I just started a 1-week vacation from work today. My next workday is next Monday, 4/5/2021. I last worked on Friday, but I was on-call until this morning at 7:00 AM, so my vacation “officially” just started. But I consider it “9 days off” anyway. So what to do? We rarely go places on vacation, I just needed a break and had a bunch of other things that I needed to get done, so I figured why not, as long as I have plenty of vacation time saved up?

So, while thinking about having exactly 9 days off, and what to do with them, what great collection of movies includes nine features? Only one that I could think of – Star Wars. There are actually a lot more than nine movies in the series, but 9 sequentially numbered “Episodes” with other movies within and around those. So I decided to watch one a day for the entire 9 days. That’s only a few hours a day, so I still have the rest of each day for whatever else I want to do.

I’m watching them in “Episode #” order, so I watched Episode 1 and 2 on Saturday and Sunday already. Got interrupted once or twice with pages from the hospital, but that was bound to happen. So far, we’re off to a good start. Anakin’s all grown up already and getting very angry, soon to turn to the dark side, and I learned that Jengo Fett was the model used for all of the clones in the clone war and his son Boba was just a little kid in Episode 2. Things I totally forgot or missed when I watched these movies years ago.

More to come and maybe some other details of other things as the week goes on, including some cool new tech I’m now wearing which shows me this stuff:

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