There I was, dozing, when I remembered no going to sleep without posting 5 Things. Zzzz.
One: How bizarre cursive writing isn’t a common skill.
Two: Grocery day. Fridge is full, no room for more.
Three: Ha, and the month is just a little over halfway through.
Four: It’s Cover Girl, silly cat.
Five: A caricature of dear old dad.
Good morning, in a little late, but as always, in before midnight on post day counts as being on time.
Will Trent Season Three Episode One "I'm A Guest Here"
This week I watched the Season Three opener of ABC's Will Trent. He's very smart, but has always suffered with Dyslexia, something he used to try to hide. He would use a little voice recorder to note his keen on the scene observations, then use the playback of those recordings to help solve the case. He rarely misses visual or auditory clues. He's still using it at a crime scene this episode.
Now he has an app he calls Eduardo that does his reading of menus and everything else to let him know what written clues he has to work with.
His anchor in the world is his little chihuahua Betty. Betty is very smart as all chihuahuas are. Also, Betty dresses better than any dog ever.
Will himself usually dresses immaculately in a suit and tie, his armor against the world who might judge him for his dyslexia and his rough past as a maltreated orphan.
This season, he's been hiding out with Betty in Soddy-Daisy Tennessee, working on getting dicey pics for divorce cases. How many can there be? He's drawn back by the execution death of a fellow officer, which in theory was ordered by an old friend from Will's foster care days, who Will thinks is innocent after they beat each other up as a greeting.
Officer Ormer is featured quite a bit, a fellow I never liked, but he is being softened up a bit by his divorce. Angie, arrested by Will at the end of season 2 is working security in a posh community, with tasks such as having dog poo analyzed to see who did the nasty in front of a wealthy woman's house on her docket.
Lots of twists and turns as Will reluctantly gets involved to clear his friend and bring the killers to justice. I binge watched the first two seasons, so being in "real time" TV watching mode is hard, as you've got to wait a whole week to find out what happens next. 18 episodes for this season, which seems huge when you've become used to streaming series with ten episodes at the most.
Missing You Netflix
Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, Detective Kat Donovan is led down a labyrinthine path when she jokingly agrees to use an account on a dating app and sees a profile of the fiancee who disappeared eleven years ago, the day after her beloved father died.
Also bringing her back to investigating her cop father's death, is the fact that his killer is dying in prison of cancer and likely only has a few days to live. She's determined to find out what really happened to her dad, and she's certain he will tell her the truth at the last.
Further complicating her life is a tech savvy young man named Brendan who is hugely attached to his mom, and who insists that his mom has run afoul in her new relationship via a dating app. He hasn't heard from her, has requested she be listed as missing, but he gets no help till he shows Kat a picture of the man from the app...it's long lost Josh, the fiancee who disappeared eleven years ago.
There's a ton packed into each of the five episodes. Kat is a warm, loving character, but also a sharp, tough detective who stops at nothing to solve a case.
Happy Saturday, here's the answer to last week's Rebus. If you enlarge you can see the hints for the pictures in case any eluded you.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Good morning, it's Variety Week which means any puzzle type is fair game. Yay! For my spouse, a Fallen Phrase puzzle.
A dusting of snow, but we could use a foot or so as open winters are hard on gardens.
One: I love trains and would love to go across country to the coast.
Two: Here’s why we love cats—they’re so considerate.
Three: Then again…
Four: Some days I just pull out the biggest mug I have for my coffee. I haven’t used a five gallon bucket, but doesn’t it look good, though?
Five: Shape up or ship out, as they used to say.
The story focuses on Lena, not yet graduated from high school who wants to go to college. She has a boyfriend named Abram who is Jewish and wealthy. He's leaving to serve in the war effort, and will be flying aircraft. Lena wishes he wouldn't have to go on the one hand, and she's wishing she could go fight Hitler herself on the other hand.
When he's killed almost immediately and she gets word, she vows to join the Army herself as soon as she graduates.
Basic training is hard for Lena, try as she might she almost fails and faces being sent home in disgrace. She thinks of Abram though, and finds her strength.
Her commanding officer, Charity Adams, pleads for her women to be sent overseas to help in the fight. She's ignored by her superior until Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary MacLeod Bethune respond to the pleas of a mother who has not heard from her sons in two years. The Black Women's Army Corps can do the job of getting the mail straightened out and delivered, they insist.
Captain Adams is terribly disappointed in the assignment, as she knows her women are highly trianed by her to do so much more.
Arriving in England, the women find aircraft hangars full of two years worth of undelivered mail, 17 million pieces of it, with six months to do the job.
As if the job is not impossible already, the monstrous General Halt who is in charge of the operation does nothing to help the battalion, in fact he puts road blocks of all kinds in their way.
Despite all of the challenges, the women figure out a process to sort and get the mail delivered, making the six month deadline.
The women are a joy to watch. Young women away from home for the first time. They're not used to anything like the military life, but they adapt and work together.
The Six Triple Eight is based on a real story, and there's footage at the end of the real battalion marching through the streets in perfect step, with Captain Charity Adams out front.
It's Rebus Week again! This one uses the Festisite Rebus maker because it's a short one.
Answer will be up next Saturday afternoon as always.
Moving right along with the New Year, Five Things Friday continues. It’s Mr. DOA’s favorite post of the week, and he goes all sad panda if it isn’t there on Friday mornings. We don’t want that, no we do not.
One: Everyone collects something different.
Two: I’m not a fan of bucket lists anymore, but maybe some ideas for perking frozen January up.
Remember Dick Clark being called America’s oldest teenager? Guy can’t catch a break, he’s been gone for awhile but it’s still Dick Clarke’s New Year’s Eve at midnight every year.
Four: I was too small to go to the movies when Sleeping Beauty came out, though I did get to wear a Sleeping Beauty costume and plastic mask for Halloween one year.
Five: Here’ a charming and intricate piece of embroidery. It just paints a pretty little picture.
I've cleaned up the blogrolls on the sidebar. There's a fresh coat of paint. My social media links are on the sidebar. I hoped to link directly to my pages on the sites but you can search for me with ease by Librariandoa. Even more surprising than my having them up, is, I'm making an effort to use them. Very 21st century and a quarter of me, I'd say.
I haven't done resolutions for a long time, but I have fun making lists of all the things I want to learn or create or bake. That's the approach for me, look at what cool things might be ahead. Don't look left, don't look right to see any scary stuff. Nope way too busy.
Have a lively and exciting New Year.
Librariandoa
