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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.)

I figured out that I missed a movie on my list (the updated version of which is below, again), & that was Across the Spider-Verse. I thought of it when I was making the list, and then I went, "I dunno, maybe it came out in '22" and then forgot to check that. (And only remembered to fix it because somebody mentioned it in the comments!!)

Then there's TV. The fact is that I don't watch a whole lot of TV other than news and baseball (and lately football again), but we're watching Only Murders in the Building because we have Hulu again and everybody always says it's good - so far we agree. (We're two episodes in. Nobody tell me spoilers.) The other TV I watch most aside from the stuff above is Disney Channel, mostly meaning nearly anything Star Wars or Marvel. And I'm accustomed to keeping a really good list for movies but I don't keep up nearly as well with TV. What came out in 2023, other than Ahsoka and Loki s.2? (both of which I liked a lot). Oh, I did watch Young Jedi Adventures! which was cute. If there's anything else I'm blanking out. (The 3 Dr Who specials, almost forgot that! even though we watched the last one just a couple of hours ago.)

(It occurred to me that when I said I really liked The Marvels movie, in the last entry, that it probably made a difference that I watched Ms Marvel and all of Wandavision and that made understanding The Marvels much easier! Not everybody wants to watch all of every one of those shows, and maybe the people who make the movies should take that into consideration.)

Then football - I've talked about Longhorn football already. The other football I've gradually started watching again this season is the Houston Texans, which I have not paid attention to for quite a few years, but since they have that young quarterback and are actually managing to win games I'm reluctantly back. (I'm very torn about football, generally, but I've been watching it since I was a teenager, which is actually 50 years ago now - as I discussed one day previously - and it's clearly not going to go away depending on whether I watch or not, so when "my" teams are playing decently I generally give in and watch.)

Movies we saw in a theater in 2023:
The Marvels
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Creator
A Haunting in Venice
Blue Beetle
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
The Little Mermaid
The Flash
Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (twice)
Air
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Ant-Man & the Wasp
M3GAN

and Rob also saw:
Dream Scenario
Thanksgiving
Five Nights at Freddy's
Exorcist: Belliever
Saw X
It Lives Inside
The Nun 2
They Live (re-release)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (twice)
Talk To Me
Insidious:The Red Door
The Blackening
Beau Is Afraid
Evil Dead Rise
The Pope's Exorcist
Scream VI
Creed 3
Knock at the Cabin (twice)
Infinity Pool
The Devil Conspiracy

(Look! Texans icon! I made it myself!)

More Houston-Galveston stuff, some of which refers to yesterday's entry:

Aw man, I knew it was probably coming, but Jim Deshaies is leaving us for the Cubs. I adore that man. (But I'm not sure I adore him enough that I'll go watch Cubs games just for him. Of course, if the Astros are bad enough this next year, that may start to look like a more attractive option.)
In other (ex-)Astros news, Brad Lidge is probably retiring. Also, bonus footage there of the Astros clinching in 2005. (Rob and I were watching the faces and in some cases the jerseys during the scrum, and going, "Berkman! Biggio! Clemens!" Damn, that was a good team, even if they couldn't win a WS game.)
I had to go to Galveston today for a doctor's appointment, and the other Carnival ship was in today. I got out of my appointment right at 4:30, which I have learned over the past couple of years is about the time that the ships usually depart. You could tell that anyway, because when I got back downtown, half the passengers were lined up looking over the railings. To me this always brings to mind old black-and-white movies where the passengers line up to wave at their loved ones who are waving back from below. But nobody is going to stand around to watch you leave when you're just going sailing around the Gulf of Mexico for five days or whatever it is. Plus most of the passengers arrive on buses or park remotely, so there's nobody to watch, in any case. (I'm sure the passengers aren't really lining up for that at all, they're just watching the ship pull out. Still amuses me just the same.)
I said confidently yesterday that the Texans game was taping (by which I actually meant DV-R'ing, of course, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it) so of course when I got home it hadn't worked properly, and I only got the last hour or so. I didn't really care that much, anyway, but I really should probably investigate what happened there. It seems to have switched on at three o'clock or something, and our games are nearly always at noon. Honestly, U-verse, you're supposed to just read my mind! (And often it seems to. I'm terribly spoiled, really.)
Also, the Texans have serious injury problems. They coped with it pretty well, yesterday, but that was just the Titans. New England may be another story.

Note to self: 45 minutes is too long of a drive for a routine doctor appointment. (As the university knows full well, it's why they have about a zillion clinics scattered all over the north half of the county.)

(I was going to add a picture of the rather excessive holiday decorations around our apartment complex, but my phone isn't cooperating. Sorry.)

It's Sunday afternoon and the Texans are playing, and while I am generally fairly calm on the subject (most of the time), I am kind of into this whole Texans juggernaut thing. We've had a lot of bad years and it's about time we had a good one! And unfortunately I can't see any of the TVs from my desk and I can't really go wander around because sitting at this desk IS my job, basically, but luckily, I have my trusty iPhone and the NFL '12 app to inform me that the Texans just won 24-10 and they are now 11-1 for the year, so woot! (I watched a little bit of it at home and then listened to most of the 2nd quarter in the car, and it's taping so I'll probably watch the whole thing again when I get home. So you don't really need to feel bad for me on account of missing it.) So let's see... the math here is that there are four games left and worst case scenario if we lost the rest of them is we'd be 11-5. We certainly hope it won't come to that, although we have New England at Foxboro next week so that's sort of the acid test. We still have to play Indianapolis twice, that's all I know about the rest of the schedule off the top of my head. Actually that accounts for 3 of the 4 remaining weeks, doesn't it? (According to ESPN, the Texans did clinch a playoff spot today. I didn't think we could do that today, but I'm glad to find out I'm wrong! Now it becomes all about home field and such.)

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