Well, it's cold out. Not freezing cold, but cold enough for me to see my breath as I'm standing outside waiting for Howie to do his morning business. Today is the last day for the chilliness, tomorrow starts a warm up which will again take up up into the 70s (F). If the winter stays as warm as this autumn has been, it will be another cheap year as far as my heating bills. I have no problem with that.
I didn't work yesterday. Sadly, it turned out to be one of those... slow days. I wrote. I did some cleaning. But mostly, I sat and scrolled through my phone looking for juicy bits that I found entertaining.
I do have to work this afternoon. I'm not excited. I changed my availability so I can only work Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday in the afternoon, and then 8 hours on Sunday. I'm going to have to lose one of those afternoons. I now have a puppy that needs to be taken care of, and it's difficult to house train when I'm out of the house for 6 hours at a stretch.
Last night I went to see Saturday Night, a movie about the first night of Saturday Night Live, a TV show of skits, and musical acts that started 50 years ago. I remember those shows. I, along with millions of other people my age, glued ourselves to the TV every Saturday night for years laughing at the sometimes very absurd, usually adult humor. I liked the movie a lot. NBC did expect it to fail and was surprised when it became a big hit. How original... live television every Saturday night. The casting is good, most of the actors bear a resemblance to the original cast members. The bits and pieces of the sketches they do in rehearsal are still very funny. While it was nostalgic, most importantly, the movie gives the audience how complicated live television can be, and how talented those young people were in order to make it work so successfully.
