This is the nurse, Laura?

Yes. I'm about to call my MIL, her sister, and see what she knows.

Dang, my brother just told me he got tear gassed and shot with a rubber bullet at the Portland protest last night. I'm actually still glad he went but yikes, another thing to worry about.

Dang, my brother just told me he got tear gassed and shot with a rubber bullet at the Portland protest last night.

Shit! Those things are blinding people all over.

Laura, tons of ~ma to your aunt. I hope she fully recovers.

Ouch, -t. How is your brother doing today?

But really, I've enjoyed the SW animated stuff more than the movies recently: the last six episodes of Clone Wars season 7 was excellent. (I have no interest in watching Anakin Skywalker be a whiny jerk so I basically only watched the Ahsoka eps in the final season, and those were great.)

I've watched some of the Clone Wars and, yeah, Ahsoka seems like the most interesting character of the show.

I also saw the new Midway movie not too long ago and it was both better than I expected and not that great. Maybe it was intentional, but it feels more like a movie about the lead up to Midway than the battle itself. So much of what happened at Midway is skipped that it feels very incomplete.

If you give a generous pass for artistic license on a number of details (the ships are way too close together, the Japanese could only dream their anti-aircraft fire was that intense and accurate, the wrong planes are shown in a few places, etc...) it seems reasonably historical, but so much is skipped that you lose the context for the scenes that are shown. I really wished they just did a scroll with the events leading up the battle and used the time to cover more events from the battle. Still, I think it's far superior to the 70s version.

Welp, Ohio's back to mandatory masks in public starting tomorrow.

I found this soothing - the Vancouver Aquarium's baby otter cam.

He's good, Shir. He says they pointed the guns right at them and he caught a rubber bullet in the chest but he's just bruised today. Scary to think about for me.

He also said there were a surprising number of people using squeaky toys as part of the call and response which I did not expect but I can kind of see how that would be useful. Saves your voice, makes noise.

Meanwhile I have been discussing with my sales team how much cookware we need to bring in to be able to support Black Friday sales. Surreal.

I hope your aunt is feeling better quickly, Laura.

and shot with a rubber bullet at the Portland protest last night.

One, I am appalled that military federal forces are being used to harass, threaten, arrest and assault citizens.

Two, those "less than lethal" police weapons that are blinding people and causing fractured skulls are like saying that people who are discharged from ICUs and hospitals recovered from COVID-19. Many are left with serious morbidities. Or die from a stroke.

I hope your brother is okay. I'm proud he went to the protests as well. That's what our country is supposed to protect.