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Noson ddrwg oedd hon i roi anhunedd i mi fy hun.

CoViD Levels, as of 15. April: 260 Bobcat-Robots.
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The weather seems to be playing a multi-level April Fool's joke.
"Oh, you thought it was going to be spring? Haha, have an April Fools blizzard! No wait--psych! Snain. But it's going to snow in earnest tomorrow. Oh, you actually believed that? Ha, no it's raining..
Yes! Got you to go outside in street shoes with an umbrella. Psych! Wintry mix."

Meantime, in an interesting slice of life, North Station in filled with people in either Bruins jerseys or kirugami.
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Most *memorable* moment from Arisia: explaining to a fellow-attendee from Denmark that the tune I had been humming on the train ("Nelson's Blood ") was the song traditionally sung while marching around the lobby in your swimsuit, recruiting people for the Shanty Sing In The Pool.
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More about things that start with C:

Californianization of everything: It's most noticeable with women's fashion. Wearing sunglasses as they were a barette, say; or the 12-month flipflop wearers. Also tanning, and fake tans.
And complaining about the cold all the time, while taking heat as a necessary evil.
All the things people where it seems as though they're pretending they live in the Sunshine State. (So why don't they just move there??)
Am I hatin'? Probably.

New topic!

Other things I hate: chemical dependency in general. grr.

The Film: Die Comedian Harmonists is one of those films where I'm not sure if it's actually good or not. It's basically a group biopic cum excuse to perform lots of the group's songs. But I hadn't heard of the group before, and both their music and their story are pretty cool.

For those who are as clueless as I was: The Comedian Harmonists were a male a capella group formed in Germany around about 1920: it says something about the Zeitgeist of 1920s Germany both that an a capella group became all-stars, and that someone in Marketing insisted that their name had to NOT be German if they were going to gain any sort of popularity. So the movie is partly about that wild, swingin', liberal decade before the Depression led to some Austrian maniac getting elected Chancellor. Of the period's genesis in the aftermath of WW1, of its crazy artsy weirdness, and of its demise...since a couple of them were Jewish, the group wound up breaking up when half of them had to flee the country. (The film closes, if memory serves, with an overview of what happened to them afterward, including who got drafted into the Wehrmacht and probably died horribly in Russia, vs who faded into obscurity in New York...)

But in between, in movie and in film, you get a lot of good songs, although inevitably it's the one where they impersonate a jazz band that you remember. Well, that and "Mein kleiner grĂ¼ner Kaktus," of course.
(The acting and casting, as far as I can recall, are first-rate. Again, I watched this in Germany, so it's been a while.)
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Anyway. In other news, new!coworker and I are each skiving off work tomorrow, and in fact both in unison started changing into dressier clothes as soon as we closed the window. As I put it "You are off to lots and lots of con stuff. I am off to lots and lots of Church stuff!"
...Although I have a standing invitation to crash their room party if MY afterparty turns out to be lame. We'll see.

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