Double O Status has been Confirmed!

 Charles "Charlie" Chaplin with his daughter / mother 

It seems like forever since I have written here. I just looked and it was a week ago yesterday since I wrote. Thankfully, I am not forced to work overtime this "my weekend" because I accomplished a lot so far over the last few days. A lot more has happened since the 9th.. My dad had his surgery and it went well. Do we really know if surgeries go well when we are told that by the people who perform the surgeries? I have never heard, "I really botched this surgery up but everything might be alright?"

I knew I wanted to ride the bike for 20 miles or so today, as I do most Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but I had other things more pressing today. Winter is coming (even though I just turned the air conditioning back on in the house because it is supposed to be in the 70's and 80's for the next few days) and I wanted to be able to get two cars in there before the snow begins. So, I bet you have guessed, I cleaned the garage. It really was not as bad as I thought. It was just a bit cluttered unlike other years when it was packed with too much junk. So, I really just had to organize and rearrange things and get rid of a few things. I had a couple of bags of leaves in the garage too so I just burned them in the fire pit in the backyard. That kept Jeff busy while I did the garage too - he loves to herd / roundup smoke.

After the garage I took a few things that Cha Cha had gathered over to The Goodwill Store. Then I stopped at the grocery store or supermarket or whatever you prefer to call the place where we get food that we prepare ourselves. I needed birdseed and a few other things. Birdseed was on sale (buy one bag and get another for free. Two huge bags for $11.49 - pretty darn good deal. It's not a garbage mix either; it has the usual seed but also corn and sunflower seeds and many other fancy looking seeds that I am not sure of what they are.

 I would like James to get ahold of that knucklehead and 007 him 

Then, after all that, I rode the bike for 20 miles. This week it took me 80 minutes and 12 seconds. I was not really pushing it speed-wise too hard though I did curls (with weights, of course) while I peddled. While I rode today I watched Casino Royale. The one with Daniel Craig (2006) not the one with Peter Sellers (1967). The Peter Sellers version was a spoof as you may imagine or perhaps you already knew. The one with Sellers (James Bond) had bigger stars in it though: Sellers, Orson Wells, David Niven (also James Bond), Woody Allen (also James Bond), Ursella Andress, William Holden, George Raft, Jacqueline Bisset (Miss Goodthighs), Geraldine Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin's real-life daughter who, oddly, played his mother in Chaplin)... The saddest part of Chaplin for me is when Charlie has to have his mother committed to a sanitarium. That saddens me the most because I believe that is foreshadowing for my life. Anyway, This newer Casino Royale is my favorite Bond film and has my favorite Bond actor in it. Maybe that I love playing Poker so much adds to that favoritism.

Boy, I sure got off on a disjointed tangent there didn't I?

The reason I included that Trump / Bond photo above there is because Cha Cha and I have decided that we have overloaded on The Donald and we have decided not to watch the next Presidential Debate. She is the one that mentioned it and I thought it a great idea. We know who we are going to vote for and we will not change our minds.

Jill and I have watched the first two episodes of the HBO series Westworld. I remember seeing the original one in the early 1970's but this one is much better as technology has changed so much and this one has nudity (always a bonus). I had thought about watching it and Splenda was here last week and she convinced me to watch it. So, Cha Cha and I watched the first one on HBO GO and I set-up the season pass for the remainder. We have watched the first two episodes and we have this week's to watch, maybe tonight. I like Tony (Sir Anthony to you) Hopkins and he is a large part of the series. We have sushi in the fridge - sushi and Westworld sound like a good night to me. Just writing about the show makes me think that I may have milk with my sushi tonight? Not really but that is an insider joke and will become more evident as the series goes on. Good call Splenda - way to tip it in for us!

Okay, enough from me for today. I will probably blog again tomorrow afternoon. I appreciate you stopping-in today. I was on a big entertainment genre today though that may be most of the blogs. I appreciate those blogs because that means nothing weird or bad is not going on this very moment. Have a great night and a good morning. TTTT (probably)...MITM (out) TA!