Another day

In my recliner, satisfied that I got some things accomplished today besides work and in addition to the NYT Spelling Bee.  We all need to keep busy, right?  I know I like to.

Read a couple of articles that had been printed to PDF and put aside in a folder named "You saved this for a reason", but just hadn't gotten to yet.  Today I did.  

- New Yorker, 1995, Curtis LeMay.  Left to wonder how we avoided full-on nuclear war while he was in command.  

- Some Asian business site on how China is in a corrupt real estate bubble.

Saved in that same folder, I listened to a podcast with Tom Scott talking with Donald Fagen.

In the news, electric rates are about to shoot up.  I checked the files for information about our contract with First Energy.  First, I learned they're now called Energy Harbor.  PG found paperwork they sent in 2020 setting down in black and white our 3-year contract for 100% wind-generated power at a fixed rate.  Can they add surcharges for times like these?  If they can, no doubt they will.

Wrote something for Fenek, the Special Needs cat.  Turned in something for Flash.

Prepared a half-dozen photos taken on Black Friday and posted them on the Flickr site rented by TP.  

Tonight after supper, drank a Pepsi and watched S01E07 of The Defenders, guest starring Frank Gorshin.  Pat watches the mysteries on Amazon Prime, I watch the movies and TV shows that aren't yet out of copyright, but are posted anyway on YouTube.  Occasionally I put on Netflix for Mank or The Sparks Brothers.

Want to remember:  at 4:15 or so, Good Queen Swirly came upstairs into my home office and jumped into my lap.  Can't remember the last time she did that.  And every time I reached over to the keyboard to type, she'd stretch her neck and rub her head insistently against my hands.  No typing, keep petting me!

My Day

This is a period between acute crises.  Both of us are healthy, and there's enough money so that we want for nothing.  We're happy, best friends.  

Work keeps me busy enough during working hours, and after 5:00 I'm not running to a doctor, an emergency room, or a hospital.  Good times, right?  

It's OK, I'm telling myself, not to have some cause occupying my mind all-day-every-day, the way the cat story page did for several years.  

So tonight after supper, I put on YouTube, intending to watch Louisiana Purchase (one of four Bob Hope movies in the top 10 for the year 1941, I learned today).  Yes, there's a bootleg version out there, and I bookmarked it this afternoon.  Instead, I found Idiocracy first and watched that, followed by another episode of The Plot Thickens/Lucy, and then the January 16, 1960 episode of The Jerry Lewis Timex Show in full-color videotape.  No commercials, though, but I don't doubt that I can find John Cameron Swayze someplace else out there in the great big rabbit hole that is YouTube.  But not until after I see Louisiana Purchase.

Easy Like Sunday

 

#Caturday

Taken November 10, 2018.

Pandemic update

It's been a few months between haircuts, longer than usual for no good reason.  I just got around to it today.  The time before in July, I had to report in but remain outside until it was my turn, and once inside, masks were still required.  

Today, there was a small sign on the door telling customers that they either had to be vaxxed or masked to enter, but not requiring anyone to stay out while they waited.  Having gotten a booster last Friday, I was good to go.  

One other difference:  as a newly-minted senior citizen, I paid the 65+ rate today.  Since I'm still working, it's just a nice touch now.  After the job goes away, it'll be more of a necessity.

Traditional Friday Cat Blogging: Katrina

 Katrina (2008-2018)

Throwback Thursday: 10 years ago today at Tabby's Place

 

Tinkerbell (November 18, 2011)