Jul 21, 2024, 19:28

Rain today, so let's put it on the other side of the puddle. I think everybody likes rain besides the devices, right? So I'm going to keep everyone happy, devices included. All right, okay, great. You know what? We're going to make you keep you happy too, so we're going to give you the best view in the house here, right here. That's it. Finally, like I said, this is the work, but it's about as close to peace and quiet as you can get while, okay, let's see. I think possibly the very first movie that I saw in a cinema that I can recall is my brother Edward got two free movie tickets to go see Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman and like 1995, I don't know. And I just remember because my older, my big brother is a huge, or was a huge movie buff. And so through him, I saw a lot of the kind of major pictures of the time. And Dustin Hoffman, obviously his Oscar winning role was playing Rain Man. And I don't know if I'd seen that movie yet, but I probably just been in and out while he was watching it. So I knew who this person was. And so then I saw him on the big screen. And I remember I really liked it. But anyway, they were just showing it on cable and watching it again. I'm like, Oh, wow, this is this makes perfect sense. Bugs, bugs, bugs. Yeah, the first movie that I remember watching was Arnold Schwarzenegger in Commando. And we watched it at my uncle's house who was living across the street from us. And as soon as the movie was over, my brother asked me to watch it again. Yeah. That's right. Well, basically, long story short, Arnold Schwarzenegger was like my hero of heroes when I was a little kid. And I even like daydreamed about how I was working out and he was training me. You know, because the first job like, I really wanted to do. I wanted to be a chef on television. Okay. Um, as it as it turned out, I ended up going to become a child actor in LA. And, and then I saw that it's not as straightforward as it might appear. Um, and then, um, yeah, so, uh-huh. But stand up comedy right now is a big show on Netflix called The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which is kind of a fantasy of it's based on get her name, but kind of the woman who paved the road for female comics during the 50s and 60s. And she had a very long career. And basically, she's, you know, a legend among, you know, equal among equals. And this, this show is kind of a fantasy as if, you know, as if, you know, among those guys, when they were just starting out, had there been a female? Yeah, it's, yeah. Like Hank Williams, Jr. says, I don't like happy. I like happy. Right. And that's kind of what the show is. So yeah, it's really, it's really good. It's really good show. And it's funny, because I, you know, I spent half my time in New York State, in the city, and as well as upstate, most of the orange, between Orange County and New York City. And a lot of these, you know, a lot of a lot of things in general, New York City is kind of a big place. And a lot of things kind of circle around it, including this show. And it just brings, just brings all these funny jokes to mind, like, I spent some time on Long Island, and if you keep going down this road, you get to the Hamptons. And there's just one of my favorite jokes from Seinfeld, is George was going to get married. His wife, basically, he did something, he was cheap. And he bought cheap wedding envelopes. And his fiancee at the time, Susan, you know, licked all of the invitations, and it turned out that the glue was poison, and she died from that. And, you know, and her parents, she's came from a, like a very well to do, blue blood, you know, family. And, and George is kind of a schlep, right? And her parents, you know, just, they couldn't disapprove of him more. I mean, their daughter died trying to marry this guy. And he's still George, right? So they, Susan's parents start a foundation in her, in her name, and they make George part of the board. And, like, George, George didn't want to get married. And, and basically, when she died, he kind of felt like he got his freedom back. He was, you know, and now they started the foundation made him part of the board. And it's like, he just can't get away. And, and so, and one of the engagements, he says, Oh, I'm actually I can't make it because I have, I have my house in the Hamptons. And Susan's parents actually do have a house in the Hamptons. And they're like, Oh, well, we're going there as well. We'll, we'll share a ride. And George is like, George is George. He's like, let's go. Let's go. You want to do crazy? Let's get crazy. And so he it's a it's like a three hour drive or something like that. You know, from from New York down. And if there's traffic, forget about it. And they're basically, they're in the Hamptons, right? They get there, it's late at night. And he stops the car. And he says, and he basically tells him the truth. And Susan's mother says, We know, George, we just don't like you. And we blame you for Susan's death. So okay, turn around, go home. That's, that's, that's that character right there. I don't know, just kind of find, you know, you just, you just can't, you just can't help but admire these folks, you know, for kind of giving it their all to do their best to do the best, you know. And it's, it's great. It's really, it's really good to see. So yeah, this is our best right here. Grass is green, the lawn is great. The trees are great. The neighborhood is not bad. I mean, the