Oh, yeah – this is still happening.
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
June’s total: 60 (2/d)
July’s total: 56 (1.806/d)
August’s total: 50 (1.612/d)
September’s total: 73 (2.433/d)
October’s total: 65 (2.096/d)
2020 subtotal: 654 sneezes in 305 days: 2.144/d.
終
Today – at least today where I currently am – would be my father’s 74th birthday. (Or, as his awful obituary would have it, 75….)
I miss that dude. In his honor, I’ll have more hot and sour soup today. I’d go see a movie, too, but they got that pandemic on. Maybe I’ll watch one at home. Seems like something he’d appreciate. Maybe Blade Runner; it’s been a while.
I hope eternity is treating you softly, Pop.
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Here are a ton more shows and shit – mainly sports: NBA Bubble playoff games and late-year Tour de France stages. I’m gonna miss this shit when it’s gone. it’s been a blast to watch again. I love that game. And it’s fascinating to see how it’s played these days – especially now, especially in the Bubble.
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Thunder-Rockets Game 6 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 4 (iMac)
Celtics-Raptors Game 2 (iMac)
Nuggets-Utah Game 7 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 5 (iMac)
Heat-Bucks Game 2 (iPhone)
Rockets-Thunder Game 7 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 6 (iMac)
Raptors-Celtics Game 3 (iPhone)
Clippers-Nuggets Game 1 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 7 (iMac)
Heat-Bucks Game 3 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 8 (iMac)
Raptors-Celtics Game 4 (iPhone)
Nuggets-Clippers Game 2 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 9 (iMac)
Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time (iMac)
Celtics-Raptors Game 5 (iPhone)
Clippers-Nuggets Game 3 (iPhone)
2020 Tour de France Stage 10 (iMac)
Heat-Bucks Game 5 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 11 (iMac)
Raptors-Celtics Game 6 (iMac, iPhone)
Clippers-Nuggets Game 4 (iPhone)
2020 Tour de France Stage 12 (iMac)
Lakers-Rockets Game 4 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 13 (iMac)
Nuggets-Clippers Game 5 (iMac)
Celtics-Raptors Game 7 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 14 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 15 (iMac)
Nuggets-Clippers Game 6 (iPhone)
Ted Lasso (S01E01-9) (iMac)
Trying (S01E08) (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 16 (iMac)
Nugget-Clippers Game 7 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 17 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 18 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 19 (iMac)
Lakers-Nuggets Game 1 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 20 (iMac)
Celtics-Heat Game 1 (iMac)
Rust Valley Restorers (S03E01-6) (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 21 (iMac)
Lakers-Nuggets Game 2 (iMac)
Dickenson (S01E10) (iMac)
Chernobyl (S01E01-5) (iMac)
Heat-Celtics Game 4 (iPhone)
Car Masters: Rags to Riches (S02E01-8)
Lakers-Nuggets Game 4 (iMac)
West Coast Customs (S01E01) (iMac)
Tehran (S01E01-3) (iMac)
Celtics-Heat Game 5 (iPhone, iMac)
Lakers-Nuggets Game 5 (iMac)
2020 Elite Men’s Road Race World Championship (iMac)
Heat-Celtics Game 6 (iPhone)
Away (S01E03) (iMac)
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January (44 different titles)
February (21)
March (34)
April (55)
May (65)
June (37)
July (26)
August (72)
September (92)
446 titles for the year – for an average of 49.555 titles per month.
終
There was a fair share of this month – at least a week – where, because I had a cold, i didn’t sneeze. Then there were the last couple/few days where I sneezed like 12 times. Weird. In any case, Summer having ended, my sneeze-counts are clearly ticking back up.
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
June’s total: 60 (2/d)
July’s total: 56 (1.806/d)
August’s total: 50 (1.612/d)
September’s total: 73 (2.433/d)
2020 subtotal: 589 sneezes in 274 days: 2.1496/d.
終
I last watched basketball in 1998. After the Bulls beat the Jazz (again), and the team was inexplicably disbanded, I didn’t feel like watching the game without my favorite player – Jordan – and didn’t feel like watching the team I’d been a fan of for so long – the Bulls – struggle for however long they ended up on life-support. (The lockout in ’99 did nothing to change my mind.)
Fast-forward ~22 years and I’m listening to Bill Simmons’ podcast and hearing him talk about how different the game is these days, so I decided I’d tune in when the playoffs rolled around. I figured, if I’m gonna dive back in, I’d rather watch the best the game has to offer than slog thru possibly meaningless regular season games.
Then the virus and Rudy Gobert ended the season. Around the time I expected to watch more basketball, there was none to watch. So instead, I went back and watched a bunch of old Finals (see prior month-recaps). It was a lot of fun.
So by the time the Bubble was announced I was more than ready to go. When it started I watched nearly all of the games. Then the playoffs started and I’ve watched – well, nearly everything. I only skipped a few of the games since the restart – either games that didn’t interest me (a lot of unfun-to-watch Rockets’ games, for example), games I didn’t have time for (early on, there were four games daily), or game-results that were spoiled.
