What are you doing today?

[Alli]

When I had my cataracts removed, the surgeon explained that if you're sedated you can't keep your eyes open and then it doctor vs eyelid.

 

[Yoused]

doctor vs eyelid

 

[Cmaier]

When I had my cataracts removed, the surgeon explained that if you're sedated you can't keep your eyes open and then it doctor vs eyelid.

That seems suss. They just use the doohicky that keeps your eyelids open.

 

[Alli]

That seems suss. They just use the doohicky that keeps your eyelids open.

Ouch! That would have bothered me more. They put so many drops in your eyes that you don't feel or see a thing.

Oh, and first two episodes of Pluribus. Better than expected.

 

[Cmaier]

Ouch! That would have bothered me more. They put so many drops in your eyes that you don't feel or see a thing.

Oh, and first two episodes of Pluribus. Better than expected.

I liked them, but felt the pacing was a little off in the 2nd. But that was the case with the first seasons of BCS and Breaking Bad, too. He always seems to achieve perfection in season 2.

 

[Roller]

me too! i’m looking forward to seeing again. i have a little macular pucker in the right eye, which is the only reason i got in to see an ophthalmologist - optometrist told me i had cataract in left eye but never told me the right eye had one too, or that they were bad enough to seek treatment. Retina-surgeon: “brother, you’re blind. If you were a family member I’d tell you to get those lenses replaced right away.”. So i’ll see the cataract surgeon monday and hopefully work out how this will all be done.

it’s amazing how the brain compensates for the pucker - i only noticed it when looking at my kid’s math homework on graph paper when I had my left eye closed for some reason.

True. My ophthalmologist once told me it’s amazing that I can see as well as I do. And another one said that I’m a walking textbook of ocular pathology.

 

[DT]

Tonight! Whiskey and Wildlife!

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Whiskey, Wine & Wildlife combines renowned beverage tastings and inspired cuisine from some of the South’s best chefs, while experiencing Vilano Beach’s coastal wildlife up-close, November 4 – 6, 2022.

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This is an annual event that provides some funding to local wildlife programs and provides people with some delicious eatin' and drinkin'

This is our 4th year, we always just stay down in the area, even though that's like a few miles south of us. Super nice, new Hyatt, can consume without driving concerns, and for the last couple of years, it's more or less in the Hyatt (with some overflow into the side streets). So the whiskey is just an elevator ride away Always a few smaller, but amazing distilleries show up too, so you get to check out products, you'd probably never know about.

What a fun night!

Started here at Pesca's Rooftop ...

Great balcony view, right over the food area of the event, provided some opportunity for other forms of consumption

We ended the night with this. Holy mother of god so many pepperoni! The pizza is from a ~ghost kitchen~ in the downstairs bar at the Hyatt, only open Fri - Mon, 4p-9p, nothing online, you order in the bar, we took up a couple of Negronis too (and by a couple, I mean 4 ... )

And somehow, after all that, including LOTS of whiskey tasting, the wife still got up that morning and did like 10 miles over the bridge ...

 

[Eric]

Signed up for a drum lesson from a world class drummer, some of the most amazing work I’ve ever seen. Now I’m feeling like embarrassed about it, very much an I’m not worthy vibe going on.

Still, I’m sure I can take something away and he does accept all levels so there’s that.

 

[Eric]

I liked them, but felt the pacing was a little off in the 2nd. But that was the case with the first seasons of BCS and Breaking Bad, too. He always seems to achieve perfection in season 2.

A couple of more tantrums and she'll kill off the planet by the end of the first season.

Best thing the other uninfected can do is take her out to save millions of lives, I mean who could blame them lol. I hope they tame her character down because she's basically insufferable to watch, I'll give it another episode.

 

[Cmaier]

A couple of more tantrums and she'll kill off the planet by the end of the first season.

Best thing the other uninfected can do is take her out to save millions of lives, I mean who could blame them lol. I hope they tame her character down because she's basically insufferable to watch, I'll give it another episode.

Ha! What’s funny is I really like her and relate to her. Anyway, 100% on rotten tomatoes from reviewers who have seen 7 episodes, so I take it that it gets better.

