Monday, December 12, 2022

Here comes the rain...

FINALLY some rain and not just a drizzle or a drop here or there.  Actual rain for hours at a time, solid heavy rain too.  Didn't come till the end of the week but nothing for next week but still it was a nice solid shower which I can only hope more is on the way then!  We need the rain!!!  Desperately and so much of it.  I keep saying if we had 10-straight days of heavy rain, get some flooding, we are still in a draught because it won't be enough to last us this year by itself... well maybe for this year but we need to start collecting and storing reserves some how.  But that much rain will barely fill our reservoirs.  But also rain is cool and keeps everything nice and green... cleans away the dirt and grim from all the population that has come back to SoCali.  And free car washes too!

Weekly Update:
What can be worse than car traffic... human traffic.  Like people do not know how to walk or block aisles at the store or walk in the middle of the street... or just stop when you are in a row of people moving along.  I've noticed that a lot lately and it's starting to get very annoying.  The big thing is when you are entering a store and there is only one entrance... and someone with a shopping cart stops, right at the entrance and has their cart going the long way... so no one else can continue to enter till they move or at least make their cart straight forward.  I just amazes me how people are so oblivious of their surroundings especially of others around them.  No, you are not the center of the universe contrary to unpopular belief.  So don't block the way!!  (Picture stock image, not mine).

At the movies:
Still reigning supreme at the box office for it's 5th week is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with another 11.1 million and just past 400 mil cume for domestic box office!  Unlikely to go too much further but an amazing milestone to hit!  The after market will be huge on this one of course.  Holding ground at #2 is Violent Night with 8.7 mil extra and not bad till we hit the Holiday for overall box office numbers.  Also holding on to #3 is Strange World with 3.6 mil more.  Average drop is low so that is good.  Still serving at #4 is The Menu with 2.7 mil and continues to get some award buzz.  Closing out the top 5 is Devotion with 2 mil more and will be the first to drop off.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one on limited release at #8, MET Opera: The Hours which is a very limited event run (about 800 screens) and had a very low pre screen average.  These type of events are for few extra dollars and not meant to blow out the box office.

Quote of the week:
"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life." - Sophocles

Facts & Tips:
"just setting up my twttr" was the first ever tweet.

"Since word came to the temple that you betrayed Apophis I have thought of you ever day." - Musetta Vander as Shan'auc in the TV series Stargate SG-1.

posted by McDuck @ 00:30

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