1) It was lovely seeing all the old cast together again. I have watched Star Trek as broadcast since they originally aired. The original Star Trek and The New Generation are without doubt my favourites.
2) Amanda Plummer is simply wonderful. The absolute highlight of the whole series.
So I had some friends over for dinner last weekend.
And once again the same dynamic took place. I tried to be part of the conversation but I was essentially ignored for the whole evening.
I tried the technique or talking softly (partly to get anyone's attention, but also to try an make them stop talking so loudly) and that did nothing.
I tried the technique of keeping on talking so someone would stop and listen but they ignored me again and kept right on talking to each other.
Someone was showing pictures on their phone and actually showed them to everyone but me.
The thing is, these are all people who I get along fine with and have reasonably good conversations with - although more listening than speaking on my part - when we are in a one on one situation,
In the end though, I'm old, I'm introverted, I'm not likely to make any new friends so I have to hold on to those I have even though they may annoy me.
It's Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and roast turkey is one of my favourite foods so I picked up a bone-in skin-on turkey breast and roasted it yesterday and had a really nice early Thanksgiving dinner.
I'm going out for another one tonight. Yes, that's how fond I am of a roast turkey dinner.
So after dinner last night I cleaned up the kitchen and separated the turkey meat from the bones and skin and was looking forward to leftover turkey - sandwiches, stir fry, warmed-over, a la king.
I had the turkey packaged up but decided it was still pretty warm so I decided to let it sit a bit before I put I in the fridge.
This morning when I went to make tea I was surprised to see something sitting on the counter, and then totally appalled to realize I had left the turkey sitting out all night.
So several meals worth of good turkey meat are in the garbage.
Senior moment or just plain stupidity?
Covid is still around.
I'm back to wearing a mask inside stores. Not on the street yet, unless it's crowded.
I'm still going to restaurants that have patios but I'm avoiding eating inside unless the place is practically empty and I may stop doing that for the winter.
One of the nice things about wearing a mask is that I know it pisses off the anti-masking types.
Another winner from Acorn TV.
This was just a lovely miniseries. The acting is perfect from everyone.
It felt as though they knew how to use quiet and silence to say so much.
There were some kind, gentle moments that could break your heart.
10/10 for this one.
I am very grateful to still be alive in my mid-70s. Many people do not get to this age and the experience of aging is very interesting and is part of life and I'm glad not to have missed it.
When you're young aging seems like a sad thing and you tend to think of your body getting old and your looks and abilities fading. Those things are true, and they matter, but when you are actually old they matter less and less.
You do have a sense of a life having been lived and that is a good and comforting thing. You of course do hope that it is lived for a while longer. It becomes easier to live in the day - you still plan ahead but you don't count on tomorrow coming in the same way you once did.
If you're lucky, as I have been, you also get to retire in a reasonably comfortable financial and physical situation and the freedom of the post-retirement years for me has been a wonderful thing.
Like most people I think my greatest concern with aging is my mental state and I am grateful every day that I am still able to function on my own. Not that those little "senior moments" when you have trouble recalling something don't cause concern.
Then there is death. It looms closer. Yet it is less of a concern as it does get closer. At my age I have lost friends and of course many of the public figures I grew up knowing have also passed. So there is a feeling that in my turn I will be part of that process of the people and the times I knew passing from the world and I will be simply taking my place in that. It feels a little melancholy but not really frightening.
I don't believe in an afterlife, I think when I die I will simply be gone.
Many people die at young ages which is not "fair". Especially deaths that are not due to illness or accidents but are caused by war, crime, anger, jealousy, poverty- things that don't need to be but are only there because of human actions.
I find that I never watch any program on live TV now. Everything I watch is either on demand or on the internet or on a DVD I've borrowed from the library.
Recently I was thinking back to "the old days" , as we old folks are wont to do, and remembering waiting all week for the next episode of a series on PBS.
Also, having to be sure to be in front of the TV at the right (and only) time to catch the next episode or a series you watched. If you missed it that was it unless you were able to catch it months later on a summer rerun.
Not that I mind being able to see things when I choose, it's wonderful. My only issue is that there is so much that I would like to watch and not enough time.
I generally spend my mornings doing chores and errands (I like to get out and home before noon in order to avoid the busier world from lunchtime onward), then the afternoon reading,TV after dinner, then more reading before turning off the light and going to sleep.
I thought I would have so much time for myself when I retired but the days fly by and there's no possible way to do, read, see all the things I would like.