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Tu 10/13/26

 Tu 10/13/26 750am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 1225pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 645am: Bright & sunny with temps to 90, but temps drop 40 degrees tomorrow. Yesterday was the warmest 10/12 since 1962 and it marked the latest point in the calendar year that the city has ever recorded a 90 degree temp since official record keeping began in the late 1800's. Today might shred that record. I didn't need the AC yesterday, but it's 'ON' today.  Paid Card Watched 'SIRAT' (Kanopy). In Arabic the title means 'the path' or 'the way'. This is a kind of metaphor for 'heaven and hell, hope and hopelessness, and destruction and renewal'. You think you've seen it all after the young boy and his puppy fall off the side of a mountain, but it really becomes a nightmare when the crew are tripping their brains out and learn that they are in a minefield. Like nothing else. Nominated for 2 Oscars; 50 wi...
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Mo 10/12/26

 Mo 10/12/26 825am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 915am {I took 1/4- VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 25 total}. 105pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 430pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 4/ Maui Wowie). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 730am: Partly sunny with record high temps almost to 90.  Watched 'HERETIC' (Kanopy). This is the kind of movie that will spark many philosophical conversations and more 'droll' than 'horror', but a very fun ride. Two Mormon teenage girls knock on the door of a man who seems interested, hospitable, and very knowledgeable about 'The Church of The Latter Day Saints'. He is not at all what he seems to be. Fun Theme: 'Simulation Hypothesis'- the concept that our physical world is an artificial, simulated construct rather than the absolute, fundamental reality. Maybe something along the lines of 'The Matrix' is the latest iteration of what is commonly believed to be 'Religion'. "71" Metascore and I would go to ...
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Su 10/11/26

 Su 10/11/26 850am (GB: Maui Wowie). 940am (4-B: Green Crack). 1250pm (GB: 5 Green Crack). 240pm (4-B: Maui Wowie). 435pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 835pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 730am: Sunny and warm with temps to low 80's. Weekly Cleaning Watched 'REPORTING LIVE' (Netflix).  A bridge collapses and a bus load of children drown in the river. Excessive sand dredging hollowed out the area beneath the riverbed and the supporting structure collapsed. A TV journalist and her cameraman uncover the illegal sand mining operation and the authorities try to suppress the story.  'Woodward & Bernstein' this ain't. The action takes place in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra which is in the upper northwestern part of the country; approximately 250 miles north of Mumbai.   More 'THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE' (Netflix). I Finished episode #2 and will continue the series tonight.   Tried to delete AI Mode History, and I did it, but not...
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Sa 10/10/26

 Sa 10/10/26 805am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 9am (4-B: Green Crack). 1205pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 535pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 830pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack).  Up 710am: Mostly cloudy with temps to about 80. Watched 'THREE' (Netflix). An anthology of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan. 1) A husband's wife has disappeared and he 'thinks something bad' has happened to her. Few words of dialogue, but some of the grisliest murder scenes I've ever seen. A difficult piece of filmmaking, but worth the effort.  2) 'Thai Puppets' vs. 'Masked Dancers'; total cultural immersion with backgrounds of jungles, rivers, and rural traditional stages in very rural Thailand.  3) A man and his three year old son stay in a desolate apartment building that is slated to be leveled. The man next door has strangled his wife who was dying of cancer. He " killed her so that he co...
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Fr 10/9/26

 Fr 10/9/26 820am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 905am (4-B: Green Crack). 1pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 230pm (4-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack).  Up 730am: Sunny with temps to mid 80's.  Watched 'THE GUARDIANS' (Amazon Prime). Women till the soil while the men go off to fulfill their destinies as the first world war slowly comes to a close. Great scenes of women working the fields and it ain't no picnic. The film is glacially paced, yet, in the end, it becomes an intriguing love story. It authentically demonstrates the early 20th century's repressive ideas about sex & family, but the hardworking and level-headed 'Francine' has a few francs and a more modern attitude that will take her further than any of these rubes. Filmed in Haute-Vienne, France which is in southwest-central France near Limoges. "81" Metascore and I would boost that to "90".  Began 'THE BOURNE IDENTITY' (...
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Th 10/8/26

 Th 10/8/26 855am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 1250pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 830pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 8am: {well rested}. Plenty of sunshine and temps to lower 80's. Watched 'OLD HENRY' (Netflix). A 'thinking man's western' with a crazy theory about the demise of Billy The Kid. It delivers bona fide 19th century dialogue and probably some of the most authentic gunfights of the era because in the real wild, wild west many shots were fired, but few found their targets. "69" Metascore and I would go to "84"; with Tim Blake Nelson. From 'Movie Nation': "It’s the title character and the great character actor playing him that turns this otherwise decent indie Western into something special. And Nelson pulls that off every time he squints or opens his mouth." { Tim Blake Nelson was in the terrific 'anti-boxing film', 'BANG BANG'}. Finished 'AFRICAN QUEENS: NJINGA' (Netflix).  Fun Fac...
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We 10/7/26- Frog Pond Gone

 We 10/7/26- Frog Pond Gone 8am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 9am (3-B: Maui Wowie).   1030am {I took 1/4 of a VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 25 mg total}. 11am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 225pm (5-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 530pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 830pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). ***25 mg didn't hit; no discernible difference during a pleasant walk ***  Up 650am: Sunny & hot with temps to mid 80's. The city picked up the branch piles yesterday, but they didn't get my two leaf bags. This morning I was going to sweep up the branch debris and put at least one leaf bag in the 'big blue can', but a garbage truck picked up both bags before I made it to the curb.  Downloaded 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair from the library (Hoopla). A major production due to unfamiliarity with the outmoded website and I got 2 copies of his book and another named 'Oil'.  930am: Next door I noticed a white pickup truck with a bumper sticker that declares "FUCK AROUND AN...
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