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This weekend was the Super Bowl and as I care not at all for football or any sport the only impact that had on my life was how populated various places might be and where to eat on Sunday to avoid the loud and excited crowds.

Friday night was a quiet evening at home watching the next episode of season two of The Night Manager. Season two isn’t as tight and as compelling as season one but far from trash television. Also, my Sweetie-Wife decided that she was interested in seeing the newest adaptation of Dracula, even though we are going in with very low expectation. Frankly Caleb Landry Jones looks to be the worst casting for the icon vampire since Lon Chaney Jr. got stuck with the role in Son of Dracula.

Saturday morning was a nice long walk with my Sweetie-Wife along Riverside Park that is near our home, then spending at least some of the evening Tabletop Role Playing over Zoom in the evening. During my preparation for helping players generate new characters for this Space Opera game I discovered that I could feed pages of the dense and badly written rule book into Claude and have that A.I. create spreadsheets for some of the more formula driven aspects of the game. The session went very well and those A.I.-created spreadsheets for the most part worked very well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday my spouse and I took our customary trip to the San Diego Zoo. Given that this was Super Bowl Sunday I expected less than usual attendance and that is what we found. It was not deserted but with the exception of the pandas, we encountered few areas of congestion. It was a pleasant walk. I even got this very nice photo of one of the tigers. We lunched at a spot where we were nearly alone and then came home to relax the rest of the day away ending it with a game of Star Trek: The Original Series deck-building game and the next episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

I had a very nice weekend.