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It was good.
As my nephew said, it could easily been half a season of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus.
The story was good, I was entertained, and there was lots that I liked and a thing or two I didn’t.
It was great to see Mando and Grogu in action again, along with Zeb and Ripley, er, Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver).
And it was simply great to see (and hear) a Star Wars film on the big screen, IMAX in the case of our screening.
Recommended if you’re a Mando/Grogu fan.
Go see it!
I’m watching episodes of this show on and off, and I find that I haven’t seen most (if not all) of these episodes since they were first broadcast, almost 50 years ago.
We didn’t have a VCR in the mid-70s, and I didn’t watch reruns back then. Heck, I think I only watched the Bigfoot episodes when Sci-Fi Channel picked up the show at some point during the late 90s/early 2000s.
Anyways, I recently watched “The Song and Dance Spy” guest-starring Sonny Bono. Imagine my surprise when I recognized Bruce Glover as the main bad guy and Jayne Kennedy as one of Bono’s backup singers, or looking up the episode on IMDB.com and discovering Star Trek TNG director Cliff Bole was an assistant director on this episode.
Or that the background singer who Bono introduced as his girlfriend was actually real life girlfriend/future wife Susie Coelho.
And part of this story took place in Manila, Philippines, and Guam.
Dear Dad,
I fixed the broken left rear blinker on my CR-V.
It failed a few weeks back and when I went to the auto parts store, the tech who was going to swap it out had me test it when he removed the tail light fixture, and it appeared to work again.
Yesterday (Easter Sunday) it failed intermittently as I drove to and from our gathering, so I drove back to the auto parts store, where the cashier was able to sell me the bulbs, but they didn’t have any techs around to replace it for me, so he suggested checking online for a how-to video, which I found on YouTube.
This afternoon I followed the instructions from the video, even though it didn’t actually cover the bulb replacement itself, but I was able to figure it out and it’s all fixed.
Just wanted to let you know. 🙂
Miss you and love you.
I was still in kindergarten when the Apollo 17 mission marked the last time man landed on the moon.
I don’t recall watching any of the coverage on TV, as most of my TV watching was cartoons and maybe Sesame Street.
I certainly read about the moon missions over the years, and I remember Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz ‘handshake in space’ mission.
The first actually launch I remember seeing live was the maiden flight of space shuttle Colombia, April 12th, 1981.
I’ve seen many shuttle launches over the years, and later the recent resupply missions to I.S.S.
But today?
I’m hoping to see something that I’ve never seen before, a manned rocket, launching to rendezvous with the moon.
So you’ll excuse me if I’m found tearing up a bit later this afternoon.
Today I went to my first Sharks game since 2009, along with family, some of whom had never seen a hockey game in person.
This year has officially sucked so far.
I lost two uncles, both of them from my Dad’s side of the family, in the span of 10 days.
Hopefully the bad stuff will stay in January and the rest of 2026 will be fine.
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I was going to write more, but just writing that above has sucked the life out of me.
I will say that I enjoyed Wonder Man on Disney+.
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I will also say than in the span of about a week I went from being really excited about the Super Bowl down in Santa Clara @ Levi’s Stadium to not caring about game day except for the commercials and movie trailers.
My Broncos did better this season than anyone expected, including me.
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I think today marks 10 days until Pitchers and Catchers report for Spring Training, so least that’s coming soon.