 

[Eric]

Ha! What’s funny is I really like her and relate to her. Anyway, 100% on rotten tomatoes from reviewers who have seen 7 episodes, so I take it that it gets better.

That's what drew me to it, loved the first episode but the miserable cynical alcoholic routine in the second was too much although the other characters are great so far.

 

[Cmaier]

That's what drew me to it, loved the first episode but the miserable cynical alcoholic routine in the second was too much although the other characters are great so far.

If my wife died and the rest of you turned into pod people, I’d be pretty miserable and drunk, too. Especially if I lived in Albuquerque.

Did you catch the airline she’s flying on to the meeting? Cute little Breaking Bad easter egg.

 

[Eric]

If my wife died and the rest of you turned into pod people, I’d be pretty miserable and drunk, too. Especially if I lived in Albuquerque.

LMAO

Did you catch the airline she’s flying on to the meeting? Cute little Breaking Bad easter egg.

I didn't notice but the guy with the harem has the right idea. Sure, they may never have sustainable meat again but I say live it up while you can!

 

[DT]

I liked them, but felt the pacing was a little off in the 2nd. But that was the case with the first seasons of BCS and Breaking Bad, too. He always seems to achieve perfection in season 2.

Yeah, we decided to hold off, just wait for the season to completely drop, last one is Dec 26, then confirm future seasons ... then binge over the Xmas break

 

[DT]

The Lowdown is fantastic, we crushed the entire season on Saturday.

The showrunner is Sterlin Harjo, who created Reservation Dogs, Ethan Hawke was a guest on that show, they became good friends, wanted to produce something together.

Incredible cast, lots of Native American talent (a few from Reservation Dogs), very Oklahoma, very diverse, Macon Blair is a character on the show and directed a few (he's terrific, see - Blue Ruin, Green Room). Works on so many different levels, it's own in universe narrative, a meta-narrative, a documentary, it's gritty, funny, dark, has beautiful moments and stellar performances.

FWIW, it's a one-and-done, though they could revisit this "universe" again (Harjo looks pretty busy with other projects in the next couple of years).

9/10, highly recommended

The Lowdown (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.3 | Biography, Drama, History

59m | TV-MA

www.imdb.com

 

[Cmaier]

LMAO


I didn't notice but the guy with the harem has the right idea. Sure, they may never have sustainable meat again but I say live it up while you can!

Yeah, but when you’re doing that with one of them, you’re doing it with all of them. Piss one off, you piss them all off.

Yeah, we decided to hold off, just wait for the season to completely drop, last one is Dec 26, then confirm future seasons ... then binge over the Xmas break

they ordered two seasons, so it will be back.

 

[Eric]

Yeah, but when you’re doing that with one of them, you’re doing it with all of them. Piss one off, you piss them all off.

It'll be interesting to see where it goes when animals start climbing back up the food chain, you can see the storyline having a lot of room to work with there. The pod people will need leadership and I have a feeling Carol will be taking the lead with that once she finds a balance.

 

[Yoused]

Especially if I lived in Albuquerque.

Have you ever been to Albuquerque? We have. Even stayed there for a night. But really, most of the rest of the state is preferable to Albuquerque. Just be sure to make that left turn there.

(Alamogordo, though, do not go there, it is worse, IME.)

 

[Cmaier]

Have you ever been to Albuquerque? We have. Even stayed there for a night. But really, most of the rest of the state is preferable to Albuquerque. Just be sure to make that left turn there.

(Alamogordo, though, do not go there, it is worse, IME.)

i have. it’s like a baby tucson.

 

[Herdfan]

Have you ever been to Albuquerque? We have. Even stayed there for a night. But really, most of the rest of the state is preferable to Albuquerque.

Yes, but not by choice. We had to drive though there as we moved across the country. We had to stay there because it was February and I-40 from Gallup, NM to Seligman, AZ was closed due to snow. So we stopped at Albuquerque in case we had to go south to Las Cruses and then over to Tucson. Fortunately we woke up the next morning and I-40 was open.

Don't recommend.