Monday, August 04, 2025

Parking is hard.

Heat wave is a coming!  I guess it was bound to happen but the forecast for next week looks to be in the 90's and well, that is a bummer.  I guess I was hopeful we would semi-cool the majority of the time but alas, it has ended.  The low 80's were ok so the 90's will be not ok.  I just hope when the sun goes down, so does the heat and I can avoid turning on the AC because that is what really drives up my electric bill!  Also, it's dry again which means higher fire risk as well and add the heat, not the best of situations for us.  I hope this isn't going to be a long heat wave but the forecast right now says through the entire upcoming week.

Weekly Update:
Been driving to an office this past week and I've noticed this one car (a Tesla of course) backing up into a parking spot that clearly has a sign that says "No Backing Up Parking" and you know these cars have rear-view cameras.  But for the 3 or 4 days I was parking there, every single day it was backed-up into the no back up spot... are these garages not parking enforced, which clearly that is the case.  I also wonder what makes the difference if a car is backed up or not too?  Not all the spaces in the garage have that sign, only specific ones that are on a railing vs a concrete wall, does the railing make the difference?  If cars back-up to far does it risk damaging the railing were as a wall would damage the car instead?  I am not sure what the big difference is but the sign is there and there is a little civic code on it as well.  So this driver is just a jerk but I find most Tesla drivers are (yes, I am generalizing but it's kind of true).

At the movies:
Holding on to #1 for a 2nd weekend is The Fantastic Four: First Steps with an extra 40 million and now just inches from 200 mil cume.  Sizeable drop from week 1 but still enough to keep it #1.  New at #2 is The Bad Guys 2 with 22 mil for it's debut and a fair number as we come to the end of the Summer season soon.  Also new at #3 is The Naked Gun with 17 mil and this is a very below expectations number despite the amount of promotion the two main leads have been doing.  Hanging to #4 is Superman with 13.9 mil as it now crosses the 300 mil mark but likely not go much further.  Rounding off the top 5 is Jurassic World: Rebirth with 8.7 mil and also past the 300 mil mark and will end there.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week coming in at #6 is Together with 6.8 mil and not a bad number for this type of film during this time of year.  Probably should have waited till next month.

Quote of the week:
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill

Facts & Tips:
Ants take rest for around 8 minutes in 12-hour period.

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities!" - Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob in the TV series The Simpsons.


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