When a supermom lands a Shark Tank deal, she switches roles with her breadwinner husband, who struggles to adapt as a stay-at-home dad to their three daughters.
In the evening Esme and I watched The Breadwinner. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Run. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
Today I published an article on my other blog regarding my experience with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on a GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra. I did bump into some issues but not one was a deal breaker for me.
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
In the evening Esme and I watched Tony. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice--launch the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
In the evening Esme and I watched Pressure. I liked the movie and rate it a 7 out of 10.
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, underneath her cast-off exoskeleton. It had molted. In the photo below you can see the tarantula upside down (top half) and the exoskeleton (bottom half).
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 and was back right side up. 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.
Now, I have to wait about 2 weeks with feeding her; her fangs need to harden out.
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.
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home.
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.