The Cheese Stands Alone

 Tu 4/14/26 7am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 705am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 1040am (3-B: Green Apple Gas).  1235pm (GB: 5/Green Apple Gas). 530pm (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn). 840pm (GB: 6/ Green Apple Gas).  Up 540am: A rainy/ stormy morning, then cloudy & breezy with temps to low 80's.  Added 'PRENTICE ALVIN' by Orson Scott Card & 'THE LATHE OF HEAVEN' by Ursula K. Leguin to 'Books Recently Read'.  Watched 'VIDAAMUYARCHI' (Netflix). It had a fine idea that kinda got lost in the shuffle. Premise: The kidnappers convince the woman that her husband was behind her abduction. And, they make the husband believe the same grift, only she was responsible for his kidnapping. How that proposition worked out would have made a much better story. However, the film features a Russian gang who performed plastic surgery on the kidnapped women and then used them as prostitutes in Russia. The man reports his wife's abduction at a police s...

 Mo 4/13/26- Mowed Lawn; 1st of 2026 720am (GB: 6/ a mix of Hybrid & Green). 150pm (4- B/ Green Apple Gas). 425pm (GB: 4/ Green Apple Gas). 535pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 835pm (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn).  Up 630am: Cloudy & breezy with temps to low 80's. Watched 'A DAY TO DIE' (Netflix). I could only watch 5 minutes of this and I can usually endure almost anything, but Bruce Willis in one of his final roles was too much to bear. His entire performance took only two days, according to IMDB. It looks like most of his scenes were just him alone, and then they 'cut & paste' to create his interaction with the other actors. Willis is supposed to look concerned & engaged, but actually he comes off as confused & disoriented. Did Bruce Willis need the money that badly?  Watched 'FIRST REFORMED' (Netflix). This film was a complete mind-blower.  It's top-heavy with acute moral and social issues that seem to beg for examination. Everything from abo...

 Su 4/12/26 725am GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 740am (2-B: Green Apple Gas). 1015am (GB: 4/ Green Apple Gas).  1245pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn).  535pm (GB: 5/Green Apple Gas). 825pm (GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas).  Up 6am: Partly cloudy & windy with temps to just about 80. Weekly Cleaning {When I logged on I got a prompt to 'restart' & it only took a few moments} Watched 'THE ORPHANS' (Netflix).  I had seen this within the last couple of months so I kept searching. Opening Scene: Fencing using sticks similar to pool cues. The major storyline is a rich and entitled young man drives away from a car accident where a passenger in the other car dies. It was the driver's mother and she tried to locate & punish the coward who took to the hills...or something like that.    Watched 'THE OUTRUN' (Netflix). I had also seen this one before, but it must have been ages ago. A powerful tale of a woman fighting personal problems who attempts to control the negative em...

  Sa 4/11/26 650am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 935am (GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas). 1150am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 530pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 825pm (GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas).  Up 550am: Partly cloudy & breezy with temps to upper 60's.  Watched 'BARAMULLA' (Netflix). Another very confusing film. It involves ghosts (who are politically motivated?) in a house once owned by a family of Hindus who were persecuted by the radical Jihadists from across the border in Pakistan. The new family is being harassed by the current 'farming' operations being run by Islamic fundamentalists. The Muslim terrorists ('freedom fighters'?) kidnap (farm?) children who are Hindu and force them to convert to radical Jihad. Baramulla is a city in the Kashmir region of India which is located in the far northern part of the country. Baramulla is approximately 200 miles due east of Peshawar, Pakistan. An Indian film that clocks in under two hours, and I didn't smell a rat.   Mo...

 Fr 4/10/26 710am (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 745am {1/2 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 50 mg total}. 825am (4-B: Green Apple Gas). 1020am (Clean GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas).  115pm (GB: 6/ Hybrid Popcorn). 3pm (4- B: Green Apple Gas).  540pm (GB: 7/ Hybrid Popcorn). 835pm (GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas).  Up 6am: Early morning showers, then partly cloudy & breezy with temps to just above 60.  ***Cleaned the GB with the new 'bottle' brushes that I ordered from Amazon. Only somewhat effective, but definitely made a difference.  Watched 'HUMINT' (Netflix). I lost the thread of the plot almost immediately, but in very general terms, it's about a human trafficking operation involving North Korean agents kidnapping Korean women and selling them to a Russian mob in Vladivostok. The Only Interesting Part Of The Film: The title is a portmanteau HUMINT: (human- intelligence) which is 'a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others': incel:  (involuntary-...

 Th 4/9/26 730am {1/2 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100mg: 50 mg total}.  730am (GB: 5/ Hybrid Popcorn).  1225pm (GB: 5/ Green Apple Gas). 535pm (GB: 5/Green Apple Gas). Up 630am: Partly cloudy & breezy with temps to upper 70's. Watched 'ANATOMY OF A FALL' (Netflix). It's a detailed examination and exploration of the far-reaching consequences of an accident, a murder or a possible suicide. A man is found dead in the snow after a fall from the third floor of his chalet. Was it suicide, accidental, or was he pushed out the window by his wife?  All the forensic evidence is debatable, and his wife counters any argument that attempts to cast her as the murderer. It's a satisfying conclusion because it works if she did it or if she successfully proved her innocence. The film was shot in the French Alps near Grenoble. Won 1 Oscar; 131 wins & 191 nominations. "86" Metascore and I would go to "94". TIME OUT- "Watch it with a partner and argue abou...