Slowly and surely things have opened up here in California, culminating in the lifting of most restrictions on June 15. Daniel and I have finally ventured out to eat at In-N-Out in person and it was strange getting used to eating someplace other than the car or the coffee table. The variants are running amuck around the world, but more and more of my friends…
June 17, 2021
As April comes to a close, things are slowly returning to some semblance of normal here in Southern California. Disneyland re-opened today and I got my second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. We are still physically distanced at work and working from home when we can and we still are sporting face coverings. Despite this, traffic is returning to the freeways, stores and restaurants are…
April 30, 2021
Fifteenth in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up. The Friday Night Frights Horror Movie series continues and here are some thoughts on the movies watched January to the beginning of April 2021. It’s Alive (1974) – Not a slasher film, but a movie about a couple who has a second child that turns out to be a mutated monster when it is…
April 23, 2021
Fourteenth in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up. One of the things I discovered way back in 2019 was Chinese produced disaster movies. The first one I heard about and actually watched in the theaters was The Wandering Earth. It was released around the lunar holiday back in 2019 and was a huge hit in China and maybe made a few million…
April 9, 2021
Thirteenth in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up. (still not sure if I will keep this disclaimer, but until I no longer have to wear a mask in public or watch a movie in the theater again, I think I will keep going..) After a year delay due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Godzilla vs Kong finally debuted last month on HBO Max and…
April 8, 2021
This week is the one year anniversary of the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown. I started to work from home and Daniel and I began spending 99% of the time in our apartment. It’s been 11 months since I stopped working. Ironically, last year I was supposed to go to Arizona and have a 4-day weekend and see some Spring Training baseball. Flash forward to this week…
March 14, 2021
Back in 2018 when I was mentally recovering from my Z3 wreck, I decided to lease a new Subaru Crosstrek and this May will be the end of the lease. I’ve been hemming and hawing as to what I want to do with the Crosstrek, and it will depend a lot on what happens in the next few months at work. Current thinking is that…
March 3, 2021
Twelfth in the series of the self-isolation media consumption catch up. As mentioned previously in my post about Until We Meet Again, one of the Thai dramas I watched a few years ago was Together With Me which starred Tul Pakorn Thanasrivanitchai and Max Nattapol Diloknawarit. I’ve been following the careers of both actors since watching the series back in 2017 and was super happy…
February 22, 2021
Another two months has flown (or crawled or blurred – I can’t tell which) here at the Club Josh Covid-19 cocoon. News has definitely improved since the beginning of the year with vaccines a flowin’ and infections and deaths in a rapid decline. Funny – turns out the astronomical numbers in November and December were caused by people not heeding the “don’t mingle” warnings. I…
February 19, 2021
One of the few times we have walked around the neighborhood before sunset, we managed to capture some great looking skies as the sun went down.
February 17, 2021