Shades of Deivi Cruz

Did anyone else watch The Rehearsal on HBO? That show seriously messed with my head. So bizarre, and somehow fascinating…

I can admit that this used to be me. Now I get angry at those people that are doing nothing but artificially moving the merge point way back from where it should be. I've done a lot of roads trips over the last month, so I can't remember where I saw it, but they actually had signs telling people that a lane closure was coming but NOT to merge yet. Then at the last 1000 feet or so, there was a "zipper now" sign. There wasn't much traffic at the time, so I can't really say if the signage really helped at all, but I thought it was a great idea.

OK, so the courtroom stuff was not an effort to help Kim, but just to come clean like she did. That makes more sense. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/better-call-saul-series-finale-explained-creator-interview-1394766/

I also loved it, however I don't really understand the coming clean part. At first I thought it was to help Kim, after he was told the widow could come after her. I don't really see how his coming clean helps that situation though.

No real update to provide. I'm like the lessons well enough, but I'm not doing anything exciting. Just learning the strings and chords. July was a bit of a setback. I had COVID and then was travelling once I recovered. Not much practice time or lessons, so picking it back up after that I had some catching up to do.

This version is in regular rotation in my workout mix and has been for years. LOL!

I finally tested negative yesterday, then my wife this morning. Happy to not have to worry about possibly infecting others anymore. Last thing we wanted to do was pass it on to one of the kids (or anyone else) at the very tail end of our “process”.

11 days later and I'm still testing positive. So annoying. I actually only had symptoms for 3-4 days and just one of those felt truly terrible. Avoiding family and activities is getting tricky (and feeling increasingly unnecessary). Hard to know what to do coming out of it.

My string of 2+ years successfully avoiding this came to an end this morning. Fortunately I have a nice basement to barricade myself in. Unfortunately we were supposed to leave for a week at the lake on Friday.

Agreed. A certain quote from the immortal Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction comes to mind.

I'll certainly give them a shot, but I'm not overly optimistic about any of the GoT spinoffs. Hope I'm wrong though.

I did get a good chuckle during the broadcast when Jack said "Hey, thanks to those of you who are still watching". I think they cut his mic though before he could add "this shitshow of a team". As others have said, they desperately need a shakeup. They problem is though that for most positions they don't have any viable prospects to replace people with (except Greene). As for trades, guys hitting under .200 with no power don't have a lot of value to contending organizations. Maybe a couple of our bullpen arms could be of interest, but we aren't getting high quality prospects in return for any of our flotsam.

Sounds like he wants to be brought in to the hearings... Come on down Donnie!

So now he's an unarmed man...

Boo on the return of Robbie Grossman. I'm going to the game and was really hoping to see Riley Greene.

Wrong thread...

Tonight's game is on AppleTV, not Bally. I like the AppleTV broadcasts, so I'm looking forward to it.

4chan not required. With the algorithms all the social media apps use, those dark rabbit holes are frighteningly easy to enter.

Opening for The Weeknd is a pretty big deal. Congrats to Riley, if that's the case.

I really like those guys. Every song I've heard is super catchy. I've floated taking my daughter and/or son to see them, but neither of them took me up on it even though they like those songs too. Glad to hear they put on a good show. Maybe I'll push a little harder next time.

Narc was great. I own that movie! Saw Maverick with the family over the weekend. What a fun movie! I loved that it used a lot more real effects instead of relying on cgi. The story was relatively predictable, but not a complete rehash. The flying scenes were fantastic (of course).

What a raw deal for Howard. He couldn't even get a little closure regarding the "why" from Kim and Jimmy before Lalo blew his brains out. The thing is, he was completely right. It wasn't money or anything like that. It was purely because they could. I'll be so curious to see what's next. What does Lalo do in the next moments after killing Howard? How do Kim and Jimmy cleanup and move on from Howard? Baked in that is an assumption that Lalo doesn't just shoot Kim next. I do agree that Lalo has to be out of the picture entirely before we reach the Breaking Bad timeline, and both Gus and Mike have to be 100% sure he's dead or their actions in BB won't make sense.

I had no problem with the end of Ozark, even though: SPOILERS!!! Like most I was "rooting" for Ruth, but it seemed true to the show to take her out. Her entire family (except Three) died because of involvement with the Byrde's, so it seems right that she would as well. Also, while I would have preferred for it to have been on-camera, it's pretty obvious that Jonah shoots the PI. With that along with Ruth dying, puts the Byrde's right back "in it" when they were "this close..." to being out. It's a never ending cycle for them, of their own making. A tragic ending for all involved, which again feels appropriate for the show.