Daily Archives: October 5, 2016
That Sweet Spot . . .
First off, I want to thank everyone for their many Happy Birthday wishes. Jan and I both really appreciate it.
And as far as Jan is concerned, we’re in that yearly Sweet Spot. The one where for 20 days a year, we’re the same age. Then on October 25th, Jan goes back to being a sexy cougar/cradle-robber for another 345 days.
With the washer problem no longer hanging over me, I spent the morning and early afternoon fine tuning the new website shopping cart, which is really close to going online. I’ll let you know.
During the day, our daughter Brandi, our son Chris, and our long-time friend Maria called to wish me a Happy Birthday.. Thanks guys.
About 3pm we headed out for some errands and dinner at Golden Corral. Our first stop was Wal-Mart to check out their prepaid cell phones for Jan.
Presently she has an LG Revere flip phone. Yes, they still make them.
She only wants a phone for phone calls, no web, no text, no camera, just phone calls. But we’re presently paying almost $60 a month for this. So I’m looking for something cheaper.
And after a really good meal at the Corral, we stopped off at Kroger’s for a few things before heading home. Then after we got settled in and the groceries put away Jan came outside and held the ladder while I finished hooking up the dryer hose to the outside vent. So all I lack now is to the put the cabinet doors and retaining strip back on.
Then Nick called me this evening with his and Terry’s Birthday Wishes. They’re presently in Quincy, FL, west of Tallahassee, hiding out from Hurricane Matthew. Before they left a couple of days ago, they were in New Smyrna Beach, right in the 10 ring of the hurricane target area.
A couple of nights ago Jan and I watched the pilot episode of Timeless, a new NBC drama on Monday nights. A time machine has been stolen from an Elon Musk type character (think Tesla & SpaceX) by a mysterious man who seemingly wants to change history and eliminate or cripple the United States.
A history professor, Lucy Preston, a Delta Force soldier, Wyatt Logan, and a scientist, Rufus Carlin, are recruited to use a somewhat rickety prototype machine to follow the stolen machine and try and stop or reverse any changes made.
Their first stop is May 6th, 1937 in Lakehurst, NJ, the time and place of the Hindenburg disaster. One of the problems the team has is that they have no idea what the mystery man is trying to change.
In this case the thief manages to avert the Hindenburg crash, only to set a bomb to try and bring it down the next day as it departs New Jersey heading for London and the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
SPOILER ALERT! In case you’ve recorded the show and haven’t watched yet!
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Although the team manages to disarm the bomb, a gunfight breaks out that still causes the Hindenburg to crash and burn, but on May 7th, not the 6th as before, with different people killed and different people surviving.
When the team returns to the present, they find the timeline altered such that the Hindenburg always crashed on the 7th. The team are now the only 3 people who remember the original one.
But the last scene is the real twist. When Lucy returns home, she discovers her mother is not comatose and dying, but in perfect health.
And she never had a sister. Amy never existed.
Thought for the Day:
“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” — Stephen Hawking, physicist
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