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Lakers-Clippers (iMac)
Bucks-Celtics (iMac)
Rockets-Mavericks (iMac)
Clippers-Pelicans (iMac)
Raptors-Lakers (iMac)
Boston-Trail Blazers (iMac)
Rockets-Bucks (iMac)
Raptors-Heat (iMac)
Pelicans-Grizzlies (iMac)
Lakers-Jazz (iMac)
Nets-Bucks (iMac)
Celtics-Nets (iMac)
Thunder-Lakers (iMac)
Clippers-Mavericks (iMac)
Bucks-Heat (iMac)
Rockets-Lakers (iMac)
Celtics-Raptors (iMac)
Hannibal Buress’ Miami Nights (iMac)
Pelicans-Wizards (iMac)
Clippers-Trail Blazers (iMac)
Mavericks-Bucks (iMac)
Manhatta (iPhone)
Nets-Clippers (iMac)
Raptors-Bucks (iMac)
Lakers-Nuggets (iMac)
Celtics-Grizzlies (iMac)
Trail Blazers-Mavericks (iMac)
Bucks-Wizards (iMac)
Raptors-Sixers (work computer, iMac)
Clippers-Nuggets (iMac)
Trail Blazers-Nets (iMac)
Wizards-Celtics (iMac)
Raptors-Nuggets (iMac)
Trail Blazers-Grizzlies (Play-In game) (work computer, iMac)
30 for 30 (episode 8) (iMac)
A Rainy Day in New York (iMac)
Nuggets-Jazz Game 1 (work computer)
Raptors-Nets Game 1 (iMac)
Celtics-76ers Game 1 (iMac)
Clippers-Mavericks Game 1 (iMac)
Magic-Bucks Game 1 (iMac)
Trail Blazers-Lakers Game 1 (iMac)
Raptors-Nets Game 2 (iMac)
Jazz-Nuggets Game 2 (iMac)
Celtics-76ers Game 2 (iMac)
Mavericks-Clippers Game 2 (iMac)
Heat-Pacers Game 2 (iMac)
Lakers-Trail Blazers Game 3 (iMac)
Raptors-Nets Game 3 (iMac)
Jazz-Nuggets Game 3 (iMac)
Celtics-76ers Game 3 (iMac)
Clippers-Mavericks Game 3 (iMac)
Bucks-Magic Game 3 (iMac)
Lakers-Trail Blazers Game 3 (iMac)
Heat-Pacers Game 3 (iMac)
Celtics-76ers Game 4 (iPhone)
Mavericks-Clippers Game 4 (iMac)
Raptors-Nets Game 4 (iMac)
Jazz-Nuggets Game 4 (iMac)
Bucks-Magic Game 4 (iPhone)
Lakers-Trail Blazers Game 4 (iMac)
Heat-Pacers Game 4 (iMac)
Nuggets-Jazz Game 5 (iMac)
Clippers-Mavericks (Game 5) (iMac)
Straw Dogs (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 1 (iMac)
Rockets-Thunder Game 5 (iMac)
Lakers-Trail Blazers Game 5 (iMac)
2020 Tour de France Stage 2 (iMac)
Celtics-Raptors Game 1 (iMac, iPhone)
Clippers-Mavericks Game 6 (iPhone)
2020 Tour de France Stage 3 (iMac)
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January (44 different titles)
February (21)
March (34)
April (55)
May (65)
June (37)
July (26)
August (72)
354 title for the year – for an average of 44.25 titles per month.
終
It’s been a year since my dad died. On the one hand, that doesn’t seem possible. On the other hand, 2020 alone has seemed like a decade.
I’m sitting in another Starbucks, doing some more work, as more time slips away. If possible, I’ll mark today by having some hot and sour soup because he’d want some. But it’s hard to find here, so maybe not.
It’s dour and Autumnal outside, as another typhoon approaches. Later, the rains will return; the air is somber, too.
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31622400+ seconds
527040+ minutes
8784+ hours
366 days
52 weeks
12 months
A trip around the Sun.
A year.
Time keeps moving in the wrong direction.
終
Only 50 sneezes this month. Clearly, cycling and hot weather make an impact. Inexplicably, 10-12 of these sneezes happened in the last two days. Dunno what that was about as nothing else had changed. Lowest month total yet. (The same will not be true of September.)
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
June’s total: 60 (2/d)
July’s total: 56 (1.806/d)
August’s total: 50 (1.612/d)
2020 subtotal: 516 sneezes in 244 days: 2.11475/d.
終
I’m slow. Here’re July’s numbers. The Summer does seem to have a pretty significant stifling effect, which is interesting to see represented in numbers.
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
June’s total: 60 (2/d)
July’s total: 56 (1.806/d)
2020 subtotal: 466 sneezes in 213 days: 2.1877/d.
終
Here’s what I watched in July. A typical, up-to-this-point list – albeit my second lowest so far this year. (Both of which will change in August.)
