Under Oath @ BBC

A federal judge has ordered Trump to sit for a deposition he's desperately been trying to avoid in the $10 billion lawsuit he brought against the BBC. Now he has to testify under oath and his lawsuit is blowing up in his face. 

Neil Young - Kitchen Listening

Today I played the old Neil Young compilation album Decade from 1977. I loved this album and bought the 3 LP set when it came out that year. I still have those records upstairs and it's nice to spin the vinyl but this time I was playing it from the downloaded CD set. Then I followed it with the Live Rust album from 1979. I bought that double LP back at the time it was released too. 

I loved seeing Neil Young back in the day and I did get to see him perform five times between the late 1960's and the mid 1970's. The first time was in early 1968 when he was with Buffalo Springfield. I saw him in 1969 with Crazy Horse on the Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Tour. I saw Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Chicago Auditorium in 1970. Then CSN&Y again in 1974 at the Vet in Philadelphia. Then solo again a year or so later in Philly.

Friday Night Dinner @ JT's

Becky and I had a wonderful dinner tonight at JT's on Elmwood Ave. This place has become one of our favorite restaurants in town. We had originally planned to go there with a couple of neighbors who had never been there before but one of them got sick so they couldn't go. We get together with them next month and try again after we get back from Philly.

So Becky and I had a great time there and we split a Pepperoni Pizza with green olives and an order of their wonderful Rigatoni Bolognese which is one of my favorite menu items. And of course I started off with their large glass of Tuscan Blend red wine and then followed that with a Peroni on tap. Becky had a nice Heineken NA.

Then we had dessert which we don't usually get but this time we split an amazingly large portion of Spumoni which was great.

The service was great as usual. We did not make reservations but got there around 5 pm on a Friday evening. It was not very crowded at the time except the bar was full and we got a table for two in the real of the room. However, by 6pm the place was jammed. Next time we will make reservations for a weekend visit and go a little later to experience the scene. We have been there quite a few times now but usually during the week.

 

Disclosure Day - A Film

I watched this Stephen Spielberg film this past week streaming on Peacock. I broke it up into three parts over three days and watched it on my laptop sitting at the kitchen table. That seems to be my usual way of watching movies these days.

I did enjoy this science fiction UFO film although it certainly wasn't Spielberg's best or even close but it was entertaining. However, I thought the ending was a little disappointing. I guess I thought something was going to happen besides the announcement that UFOs and aliens were real. I think I will watch it again sometime.

UB Neurosurgery Visit

I had my regular follow up visit with the UB Neurosurgery department a couple of weeks after getting having my 24 brain scan. I sat there in the examination room for about 10 minutes looking at the scull on the table while waiting for someone to come in.

I met with the PA and she went over the scan with me. I'm getting older and as I approach being 75 my doctors are all getting more concerned. The PA will discuss my scans with Dr. Siddiqui and she thinks he will want to have me get an angiogram which I have not had in many years. Probably 20 or more. I had been fine with the CTAs from Roswell Park but the angiogram is much more detailed and because I'm older and there have been indications of a couple of small aneurysms they would want to check them out and keep a closer look at my brain.

So some time over the next couple of months I will meet with Dr. Siddiqui and probably in the Spring I will have an angiogram done at Great Lakes Imaging. 

Back in the late 80's and 90's I had several angiograms done and they were procedures that I needed to spend an overnight in the hospital. I asked about that and I was assured that these days that scan is an one day in house procedure. I'd get it done in the morning and I would be home two or three hours later. Of course they have to consider my MH issue so I'd probably be the first person of the day having any kind of procedure... very early in the morning.

Voting By Mail

Becky and I voted by mail this week. We filled out the ballets and Becky took them over to the post office and dropped them off. We considered taking them to a ballot drop-off stations at one of the community centers but decided on using the post office.

We are not going to be home to vote on election day because of the family wedding in Philadelphia that week and we had also considered going to an early voting place. Then we decided to just get it over with and vote by mail.

Suddenly now the orange turd thinks it is ok to vote by mail. He has been railing against it for years now despite his own voting by mail. By the way, isn't it against the law for felons to vote? But now he is all for voting by mail because he thinks his magat base doesn't want to vote on election day because he is not on the ballot. Dumb as... with a B.

I'm also reminded that the first time I voted by in 1972 was by mail from a Navy ship overseas.

Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities

Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities by Preston Grassmann, editor, 2023. I enjoyed this collection of science fiction stories about alternate universes. Some were great while others were all over the place. 

U2 - Kitchen Listening

I've been reading Bono's memoir over the past few days so it is fitting to listen to some U2 and today I started out with some early albums. It's fun hearing these again. I haven't listened to them in quite some time. I hear individual songs scattered on mixes but not these entire albums one after the other.

It's also interesting hearing this music at the time I'm reading about it's creation which includes the process and the inspiration.

This set:

• Boy, 1980
• October, 1981
• War, 1983
• Under A Blood Red Sky, 1983

Herbie Hancock - Kitchen Listening

Today I played some Herbie Hancock albums  starting off from his jazz fusion days with the 1973 Headhunters album and then Man-Child from 1975. I followed that with his Maiden Voyage album from 1965 and then closed with a live album from 1977.

I enjoyed this set of music very much and I've always had a fondness for Herbie Hancock and all of his permeations throughout his career as a solo artist and sideman for various other jazz musicians.

This set:

• Headhunters, 1973
• Man-Child, 1975
• Maiden Voyage, 1965
• V.S.O.P., 1977

Dinner @ Coles... Oktoberfest and a Walk

We went down to Coles for dinner tonight and they had their special Oktoberfest Menu. It was a treat. I had their Pork Schnitzel which included spatzle egg noodles, the special mushroom gravy, braised red cabbage. It was delicious. I also had a couple of hefeweizen beers on tap.

We sat and enjoyed our dinner.

Becky had a chicken caesar salad wrap.

We got there about 5:15 and stayed for a little over an hour. The place was jumping but it was a Friday evening.

We left our house a little early because we wanted to go for a walk down in that neighborhood before dinner. We parked in our usual spot on Bird Ave and instead of walking over to Elmwood Ave we went the opposite way down Bidwell Parkway and crossed Elmwood near Potomac. We walked over to Claremont Ave and followed it all the way up to Forrest Ave. It was a beautiful walk. Then Forrest over to Elmwood and then on to Cole's.