Books and TV

 I finished a 3 book trilogy (that seems redundant, a 3 book trilogy) on WWII.  Book One The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara is America's involvement in the North African Campaign.  Book Two was The Steel Wave which was Normandy and the break out and Book Three was No Less a Victory which was the ending of the war from both sides of view.     

Each book followed a group of soldiers and their stories along with the Generals and what they were thinking. The thing is that NOW we know all that happened but the books tell the story of the confusion during that time.  

We had broken Enigma but Hitler was so paranoid he refused to use it in the run up to the Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) and even the highest Generals in the German Army had no clue.  

BUT - one of my favorite parts of each book was what happened to all the characters in the book AFTER the war.    How do you go from fending for yourself in freezing weather with people shooting at you every day and witnessing the horrors of what the Germans did to civilians, especially woman, as they retreated. 

How do you go back to selling insurance. 

Heck - I had problems after a 600 mile bike ride where I would have to fend for myself for a week.  

Although one cheery part was what happened to Hermann Wilhelm Göring. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death.   But instead of giving the Allies satisfaction of a hanging be committed suicide with cyanide.  

WELL - he was cremated at the Dachau Concentration Camp and his ashes were tossed in the garbage. 

DROP THE MIC! 

YUP - It's Christmas, time to get out my favorite Christmas movie  - PATTON!! 

OH - Russia - 80% of the Russian prisoners that the Allies had liberated from the concentration camps, when  returned to Russia, were executed. It's just their thang I guess. 

To be honest Stalin made Hitler look like a boy scout. Stalin killed MUCH more than Hitler.  We just didn't care because it was his country.

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I read that 80% of Covid patients are lacking Vitamin D.  So I start to look up how much vitamin D you need.   It's more then spending a half hour in the sun in Wisconsin in the winter.   A couple hours a day is more like up here. 

BUT as I was looking for information I see 80% of Americans are lacking vitamin D which sort of matches the people with Covid.  

I got on a vitamin kick about a year ago when I was suppose to have a knee operation January 2.  But that was postponed and I learned about Conformis knees and then was talked out of it when I went to The Prairie Ridge Health Center.   

NOW - one year later my knee feels fine. Never really hurts.  I GUESS it's swollen a little but I never notice it.  Glucosamine!  LOVE IT!  I was always in the 1-2 range in pain but a few weeks after I started taking it, nothing, I never get to even a 0.5 pain now.

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We started watching Schitts Creek on Netflix.  Yea - late to the game I guess but it's really one of our

Don't worry - it's his daughter - get your mind out of the gutter.  

favorite shows.  Then we watch Arrested Development (late to the game again) and then Extras and toss in Young Sheldon.  We finished VEEP so check that one off and we are now watching SEAL TEAM which DJ loves.  It's like an adult A-Team with beautiful people doing macho things!  We love every character.  

Now with Amazing Race over we're going to have an issue knowing what day it is.

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Thank you Ron Johnson for voting down the $1,200 stimulus check.  We don't need no money.  Heck balderdash only got like $5 on the last stimulus check and he's doing fine.    Like the rest of us slowly becoming an alcoholic but . . . . . 

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OH - some ratings came out for Strat-o-matic.  I have Yelich for ONE MORE YEAR (last year) and he was not only REALLY average at the plate but his fielding was also SUPER average.   blah!  

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Did I read that Bret Bulimia now coaches UWI and is making more money then our coach?   Cannabis money going towards education?

ALERT ALERT  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints handbook approves of vaping medical cannabis.

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WONDER WOMAN 1984 made 34 million over the weekend in China. The expected was 40 million.  I will watched in on HBO MAX  which my LG television does not get.  OH - it has 30 different apps but NOT HBO MAX!   Gotta watch it on my PS4. 

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COLD IS COMING!  Looks like a HIGH of 12 on Thursday and 14 on Friday! 

Cheers