Thursday

A friend Roz is currently in hospital, recovering from hip replacement surgery and we went to visit her yesterday.  Just as well the Gold Coast's lockdown finished on Sunday and we are once again allowed visit folk in Hospital - but only two visitors at a time. She is doing well and was downgraded (or is that upgraded?) from the heavy duty wheelier walker to the standard zimmerframe-type walker,  This is amazing since she only had the operation of Monday afternoon ... but they do get them up and moving soon after - Roz was up and on her feet (and new hip) that evening. 

Can you believe that "Toy Story" came out before "You've Got Mail"? Three years earlier.  I know this because I checked it on the interweb just before ... because I've been watching "You've Got Mail" this afternoon and in it Tom Hanks makes a six-shooter noise/gesture, which made me wonder.  How lucky are we to have something like the interweb where we can just open a browser search window, type in a query, and within a fraction of as second, we have the answer!  

It's good to have the answers ... but sometimes the questions are better. Late last year Alex Trebek, long-time host - 37 years! - of "Jeopardy" died from cancer and the search has been on to find a replacement. Various people have tested out for the role and today the new host ... wait, make that "hosts" were announced.  I'm not sure who the first one is ... its executive producer Mike Richards (sounds a bit ... hmmm ... not sure what) and the other, a guest host, selected after some social commentary about Richard's selection, is Mayim Bailik - billed in one report I saw today as "actress and neuroscientist".  It will no doubt be a while before we see the episodes with Mayim here in Australia - but faster for those of us who subscribe to Netflix. 

We had a surprise invitation to a VIP Trivia night at the Casino last night (thanks An and M). We were a table of 8 - with two empty seats - one of them being Pene who had Day No. 1 at her new job at Ikea and hadn't been able to make it.  It was a good evening although we may have done better had the gentleman  who was running our buzzer actually listened to the "girls" (that would be us - with our numereous degrees and lots of experience at various styles/types of Trivia) - it's no point pushing the button three times if you're just going with any answer you think without listening to the rest of us at the table. He lost control of the buzzer when he continually failed to select our - or any - "wager" in the Jeopardy round.  The others felt much better about our chances once the buzzer settled with me.

We were happy we had staked an early claim on the flowers in the middle of the table ... it was good to know M was taking them home to her Mum.  Mouse has had a hit of a rough patch lately - her arm is still in the moon-brace (is there an arm equivalent to the "moon boot"?) following a fall.