Weekly Review

  • Videos/TV/Online
    • “Big Door Prize” (S1:E1-4)
    • “Hell’s Kitchen” (S22:E12)
  • TWIL
  • Lectures & Podcasts
    • History of Rock Music in 5o0 Songs: “Episode 148: Light My Fire by the Doors”
    • History of Rock Music in 5o0 Songs: “Episode 149: Respect by Aretha Franklin”
    • Pod Save America: “Iowa Caucus Countdown with Steve Kornacki”
    • It’s Complicated: “Episode 56 – The Maine Event”
    • Hard Fork: “The Times Sues Open AI + A Debate Over iMessage + Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions”

Sunday, it was New Year’s Eve but I went to bed at like 9pm and Cathy stayed up working.  I awoke at 2am to find her gone but I deduced that she was picking up Dylan & his friends who were too drunk to safely drive.

Monday, drove out to the new house with Cathy & Summer.  Cathy wanted to take her to The Local Peasant for lunch but it was closed for New Years Day so we tried Bobby’s Coffee Shop instead.  They left me to finish setting up the Ring security equipment.  I also went to Home Depot to pick up more sand and sandbags to better secure the tarps on the roof for the impending rain on Wednesday.  Also went to Ralphs to stock the drinks fridge with beverages.  When I got home, finally tested negative for Covid.

Tuesday, went to my first therapy appointment with Rick at my new time of 8am.  Got passport photos and went to AAA to get an Inter-American Driving Permit.  Then went in to Empire but it was a ghost town, so I ate lunch alone and went home to make calls about house stuff.  I walked to Brick & Flour to pick up dinner for myself.  Cathy came over after work and had her group meeting in my office.

Friday, spent the day at Woodland Hills.  Briefly chatted with Ben (who I had accidentally blown off two weeks ago.)  Drove down to Cathy’s and went to a session with Thuy.  We had Sugarfish delivered for dinner.  Later that evening, I went to her immersive weekend with her with Thuy, Michael, Max, Jamie, Peter, Mark, Mindy, 24kGoldn, and a first time attendee, an annoying screenwriter named Will.  Very emotionally draining.

Saturday, Mark picked up Dylan to take him to LAX.  Cathy & I were intimate for the first time since before Christmas.  We went to Chipotle for lunch and then went to the full day of the immersive weekend.  The day ended with Peter’s daughter Caitlin and Cathy’s daughter Summer.

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Woods

This is the spectacular view out the living room window of my sister and her husband’s apartment. The sound of the rain falling on all those leaves was delightful.

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Melange

Finally got a chance to visit the Penzeys Spices store my sister manages!

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Brown

Before leaving Connecticut I had lunch at my favorite BBQ place.

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Infected

These pumpkins at Fishkill Farms looked like they were straight out of a zombie movie.

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Doughnuts

To cheer myself up after visiting the Blue Sky ghost town, I went to my favorite bakery for a couple of rainbow sprinkle doughnuts!  Worked like a charm!

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Mothballed

I drove my old, backroads path from Stamford to One American Lane in Greenwich.  This was my old commute route.  I sweet-talked a curmudgeon named Barry in the Security office to allow me to go up to the abandoned, locked, darkened third floor where Blue Sky Studios used to be.

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Motownish

New York has everything. Including Detroit.

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Far III

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Far II

I walked along the Far Walkaway boardwalk, watching the planes fly in to JFK.

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Far

My travel decisions are…idiosyncratic.  I’ve wanted to visit Far Rockaway since I learned that Richard Feynman had grown up here.  What kind of place could have spawned a Nobel prize winner and Susie from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?  I’m sure it was seedier then but now it’s just a charming beach resort town.  I stayed at the Rockaway Hotel.

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Burbs

Nothing reminds me that I’m in a suburb in the South more than seeing the town leadership is all old white dudes.

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Celtic

Went out to an “Irish” pub for dinner with my two uncles, aunt, and cousin.  But they also had a William Wallace statue, so we asked if they were supposed to be Irish or Scottish.  We were very quickly and defensively told, “We’re Celtic!”

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Aroma

I found this candle in my aunt’s storage room.  I’m frequently puzzled by the scent names of Yankee Candles but “We Did It Again!” completely baffled me until I realized it was a novelty Christmas candle with a picture of my first-cousins-once-removed with Santa on it.  I assume they’re Kevin McCallistering.

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Mace

The hotel gym had one of these automatic air freshener devices.  These were the bane of my existence back at the ODW office in Shanghai where they hung them in the bathrooms so low that they sprayed me in the eyes every time I walked past them.

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