I’ve been walking around the house without using the cane or walker for the past couple days.  I’m not sure if it’s better for my knee to walk around this way, or to still use the cane or walker to assist me.  That’ll be a good question for my therapist visit tomorrow.  I can’t seem to find a decent answer on the web.  That’s about it for today on my knee status, so you can stop reading this particular post right here if that’s all you’re checking in for.

Ticket sales for the movie Venom went on sale the other day, so I grabbed ours right away.  We’re excited for this one.  Matt’s a huge Venom fan.  It’ll be him, Kevin and I at the first showing on 10/4 – the day before the actual release.  Should be a blast.

I watched two awesome Stephen King prison movies yesterday: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.  Both very long, both worth every minute.  I hadn’t seen either of them in quite some time, so they were both pretty refreshing as well.  My favorite character in each?  In Shawshank it was Morgan Freeman.  You can’t go wrong with Morgan Freeman – God Himself. He even ironically refers to his own last name in the movie as he talks about wanting and not wanting to become a “free man”.  In The Green Mile it’s John Coffey (like the drink, only not spelled the same) played by the awesome Micheal Clarke Duncan.  Sadly, he passed away recently.  He was engaged to Omarosa, a former aide to Donald Trump.  The details of his untimely death were explained in her book “Unhinged”, which was primarily about her entire history with Donald Trump.  At the time I read that book, I hadn’t known he had died, so it was a bit of a shock for me.  I also loved him in the movie “Armageddon.”

Sandy recently found this old photo of Rick from his Class of 1969 Bradford yearbook, and because I was so  amused to find a “Pick-O-Rick” I just had to post it on Facebook.  Kevin found it behind the microwave in the kitchen while he and Sandy were installing our new microwave oven this week and showed it to me, asking “Do you know who this is?”  I think Sandy had already told him it was Rick, or he already looked on the back of it, which had “Class of 69!” along with Rick’s autograph.  As soon as I saw it, I shouted “It’s a…PIC-O-RICK!”  Anyone who knows Rick & Morty, the cartoon, knows “Pickle Rick”, and you can’t say it without shouting it.  I got quite a kick out of this and couldn’t resist posting it.

Waze is now being built into new Lincoln vehicles.  It’s in all of their TV ads, which shows a Lincoln driving through crowded city streets containing real-world representations of Waze in-app icons.  Goofy, but that’s expected from most of today’s commercials.  I’m just wondering if it also includes the popup ads that appear whenever you come to a stop in the Android version of Waze.  If it does, I sure hope there’s not an extra charge to get a Lincoln that’s “Waze-equipped.”  That’d be crazy.  And if it doesn’t have the popup ads, I’m betting there’s a pretty hefty add-on charge for the feature on the sticker price!  Either way, I think I’ll stick to having all of my navigation functions on my phone and use a magnet mount.  That way I don’t have any issues with built-in functionality expiring over time, if I don’t keep paying the periodic fees, or when the built-in app just gets a few years old and the manufacturer decides to no longer support it on older models and versions.  Inevitably, one or more of those very frustrating issues will happen sooner or later.  My phone also gets replaced occasionally too, yes, and updates are frequent, but at least I have more options for navigation, should anything happen to Waze or a better option comes along.  But anyway, more power to Google (who bought Waze) for getting this contract.  I’m sure it’ll make them even more billions of dollars and secure their place even more in the Navigation world.  It’s weird how Waze has hundreds of millions less users than Google Maps Navigation does though… This tide will probably start turning now.