Monday, November 20, 2023

zip zip you go!

Tis the season for cold weather!  We got a little rain this past week but it did drop every night below 60 and rained just a little bit, not enough though.  Still fairly dry but hopefully getting this cold weather now and some rain, it's a sign of much more to come!  They say that we should be expecting the biggest El Nino ever but what does that even mean?!  They keep saying we are going to get hit with El Nino and yet, nothing, nothing at all.  Maybe some rain, a day of wind, and nothing else.  So them saying this will be the biggest one yet... sure it will (sarcasm).  Maybe instead of 1 day of rain it will double!  I'm sure it will be the same as all the other years, disappointment in lack of rain.

Weekly Update:
I go to the university almost daily after work or in the afternoon that is down the street from me and just drive around.  Right now it's a great time to go because it's practically empty as I am guessing everyone has left for the holiday. But when there are students around, I noticed a lot of these scooters or e-scooters as they are zipping around from place-to-place.  Where were these when I went to school??  These things are great and I wish I had one but I don't have any short distances to go to.  But they seem very speedy, maneuverable and practical. I do wonder if they are electric or gas powered.  I am going to say electric as I haven't noticed any kind of gas tank.  Now the next question, are these provided by the school and you can rent them or do the students actually own them.  I haven't seen a place with a bunch of them parked, in fact not even one parked any where unless they are deep within the campus.  I tend to drive around the outskirts for the most part.  I would like to try one some day.

At the movies:
A very busy weekend at the box office but could be due to the SAG strike ending and Thanksgiving this coming week!  New at #1 is The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes earning 44 million.  This is about 30% of the original release back in 2012 and less than 50% of the last Hunger Games film in 2015.  So this one did under-perform, still a good number considering how many other movies opened.  It might get a small boost for this coming holiday but likely not by much.  New at #2 is Trolls Band Together with 30.6 mil to open.  Also under-performing being the 3rd installment of this franchise but not as severely as its Hunger Games competition.  Drop down to #3 is The Marvels with 10.2 mil more and at this rate this film may not hit that 100 mil mark. This is a pretty big drop and being a Marvel film to add to that sore.  New at #4 is Thanksgiving with 10.2 mil and that is actually a respectable figure considering a horror film for the holiday.  Rounding off the top 5 is Five Nights at Freddy's with another 3.5 mil and already did what it needed to do so this is just icing on that cake.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week coming from our former friends at Fox Searchlight, now just Searchlight, is Next Goal Wins with 2.5 mil to open and enough to take the #7 spot.  This one will be the next one out.

Quote of the week:
"If I can stop one hear from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson

Facts & Tips:
Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.

"A palace is a lonely place for a king... without a queen." - Ben Lamb as Prince Edward in A Christmas Prince.

posted by McDuck @ 00:30

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