Saw 'Kong - Skull Island' today and enjoyed the hell out of it. Great cast, great monsters, excellent popcorn movie. Lots and lots of fun monsters. There is one clever point at which the 'local' tells some of the [at that point] survivors that one thing to worry about are the ants, giant ants - points to off-screen & says, 'There's one now' - ( Read more... )

My allegedly 'heavy-duty gaming mouse' just disintegrated under my hand as I was using it. Top fell off. I managed to push the contacts inside enough to get out of a game I was playing. The the bottom fell off as I moved it aside to get a replacement. [Thankfully, I have several replacement mice due to having a problem with one - the mouse ( Read more... )

Another storm is forecast to blow in late tonight [in the 2am thru early morning time-frame]. Sounds like some wind will come along with it. There should be rain, on and off, for a week. Nice!

It's sunny today and I don't mind that. The last few months are how winter -should- be IMO: rain, a bit more rain, sprinkles and then a few days of sunshine. This is very akin to my memories of California winter weather until about age 10.

... and now for some commercials with a little bit of football wrapped around them.

Another protest goes up in flames. The thousand protesters make their hypocritical complaints against letting someone express an opinion different then their own, but are stupid [but reasonable] about it. Then several dozen uniformly dark-clad, dark masked 'anarchists' show up, destroy property, burn stuff, throw flares & fireworks at the police ( Read more... )

Excellent article here, about 'Rogue One's' characters ( Read more... )

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I'm not happy Trump is in office, but unless we can get RID of Pence and Ryan FIRST, trying to impeach Trump is a fate WORSE than Trump.

To be honest, I want Trump healthy and in place - and fear that the Republican machine will try to get rid of him by any means possible - to GET Pence &/or Ryan into the presidency.

Today is dry. The last week has been mildly rainy [although to see TV news reporters aiming their cameras at shallow puddles, you'd think we were in a monsoon]. The week to -come- is forecast as slightly more rainy and news-folk are predicting disasters. Since California is more-or-less a desert, IMO there should be cheers and acclamation, not

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