Wednesday, December 31, 2025

What I found posted on the King Manor, fifth floor bulletin board


I wonder how much time and effort goes into making all of these bulletins.


New Year’s Eve 2025 pizza party


Here is an events calendar for the North Pointe Resource Center / Rainbow Center.



This is my first plate of pizza and a drink.



This is my second plate of pizza and a drink.


Does Star Trek have isekai episodes?


What is an isekai story?   Isekai is going to another world (Gate) or time travel (Inuyasha).  Most Star Trek episodes are not isekai.  But, to satisfy my curiosity, I checked the original series for any isekai episodes.

“The Naked Time” To save the Enterprise, Scott makes a full-power restart of the warp engines, propelling the Enterprise at impossible speed away from the dying planet into a Space-Time warp sending the ship back 71 hours in time.

“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” The Enterprise time travels back to 1969.

“The Alternative Factor” where there is a version of Lazarus from Kirk’s universe and an insane version of Lazarus from an alternate dimension.

“The City on the Edge of Forever”, where high on drugs, Dr. McCoy becomes unbalanced and disappears through the Guardian of Forever, a newly discovered time portal on a remote planet.

“Mirror, Mirror”, is an episode where a transporter mishap slips Captain Kirk and his companions into a parallel universe, where the Enterprise serves a barbaric Empire instead of the Federation.

“Assignment: Earth”, The Enterprise time travels back to 1968.

“The Tholian Web” is an episode where the Defiant vanishes and goes back in time into the Mirror universe.

“All Our Yesterdays”.  This is another time travel episode.

Wow!  I had no idea that there are so many isekai episodes in Star Trek.


Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The last day of Bentleyville 2025


Because of the low clouds, the conclusion fireworks display was hard to see.



Despite the low clouds, it was much fun to see the clouds backlit with colorful lights like that.



“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss


I found blue and red fish at Bentleyville 2025


I hope that future Bentleyville displays are of how people from different cultures celebrate Christmas.  For example, could we have displays of Finnish Christmas traditions, such as ice lanterns, sheafs (1), and Yule goats?

 

(1)  In Finland, the tradition of placing wheat sheafs outdoors for birds during the Christmas season is a cherished practice. This custom, which dates back to the pagan era, symbolizes giving food to the birds during the cold winter months. The sheafs are placed in the landscape, reflecting the natural elements of the Finnish winter, and serve as a reminder of the community's connection to nature and the environment.


Monday, December 29, 2025

We're not here to start no trouble. We're just here to do the Bentleyville Shuffle.


I found the most important characters of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” an entertaining (TV special) in the Bentleyville Gift Shop.



Gnomes for the Holidays!



I found nice-looking red lights reflected in the water of the asphalt pathway.


I got my Craft Vodka Cocktail Black Raspberry


I got my tasty Raspberry bread.