I readied another Trump piece for today, but I'm getting tired of him.  Yesterday featured the final weekend of the National Football League and the Golden Globes, while today we have the NCAA football championship, so I'll instead report on them. There was a time before the pandemic when I went to films virtually every Saturday, and sometimes saw two.  This past year I went out only once for  Barbenheimer .  They both did well at the Golden Globes last night: Barbie  got 9 nominations and  Oppenheimer  8. O  beat  B,  winning the Best Motion Picture-Drama, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey, Jr., and Best Score for Ludwig Goransson. Here is what I said on July 23rd after seeing both : Christopher Nolan was nominated in 2017 for   Dunkirk , and four other times for lower categories.  Best Film?  Best Director?  Should get both nominations, but winning?  Maybe, and even perhaps both. However, the film is mo

We all have good and bad days.  I've noticed that when a monumental setback occurs, that event many times triggers a major lifestyle change, improving my life. One example was my avoiding a colonoscopy for a decade.  I finally went through the process, learned the result, which was positive, and then enjoyed a continuous state of euphoria for two years. Something like that happened this week.  I awoke one morning to sit on the toilet and got a shock to my system.  The seat was cold.  For six years now I've had the benefit of a TOTO washlet that warmed my seat and provided certain cleansing opportunities.   I could be wrong, but I think this TW 3054 cost me around $300 to have installed.  So I went back to my 15 Craigside contact and asked him to do it again.  A couple of days later he said that this would cost around a thousand dollars.  I checked Amazon, and couldn't find this specific item, but noticed that the closest number was indeed $995.  Further, went to the TOTO so