I will never not be impressed with today’s rocket technology, having grown up in the era of the Apollo and Space Shuttle missions and their disposable hardware.
3 boosters landed today.
With One Magic Word…
Ch-ch-changes
My urologist wants me to go on a low sodium diet.
Okay. I’ll go one better and just adjust my food intake in general.
I’ve started by cutting out fast food.
I’ve gone back to portion control, but not the point-counting from Weight Watchers, or WW as they now like to be called.
I’m going back to eating salads for lunch at least 3 times a week.
Cutting out donuts.
Cutting down on rice (again).
Back to a small amount of cottage cheese for breakfast, with perhaps a waffle. And smaller amounts of my usual cereal and milk.
Bananas are back.
I’m still eating pizza, just less of it.
Controlled snacking (i.e. none or the actual recommended serving size, like 3 Oreos or 5 tortilla chips).
We’ll see how this goes for the next few months.
Hey, most of this has worked before.
Now, Where Were We?
Recap of a week+ off from work.
3/4 – Start of a week off from work. Not much happened on Monday.
3/5 – Testing day for… reasons. Mostly an assessment of how I deal with computer support issues and stuff like that. Visited a comics/toys store on Geary, which I’d never been to before. Almost bought a really expensive Mazinger Z import from Japan, but talked myself out of it.
52nd
Cliffhanger
Those three words flash across a TV screen:
TO BE CONTINUED
And I’m taken back to a couple of moments in my life.
Memorial Day, 1980: The Northpoint theatre in San Francisco, to see the second ever Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back.
Like my Mom had said later, it was like seeing old friends again, on the big screen. I was enjoying the movie, and then had a weird feeling: the movie had run for close to a couple of hours, and then Boba Fett flew off with Han Solo in carbonite. I wasn’t sure they had enough time to rescue him by the end of the movie.
And then the wild ending, from the lightsaber duel, the escape from Cloud City and the jump to hyperspace.
I fully expected the next scene to by Luke, Lando, Leia and Chewie rescuing Han from Boba Fett.
Instead, Luke got a new hand, Lando and Chewie flew off in the Falcon, and then…
THE CREDITS STARTED.
What?
What’s happening?
WHAT ABOUT HAN?!?!?!
3 years later, the cliffhanger was resolved.
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June 18, 1990: Star Trek: The Next Generation season finale.
“The Best of Both Worlds”, in which the Borg invade Federation space, the Enterprise intercepts, and Picard is taken and turned into Locutus of Borg.
I still remember how chilling it was when Picard first spoke as Locutus.
I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life, as it has been, is over. From this time forward, you will service… us.
Then three words were spoken by Riker:
Mr. Worf, fire.
Those three words mentioned above appear on screen.
3 months later, the cliffhanger was resolved.
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I’m glad this latest cliffhanger will be resolved next week. Or so I hope.
Blender Update
- Rice milk: okay, but probably will not make again. Too ‘goopy’.
- Almond milk: best of the milk attempts.
- Oat milk: literally tasted like drinking bread.
- Milkshakes: of the 3 I’ve made, only 1 was decent enough to be called a milkshake; the others were basically chocolate milk.
- Smoothies: probably the best thing that I’ve made with this thing.
- Soup: very good soup (tomato).
Still need to attempt making ice cream.
Ace Blender
I ordered this thing last Thursday, and according to Walmart and FedEx, it would be delivered on Saturday.
Saturday arrived, and I stayed home and tracked it all day. Still on schedule for delivery by end of the day.
But at 3:00pm, the status changed to ‘Pending delivery’ with no date given.
Arrgh.
Soon
Ramblings
I finally watched Crazy Rich Asians. Good movie.
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Clean up continues around the house. More trips to Goodwill are planned in the future.
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The 1967 San Francisco Giants replay is finally finished. I’m moving on to the 1939 New York Giants replay and continuing the 1917 MLB replay.
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February is right around the corner, meaning my birthday is coming up. This year it falls on a Saturday, and will be our monthly Games Night.
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TNT has started showing Rogue One almost every other day.
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I’ve been feeling crappy over the last few days, so much so that I’ve skipped my daily elliptical for a couple of days.
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I forgot to get a haircut this past weekend.
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I really do fear commitment.