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I just realized I had a first yesterday: not that I went to see a movie in the theater, but it was the third movie in a row that I reviewed which I went to see in the theater. I will still be reviewing some movies I see streaming, to be sure, but I think they will be less and less common as time goes on. I mean, assuming some COVID variant doesn't sneak up from behind and just wipe us all out. Can you guess that that's something I think about, on at least a semi-regular basis? I do think regularly about the more recently acquired knowledge that vaccinated people can still catch COVID and can certainly spread it, and vaccinated people can get sick, or not. Unfortunately the anti-vax dipshits are largely glomming onto these facts as justification for their idiocy, but there's something still to consider: overall, vaccinated people generally don't get sick at all even if they do get infected; those who do get sick get very mild cases; and vaccinated people who die from it are practically unheard of—the very few it actually is happening to being people who are significantly immunocompromised already. Hence, the recent phraseology that what's happening currently is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated"—almost everyone who dies or is even hospitalized is unvaccinated.
That doesn't mean I don't still worry about getting infected. I don't want it if I can avoid it, but then, I also don't want to continue just holing myself up in my home. I continue to work at the office every day, confident that others around me are also vaccinated. I still don't wear a mask here. A few people do, and it would be a mistake to assume they are unvaccinated (they might be, but there's just as much of a chance, maybe even more, that they are vaccinated and just acting out of an abundance of caution). I have settled back into a practice with movie-going, however, where I do keep my mask on inside the movie theater.
And that's just what I did yesterday, after I left half an hour early at 4:00, so I could make it to AMC Pacific Place and see a 4:25 showing of the new Nicolas Cage film, Pig. I really liked it a lot—I gave it a B-plus. It was way better than anyone might generally expect of a Nicolas Cage movie these days. Also, I was glad to have to see it at Pacific Place, as I have been favoring Regal Meridian 16 due to the discounted tickets I got at Costco, but I also need to justify having reinstated my monthly membership at AMC.
Shobhit had his Project Management class last night, which he was an hour into once I got home on my bike after the movie. I spent the next hour or so writing my review.
Shobhit's class ended at 8:00, so then I went out into the living room and we watched this week's episode of The White Lotus on HBO (which is a slow burn but I'm really liking it, especially the well crafted reveals at the end of the episodes so far), and then we had time for just one episode of season 5 of The Expanse. This season is unusually intense, depicting massive human death at the hands of a terrorist who orchestrates basically the bombing of both Earth and Mars. I need to look up whether that season is based on a particular book in the book series I already know it's based on.
Another day, another dollar! Haha . . . I just wanted to write out a cliché, I guess.
Tracy and I just got done having lunch together out on the patio again. Overcast and 61°, and honestly, it was kind of wonderful and perfect. I also had macaroni and cheese for the third time this week, which I didn't even realize until Tracy asked me, "Don't you get bored with macaroni noodles?" Oh, right—I had totally forgotten that I had a microwave macaroni and cheese cup from Costco for lunch on Monday. And then, yesterday I made my customary box of Annie's Homegrown Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese, to which I always add fresh chopped bell pepper and tomato, with some pepper added. This was way better than the Costco one though, so maybe that's why I totally blocked out having already had that one. Anyway, the Annie's box makes two servings so I always put a bowl of it away in the fridge to have for lunch the next day.
I hadn't made that macaroni for lunch at work in ages, though. It'll probably be a while before I do it again. But, who knows. Hey, are you riveted by my DLU today? Too bad! It's over now!
[posted 12:43 pm]