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1. Want to make millions - be a high profile actor in a high profile movie, with a high profile director. One catch? The director is bound to be an asshole.

Entertainment business is nasty.

2. Dental appointment went well. Considering I've been eating too much M&Ms. No cavities. No gum disease. No issues except sensitive teeth due to well grinding and clenching. It didn't cost as much as expected - since my insurance did cover it, and I didn't have to fill out the form that I thought I had to - no all covered electronically now.

Out of pocket? $250 - 350

With insurance? $176.

Not bad. I may actually go back in six months. Also I could use the FSA card, so additional savings.

Add to all of that - it was a ten minute subway ride, and a one minute walk - it's located around the corner - literally around the corner - from the subway stop. I got lost because I thought it was across the street - and went through the scary construction project. (They had dug some sort of hole through the street to the subway station below, which was about ten feet down, with a boarded sidewalk across it. (Transit - you need to kick your contractors into shape - just saying.)

Subway = Transit.

3. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Just throwing that out there for prosperity.

Also don't want to make dinner and lunch. Not hungry.

4. Television

Decided to watch some of last year's episodes of Station 19, which I skipped over last year. All are available on Hulu. They aren't that good.
Grey's was better.

So for that matter is Rings of Power. But unlike Rings, they don't require any concentration.

In other news? I've pretty much given up on the soap opera fandom and the comic book/movie fandom. SMH. Although Alan Moore's statement that we'll all become fascists if we continue to make and flock to superhero films seems a touch disingenuous, considering all of his comic books and said adaptations were more than a little on the fascist end of things. To such an extent that I was never quite sure if he meant it to be satire or was fascist himself. I'm guessing the former, but seriously, it was often a toss-up. Moore really needs to get over himself. It's a pulp genre. Most people who watch and read it, don't take it all that seriously. Just the insane fans do - and well, we ignore them for our own continued mental and emotional preservation.

5. Mother is worried about traveling overseas now - note we do not currently have trip planned, so this is kind of baseless worrying? ( Read more... )

Africa Documentary

I'm loving this "Africa" documentary by the BBC on HBO Max, narrated and hosted by Richard Attendborough. The final episode discusses the conservation efforts that African continent and others around the world, but mainly Africans, are attempting to preserve their wildlife and fight climate change.

And they appear to enjoy it.

1. Massala Warriors are now acting as guardians of the lions in their territory, as opposed to killing them as a right of passage. Now they are employing their skills to protect them, and as a result increased the population from 30,000 to 100,000.

2. Saving the green sea turtles - by protecting them from nets, and if injured, healing them and saving them.

Saving ecosystems is how you save Africa's future - so they are working hard to do so.

They view the turtles - as every turtle counts. Climate change threatens them - since the heat of the eggs in the sand determines gender, and with the higher temperatures there are fewer and fewer males.

3. In Mozambique - they are working hard to save the wildlife. It used to be a huge tourist destination over 50 years ago - with many tourists flocking to it from around the world. There was an old restaurant, with local lions. The restaurant is long gone along with Lions.

A Civil War tore it apart and killed 95% of the wildlife. It came very close to vanishing, but it is slowly coming back. There are reintroducing life at Gorgonza National Wildlife Park.
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4. They also show various countries across Africa joining together to plant a barrier of trees between the dry Sahara and the rest of the continent. And putting in more than one line and barrier.

The documentary makes a powerful case for protecting the wilderness in Africa and ensuring it's future, along with it's delicate ecosystem.

Made me want to visit, help in the conservation efforts, and form a deep respect for the continent and for the BBC for doing the documentary series.