I'm watching "The Final Years Of Queen Victoria's Reign | A Monarch UNveiled | Real Royalty" on YouTube. I learned some things I never knew about her. She wrote over 50 million words in her journal. She was also of German heritage (3/4) and spoke fluent German. When her husband and mother died the same year... She was devastated and spent a lot of time in Germany, where her husband Albert and her mother were born.. Of course, it wasn't technically Germany at that point....

She also disregarded social constraints and lacked a sense of snobbery. I enjoyed hearing the stories of how she treated her staff.... She never called them servants and went out of her way to correct anyone who did... I could see queen Elizabeth being that way as well... I think Queen Elizabeth also journaled, but I don't know if it was to the extent that Queen Victoria did...

I'm watching a documentary on YouTube about Hart Island in NYC. It's an island where over a million people are buried in mass Graves. They talked about a book titled "How the Other Half Lived" It's a book written over 100 years ago by Jacob Riis... I noticed that there are a few people who have republished the book on Amazon. I've heard of publishing books that are in the public domain, I need to revisit the idea..

I just got through watching the short story "The Berlin Wall Revisited" on HBO max.... they discussed a guy who did a lot of filming of the berlin wall in the 80's... both sides of it... I couldn't find much out about him.. But found a video on youtube that's in Spanish with some of his work... It looks very interesting.

I just got through watching "Modern Marvels: How Las Vegas Became a City Like No Other" about an hour and a half ago...

It was very inspiring, it motivated me. It originally aired in Aug of 1998... Eric, Aaron and myself first went to Las Vegas in Jan of 1998. That was such a nice trip. We wanted papa pierce to go but he wouldn't. We didn't have a lot of money but managed to rent a car one day to look around the city some. We stayed in Circus Circus. I remember it being so nice and modern. It smelled good too. I would go in the hall where they had the conventions and walk around. I loved it there.

I remember the wind blowing real hard that day. What good memories. I don't think we have any pictures of it. I went again with my former romantic partner and Eric. That was a good trip as well. I also went with him and his friend Tammie..... Ahhh Las Vegas. I'm not a gambler, but there is just something about its energy.