So, I wanted to see how two year old Izzy was coming along with learning nursery rhymes. First – Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, eating his…….”popcorn”. Then – Little Boy Blue, come blow your……”nose”. I think he is coming along fine.

Then, I talked to seven year old Joan about the turtle recovery center that Edie and I had visited in Florida. Joan had all sorts of questions and thoughts about the turtles, but really has no idea about Florida, except that it’s warm. She doesn’t know the geography – I guess they don’t teach that in second grade. And of course no one has maps any more. This will be my next task.

I should say that, after we talked about Florida and sea turtles, we talked about Hawaii and volcanoes. I think she knows more about that than I do. She told me she learned much of it watching a video on volcanoes in Hawaii.

Next subject: When an 80 year old looks at his horoscope. I looked at the horoscope in the Sunday Post (why, I don’t know) today and saw that it suggested that a conversation with an older family member would be helpful. OK, I thought, I should do that. But then I was stumped. My aunts, uncles and older first cousins are all gone. But then I realized that my mother has four living first cousins, all older than me (although one just by five years) – one in Florida, one in California, one in Tennessee and one in Texas. Three in their 90s, one in her 80s. On my father’s side? I really don’t know, since I know so few of his family personally.

Last subject: We watched “Everything, Everywhere, Everyone” or whatever its exact name is this evening. First, I have to say that Edie liked the film – if she had a blog, she’d tell you why. I thought it was one of the worst films I have ever seen, and the thought that it won the Oscar for best picture puts it in the same category as when Bob Dylan won a Nobel for Literature. I thought the acting was quite good – I could see why they were all in the running (I am not sure that each of them should have won, but maybe). But James Hong – my golly. He is 94 years old, and looks younger than me. And, they say, he has made over 600 films over the last 70 years. I saw him in the Oscars audience. He looked good there, too.

But, again, as to the film – and I am not going to give much away. You probably know it involves people who were able to travel between various verses, like the universe, and the alphaverse, and the bagelverse. No, “able to travel” is not correct. Who were, often unwillingly tranported between verses would be better.

That’s it from AlphaArthur. Time to push my green button.