Preview

Sunrise at Singing Beach (Manchester, MA) this morning.  Photograph by M Carvalho

As I've said before, even though retirement is sort of like a weekend that never ends, I'm still aware of the rhythms of the week, and I feel a sense of both relief and anticipation that it is now, as I write this, finally Friday afternoon.

The week started early Monday morning with my mouth wide open and my ass in the dentist's chair as I got a chipped tooth repaired.  After that rude start to the week, there was some drama on Monday through Wednesday getting the tenant out of my condo.  It's not that he refused to leave or that I needed to threaten eviction, but he just took his own sweet time moving.  I drove out there each day expecting him to be gone only to find that there were still a few more things left behind for him to move (including, on Tuesday, a pit-bull terrier), and it wasn't until Wednesday that he finally got the last of his stuff out and I finally got the keys back. To his credit, he didn't leave the place in nearly as bad shape as the previous tenant, although the place will still need some walls painted and a professional deep cleaning.

Thursday and Friday were pretty low key, but after the previous three days, I needed some time to just putter around in my usual routine.   

I'm looking forward to the weekend.  I've been re-playing Fallout: New Vegas and after an almost two-year absence, the game feels fresh and almost new again (even though it's a 10-year-old game).  Besides, I'm deliberately changing things, siding with different factions and making different choices than before, making this play-through feel unique.  I anticipate completing the game this weekend, and then moving on to one of the five games that I purchased on Cyber Monday of this week.

The Sports Desk is all excited about the SEC Championship Game here in Atlanta tomorrow.  We won't be attending (tickets are astronomically expensive), but the University of Georgia Bulldogs will be playing the favored (7 1/2 points) LSU Tigers, and while we have little reason to expect a Georgia upset, the Bulldogs have played some of their best football when up against the toughest teams (Alabama the last two years, Notre Dame, Florida and Auburn this year).  This game should be exciting.

And all week, we've been almost breathlessly waiting for Sunday night and broadcast of the latest two episodes of Watchmen on HBO and Mr. Robot on USA Network.  These are not only the two best shows on t.v. this year, especially after the final season of Game of Thrones shit the bed last spring, but last Sunday night's episodes were among the best for both shows, and anticipation of what happens this week couldn't be higher.  We re-watched last Sunday night's episodes of both shows a couple times this week, and each time we caught some nuances or revelations that we had missed the times before.  This is the first season of Watchmen, and after the final episode airs in a couple weeks, we know we will binge-watch the entire season over again.  On the other hand, this is  the climactic last season of Mr. Robot, and after this season and the series ends, we fully expect to be binge-watching all four seasons this winter.

Also, if we get bored with all the macho energy of college football and the tension and suspense of super- and anti-hero dramas, Season 3 of Amazon's breezy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has finally dropped.  We'll probably be watching some of that sometime between football, video games, and our favorite television shows.

In other words, we're in for a full weekend within the weekend that never ends.