This movie was partially based on the life of its star, Pete Davidson (of Saturday Night Live fame). I don’t particularly enjoy his comedy, but this was a really good movie. It is the story of a guy in his mid-20s who is forced to grow up after his widowed mother starts dating again after 17 years.
My rating: 4/5
I haven’t been to a store other than for necessities (i.e. grocery and hardware stores) since the pandemic started. Jake and I go to T.J. Maxx twice a year–March and September. We hit it in March right before things got interesting. And, we went again today. I heard they were handling things pretty well there, so I wasn’t worried about it. They had a greeter at the door who was counting the number of people going in and out of the store. Everyone was masked (of course you always have a few with the mask below their nose!). Let’s hope the world is in better shape when we go again in March.
We were looking for a few things in particular and found most of those, but we didn’t buy a ton of stuff. On our way there, Jake ordered us lunch from Firehouse Subs and we picked that up on our way home. Things almost felt normal today.
If you like time-travel, alternate worlds, and a complicated plot, this one is for you. It is an amazing German-language series on Netflix, and if you watch it, I highly recommend tuning the audio to German and turning on the subtitles. The audio defaults to overdubbed English and I found this to be highly distracting.
I took three years of German in high school and was pleased to recognize some of the words and phrases on my own. “Was ist das?” kept coming up in the conversation. Was ist das, indeed.
Spoiler alert: if you are anything like me, you might want to read this article when you’re done with the series. It gives a great summary and fills in a couple of the blanks. I might need to watch this one again.
My rating: 4.5/5
I watched this one last night. It was ok. I can’t remember if I liked it more or less than the book, but it’s definitely not one of my favorite adaptations.
My rating: 3/5
The sun is setting at 8pm today! This is really hampering my evening outdoors progress. I’m in the middle of a bunch of projects (patching the other side porch, caulking windows, planting grass in the dog area, plus my usual gardening and landscaping tasks). Oh well, if I don’t get done with everything, there’s always next year.
I have some real concerns about the side porch. The block and brick has developed some significant cracks/gaps over time. My goal this year is to fill the cracks and monitor any additional gaps because I’m not sure how quickly things are happening. I don’t even know who could fix something like this, assuming it can even be fixed, but I guess that’s a problem for the future. I mean, I’ve read stuff about hiring structural engineers and other crazy things, but I’ll tear the damned thing down before I spend all of that money.
It’s also harvest time, so I’ve started canning each week. Luckily I stocked up on canning lids for the year when the pandemic hit because they are apparently in short supply. Some of the things that haven’t been available are surprising. I guess canning lids shouldn’t be all that surprising, but are that many people learning how to can or is the canners who are hoarding? I mean, canning is not that common of a thing to do.
So, in case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been doing, this is it.