Family news

 brownout yesterday; fixing the electric lines.

We have a generator, which helps.

Several local deaths. One from liver failure, another from a motorcycle accident several days after his wife died of asthma/heart attack. Sigh.

One never knows if a person dies at home without fever or flu symptoms if it was covid, but probably not: Three people I was giving money to buy medicine for heart/asthma/diabetes/blood pressure have died in the last year. Non covid, but one wonders if they used the money I gave them to buy medicine and bought food instead.

The official covid count is down: less than 900 new cases.

They are putting up the Christmas lights downtown, and decorating the city plaza down the street.

Kuya is still busy with the rice harvest.

I had to take the largest dog for his rabies shot: He was running a minor fever (he was fighting with his brother over our female dog) so I have to take him back in two weeks. But I persuaded the vet to give his brother the rabies shot, since his brother is small but is ADHD and does chase people (no bites yet, but threatens visitors).

We watched the latest Bond movie. Kuya fell asleep despite all the loud gun battles and explosions that are similar to things we saw before. My take: this Bond is not sexy (Sean Connery was the only Bond I liked) and there are no beautiful girls with come hither eyes in the story. Lolo loved the earlier Bond movies because he appreciated lovely ladies.  Me, I figure Bond was more heroic here, but I really didn't care.

If you want a shoot em up watch John Wick. If you want a shoot em up with a lovely lady, lots of action and ROTFL dialogue, watch the Hitman's Wife's Body Guard.

If you want lovely scenery, watch Dune.

If you want a realistic cold war spy story, watch The Courier.

In the past, the joke was that Michael Caine was in every movie, but now it seems that Cumberbatch is doing this, being busy doing both Dr Strange and quiet roles: from an in the closet gay cowboys to a painter of a cats.

I even spotted him in an Agatha Christie tv show.

 

Dr Watson call your office: Dr. Strange is in town.