Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for December 18, 2023

I recently bought a 4K directors cut version of that movie, and it looks great in 4K but does not speed it up.

Hard to believe the same guy directed The Sound Of Music and The Day The Earth Stood Still!

My COVID-19 experience was different. What I mostly noticed was the weird sense of having extra weight in my chest, like there were two rocks in my lungs.

If you lost your sense of taste, count your blessings.

I didn’t. It was altered. Everything tasted foul. Kinda like rotten ashes.

Still, it couldn’t’ve been weirder than that spelling of weirdest.

When I had covid I lost my sense of taste but not my sense of smell. I did sleep a lot.

That’s true about that movie. I’ve only seen it once, when it first came out, and it’s unforgettable (in a bad way). The beginning is just a reunion of the original cast. The middle is a long, long, boring sequence of flying through V’ger.

For extra fun, if you’re talking to the proudly unvaxxed, be sure to tell them how many clot shots you’ve had. Then explain how you’re still glad you got them. We like that.

I got it at the end of October, about four days after my last chemotherapy session. It took the form of a bad cold, but it could have been so much worse given that my immune system was still compromised and I have asthma.

Thanks to my previous booster shot in May, it didn’t put me in the hospital.

Welcome back Scott, glad you are doing better.