The worldwide crisis of coronavirus is illustrative
of how interconnected the world has become. Of course the doomsayers
(television news) are out in full force heightening everyone’s concern. While
this is undoubtedly a very serious health crisis I don’t think we’re looking at
the superflu of Stephen King’s The Stand either. It even made its impact felt at
work yesterday when one of the Voices of Inappropriate Worth claimed we didn’t
clean our buses each night. They are cleaned each night and I’ve added an additional
disinfecting team. There’s been one case in the entire state but with everyone
having access to the internet anyone can claim the sky is falling. This is a perfect
example of the dumbing down of the national discourse.
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| BRS - In Entertainment Mode |
There is hope yet after the Super Tuesday primary
election results. Hope that our only choices in November won’t be just the Twitterer
in Chief and an avowed socialist. These results clearly show there’s a centrist
electorate rising to meet the fringes that have come to dominate each party.
The republicans are stuck with their incumbent but there is at least a glimmer
of hope the democrats can field someone I could vote for.
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| ABFA Assisting with Video Call |
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| Dad - Quit Interrupting |
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| Play Doh Cookies - The Best |
One of the best antidotes to my exceedingly empty
house are the nightly video calls with my kids and the granddaughters. My Favorite
Son is now fighting off the bug that the BRS and ABFA both dealt with last
week. The BRS has not slowed down one iota which at least provides a
significant entertainment factor as he recovers. The FBR has even deigned to
talk to me a couple times instead of just haughtily staring into the video
screen. I hope to get up to New Hampshire this weekend for some BRS and Favorite
Son hangs.
Back at the movies last night to see the Call of the
Wild. I loved Jack London stories when I first started reading back in the Stone
Age and this one was my favorite so I went into this with unrealistically high
expectations. As good as CGI has evolved to, this movie suffers because the
star, Buck, is obviously a computer generated image. I understand the need for
CGI with some of the superhero type actions Buck is charged with but they should
have gone with a mix of a real dog for the close ups and CGI for the rest. It remains
a very good story and the human cast is uniformly good, especially Han Solo as
Buck’s final owner. They changed up the story just enough to keep the plot interesting.
In the end I liked but didn’t love it and considering how I feel about dogs
that is faint praise indeed.
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– inbound
granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel
- second granddaughter; FBR - First Blog
Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College Roommate
– high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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