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1. It's 17 days until Christmas. How do you feel about that?

Got gifts online for my brother and his family. Already have Wales' gift.
Just need to get mother something. And of course the grab bag, and give out the Christmas Cards.

Feel? Trying not to let it get me down, so doing various little things to ensure that. ( Read more... )

2. It's the second night of Hanukkah. How do you feel about that?

Ambivalent? I'm not Jewish - I don't practice it. But at Church today they lit the Menorah, and they have one lit downstairs, and at work and in the park in Fort Green.

3. It's Howie Hawkins's birthday. Have you wished him a happy birthday yet?

I had to look this guy up - I've no clue who he is. I don't really care either.

( in case you are remotely curious - he ran for president under the Green Party in 2020 )

Whomever wrote this meme is clearly a social activist and Green Party Follower, New Yorker optional.

4. John Lennon died on December 7 in 1980. Your reaction?

Ambivalent.

5. Beethoven's 7th Symphony premiered in Vienna with Beethoven conducting, on this day in 1813. Can you hum any part of the 7th?

No. I'm not musically inclined. I can barely hum the theme to Jaws.

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Yesterday was my father's birthday. Mother and I did not discuss it - although I did post about it on FB in memorium.

Here's a picture from the 1970s, where he is teaching my brother and I how to swim.
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He'd have been 88.

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In the news? They were complaining about NYC's crackdown on the Airbnb's reducing the number of people (mainly tourists) coming to NYC and it's outer boroughs. It could reduce it by 20%.

Okay, to put this in context? This is NYC, not Philadelphia, or Kansas City. We have 60 Million tourists coming into NYC per year. A reduction of 8-10 million is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Watched the following this weekend:

* The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse on Apple Plus. This made me cry, it's so beautiful and comforting. Go watch that - if you can. It's not that long.
I think it won best animated short this year.

* Doctor Who - Special #2 - Wild Blue Yonder - which was excellent, and among the scariest Doctor Who episodes that I've seen. I swear Ten and Donna have the scariest episodes. Blink, Forest of the Dead, Silence in the Library, and Wild Blue Yonder.

I was pleasantly surprised by this episode - it was suspenseful, tightly written, and character centric - partly because the only two people in it were Ten and Donna, and Tennant and Tate have great platonic chemistry.

RT Davies is clearly one of the better show-runners on this series. He's good at the emotional character acts, while Moffat was good at the plotting.

I was riveted throughout, and it did a good job of showing how the Doctor had changed, and how he had become more world-weary.

I really had missed this pairing, and it is by far and away my favorite.

* Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - directed by James Mangold.

This was surprisingly good, and far better than expected. It didn't go the way that I expected at all. I was pleasantly surprised. It contains a time travel scenario - but it handles it well - with a nice reference to Raiders of the Lost Arc. Most of the film references Raider's, with minor references to all the other films.
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Trying not to worry about tomorrow. Figure best I can do is just push my way through. And accept that I can only control my reactions, nothing else.