Monday, May 20, 2019

It rained!  Finally ... for a few hours on Sunday but then it stopped.  WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!  So more clouds this week, nice, then it heated up a bit one day in the low 80's.  Now Sunday had rain for a bit then sunny the rest of the day.  How come we can not predict the weather more accurately with modern technology??  It said rain all day (which is still odd) but nope, did not happen.  I don't know, weather people are even worse and they can easily be replaced with an app ... which for me, they have.

Weekly Update:
So mid-week I got to do something pretty neat.  I went to the new land at Disneyland and tested the new ride, Smuggler's Run.  Basically you are sitting in the cockpit of a Corellian YT-1300f light freighter or what everyone refers to as the Millennium Falcon.   You are on a snatch and grab mission and each run takes up to 6 people to control it: 2 pilots, 2 gunners and 2 engineers.  It is essentially a more immersed Star Tours but you control it and it is visually improved.  Quiet a ride and can't wait to check it out again soon.

At the movies:
And the crown passes hands as John Wick:  Chapter 3 - Parabellum wins the #1 spot with 57 million to open.  Well above expectations and word-of-mouth is good on this film, should hit 100 mil easily.  Drop down to #2 is "Avengers: Endgame" suffering another above average drop for a 4th week in a row.  Earning an extra 29.4 mil, this will struggle getting more at this point.  Even bigger drop to #3 is  "Pokemon Detective Pikachu" with 24.8 mil but just shy of 100 mil cume mark.  May get that over the next few days. New at #4 is A Dog's Journey with 8 mil and slightly below expectations.  Rounding off the top 5 is "The Hustle" with 6.1 mil and they lost their mark.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week as The Sun Is Also a Star comes in at #8 with only 2.6 mil to open.  Below expectations but not surprising either.

Quote of the week:
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." - Benjamin Disraeli

Facts & Tips:
A group of frogs is called an army.

"Spirit!" Kif, that's the pony I always wanted but my parents said I had too many ponies already." - Lauren Tom as Amy Wong in the TV series "Futurama."

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