For reasons not yet completely understood Deb has been losing iron from her blood at an alarming rate. At first it was gradual, but then it seemed to accelerate over the past two months, to the point where she can't do much for very long. To say she is frustrated would be an understatement. Thursday she received the first of two massive iron infusions. She gets another one next week, then sees her specialist in April. So this can take a long time to work. Her levels of hemoglobin are correspondingly low, and with the added iron should eventually re-balance itself. In the meantime we wait. And wait. We're hoping for some improvement this week. We'll see.
We finished watching Season Two of Foundation, loosely based on Asimov's first book in the series. There are ten more episodes to go. Maybe next week. I am getting tired of the same characters, who die and then seem somehow to return to life. We have also been watching a French TV series from 2023 called Mademoiselle Holmes. She is supposedly the great granddaughter of Sherlock, and lives with her grandfather in a French chateau near Nantes. She works in the city as a policewoman, and has a young intern doctor with her (her Watson). In the third episode it appears that it is more likely that she is a descendant of Moriarty (her dad) and Holmes (her mom). Not much is explained yet in the major arc, but in the meantime she is building a reputation in the department as a crime solver. She is hyperactive, has some emotional and mental problems (she usually takes meds), and plays fiddle in the style of Brittany folk music. So far it's an engaging series and she is likable to a certain extent (like Holmes). It is showing on PBS Masterpiece.
In film news there are two to report. The Fan is Otto Preminger's 1949 filming of Lady Windermere's Fan. It was Oscar Wilde's first great stage success and he was asked for more of the same afterwards. Jean Crain plays the young newlywed who thinks her husband (Richard Greene) is having an affair with an older woman of somewhat ill repute. Madelaine Carroll, in her final role, plays the older woman who carries with her a great secret. George Sanders is a character who is also in love with the married Crain, and almost gets to steal her from her husband. The director adds a framing device, beginning and ending the story is contemporary post-war London, and it does the play no harm. Sanders gets some of the best lines, but he seems to hurry through them without much emphasis. Still, this is a decent film though I would much rather see it performed live in a theater.
TNT Jackson is from 1974, a kung fu film starring black actors, but it takes place in Hong Kong. Starring Millie Milan as a gal looking to avenge the murder of her brother, and Rudy Ray Moore as the guy she is looking for. Mostly action with a bit of dialogue, as least the film is fast paced. There is at least one good scene with a carnival taking place. At one point a group of dancers and revelers is lured into a police station, where Ms. Jackson is being held. In the ensuing chaos she is freed. The entire carnival sequence is quite well done. From our Mill Creek Entertainment DVD collection, called "Drive-in Classics." Not much of a classic, though.
We continue making progress with Black Mirror, an older PC game we are now playing off of Steam. I have been getting rid of my DVD games as they come up on Steam. They run better and look better, though I am still keeping discs that have not yet appeared on Steam. I continue driving trains, adding Austria to my ever-growing list of countries. I'm behind in my screenshots, so here are a few from my many services undertaken.
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