January 29, 2020

This week even Google wished me Happy Birthday! So far the free stuff includes Boston Market, Starbucks and Cold Stone Creamery. Earlier, I received scratch-off Birthday bucks: $9 win.

January 28, 2020

Just made a CD of Symphonies 3 & 4. Symphony 3 is a crossword fave: Eroica, E-Flat, and allegro.



Filed, refund coming. Over 3K combined Fed and State.



So sad, the family has my prayers.

January 27, 2020

Again, the chess match.



Going out a lot. Different beers.



$120 win!



Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass The Lonely Bull Video.

'Cause this is a song for the lonely
Can you hear me tonight?
For the broken hearted, battle scarred
I'll be by your side
And this is a song for the lonely

El Toro Solitario, this video was recorded at the Toreo de Tijuana bullring. The recording featured The Wrecking Crew, and included the sounds of a crowd cheering "Ole" inside a bullfight arena in Mexico, as well as the sounds of the trumpets announcing the matador before he enters the bullring.

January 20, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr.



Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey had the best Seventh Seal parody: Twister.



The chess match.

January 19, 2020

Being played a lot on Sirius-XM Classic Vinyl. Good song.

Call Me the Breeze
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
I ain't got me nobody
I don't carry me no load
Ain't no change in the weather
Ain't no changes in me
Well, there ain't no change in the weather
Ain't no changes in me
And I ain't hidin' from nobody
Nobody's hidin' from me
Oh, that's the way its supposed to be
Well, I got that green light, baby
I got to keep movin' on
Well, I got that green light, baby
I got to keep movin' on
Well, I might go out to California
Might go down to Georgia, I don't know
Well, I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
Well now, I dig you Georgia…



Harry and Tonto was on-demand. OK movie, nothing special. Although I love Art Carney,(who doesn't?), no way he should have received an Oscar. Carney beat Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, for their performances in Murder on the Orient Express, Lenny, Chinatown and The Godfather Part II respectively, for the 1974 Academy Award for Best Actor. Here is one buff's: theories.



Also watched True Confessions on-demand.Joan Didion did the screenplay with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, based on his novel. The dialogue was top-notch and Kenneth McMillan and Charles Durning were outstanding.

January 18, 2020

It was 50% off, figured I'd give it a try. Fascinating, wild life.

January 17, 2020

Going to a lot of retirement parties this month.

January 15, 2020

Downloaded H and R Block tax software. Have to wait until January 27th to file. Looks like about a $4K refund from combined Fed and state.

January 12, 2020

Good yarn, liked it but ending was too pat.



An incredible read. History as it wasn't taught in the classes I had.



Ludwig van turns 250 this year,will listen to the symphonies.

January 5, 2020

Principles by Ray Dalio is the next read.



The word Epiphany comes from the Greek Epiphaneia which means appearance, apparition, revelation or manifestation. Today is also when I take the tree and wreath to Mulchfest.

January 3, 2020

This mural certainly gives no respect.



Ceiling fan.