I very much enjoy digging up offbeat news from around the world.

This one’s about a Cuban film festival in Ecuador. I would love to see them all. To be in Ecuador watching Cuban movies would be total glory.

In my twenties when I was hanging out in Guadalajara (MX) more, I went to movies all the time. I saw lots of Russian movies, Cuban, and many from eastern Europe that just weren’t showing in the USA.

Also while there. I went to a 24-hour horror movie festival where you got an armband and could come and go as you pleased for a whole day.

Also saw Ghostbusters. Los Cazafantasmas.

This bubbles up in my head sometimes.

I was waiting with someone in a hospital ER cubicle, and this old man was wheeled into the one next to us.

The nurse asked the man, “can I get you something to drink?”

He said in a baritone voice, “yes, milk.”

I thought to myself, “that’s GD nasty.” It hit me as really odd that night.

Sky over production plant looking pretty. They are hard to see in the pic, but there are cute birds perched atop several of the ripples in the roof.

I had lunch in a restaurant the other day. Do I pay the server, or is there a cashier?

The server said there was a cashier, but I could also pay at the table by scanning the QR code on the check. I’d seen that before, and wanted to finally try it. I’ve used table terminals before, a la Olive Garden, but never the code.

Payment was quick, spiffy, and I was out the door doing a quick crotch grab toward the cashier as I passed in the lobby. j/k

Somebody gonna say that I’m killing those cashier jobs and that I shouldn’t work for the restaurant for free by cashing myself out. 😝

TFW the doctor’s office calls, texts, e-mails, and sends so many mychart messages that you’d rather stay home sick instead of having the ass ridden that hard about an appointment.