Don't Let This Holiday Get You Down

                                    Don't Let This Holiday Get You Down

For most of us, the Holidays are a wonderful time of year. Some people get depressed during the Holidays. This year, because of the Virus, many more people will get sad if they let THIS Holiday get them down.

Before this year, every one of my Holidays were great fun. Seeing family and friends made me happy. We used to fly to DC to stay with our friends. They made Thanksgiving a party. Christmas was all about friends and fun gifts. However, that was then, this is now.

I don't know about you, but I'm not getting on an airplane any time soon. Almost everybody I know says they won't get on an airplane until this virus is controlled. We've been invited to Thanksgiving from two great friends, however, each is having school kids come to their house - that's a no-no for us seniors. Christmas and New Year will have to restricted to the people we know have been tested. 

This year sucks, but I refuse to let it make me sad. I have my best friend (my wife) to spend the Holidays with. We will be zooming with friends and family laughing at all the stories from now and the past. We will be giving gifts and getting gifts mostly from the mail. We are going to make these Holidays as fun as any other Holiday.

This is the new normal - for now. It won't be the new normal forever. This time next year we WILL be doing what we always did during the Holidays. Please accept what's happening for now. For your mental health; 

                 Don't Let This Holiday Get You Down.

P.S. next Tuesday is an important day. Make sure your vote is counted.

Binge Watching

 Binge Watching

I don't know about you, but I may never watch regular TV again even when the new seasons come on. Netflix, Amazon Prime, and all the other streaming services have content that is so much better than what the standard channels have to offer (except Bravo, History, etc.)

On regular TV your choices are dictated by what the studios think you want to watch. On streaming services, you decide what you want to watch. I may never see a TV commercial ever again. 

Those of you who are addicted to your favorite TV shows better record them. That's because the Candidates have hundreds of millions of dollars to bombard you with commercials that I'm sure will make you sick (unless it's for the candidate you already know who you're voting for).  

All the major streaming services have movies, documentaries and series from Countries around the world. The Countries that don't have English as their spoken language are dubbed in English and they do a very good job. The thing I like the most is that you get to see a lot of the Country they were produced in and their attitudes regarding sex, race, drugs, LGBTQ and politics. 

Binge Watching may either be the death of regular TV or at least force them to get their content to compete. Even if they do make better programming, are you still willing to watch twenty minutes (that's right twenty minutes) of bad commercials (if I see another Charmin commercial that has a cartoon baby bear wiping his ass I'm going to scream)? OK if you tape the commercials you can fast forward, but still, isn't that a pain in the ass?

In my opinion the best way to get through COVID is to sit across your big screen smart TV at night with a scotch in one hand and a dope in the other while:

Binge Watching