Hello Weird!
Fcrate, I am glad all is well, and the puppy shuffle is so real. Or cat, as Regen said.
That reminds me, did you ever googled "cat" or "dog" and clicked in the paw print? So cute.I

Regen, I hope your mother is doing well.
I am glad my question send you in a family history trip  . Thanks for the recommendation for hubby, I told him.
I watched a lot of TV in my childhood, especially in weekends. I usually spent Saturdays in my grandma and grand-grandma house and they napped after lunch, so I watched TV. Mainly local children shows, but also animé (Heidi, Kimba, Astroboy, Speed Racer_which is called Meteoro here.) and Maya the bee. And of course, everyone watched the news in the evening and night shows. When I was still a child by older I watched several series and I remember one animé that was called Angel the flower girl here but is called something like Lun Lun in the original, I think.

Hello! I just realized i never answered this post.
I am super glad your mom is at home and that she is doing well. I am sure she enjoys you visiting her everyday.
And I am sure the furred destroyers are the delight of your family, so do not even try to pretend that they annoy you.

I just watched a movie in Netflix which is called Apollo 10 1/2. It is an animated film about a child growing up near NASA around the Moon landing, and how he imagines he goes to the moon himself but cannot tell anyone. I liked it because it shows life at the time, and it also got me thinking. In the movie, they got color TV in 1969 (but not all the shows were in color). That also reminded me the show The Avengers (the one about British spies John Steed and Emma Peel or other women, unrelated to Captain America and his friends). That was a 60's show that in one season began being "in color". When did color TV arrived to your countries. It arrived here in 1980! My family, like many others, got one in 1982, for watching the World Cup. It was ironic that even when the 1978 World Cup was in Argentina, and filmed in color, we could not see it in color until many, many years later. I fully remembered the emotion of having the color TV.

Hello everyone!
It is finally cooler, so I guess they were just a few very hot days.
I loved the story about the squirrels 

I think I did not tell you the other day I went to a Museum, it is the Latin American Art Museum here in Buenos Aires. I am ashamed to admit that I had never been there before, even when it opened more than 20 years ago. I finally decided to use one day of my holidays to go there. It is not a big one, but it has some interesting pieces and I enjoyed it. There are a couple of Frida Kahlo's works, one of Diego Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, one Botero. Of course, several Argentinian ones.It was a pleasant visit, and there was an exposition of a female artist who does things Nature related, mainly with water and seeds. I had a good time, but it was a torrid day, so the commuting was tiresome. I arrived home more tired than I should, but AC was a good thing.

Hello everyone!
I watched one other episode of What if...? and I really liked it. It is about a new superheroine, an original one, called Kahhori, who is from a Mohawk tribe when America was first conquered by Spain. I liked that all the episode was spoken in Mohawk or Spanish and it featured a full change of history. Also, there is a Heaven like place which has an Avatar (the last airbender) vibe.
I have a friend who is into Korean series and has the same problem about the names. She laughs at herself because sometimes she is very confused.
I hope your mother is well, and that she enjoyed her beer, even if she had to drink it fast. The story made me laugh.
We finally watched Oppenheimer (it is on demand now). I think it was excellent and very interesting.

 
It is fun to watch.
I've finished American Gods, a show I had abandoned before, and I am sad to report that the show ends without resolving anything, as if it was expecting a new season that never came 
I am playing a Nancy Drew game I bought a few months ago and had no time to play before. These Nancy Drew games are story and puzzle centered, which is right in my alley. They still sometimes frustrate me, like when I need to do a quest so my silly character can learn the Greek alphabet or when she refuses to see what is obviously happening, but in general I like them. I am also planning to caught up with Stray, the game about a stray cat that was a hit a while ago. i bought it, played it for a while, got frustrated in a part I could not pass, and abandoned it. I will try again, perhaps with hubby help.

I’m wondering if Jim’s defense for the misspellings is the story is taking place far in the future after some cataclysmic event made the world the way it is in the books.  Languages can change over time, with different spellings, different pronunciations and even different syntax and tenses.

That could be total nonsense, but if I was in Jim’s shoes, that would my excuse.  It would be more believable if there are slightly different spellings for ships with English names or English noble names.  I only listened to the audio book, so I can’t tell.

As I said, most TOA names are written like nowadays, except for some Spanish names. That means, yes, spelling can change in many years in the future, but apparently it only affected Spanish names.
Of course I imagine Jim is not fluent in Spanish and that is perfectly ok, but you can check the spelling in Google or just ask someone who knows. I am surprised not the betas, not even the editor thought in suggesting a change of spelling for the ship.
Also, you are entitled to your opinion that this is a minor issue, as I am entitled to my own opinion.

I had not thought about that in the audiobooks. How did they pronounce "conquistodor"? I wish I had a list of ALL the character and ship names, but all those I remember use the current spelling or are perfectly common ones, except for some Spanish ones.

Fcrate!!!
I am so happy to see you!
I am truly sorry about Rex and Minion. I had a couple of cats who died of poisoning due to neighbors like 25 years ago and it still pains me when I think on them. And of course having to put a pet down is one of the worst experiences ever. The only consolation left for any of us in those situations is that we gave the pets our love and that we did we best we could to help them or to have them comfortable. I am sure they know.
On the other side of the wheel, puppies! Did you read that Regen had three kitten too? So cute. I hope the treatment help the mom of your puppies.

Me and hubby are more of less fine. I had a fall several months ago (just a common fall, nothing serious per se) that left me with an annoying but not incapacitating pain in my left foot. The technical name is sesamoiditis, it is like a bruise in small "floating" bone. It also somehow increased a previous issue that I think it is called a bunion (hallux valgus), which was only a minor inconvenience before. In short, I have a pain in what i think you call the ball of the foot. It has been getting better. I did kinesio, magnetotherapy and I finally decided it was not helping me anymore so I stopped doing that. Now, precisely today I have an appointment to have some special soles made for me, which should be softer and help with the position of the toes. So I expect I will be even better.

Also, we have a new president and things are quite dire in my country. Savage devaluation, inflation, recession, all is terrible. The followers of the new president think we are facing a few bad months, like growing pains, and then we will begin to improve. I do not share their vision, but perhaps (hopefully) I am wrong. I will let you know next year (for example)

On the bright side, I am on my leave and I've been sleeping in and being lazy.

Oh! I've also read The Olympian Affair, the last JB book (and previously, the novella Warriorborn). I liked both of them.

Enough for now, hope to see you soon!