Joe Biden is President-Elect. Now we wait and see how messy Donald makes things up until January 20th. And beyond. According to his niece, Mary Trump, even after he’s out of the White House, Donald is going to do everything he can to muck up Joe Biden’s Presidency. Donald does not take losing well, as we all know. This could still get pretty messy. Enough politics.

We’ve watched a few good shows lately:

The Undoing – This is a HBO miniseries starring Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. It’s 6 episodes long, a total of about a 6-hour movie. It’s really good though, it kept Sandy and I riveted since the first episode, and we couldn’t wait to finish it and wrap up the story completely. I don’t want to spoil any details, so I’ll only say a little about the first episode. Hugh Grant plays a Oncologist working at a hospital in New York. He’s married to Nicole Kidman and they have one child in grade school. Nicole is also a doctor – a psychologist, so you can imagine that they are fairly well-to-do. We quickly learn that many things aren’t quite as they appear to be when someone turns up dead. That’s about all I can say. It’s really good though, worth watching for sure.

Seven Pounds – This is a Wil Smith movie released in 2008, but we never watched it before. As it turns out, it is an excellent movie. Very sad and tragic, but a great story and great acting. Besides Wil Smith, it stars Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson. I can’t really explain much about this one without spoiling anything, it seems like it’s best if you go in not knowing what it’s about at all, and just let it unfold over the course of it’s 2-hours-and-3-minute length. And it does just that–it keeps you guessing right up until the end too. I’ll just add this short description I found online: “An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers”. Another one well worth watching.

I’ve been reading the Ready Player Two audiobook during my commute this week. It’s another good one, but sure turns the tables on the potential future of VR technology showcased in Ready Player One. As you know, if you’ve visited my site more than once in the past, Ready Player One is one of my favorite books. I’m only halfway through the second book, but enjoying the heck out of it already. Whether it’s as good as the first one I don’t know, we’ll have to see, but so far it’s much the same but with many more twists and complications–many of which have already been completely different than what I would have expected for a sequel, which might be a good thing or a bad thing. It’s just a little annoying having to read through some of the detailed explanations of things that occured in the first book, which were added, I guess, to fill out the book for those who didn’t read the first book first or not at all. I listened to the first book over again, just before Ready Player Two released, just to be ready, but I guess that wasn’t necessary. We’ll have to see how it turns out. I’ll be sure to post a review after I finish it.

Lastly, the puppies somehow managed to slay a rabbit last night in the backyard. We put Shadow and Tiger out in the backyard for a bathroom break and Tiger came back in without his sweater, so I was tasked with running out to find it before our resident squirrel, who lives in our backyard tree, decided to use it to it as insulation for his Winter next. Our yard is fenced in completely with a chain-link fence, so rabbits and squirrels tend to get in and then get caught off-guard when the dogs are let out and have a hard time working their way back to, or finding, their way back to where they came in so they can get back out.

The squirrel always escapes up our tree, and the dogs wait at the base of the tree, looking up and barking. But the bunny, sadly, either wasn’t able to outrun the puppies, or he just gave up running at some point and dropped dead of a heart attack or exhaustion. I didn’t see any blood anywhere, on the ground, the bunny, or either of the two puppies. Tiger’s sweater was lying a few feed from the bunny, intact, like he pulled it off in a hurry to join the fight, or continue the hot pursuit of the bunny when they were chasing him. He sometimes gets a front leg out of his sweater, so sometimes he’ll walk up to us on 3 legs with one stuck inside his sweater, or he’ll just pull his other front leg out so it slides down his torso and he works it the rest of the way off. So there was the dead bunny, as you see in the photo, along with dozens of tufts of very soft bunny fur scattered all over the backyard in places. I placed Mr. Bill, one of the puppies’ favorite squeaky toys (he used to cry “Oh noooooooo!” in Mr. Bill’s voice until I accidentally stepped on him on the living room floor rendering him mute for some time–Dr. Sandy later performed surgery on him and gave him a couple new squeakers so he wasn’t so quiet) next to the bunny for scale.

I brought Tiger’s sweater in the house and explained the crime scene to Sandy and Kevin. They were pretty shocked. We looked over the sweater and both dogs, but didn’t see any signs of a struggle at all. They just seemed really wound-up and anxious to go back outside.

So I gathered up a plastic bag and put on some rubber gloves, then headed out to clean up the crime scene. That went really smoothly, and as I mentioned, I didn’t find any signs of trauma on the bunny at all, he was just flat out on the ground, freshly dead, eyes not even glazed over yet.