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The Expanse (S01E01) (iMac)
The Man with One Red Shoe (iMac)
ID4 (iMac)
Electric Dreams (iMac)
Casablanca (iMac)
Uncut Gems (iMac)
Good Time (iMac)
Swingers (iMac)
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction – Zack Galifianakis (S02-Bonus) (iMac)
Hamilton (iMac)
Palm Springs (iMac)
Stand By Me (iMac)
30 for 30 (episode 5) (iMac)
The Sure Thing (iMac)
Normal People (S01E01-1012) (iMac)
Adventureland (iMac)
Shoebox Kids (iMac)
Singin’ in the Rain (iMac)
Singles (iMac)
Bad Education (2019) (iMac)
Jaws (iMac)
Airplane! (iMac)
Hamilton’s America (iMac)
30 for 30 (episode 6) (iMac)
Naked Gun (iMac)
Pelicans-Jazz (iMac)
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January (44 different titles)
February (21)
March (34)
April (55)
May (65)
June (37)
July (26)
282 title for the year – for an average of 40.285 titles a month.
終
This video of a young Obama is incredible. The polish we’re familiar with isn’t really evident here at all, but his brilliance is – or maybe it’s the lack of politician-polish that allows his brilliance to shine a little more evidently; he’s less guarded and careful here, answering questions frankly, thoughtfully, and pretty quickly.
We can see flashes of his charm – the smile pops up a couple times – but he isn’t yet very comfortable speaking in situations like this. A number of times he leans upon the podium, for example.
But it’s a fascinating glimpse of a great orator as a young man. Seeing this a few days after his eulogy at John Lewis’ funeral made the difference starker. I loved this.
終
I have a second job helping people online. Recently, we had a chance to converse with some of the people for a bit of time, and I sent many messages back and forth with another movie buff. She recommended Polanski’s 1966 movie Cul-de-sac, so I watched it. It’s stunningly good; Hitchcock meets Peckinpah, in a rural French farmhouse. Anyway, it includes this, which continues to chuckle me:
終
Here’s what I watched in June. A mere 37 titles – one of which, Dave Chappelle’s 8:46, makes this list solely and entirely because I wanted to list it.
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Ozark (S02E09 & 10) (iMac/iPhone) (S03E01-10)
Space Force (S01E05-7) (iPhone/iMac)
Better Call Saul (S04E08-10) (iMac/iPhone) (S05E01-10)
Dave Chapelle: 8:46 (iPhone)
Da 5 Bloods (iMac)
Inside Man (iMac)
Dickenson (S01E09) (iMac)
When We Were Kings (iMac)
The King of Staten Island (iMac)
30 Minutes or Less (iMac)
A Few Good Men (iMac)
30 for 30 (episode 4) (iMac)
About Last Night... (iMac)
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January (44 different titles)
February (21)
March (34)
April (55)
May (65)
June (37)
256 title for the year – for an average of 42.66 titles a month.
終
Catching up on updates uncaught up on. Here’re my updated-thru-June sneeze numbers:
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
June’s total: 60 (2/d)
2020 subtotal: 410 sneezes in 182 days: 2.25/d.
終
Here’s what I watched in May. Yeah, May. (More recent updates coming; I’m slow.)
2007 NBA Finals, Game 4 (iMac)
Booksmart (iMac)
2010 NBA Finals, Game 7 (iMac)
Trying (S01E01-5) (iPhone)
30 for 30 (episode 2) (iMac)
2015 NBA Finals, Games 1-5 (iMac)
2016 NBA Finals, Games 1-7 (iMac)
2017 NBA Finals, Games 1-5 (iMac)
Crimson Tide (iMac)
Superbad (iPhone)
The Hunt for Red October (iMac)
Cul-de-sac (iMac)
Draft Day (iMac)
30 for 30 (episode 3) (iMac)
Fast & Furious 6 (iMac)
Furious 7 (iMac)
Rust Valley Restorers (S01E01-8) (iPhone/iMac) (S02E01-6) (iMac)
The House I Live In (iMac)
Molly’s Game (iMac)
Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (iPhone)
The Fundamentals of Caring (iMac)
Ozark (S01E01-10) (iMac/iPhone) (S02E01-08)
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (S01E01&2) (iPhone)
Space Force (S01E01-3) (iPhone)
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January (44 different titles)
February (21)
March (34)
April (55)
May (65)
That’s an average of 43.8 titles a month.
終
Been rewatching tons of movies recently. One of the more recent ones was Black Snake Moan. It includes this, which speaks to the moment.
終
Aside from the lack of sneezes in the first 10 days of the year, May was my strangest sneeze month so far. I finished the month with a respectable 73 sneezes, but 16 (or so, maybe 15) of those came in the final two days – 10 on the final day, when I absolutely exploded.
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January’s total: 51 (1.6451 per day)
February’s total: 69 (2.3793/d)
March’s total: 79 (2.5483/d)
April’s total: 78 (2.6/d)
May’s total: 73 (2.354/d)
2020 subtotal: 350 sneezes in 152 days: 2.3026/d.
終