My annual Thanksgiving Break started on Friday November 20th at 3 pm. And I did a few things.
Home work– I continued the purging of things I no longer need or use, lots of junk being wheeled out on garbage day. I filled in a couple of small basement wall holes thanks to Flex Paste and my snow blower is now prepped for the impending winter weather. Finally, when cleaning a closet I found a pair of slippers I thought were lost. This, two weeks after I started wearing my newly bought Ugg slippers.
Meals– I’ve been on a salmon eating kick of late. One good hunk of that fish and some vegetables and I’m stuffed for the day. For Thanksgiving, I enjoyed ham from Honey Baked Ham along with loaded smashed potatoes, corn and Hawaiian brand rolls. Dessert was chocolate chip cheese cake from Elmhurst’s Lezza Bakery.
TV Watching– I was locked in to several NFL games for two weekends plus the two games played on Thanksgiving. (Sad that the Steelers-Ravens game had to be postponed due to COVID 19) Here’s hoping the Bears can eke out a win against the Packers to close out the weekend.
You Tube brought me an hourlong interview Bob Costas did with Glen Campbell back in the 90’s. The late Rhinestone Cowboy s told great stories about working with artists from all musical genres. You Tube was also where I caught the documentary “Desert One” which tells the whole story of the 1980 attempt to send in special forces to rescue U.S. hostages held in Iran.
On Netflix I liked the creepy mystery/thriller “His House” giving it a “B” grade. Then there was “Hillbilly Elegy” a film based on the bestselling 2016 novel by J.D. Vance. Reviews for this movie were not great but I gave it a C grade.
Netflix also premiered the ageless Sophia Loren in “The Life Ahead” which was a well done B+.
The new edition of HBO’s “Real Sports” had a wild feature on how hallucinogenic drugs have been curing former pro athletes of their depression and other post career emotional issues. Former Blackhawks star Daniel Carcillo was one of the athletes who turned to this method and he no longer has suicidal thoughts.
HBO also ran the interesting documentary “The Mystery of D.B. Cooper.” It’s the tale of the famed sky-jacker who in 1971 parachuted out of a passenger jet with a paid ransom of two hundred thousand dollars. Four different suspected “D.B. Coopers” stories are examined. If one of them was the stunt pulling Cooper, then the other three tried to ‘hi-jack’ that American folklore story as their own.
Finally, I did an On Demand viewing of “The Last Movie Star” with Burt Reynolds pretty much playing himself as an aging former box office movie king. Interspliced in the movie were real clips from old Reynolds’ movies and it was a decent B- watch.
Writing– In between meals and TV watching, I wrote and edited what will be my final blogs for 2020. The last one should be posted around December 20th before I take a holiday break. Al Flash and I worked on a couple of song parodies plus I outlined the first of a trilogy of short stories that are Pandemic related.
Black Friday- As I do each year, I celebrated the day after Thanksgiving as “Clint Black Friday” which meant only listening to Clint’s music all day. The real Clint Black ‘liked’ the meme I tweeted him, he does that every year.
Most Important- Finally, I gave thanks for the overload of good things in my life. I do this every day, not just on Thanksgiving. Forget playing the lottery, I’ve hit the jackpot and hope you have too!
NEXT BLOG: More opening lyrics to songs.