The Cheese Stands Alone

 Su 7/5/26 725am (GB: 6/ a mix of Diablo & Cat). 810am (4-B: Diablo Sativa). 1150am (GB: 6/ it's 'Green Crack' NOT 'Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: 6/ Green Crack).  Up 555am: Partly cloudy and criminally humid with temps to mid 80's and a chance of thunderstorms.  Weekly Cleaning. I was going to cut down some bushes in the backyard, but the guy next door was messing with his plants and I didn't want to draw him into the proceedings.  Watched 'TOKYO COWBOY' (Kanopy). An uptight 'salaryman' working for a large Japanese corporation is sent to Montana to check out a recently acquired ranch. Either he finds a way to increase profits or the whole operation will be sold to the highest bidder. He knows nothing of how a ranch is run, and it's a classic 'fish out of water' tale until he learns to become 'one of the guys'. It never gets too corny (but close), and it's actually kind of touching. 'Wagyu'- Premium Japanese beef retai...

Sa 7/4/26 7am (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 805am (3-B: Diablo Sativa). 930am (4-B: Diablo Sativa).  1125am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 325pm (4-B: Diablo Sativa). 535pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  830pm (GB: 6/ Diablo Sativa).   Up 610am: Very humid (90% at 8am) with thunderstorms predicted for later this afternoon {no rain} with temps to upper 80's. Watched 'QORIN' (Netflix). 'Qorin' is a real thing and means 'constant companion'. It refers to a personal, spiritual double assigned to every human being from birth. One is 'good' and one is 'bad' and this conflict forms the basis for 'jihad' (The Struggle). A male teacher at an Indonesian Muslim school for girls uses the Koran to unlock the girls' 'bad selves'. The film uses Muslim theology the way 'THE EXORCIST' used Catholic beliefs about demons and Hell. Unfortunately, the film is only mildly scary or original.  Began (on a whim) 'M3GAN 2.0' (Netflix). I shut it down 58 minutes into...

 Fr 7/3/26 740am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 1010am (5-B: Diablo Sativa). 1235pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 230pm (4-B: Diablo Sativa). 415pm (GB: 6/ Diablo Sativa). 535pm (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 835pm (GB: 5/ Diablo Sativa).  Up 630am: Partly cloudy with temps to low 90's & 'Extreme Heat Warnings' are in place until Saturday evening. Added 'ADULTHOOD RITES' by Octavia Butler and 'THE MOSQUITO COAST' by Paul Theroux to 'Books Read Recently'. Watched 'BAD SEEDS' (Netflix). The film features an odd relationship between two crooks, a man in his 30's and an elderly lady who is his 'adoptive mother and partner-in-crime'. They minister to a group of wayward teens and attempt to show them how to live in a multicultural world. Unfortunately, the film is almost a testament to the fact that most comedies do not appeal to an international audience. This one had its moments, but the story is too farfetched to appeal to a US audience. In a grocery store parking...

 Th 7/2/26 7am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 755 am (5-B: Diablo Sativa). 925am (5-B: Diablo Sativa). 1115am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: a mix of Diablo & Cat). 835pm (GB: 6/ Diablo Sativa).  Up 555am: A mix of sun & clouds with blowtorch heat & humidity. The 'Excessive Heat Warning' has been extended through Friday. {The AI Mode button is back on Chrome. PROFITS ASSURED: When they get you hooked on the 'free' service, then they make you pay. It's coming...} When I got up the painter's car was in the driveway of the abandoned house; 6am. He must be doing some early morning interior work.  Watched 'ON YOUR LAP' (Netflix). The film features some of the most desperately indigent characters that I've ever seen on film. Late one night a very pregnant (and single) woman finds herself on the doorstep of a very meager coffee shop. The old woman who owns the place offers a job and and a place to stay. Their lives become entwined and strong familial bonds a...

 We 7/1/26 705am (GB: 5/ Cat Piss {New Strain}). 735am (4-B: Diablo Sativa). 925am (5-B: Diablo Sativa). 1220pm (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 240pm (5-B: Diablo Sativa) 435pm (GB: Diablo Sativa). 530(GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 830pm (GB: 6/ Diablo Sativa). ***{Today the AI Mode tab was missing from the Chrome browser on the upstairs PC. It was present on the downstairs PC and Thursday morning it came back to the PC upstairs}***  Up 6am: Brutally hot & humid with temps to 93 and an 'Excessive Heat Warning' that ends tomorrow at midnight.   Watched 'ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER' (Amazon Prime). I don't even remember putting this one in the queue. It's a dark satire about leftist revolutionaries on the run from the authorities in contemporary California.  {The Christmas Adventurers Club..."All Hail Saint Nick"}. It's over three hours so I shut it down with an hour and eight minutes to go. "95" Metascore and all entries were in the hundreds or nineties and a sin...

 Tu 6/30/26 655am {1/2 VIIA 'Day Drift' Sativa- 100 mg: 50 mg total}. 7am (GB: 5/ Red Congolese). 750am (4-B: Diablo Sativa). 945am (5-B: Diablo Sativa). 1250pm (GB: 5/ Red Congolese). 535pm (GB: 5/ Red Congolese). 830pm (GB: 5/ Diablo Sativa).  By the end of the day I did a restart on both PC's & phone. Tuesdays are 'Restart' Days.  Up 6am: Hot & nasty; The 'Excessive Heat Warning' continues with temps to mid 90's and 'discomfort index' over the moon.  Watched 'THE 24th' (Netflix).  In August of 1917 members of the Black 3rd battalion of the 24th army infantry attacked the city of Houston, Texas. Nineteen whites were killed. Racial tensions had been brewing and the soldiers were tricked into believing that they were under fire from a white mob. The tone is a bit heavy handed, but it's an important incident in US history.  The largest court-martial in U.S. military history; 118 Black soldiers on trial for mutiny and murder. 11...