I kind of went to sleep during the first episode. I realized this when I woke up and saw this massive collapse of the star gate bridge. I thought okay - what did I miss, that looks interesting. Lets rewind. Stop it. And take a nap.

I took a nap. Came back and watched from the point in which I dozed off.

While it has some good points - mainly due to casting, it may be a touch too intellectual for its own good?
review of Foundation )

I'll let you know if it gets better. Right now, it has great special effects, and some decent performances, but is rather dull in places and I had troubles staying focused on it and awake. Also I think its dated.

Texted bro - who also saw it, and had the same reaction. We'd both been looking forward to it, and it was kind of blah. We're hoping it gets better as it goes. We're in agreement (and generally speaking this is rare), that there is too much exposition and world-building and not enough story/character development.
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3. Also saw The Wonder Years - which isn't so much a reboot, but another take on the story, except from an African-American perspective? It takes place in 1968, and features and African-American family in Chicago, from the perspective of their twelve year old son. The voice over narrative is Don Cheadle. Fred Savage is an executive producer. It's good, but not funny, and strongly focuses on racial differences. It features an old black cast in the leads, with a few exceptions. I found it informative. Depicts how the 1960s is not as nice as many people like to remember it.

4. And having completed the audio biography of Robert Altman, I'm currently listening to "The Cooking Gene - A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South" read by the author, Michael W. Twitty. I had attempted to read it a while back - but I couldn't focus on it - so going the audio route instead. So far it's fascinating. African-Americans look at DNA Ancestry differently than White Americans and Europeans do, in that it is a way to reclaim their heritage and familial history which was to a certain degree lost to them due to slavery. Because of slavery - their names were changed, and families were split apart. This provides them with a way of being reunited.

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5. Cooler today, so I opened the window a crack. And I fear I've not been a good friend to Wales of late. I got a series of text messages today - where she informs me that she had a birthday (I'd forgotten it), and wondering if I'm alive and if we're still friends. Read more... )

Either she let's it go, or doesn't. Up to her. I've no control over other people or how they choose to react to things - I barely have control over me. I'm just doing whatever I can to keep my head above water folks.

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6. Mother is having issues with her nurse today. Read more... )

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I can't even read about politics any longer, without getting scared. Seriously, the news is scary.

There's not a lot of hope in it.

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