Health update: I'm pretty sure that my brief dalliance with Covid at the beginning of the year has flipped a switch in me, activating diabetes...or, at least, pre-diabetes. My toes are scrunched up to the point where I'm worried I may have to bid them adieu. I figured that the best way to get it under control - if not reverse it altogether - is to lose weight. However, doing that with the traditional methods - exercising, eating right - is bullshit. I have a secret weapon that seems to be working. Hopefully, it works well enough to allow me to enjoy The Taste of Buffalo.

Yes, I'm still going. Why the shit wouldn't I?

BTW, I'm a good deal more active than my father when he was struck with the big 'D'. So far, I wouldn't wish this disease on my worst enemy. Shopping for the shit I would eat all the time has become a never-ending minefield of blood sugar-spiking, artery-clogging, foot-lopping misery. I can barely eat anything anymore. Well, I can eat anything. I just have to get used to not being alive, as a result.

Shit.

Talk about..."Talk About".

One thing I loved about staying home from school in the late 80s and early 90s were the game shows. The allure of cash and prizes. The vicarious thrill of success or failure as ordinary folks competed for a few fleeting moments of glory.

One of my favorites of those halcyon days was the Canadian-based series "Talk About". All you had to do was pick a subject to talk about in 20 seconds and the more keywords you listed, the more you succeeded.

Fun and pretty simple stuff. Well, a good deal more than avoiding those damned Whammies or guessing a song using only three notes.

Well, Buzzr has brought "Talk About" back and...well, this is just another example of why some memories are better left in the past. Not to be too acidic, but a lot of the contestants on this show are cretins; almost like they intentionally pick the subjects they know jack shit about. A pair held court over five games and even they weren't immune to this situation.

Well, there were a bunch of game shows on back then. Maybe, revisiting another one will lift my spirits. "Supermarket Sweep" is on Buzzr, too.

One of my errands today was going to a comic book shop hoping to find missing issues. I flipped through the new releases section and the long boxes of older issues. Not finding the issues got me more and more frustrated and I left empty-handed.

The odd sense of community I felt at seeing so many people flipping through with stacks of what they wanted to buy was nice, but then it came over me that there's nothing I can get from a store that I can't find faster online. This is the world we live in now.

I kinda wish I'd tried harder to make friends when I was younger, because it's hell trying to chat people up in my 40s.