neighborhood, so we bought this house from a young Japanese couple. And they were either having their second child or about to have their first. So they bought a bigger home. And we got this one. But when we were going house hunting, the way that we settled on this one is because underneath this deck, there was an indoor patio. And I just ran right down from the front door right down there. And so this was it. And the house has definitely lived up to, lived up to it, for sure. You know, it's just a great house. It's just like, I couldn't, it couldn't be any better. It's just perfect in every way. And the neighbors changed now. Half, about a baker's dozen, about half dozen times. On the right, Jeff was an actual woodsman for the forest, whatever you call that, the government department of forestry. And then, you know, he moved in, he moved out. A couple from Texas moved in, moved out. A couple from New Jersey moved in, moved out. People here, I don't know where they're from, but they're moving out in a month. On the left, Larry was in, was there, and Larry was obsessed with lawns. And I had a little bunny rabbit, which kept getting away. And I would just, you know, patch up all the holes, you know, however I could. And then Larry would come out in the morning and see all this ramshackle in our yard. And eventually he said, hey, here's some chicken wire. And he actually, you know, took off all my, you know, fix-its and just installed chicken wire in the holes. But I was a little kid, so our proportions obviously were different. And with the bunnies, the bunnies, so I'm like, what if the bunny crawls through the chicken wire? And I took off the chicken wire, put all my ramshackle back, and Larry was, but the bunny, you know, the bunny did not, he ended up having his life right here and did not end up running away again, or did not end up getting lost. And then Larry left, a Brazilian couple moved in. And then actually, the couple here has been here for, since then, so pretty steady. Can't drive them away, right? What can you do? So yeah, it's all right, you know, it's not bad. But anyway, so when we were first driving to this town of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, from St. Louis Park, where we had our first apartment, it was just, it was still pretty much like farm country and forest and prairie, prairie, Eden Prairie, it was pretty much prairie. And it was just a two-lane road in and out. And it was completely covered with trees. Like, if you looked up, it was just trees. And, you know, things change, things change. But it's still a nice place. Yeah. On a more technical note, I went to Shields today, which is a sporting goods store at the Eden Prairie Mall. And they have a wide selection of firearms. And I asked one of the guys over there if he could help me, you know, get all the permits through so I could legally purchase a, not a hunting weapon, but a defense weapon. And so when I was there, when I was there a few years ago, they just put me on a computer to register. But now it's through the sheriff's office. And so that's City Hall. But here's a story for you. And I was going to pick up my parents at the airport. I, I want, I was trying to find the bus that goes to the airport, so I didn't have to pay for the air train. And, and there was like an express bus where there's a system where you swap your MetroCard and you get a little ticket. And that's what And I just entered, boarded the bus to ask, you know, if they go to the Q7, which I saw from a street map, goes to JFK. And the driver said she does. And so I was already, you know, she was already, the bus was already rolling. So I didn't really have a chance to get out, get a ticket. I, you know, now, in hindsight, I know that, you know, I know what to do. But, you know, this was the first time, right? And this was the time when the, you know, the Metro authorities boarded the bus and start checking everybody's receipts. And I didn't have one. So I got a $50 fine. From a set of a hundred, I got a $50 fine. Well, you know, it's this ticket with all this writing on it, and I'm not good at holding on to pieces of paper. So, you know, shortly after I no longer had it on, I was no longer in possession of this. And so I'm like, like, before I go to the sheriff's office, why don't I call Queens, Queens Courthouse and just verify the status of this, you know, this thing. So that's, that's gonna happen before any, any further action on that, on that end. My mom got a bracelet from China, which repels bugs, and she says it works. I gotta, I gotta find that bracelet and put it on my leg or something. Yeah. Let's see. Sorry, my nose is a little, it's a little dry. So I, let's see. What else? Say it's about seven o'clock going on eight. I got it. Yeah, well, let's see. Okay, so yesterday we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, went to orchestra hall they had Mozart's Overture to don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fourth and one of the 14 violin concertos of St. George from France from the Baroque era. And I mean, my mom is a whiz, so she got these tickets three for 30. will cost you know on the night of so we can complain about a $10 symphony ticket right and so we went there and we saw it and you know I mean the the first the lead violinist um Japanese lady outstanding outstanding the conductor a Bulgarian lady outstanding and the rest you know it's just like but that's that's it I mean that's it that's the review that's the review