It's that time of the week again, so here's what's trending in my world this week.
1. Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow: I am very late to the Jeff Beck train. I always knew he was great, and I always enjoyed his interviews when I saw him on TV, but after his untimely passing, I started seeing more and more of him popping up on my social media feeds or on YouTube. Eventually, I started watching the man play, and it's mesmerizing. I picked up Blow by Blow the other day in a used CD shop, and it's amazing. Just like he was. I need to seek out more of his records. He just always sort of hovered outside the edge of my musical sphere, but I guess it's better late than never. 2. Heartland Docs, DVM on Nat Geo Wild: Started watching this a few years ago with the kid because she loves veterinarian shows. Nine times out of ten, if I come home from work and she's home, she's watching Nat Geo Wild for whatever DVM is plying their trade at that hour. Drs. Ben and Erin Schroeder are a married couple who are both DVMs. They met in grad school at the University of Kansas. They live in Hartington, Neb. and run a practice servicing animals of the area. It's good, wholesome, family TV, and it's a solid entry in the pantheon of vet shows. Since the all five seasons are on Disney+, it makes it really easy to stick it on for background viewing. 3. Simplifying My Life: This isn't a thing, per se, but it's something I've done. I took the liberty of deleting all my social media apps off my phone the other week: Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, Twitter/X--pretty much everything but Instagram, but only because Instagram is used primarily in concert with my phone camera, so that one can stay. But I moved it to another page on my apps screens so I don't see it anymore. In doing this, I've limited myself to social media only when I'm at my computer, which is easier for me to limit to checking once a day, if at all. Frankly, it's eased some of my imposter syndrome, and it's made me stop getting raised blood pressure over nothing issues online which I had no control over anyhow. I'm not going to change the quagmire that politics has become in this country, and clearly people are ingrained in their ideologies to the point where common sense and proof will not change people's minds, so why am I angry about it? I've moved on. I'm not longer grasping at my phone while watching TV. I'm thinking more about my books instead of clever things to post. It's better overall. I highly recommend you give it a try. Anyhow, that's all for this week. Back with three more things next week. Thanks for reading. |
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