Musings & Thoughts for September 18, 2020

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Hi there, Dear Reader. Well, today is Friday, September 18, 2020, and right now it is late afternoon in my corner of Florida. According to my phone’s AccuWeather app, it’s hot – Africa hot, as Eugene Jerome liked to say in Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. It’s mostly cloudy and the current temperature is 89˚F, but with 62% humidity and a westerly breeze of 6 MPH, the feels-like temperatures are 95˚F in the shade and 98˚F in the open. Not as bad as yesterday, but it’s still summery rather than getting close to autumn. That’s what living in the subtropics entails, really; we are spared from the bone-chilling ice and snow of northern climes, but by the same token we need to live in houses and apartments with functioning air conditioners and endure the six months-long hurricane seasons.

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Today was a productive day, at least on the writing-blog-posts front. I actually wrote two posts in A Certain Point of View, Too:  a review of Star Wars The Black Series: Luke Skywalker & Yoda (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) Deluxe 2-Figure Set and a brief overview of Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War Trilogy.

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Of course, It helps that I started writing the Luke Skywalker & Yoda review as soon as I woke up and sat at my desk; that post took me over three hours to write, and the fact that I had uninterrupted access to the Wi-Fi during that time was also a major factor. Even when my housemate – for lack of a better term since we are no longer a committed couple – logged on to her home office computer to work in the afternoon, she had no connectivity issues  and therefore did not notice I was still online. If she had had a single hiccup and seen that I was connected to the Wi-Fi, she would have gotten upset and snapped at me for being online at a time when I am usually offline. (Hey, she went out to run errands, and I didn’t know she was home, so that explains my side of things.)

So, anyway, yeah. After I wrapped up the Star Wars The Black Series review I went full speed ahead and wrote the overview of Pacific Crucible, The Conquering Tide, and Twilight of the Gods. I think I spent about 90 minutes on that, and quite a bit of that time was expended on adding graphics and making sure they were laid out nicely. I posted that on WordPress less than two hours ago and so far it has been seen nine times and liked twice.

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It was only after I went across to the bathroom across the hall to take a hot shower and change into “street clothes” – although I hardly ever venture outside here – that I noticed that my housemate was working in the master bedroom where she has her home office. Out of simple courtesy I put my PC on “airplane mode” so that her Wi-Fi signal does not have any issues. She finishes at 5 PM Eastern so I should be able to log in soon and post this.

Anyway, yeah. I’m sad that I am single again, but the sad reality is that even though we both have good intentions and a lot of affection for each other, we really are not that compatible. She likes to drink a lot – too much, if you ask me – and listen to really loud music. I am less enthusiastic about booze – I can take it or leave it, and frankly, I prefer to leave it – and I’ve never been a fan of disco, 1970s pop music (except for a few groups or solo singers here and there), or Latin dance music, which are my new ex’s favorite genres.  Plus she loves reality TV shows, which I detest with a passion. (She also supports Donald Trump, while I definitely do not.)

There are other factors that came into play in the breakup, but I’m not gonna get into them. I still love my ex, incidentally, but we are not in a happy place right now.

Anyway, I don’t have any other major news to share. I bought the new Blu-ray edition of The Sons of Katie Elder from Amazon and I received that on Tuesday. I’ve watched most of it over two nights, but I have to watch it again soon in one sitting so I can review it.

Well, that about wraps it up for this installment of Musings & Thoughts. So until next time, I’ll catch you on the sunny side of things.

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