Tío Mochales, a company that, years ago, was the undisputed queen of Spanish cheese. Today, it's a somewhat rusty business and their latest big idea: to organize a rural team-building retreat in the village where the company was founded.
In the evening Esme and I watched Gracias Equipo (Go Team!), a very boring Spanish movie. I didn't like it much and rate it a 4 out of 10.
A single mother fighting to survive and a reformed ex-con with untapped talent find in each other an unlikely second chance.
In the evening Esme and I watched Doing Life. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
In the late afternoon I made a photo with my phone of the female Acanthoscurria geniculata I keep. It was stretching after a successful molt last weekend.
Desperate to pay their son's ransom, a mayoral candidate and his wife resort to extreme measures, revealing dark secrets they never intended to bring to light.
In the evening Esme and I watched Animals. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Yesterday, I noticed that the Acanthoscurria geniculata female tarantula I keep was upside down, molting. This is always a critical process, when a spider breaks out of its old exoskeleton a lot can go wrong. Case in point: last Saturday my female Monocentropus balfouri was upside down as well, but after a few days it was clear she was stuck in her molt and had passed. I had bought that spider back in April, 2026 so I was quite sad that it already had died in my care.
Today, I checked on the tarantula and noticed that it had molted successfully. In the above photo you can see the cast-off exoskeleton in the top half of the picture.
Originally a birthday present for Jaiden more than six years ago the care of the tarantula had shifted to me.
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Tommy Wieringa, about the friendship between the wheelchair-bound Fransje Hermans and the adventurous Joe Speedboot, who turns Fransje's life upside down with new dreams and adventures.
In the afternoon Esme and I watched Joe Speedboot, a Dutch movie. Esme is reading the book with the same title by Tommy Wieringa to improve her Dutch. I didn't like the movie much and rate it a 5 out of 10.
In the early evening I gave a superworm to the Brachypelma boehmei I keep. When I took a photo of the tarantula I noticed that she doesn't need food in the near future again; she has a very large abdomen.
I also fed a superworm to the adult female Tliltocatl albopilosus I keep.
A Harvard student becomes the Unabomber after psychological experiments. Years later, an FBI agent's pursuit reveals how his past shaped his deadly campaign that killed 3 and injured 23 from 1978-1995.
In the evening Esme and I watched Unabomber. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.
Late in the evening Esme and I watched The Social Dilemma. To me the documentary was quite repetitive and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
A talented piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis discovers an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.
In the evening Esme and I watched Tuner. I liked the movie a lot and rate it an 8 out of 10.
In the evening Esme and I watched Supergirl. The movie was OK and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
In childhood something black settled on Mechail Korhlen and drank from his throat. Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor deformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return from beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler of the sinister monastery.
In the evening I started in The Blood of Roses. Many years ago I read the book, in a Dutch translation, and I recall it being a good read. I'm looking forward to reading it again.
In the afternoon I finished A Trade of Blood, Ana and Din Mysteries book 3 by Robert Jackson Bennett. While not as good as the previous one in the series, A Drop of Corruption, it was still very good. I look forward to the next book in this series.
A grieving father and his young son relocate to the quiet town of Garretton, which was terrorized by a serial killer known as The Whisper Man 15 years earlier, while rumors circulate that Whisper Man worked with an accomplice.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched The Whisper Man. The movie was so so and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
Baron "Bear" Bailey breaks a novelty charm to force his co-worker Nikki Freeman to love him, but the supernatural compulsion warps her mind into violent obsession, trapping him in a nightmare he cannot wish away.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Obsession. Jaiden and I had seen the movie before recently but liked the rewatch. Back then I rated the movie a 7 out of 10.
In the early afternoon Alice called me that Lina, our cat, had found a frog. When outside, she's on a leash, so Alice could stop her easily from harming the amphibian that was visiting our garden.
After sitting frozen for a while, the frog suddenly made a few jumps, triggering Lina to try to catch it. A few jumps more and it ended up in the garden of our neighbors.
In the afternoon I configured Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to use a Brother HL L2350DW laserprinter via AirPrint over WiFi. Read about it in Setting up a Brother AirPrinter on Ubuntu.
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
In the evening Esme and I watched Flow. I liked the movie, wonderfully made, and rate it an 8 out of 10.