Sa 11/25/17- Ordered Xmas Toys; Amazon

Sa 11/25/17

Up 5am and read THE WOODEN SEA- Jonathan Carroll in bed until 6am. After finishing that awful novel, CROSS JUSTICE, it is a fantastic change of pace. 

Bright, clear, and sunny; to mid 50's later. Watched the rest of RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. I really liked this film! The nineteenth century Bushwhackers mindset seems eerily close to that of present day followers of Isis- without political authority or military order, Terror is just a shot away. Based on Daniel Woodrell's novel, WOE TO LIVE ON, and this is available at Hoopla and I plan to get it on the smartphone very soon.

Ordered the Xmas gifts for the Brandenburg kids plus the February selection for the Book Club and the novel by the local writer for Janny. A little over eighty bucks, and I had to pay shipping for the books but not the toys. Why???

Tried to watch MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE on Amazon Prime, but the picture was too choppy. A possible fix is to watch via Internet Explorer and use a Silverlight plugin, but I was too apprehensive to install. Maybe some other time.  

Another SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT; Spike Lee.
While tinkering around I loaded all of 'The Cheese Stands Alone' on to Dropbox; so EZ!

1230pm to Planet Fitness. Mailed the disc and on the machines by 1245pm. Not as much traffic on the roads as I expected for the first Saturday of the Xmas Season.

45" Walk. 3.5/0. 45" Recumbent Bike (read THE WOODEN SEA and watched WELCOME TO SWEETIE PIE'S; this fairly decent reality show was on for the entire session). 45" Cross. 30" Bike (read/watched). 30" Cross. Legs/Chest.

Home for an hour soak and more Jonathan Carroll. Netflix tonight and I'm dreading fucking with the Amazon Prime and the Silverlight link bullshit. I just want everything to work; no hassle. CURVE for tonight. Pretty standard Slasher/Thriller. On the way from San Francisco to Denver, in the middle of nowhere, a young woman is accosted in her truck by a stranger; He says, "Isn't it an unlucky chance that you and I happened to meet?", but in the end, it is HER that says, "Isn't it an unlucky chance that you and I happened to meet?"

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