There’s a little necessary housekeeping to catch up on events. The opus that was the Birthday Pub Crawl consumed so much space in my last post that I failed to include a couple other noteworthy experiences. The first of which was yet another successful reminder to ourselves (note - the selves being my Favorite Panamanian, myself, and the Neighborhood Mafiosos) that we’re not going to acknowledge increasing age. Since it was Friday night, that meant we should have been out dancing and that’s exactly what we did. Once more into the breach at the local Legion Hall where, for once, one of the very good musical duos was playing. I played up the recent birthday as a reason to celebrate but it was the Frist Friday of the Week, so there.
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As
I was heading to bed last night I looked outside and saw Deckzilla was liberally
coated with snow. I heard earlier, in the weather report, that it was snowing
but that it was too dry to reach the grounds. Apparently it got over it. It was
beautiful, loved the imposed silence it brings. This wasn’t the only snow we
were involved with yesterday. For date night my Favorite Panamanian and I took
in Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. This is the origin story
of the lead villain from the original movies, President Snow. We find him as a
young man trying to survive, penniless after the ravages of the civil war that generated
the Hunger Games. The games aren’t as popular as later versions and as a highly
decorated student Snow generates additional interest when he mentors (you
guessed it) a young female contestant from District 12. He’s actually likable
for the first half of the movie until his descent into becoming presidential
material. Viola Davis (as usual) is worth the price of admission all by herself
as the evil games master. A solid if not spectacular addition to the Huger
Games world. 
Deckzilla Last Night
RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during him her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); FBR - First Blog Reader -
first granddaughter; First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend
since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife –
her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew –
son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member; 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; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate– high
school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the
Grandpuppy, son's dog; Soxfather -
my brother in law; Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course
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