Corrections

Well, it's Wednesday.  I work... for the next 4 days.  My next schedule was posted yesterday, the one 3 weeks out and it's much better.  Until then it's single days off for me, something I don't like.
Yesterday was a good personal day off.  Not that I accomplished much other than cleaning the bathroom.
I had done a global command to The Body on the Lawn when I first published it because mostly I called my main character Eli, though occasionally I wrote Ely.  The command was supposed to make Eli universal... what it did was take those three letters and turn them into Eli throughout the book.  As a result, believe became bElieve and eliminate became Eliminate.  That has now been fixed.
Tonight is the first of 2 Democratic debates.  I may watch some.  My prediction is that no one is going to break out; rather, the results will point the non-candidates toward elected position in which they can do more for America.  America needs to take back the power.  We need to take over control in order to correct this problem and jail Mitch and Elaine for corruption.  He knows it's coming.  All you need to do is look in his eyes to see the terror.
If you knit or crochet and belong to Ravelry.com, you now know support for the Idiot Jerk on this social website is now forbidden.
I have a baby butternut squash growing out back.  It's about 2 inches long.  I have 4 plants grown from seeds I'd saved.  So far this is the only one I've been able to identify.  I'm hoping for at least one cantaloupe.
I went to see "The Secret Life of Pets 2" last evening.  Meh.  It had some funny parts but overall it did not trigger my "woah" button.  I'm not a big Kevin Hart fan and he voiced one of the main characters.  Someone, somewhere thought having a white bunny talking trash was funny.  Nope.  This was nothing but a bad stereotype written for adult Kevin Hart fans and nothing more.
And, who ended up with the duck yesterday?

For about 3 hours Biggie had control.  It's a big duck, 15 inches long, and at one point he used it as a pillow.

Shorty

It's Monday... my day off (notice to the singularity)... and it's snowing.  We're only supposed to get another 1 - 3 inches before it switches over to... mixed precipitation.  That change is not going to happen until later this evening though the ice accumulations is only supposed to be about 1/10th of an inch.
They threw the Grammy's last night.  Didn't watch.  Never do.  I like my female vocalists to actually vocalize rather than sound like they are expirating helium.  The same thing goes for male vocalists; give me a baritone with range rather than a 'high ball' tenor - I don't find falsetto listenable.  I did see Fall Out Boy's "MANIA" got a nomination for best rock album... didn't win.  And for a bit of humor, I saw that the chick who won best Gospel has really big, really blond hair, I mean like almost inflatable big; goes with the territory I guess.  There was a time when a Grammy win figured into my record buying habits and as a result I own a lot of vinyl I now regret purchasing.
In case you didn't see... we're heading for another shutdown.  That's right, the government's going to be 'closed for business' one more time.  Am I like the only one who's recognized how often this is happening under this administration?  This is because the Republican concept of negotiation and compromise revolves totally around one simple statement:  "This is what we want."  They are not now and never will be open to any variation on that demand.  Democrats will say "well, we'll give this if you give us that," and the Republicans say "This is what we want."  Going into these negotiations the Republicans realized they were not getting any money for the Idiot Jerk's racist wall.  Of course, there are going to be other sticking points since the Republican idea of immigration reform is "Keep out the brown people."
This Sunday evening we have the Oscars.  I'll watch them.  This year will be interesting because there is no host.  Originally Kevin Hart had been slated to handle the Master of Ceremonies job, but then he suddenly dropped out over past homophobic comments he'd made.  Personally, I think that was a front, a cheap excuse to cover up the real problem with Kevin Hart.  You see, the man is tiny.  Little.  Short.  His biography lists his height as 5 feet 4 inches.  He was on a talk show where he claimed to be 5 feet 4.5 inches but eventually, after much back and forth between he and the host, admitted to being only 5 feet 2 inches tall.  He is almost a short person.

I'm betting his agent looked him in the eye and said "bad move, everybody in the world is going to start calling you 'shorty.'"  Thanks to movie magic, in "Jumanji" he was only a few inches shorter than Dwayne Johnson, in real life Dwayne's more than a bit taller.

Maybe he should start singing Gospel, that way he could himself some big hair.

Snowing on Jumanji

Woke this AM to find that Central PA is getting some snow - the forecast was for 1 - 2 inches, but we have about that much already, so we will probably getting 3 or 4 - which is fine with me.  While not for everyone, shoveling snow is 'free cardio' take advantage of it, unless you're out of shape, than shovel slowly.

The dogs have been out at least 4 times playing in it so the pristine whiteness is now splayed with footprints and pee marks.
I went to see "Jumanji" last evening - some of it was very good, some of it was... well, okay.  A good word to describe it would be... uneven.  For those who don't know, this is the story of 4 very different teens who get sucked into a video game where they need to learn to work as a team in order to survive.  Unfortunately that only happens with two of them.  Dwayne Johnson's size makes him a screen presence, however there's little chemistry between he and Karen Gillan, who seems to have been terribly miscast.  Kevin Hart is funny, but doesn't seem to realize he's not the star.  Jack Black, however, is hysterical as Bethany, the self-absorbed, Miss Popularity, who finds herself in the body of a middle aged chubby man.  In fact, Jack Black and Nick Jonas are the only two characters in this film who develop any kind of chemistry, and are really the only reasons why you might want to see this in the theater.

That's right, you Nick Jonas fans, he turns up almost 2/3 of the way through and keeps it from becoming totally maudlin.

Plans for the day include making butternut squash soup from scratch, shoveling some snow, and putting in some time on the new bike.  Oh, and maybe a nap or two.