Wonka, etc.

It's midnight (Sunday) and I just remembered to check and see if the Texans won, and they did. So now I'm watching the Texans play the Titans, and the Titans are wearing the old Oilers uniform, powder-blue with red trim and the damn oil-rig on the helmet, and it's kind of freaking me out. Every time I look up at the screen, I'm not sure which team I'm supposed to be rooting for. (Are there even oil-rigs in Tennessee? Honestly you don't see them very much around here any more, either, but you did when I was growing up.) (I'm sure I've said this before, at some point, but this was such an oil-rich area that that was our phone exchange, back when they still had such a thing when I was a kid - it was Oilfield-8. I think those wells must have gone dry ages ago, though.)

(Finished watching the game in the wee hours. It was pretty exciting. The Texans might possibly even make the playoffs.)

I slept very late and then we went to an early-ish show of Wonka. We both liked it, and there was even a good bit of applause at the end, so I guess most people did. I can't really say it wasn't what I expected, because I honestly wasn't sure what to expect. I had no idea if Timothee Chalamet could even sing, but he did well. I checked when we got home and it made around $40 million domestically, over the weekend, but it opened last week internationally, and with the two weeks of overseas sales it's already earned back more than what it cost - $150m total - so that's pretty good.

(Sickness update, in case anybody's concerned: I'm still coughing every now and then, but otherwise the symptoms are mostly gone. So that's a relief.)