Black Friday

Why in the world do they have Black Friday here? They don’t have Thanksgiving! And it’s not a holiday day, everyone is at work as usual. But sure enough, they do and everything is on sale. They call it “Black Friday,” not “Viernes Negro.” They also sort of have Halloween, which I haven’t totally figured out. They have costumes, but I don’t think they trick or treat. It’s weird and as far as I can tell totally commercially motivated, based on not local, but American custom.

There are some things I can’t find in the grocery store, and I have a huge, pretty sophisticated grocery store nearby. They don’t have pickle relish, or baking soda, or sour cream, or corn starch, and now I’ve just discovered they don’t have peppermints. I can find a few other types of hard candies, but not many, and not peppermints. Because of Amazon, I can find some of these things, but it seems silly to have peppermints delivered to my house! Plus, there are none on Spanish Amazon, a $45 bag on French Amazon, and the reasonably priced one on UK Amazon will charge double because of the shipping (damn Brexit!). Oh well. There’s also no cream of mushroom soup. Too bad! I’m going to make a “modern” green bean casserole anyway.

If I knew how to do photoshop, I’d crop out my neck, but I do love this picture of me and my neighbor’s dog, Janis, watching Succession together. My favorite dog after mine, of course. The flowers are on the table, not coming out of my hair, and yes, I’m drinking WHITE!

I just saw a HUGE pod of dolphins swimming south, I suppose migrating or following prey. They weren’t close in enough to video. They were barely breaking the surface, as if they were really booking it!

I finally got the ROKU to work on the TV. I like to have the captions on all the time. I got used to them when watching with my mother and I find it helps me fill in the blanks if I miss what someone says. BUT, the caption choices on my ROKU (I hope I can figure out how to fix this) are: Swedish, Norweigen, Danish, Finnish, or Spanish! Did I buy the Scandanavian ROKU version?? I’m going to use Spanish. Although it’s fine when the words are in Spanish, it’s confusing with the words in English. It’s always something!