Browncoat

3/5 this week.

I correctly guessed FJ because Jeopardy! loves that guy. The year and central California fit, too. The only TS I got were gluons and supinate.

The nuclear wessel was the Enterprise.

It depends, for me, whether I'm okay with being spoiled. I absolutely will avoid spoilers for competitions like J! or TAR (I don't want to know who wins until I see it!), or even a movie with a major twist (spoilers would have ruined The Sixth Sense for me). But minor spoilers are fine -- where the racers are going next on TAR, or the existence of Baby Yoda, which was an inescapable spoiler. That said, I rarely, if ever, actively seek out spoilers. Sometimes it just happens.

I'm not as into this season very much yet, either. I'll stick with it, of course, but it's not grabbing me the way previous seasons did. I've given it some thought, and there are a couple of reasons why that might be. The first is that I'm not at all familiar with the "Mad Max" world that I assume this is based on. If I saw any of them, it was only the first one, and that would have been in the theaters when it came out. I really have no recollection of seeing it, and I know I haven't seen any of the others. What I know of that franchise is what I've seen in previews. The second is that it might be because our two leads are already together. I get why -- it's the natural progression. Different characters, different lives, but was the end game always to get them together? So it makes sense that they are, but it also takes something away. As for the HOA episode, I saw very nearly the same thing in "3rd Rock From The Sun" many years ago. Scraps was less disturbing in the second episode.

I totally forgot the Maine. When the category was first revealed, my brain went to exploration ships (Endurance! Fram! Erebus and Terror!), and would not return. I did get several TS, including wolves, Scott Pilgrim vs the World According to Garp, shroud of Turin, gastroenteritis, and creche. I was rooting for Dennis.

Or maybe get the heel of one shoe stuck in some random grate.

Me, too. It's infuriating when people are on their phones during movies. I paid good money to watch the movie, not be blinded by the light from your damn phone! Her story almost makes me want to go "fix" movie synopses in Wikipedia, too....

The most instagettiest of instagets for me tonight. I wrote it down before Ken finished reading the clue. I also got the TS of wasp, Uncle Sam, Willow, Taxi, highboy, Highgate, Sweet Charity, Macbeth, canoe, and the surprising TS of Psalms. It doesn't hurt my feelings that Mia didn't win, but I was rooting for the champ to repeat.

The subway in DC doesn't run all night like it does in New York, either.

Or maybe she had room for only 50 people, and some hard decisions had to be made. Maybe she's known the other choir members longer. There are any number of reasons that it might not be personal. Yes, being excluded hurts -- I've had my fair share of being excluded (or being on the "we'll invite you to our wedding if enough of the first choice RSVP "no"), but it isn't always personal.

Catching up from Tuesday night -- did not get FJ, although it was a forehead slapper when I heard the correct response. I did get the TS of CS Lewis/JRR Tolkien, Irving Berlin, Hoyle, and Dandelion Wine/Fahrenheit 451. We used to have Tang and graham crackers for snack every day at my Methodist vacation bible school -- every summer. To this day, I can't stand Tang or graham crackers.

One of my favorite scenes of the entire series!

I walked roughly 7-8 miles each day I was in Edinburgh (three days) -- from dirt paths, to cobblestones, to concrete sidewalks -- plus gravel paths and sandy beaches in other places in Scotland. They were still comfortable at the end of the day. For hotter climates, though, I'd recommend Keen sandals (Newports). I walked miles and miles in mine in Costa Rica and Panama -- on trails and in cities.

I have the Cityscapes and the Everyday Move, and I love them both. I’d get another pair of Cityscapes if they came in a color.

I love my Vessi shoes. I walked all over Edinburgh (and other parts of Scotland!) and Oslo in them. Bonus points for being waterproof.

Easier for the bear to smell the food inside the car than inside the room? Car windows are probably easier to break than hotel room windows/doors/walls, too. It just slays me, the way he says, "Roar." at the end of the ad, and you hear all the screaming.

I got FJ, but did have to read the clue a second time to understand they wanted both names. It wasn't clear to me initially, and I had no idea which was older. I would have chosen incorrectly. I also got the TS of Austria (total guess), Claudia Schiffer, chintz, flocking, and Mono Lake. Mono Lake is a really cool place. Good game. I'm happy with the new champ. Alex got cocky.

I love the new (to me) Mayhem ads. There's one where he's a bear, and one where he's your annoying older brother, and they both make me laugh.

It would have made my day if Paul had had to punch out.

Watership Down is really just a quest novel at its heart, like Lord of the Rings or Sword of Shannara. It has all the appropriate elements, including a magical being (Fiver), and help from another source (Kehaar). But instead of an object being the center of the quest, it's a home. It's just rabbits instead of humanoids.

Thanks! Even just having information about how I can go about finding help is extremely useful. My parents live in ground zero of the opiod crisis (Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, though fictional, is accurate), and that makes it doubly hard to find someone trustworthy.

Has anyone here tried care.com for help with care for someone with dementia? Or, really, for anything else? Are there any hidden things with care.com that might be red flags about using them?

Not only wasn’t I traumatized by Watership Down when I first read it, I liked it so much that I’ll re-read it every couple of years. But that cover does seem accurate.

Electricity I can do with auto-pay, and for the water, it’s just as easy to drop the check off at the town building as to introduce a third party like the grocery store.