So this week has been one weird thing after another, that leads to the reveal of another odd thing; it's hard to explain but let me try...
First, I've been dealing again with my longtime problem of earwax clogging up my ears. This especially happens during times like now when it's especially hot and humid with no relief. Yes I have adequate AC but when I sleep my head on my pillow gets hot and it melts the wax in my ears which then coats my eardrums and, ugh... To make a long story short, I try to get the things cleared using Debrox and Hydrogen Peroxide and of course, with my type of earwax, it makes it worse. So I go in to my pals at CFHC and they mess it up even more so now I have to go to an ENT where they'll do a micro suction. Now I wasn't familiar with this so I looked it up on YouTube and I now fully realize that earwax is the cause of my tinnitus! I should have figured it out long ago. I first started having tinnitus symptoms soon after the first time I had a doctors office mess up an irrigation back in 2008! It's only this video, that I only watched because of the recent failure and subsequent need for another appointment to do this vacuuming, that alerted me to this!
Another weird rabbit hole was a movie I'd never heard of before called Trump Unauthorized. It apparently was a TV movie that aired back in 2005 and it's virtually the same thing, scene for scene as the recent movie about Trump that I bought, The Apprentice. Now, this older one is a bit more tame and treats The Donald with a lot more care but it really isn't that bad for a TV movie. Being so old, it of course doesn't go into anything of his most noteworthy stuff of late -- it pretty much ends just as he's about to accept his stint on the reality TV show he starred on called The Apprentice. But here's the weird part: The movie doesn't have Roy Cohn represented, instead they have a fake character as his best friend/mentor/lawyer by the supposedly made-up name of Peter Wennik (played by familiar character actor Saul Rubineck). It seems like his character is the only fake one in the whole movie. Why? And why leave out Roy Cohn? Wasn't it publicly known Trump and he were associates? When I did a Google search of the fake name Peter Wennik, the first result that came up was Peter W. Kaplan aka Peter Wennik Kaplan. And according to his Wikipedia page, who was he? He was the Editor-in-chief for the New York Observer a weekly newspaper that was owned by Jared Kushner. But when the movie was made in 2005, Jared Kushner was a year away from owning the paper and four years before he married Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter!
And finally tonight, I finish an epic sesh of Civ (5 of course -- there simply is no other version) which began hours and hours ago as I set out founding village after village peacefully from my home settlement of Jakarta as my portly, bare-chested doppelganger (unfortunately) Gajah Mada, leader of the Indonesian Civilization. I exploited my relative isolation from the 21 other civs and avoided hassles by settling away from mainland Asia and soon I had quite the prosperous and happy (due to all the exotic luxury resources) empire stretching across the IRL southern Indonesian islands and northern Australian continent. Met Siam to the north but it wasn't long before Polynesia showed up and Kamehameha actually settled two small cities on the south side of Australia. I let them be as I built up my war chest and eventually assembled my armies and fleets to lay waste to those northern neighbors on the Asian mainland. First Siam, then China, then Japan. After what had to be near six to seven hours of playtime (yes this was a HUGE map) my ass was mighty tired, it was just about near the current real time in game years and though I bested all other powers in points easily, I thought Id take out one more civ, just 'cause they dared to colonize on MY Australian lands. My battleships pummeled Honolulu as I speedily and near simultaneously overran those small bubbles of orange to my south. Aloha to you, Sir!
Shut the game down, satisfied with my self-proclaimed win and made my way to the living room, snack in hand for some TV time. Clicked it on and randomly selected Apple TV+ and right there on the main page, up on the big "today's special" section -- A brand new series: Chief of War. An historical drama about the formative years of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the late 18th century! And, in even more kismet fashion, the two episodes dropped on this premier end with a climactic almost literal cliffhanger as our hero, the reluctant and eventually righteously rebellious War Chief to the evil King of the Maui jumps off a cliff after being cornered by the King's men only to be rescued by British sailors to be sailed away, I guess to England since the episode ended as they were watching the island disappear on the horizon. I guess shits been weird all over! The gods of the great volcano have indeed spoken!