Monday, May 20, 2024

We skipped seasons and came back to Winter

Just a bit chilly!  This week turned out to be a nice Winter-like week!  It is May right?  I don't think it got above 75 degrees at its peak. I almost had to turn on the heat at some of the nights because it got low around 60.  Some crazy weather right now, it should be in the 80's at least but I like it.  I just hope this doesn't mean come July, August and into September it won't be incredibly hot in the 100's.  Then that would be very sad and disappointing and my electric bill will say ouch to me.  It has been so good right now between both my electric and gas bills because I haven't needed to use the AC or heat!  But I know one or the other will need to be turned on at some point.  Just a nice feeling when I am not spending for utilities.

Weekly Update:
Saturday was a very busy day but fun.  It was the inaugural event of Mickey's Morning Mayhem.  I was helping out but it was just nice being on the studio lot again (or any studio log again, it's very nostalgic for me).  This event is exactly like Minnie's Moonlit Madness but at the studio instead of the theme parks.  In fact a lot of our head or main clue writers for Minnie's helped the Mickey team with this event.  But, it was a lot of fun, a lot of walking and it looks like everyone was having a good time!  I didn't see a lot of people dressed up for the event like we do for Minnie's.  Teams will sometimes dress up in some kind of matching outfits or customs like one year at Minnie's all four team members dressed up as the Tweddle Dee and Tweddle Dum, Alice and the Mad Hatter.  Feels like it's a bit of a lost art these days.  But, all-in-all it was a good event and just hope everyone had a good time!

At the movies:
Yet another new movie takes the box office crown this weekend as IF earns a fair 35 million in it's debut.  Word-of-mouth is good but we are starting into the Summer season so competition will be tough.  Drop down to #2 is Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes with another 26 mil and reached the 100 mil mark as estimated.  However, unlikely it will reach 200 but still will have a decent run.  New at #3 is The Strangers: Chapter 1 with 12 mil and really not much on this film and will likely suffer the usual 60% drop next weekend.  Falling down to #4 is The Fall Guy with 8.5 mil and will continue to fall.  Rounding off the top 5 is Challengers with 2.9 mil more and will disappear probably by next week.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
A couple this week... at #6 is Back to Black with 2.9 mil and a pretty low per screen average, will disappear quickly.  In limited release at #9 is The Blue Angels with only 1.3 mil but was only on just over 200 screens.

Quote of the week:
"Nothing can be done except little by little." - Charles Baudelaire

Facts & Tips:
Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.

"You tell Capone, that I'll see him in hell." - Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables.

posted by McDuck @ 00:00

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