Revisiting The Social Network.

Man I miss some aspects of my college/university years. Namely going out for a drink in a crowded bar with lots of friends. Being a shameless hermit the last four years has had some lasting effects on some of our friend circles. Nobody is dead, that I am aware of, but we are all hiding away from Covid and aren’t getting together for board games, drinks, dinners or movies any more. Rather isolating, especially since I work alone, from home. Though this year is better as my wife has the year off, so I do have one person to talk to regularly between 8:00am and 3:00pm, roughly speaking. So that has been really pleasant. Going to be really quiet next year when she goes back to work again.

Yes, my lede was about the first scene, of about 4 minutes of the movie where Rooney Mara dumps Jesse Eisenberg in the local pub. Made me remember having family and friends up in our college town twenty some odd years ago to eat and drink in a ritzy pub downtown. Plus I had just watched a YouTube video essay on the writing and directing/editing of The Social Network. It’s been a while since I’d seen it, so I grabbed my dvd copy and sat down to watch it last night. Still has the $6.99 price tag on it from when Blockbuster liquidated all of their on premise assets. Which is going back a few years too. Lots of clear memories pre pandemic, and a muddled puddle of memories here during. The whole 2020-2023 stretch has flowed together into a great morass of overlapping memory holed incidents. Panic, fear, and high stress will do that to you. Or so I’m told.

Had to begin the process of discarding all the rotten gourds and pumpkins today. The recent frosts, and rains have done a number on all my exposed legume decorations. Mushy, stinky pumpkins are a whole lot like russian roulette. Will it come apart in my hands and drench me in the stink? Or will it last until the compost pile? Nobody knows! Step right up, but don’t wear your best clothes or you’ll regret it.

Also means I’ll get more pumpkins next year as the seeds ride out the winter in the heap, and sprout up as any number of vines come late Spring, early Summer. That’s a crap shoot too. Are the vines for pumpkins, or tiny gourds? Which kinds? Yellow, white, pink, orange pumpkins, or striped long necked gourds? The vines all look the same! Whee!

Speaking of gardening, I’ll need to transplant at least two saplings in the spring as I don’t want to keep them near the house/foundation where they currently reside. I attempted to move a Walnut in the fall, but we were in a 21 day drought and I do not believe the sapling survived the move. We’ll see for sure next year. I moved an Oak the year before and it was really rainy, and that one didn’t survive either. So, who knows what will work when moving trees around here in late September or October. I sure as hell don’t.

Happy Thursday, we are now into November! Ahhhhhh! This year is moving so quickly! Best try to finish the last two books on my list. My Adrian Tchaikovsky, and a new Murderbot book coming later this month. Which, I do believe is to be the last book in the series. I hope it is both long and exciting. Cheers to what I hope will be a great finale to a wonderful set of novels, which are on the shorter side. May all the last books of a series you follow be great! Ciao Bella.