How was your New Year’s Eve
and New Year’s Day?
Mine was pretty quiet, and it turned out to be the way I liked it to be.
Nothing with nothing.
On New Year’s Eve Day, my wife and I watched the latest James Bond flick, “No Time To Die,” on Blu-ray.
The movie, which was delayed I believe two years from being released to theaters, wasn’t supposed to be out on home video until April, but the movie theaters, being what they are during the pandemic, they rushed released this movie on DVD, Blu-Ray and pay-per-view so they could get the most bang for the buck, I guess.
It was a good movie, kept me going for the nearly three hours it ran, but like most Daniel Craig James Bond movies, it just wasn’t one that I will go back to to watch again.
The problem with these films is that each one of the Craig Bond movies are interspersed, so they really don’t stand on their own as films that you can just pick one and watch without having seen the others.
A new 007 agent makes her debut, but I don’t know where they are going to take this in the future, because her character, at least as how it is portrayed in this film, cannot possibly carry a movie on her own.
While others run around during New Year’s Eve, the only running around I did was to pick up Chinese food for my family.
In fact, I had to go to the take-out place twice, as they originally left out a good part of our order, but they apologized by giving us two extra egg rolls, so no harm done.
And when we ate our food, it was really good.
And that was that.
I actually watched the first half hour of “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” for the first time in years, watching it with my son as 2021 went into the ether and 2022 came to the fore.
They had on the band Journey, never much of my cup of tea to begin with, and with a different lead singer who sounded just like the old one.
They played the one Journey song I like, “Any Way You Want It,” and one I never did like, “Don’t Stop Believing,” and that was that.
Ryan Seacrest said at about 11:45 pm that the police decided to let anyone in who wanted to see the ball drop, so he stated that "the crowd is larger now than it was."
You won't hear the biased press report that about the festivities in Times Square, but that is what Seacrest said … and watching TV news the next day, well, I guess they report on what they want to report on, never giving you the entire picture.
How did my family celebrate January 1? By not doing very much.
My wife and I went to the supermarket to pick up some stray items, and that was pretty much it.
Throughout the weekend, I watched some TV, digitized some more of my records, took naps, and then on New Year’s Day evening, watched with my son the “Day One” event put on by the WWE.
The show made big news, as the main event had to be scrapped as one of the participants, Roman Reigns, came down with COVID, and he was pulled from participating.
This is not scripted, this is real life. Reigns is a leukemia survivor, and they have to be very careful with him and his health.
As the reigning—no pun intended—top star in WWE, this news came as a big blow to the company, but that is the reality of today.
The rest of the card was OK, or what little I saw of it was OK, as I took a two-hour nap right in the middle of the show … but my son enjoyed it, and that is all that counts.
Sunday was another nothing-much-happening day, so the holiday weekend ended with pretty much a whimper, which was fine with me.
Now we go back to the real world, or what amounts to the real world that is being shaped by the pandemic.
And as I end this blog entry, I also have to mention the sad news, that during this holiday period, we lost Betty White, and lost her just shy of her 100th birthday.
Her career—and her 99-plus years of life—really ran parallel to the history of television, and she was a real-life “Golden Girl” to all of us.
What a great lady, and to say she will be missed is an understatement.
Mine was pretty quiet, and it turned out to be the way I liked it to be.
Nothing with nothing.
On New Year’s Eve Day, my wife and I watched the latest James Bond flick, “No Time To Die,” on Blu-ray.
The movie, which was delayed I believe two years from being released to theaters, wasn’t supposed to be out on home video until April, but the movie theaters, being what they are during the pandemic, they rushed released this movie on DVD, Blu-Ray and pay-per-view so they could get the most bang for the buck, I guess.
It was a good movie, kept me going for the nearly three hours it ran, but like most Daniel Craig James Bond movies, it just wasn’t one that I will go back to to watch again.
The problem with these films is that each one of the Craig Bond movies are interspersed, so they really don’t stand on their own as films that you can just pick one and watch without having seen the others.
A new 007 agent makes her debut, but I don’t know where they are going to take this in the future, because her character, at least as how it is portrayed in this film, cannot possibly carry a movie on her own.
While others run around during New Year’s Eve, the only running around I did was to pick up Chinese food for my family.
In fact, I had to go to the take-out place twice, as they originally left out a good part of our order, but they apologized by giving us two extra egg rolls, so no harm done.
And when we ate our food, it was really good.
And that was that.
I actually watched the first half hour of “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” for the first time in years, watching it with my son as 2021 went into the ether and 2022 came to the fore.
They had on the band Journey, never much of my cup of tea to begin with, and with a different lead singer who sounded just like the old one.
They played the one Journey song I like, “Any Way You Want It,” and one I never did like, “Don’t Stop Believing,” and that was that.
Ryan Seacrest said at about 11:45 pm that the police decided to let anyone in who wanted to see the ball drop, so he stated that "the crowd is larger now than it was."
You won't hear the biased press report that about the festivities in Times Square, but that is what Seacrest said … and watching TV news the next day, well, I guess they report on what they want to report on, never giving you the entire picture.
How did my family celebrate January 1? By not doing very much.
My wife and I went to the supermarket to pick up some stray items, and that was pretty much it.
Throughout the weekend, I watched some TV, digitized some more of my records, took naps, and then on New Year’s Day evening, watched with my son the “Day One” event put on by the WWE.
The show made big news, as the main event had to be scrapped as one of the participants, Roman Reigns, came down with COVID, and he was pulled from participating.
This is not scripted, this is real life. Reigns is a leukemia survivor, and they have to be very careful with him and his health.
As the reigning—no pun intended—top star in WWE, this news came as a big blow to the company, but that is the reality of today.
The rest of the card was OK, or what little I saw of it was OK, as I took a two-hour nap right in the middle of the show … but my son enjoyed it, and that is all that counts.
Sunday was another nothing-much-happening day, so the holiday weekend ended with pretty much a whimper, which was fine with me.
Now we go back to the real world, or what amounts to the real world that is being shaped by the pandemic.
And as I end this blog entry, I also have to mention the sad news, that during this holiday period, we lost Betty White, and lost her just shy of her 100th birthday.
Her career—and her 99-plus years of life—really ran parallel to the history of television, and she was a real-life “Golden Girl” to all of us.
What a great lady, and to say she will be missed is an understatement.
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