Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen-X Blog Party - November 30

As Survivor airs here on the East Coast, I'll be live-blogging with the major events.  As always, the real party is in the comments area. Please feel free to join in on the fun!
 
Here are the blog pool match updates from the Lifeguard Luau Laurie:

Survivors
Adam Klein - Brian, Kelsey NY, Sharon N
Bret LaBelle - Brandi Peralta, Judi Sweeney, Skyriverblue
David Wright - Buzzmaam, MikesGirl, Sharon C
Hannah Shapiro - David, meb, Terry is a Texan
Jay Starrett - Becky, Jackie, Shayne
Ken McNickle - Dolores in Hollywood, Margo, Russ
Sunday Burquest - Brenda, Kristen from Ohio, SueGee
Will Wahl - Cheryl, Indiana Jane
Zeke Smith - Beachmom, monty924 , Glenn

Jury
Michelle Shubert
Taylor Lee Stocker 
Chris Hammons 
Jessica Lewis

Survivor fans ready? 

Hannah is beside herself about the Jessica rock pick. David is ticked that he burned his idol for no reason at Tribal. Zeke thinks he's winning the war over David. 

Ken came across the Legacy Advantage note he received from Jessica. If he can make it until Day 36, he'll be using it!

Reward Challenge time! Jeff starts bringing out loved ones. Tears all around as usual. Adam, whose mother is in stage four cancer and whose brother came, mentions his advantage to steal someone's reward. He will not be using it. 

They have to be tied to a rope and go through obstacles. Prize is the loved one at a barbecue. Jay wins Reward! He takes Will along as he had promised. For his second, he chose Sunday as "they" had made a promise. He gets to pick one more and even though they've been "brawling" all this time, he chooses Adam. 

Whoa! Adam, in appreciation of Jay's move, gave Jay his advantage with no strings attached. 

Will decides to defect to David and company. Hmm.

Immunity Challenge time - Endurance, they have to clench a thing holding a bar. David out first. Hannah out. Will out. Bret out. Sunday out. Zeke out. Jeff is torturing them about the hot sun baking their minds. Ken out. It's Jay versus Adam. Jay out.

Adam wins Immunity!   

With Will aboard, the move is on to vote out Zeke. Zeke thinks something is amiss because the others are too calm. He thinks David might have another idol and he needs to throw someone else under the bus. That someone is Hannah.

Ken gives Will a third-degree treatment before being willing to trust him. Will tells Ken that "they" will be voting for him. Uh-oh. Ken tells Jay that Will is saying his name. Will claims he needs to play his game for himself.

Gah! Adam calls it right that it was a stupid move on Ken's part! Now Will is going to be solid with the others as he can't trust his "new" group.

Tribal Council time. Both sides vie for Will's vote. He may be the youngest, but he has the deepest voice! 

Adam pulls out his idol! He plays it for Hannah!

The tally:
Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Hannah, Zeke, Zeke, Zeke ...

Zeke is out!   

BBOTT: PoV and the Final Three - Tuesday, November 29

Determined to win?

Well, well, well. Of course, the only really big news of the day was the Power of Veto comp.

• It was called End of the Road.
• They had to run through metal police crowd control barriers set up in a switchback kind of queue.
• Jump over hay bales.
• Grab a hamster face picture, then return back the same way they came.
• Nine pictures in all. Had to get one at a time.
• The puzzle questions might have more than one possible answer.
• But there is only one correct solution using all nine.
• Justin was into making sound effects and cussing as he went along. He started to put faces in the spots first, getting a few wrong.
• Morgan decided to get all the faces first and solved some as she was bringing them back.
• In the end, it wasn't really any contest. Morgan solidly beat him, had all the answers right while he had some answers wrong on the board and didn't have all the faces.
• Surprisingly, in view of his behavior the last few days, he left the house on a good note.
• Julie came to the final three in video form, congratulating them and telling them they need to prepare a two-minute speech each.
• Those speeches will air live on Wednesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT. 
• The final three -- Morgan, Kryssie and Jason -- popped the champagne and got giddy. 

All spiffed up to host the comp

Monty was there.

Game faces on

The running was unreal.

It wasn't an easy puzzle, either.

Morgan WINS! She's in the Final Three!

Says he loves them. Yeah, right.

BBOTT: Nothing to see here. move along - into Tuesday, November 29

Eddie McGee, BB1 Winner

The Power of Veto comp isn't scheduled until 5pm today, Tuesday. I will report late tonight on its results. Otherwise, things have been pretty much the same in the house with even more tension due to the boredom.

In other news, I watched the Elementary episode from November 20th and immediately recognized BB Season One winner Eddie McGee in it! 

BBOTT: Into Monday, November 28

Jason being mellow? That won't last!

Well, Justin got up a bit more today ... 

• Unfortunately, he decided Morgan is his buddy now.
• Now, they're both slated to go head-to-head in the Power of Veto comp (today, Monday) together.
• She's been almost constantly studying or spending time with Jason and Kryssie.
• In comes Justin.
• The not so smart thing he does is to keep talking about how he has to win this comp, then the game, then "rub it in their faces."
• Um.
• He's saying that to his competitor.
• Morgan has been actually restraining herself quite well -- not saying much about how SHE needs to win the comp and then the game!
• Kudos to her for her restraint!
• At one point, she did say something. Justin claimed none of the people in the house have souls. She said, rather quietly, "Everybody has a soul."
• Justin, at one point, sat down with the rest and ate something. As they all talked, I noticed he was paying absolutely no attention to the others, would occasionally glance up at a camera and then start dancing in place to music in his head. 
• The others are right that he's very camera-conscious.
• I don't know how Morgan is putting up with all of Justin's bragging about his game and how he will win.
• Darn it, she wants to win, too!
• He told her how the LNJ had to keep fighting to keep in place and now the ones remaining have deserted him.
• Heck, Justin. Morgan's side also had to fight with the up/down power changes week to week! And, she's the sole remainder from the Ball Smashers!
• I'm also sick of hearing him tell how many women are willing to have sex with him and how much he misses having sex. @@
• We'll know more once the PoV comp goes down.
• May the best woman win that one!
• Heehee. 

Justin actually posed for one HoH camera shot

Morgan studies some more

I don't like any of these people

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - November 27, 2016

Good morning! Since it's Sunday, it's time for my weekly off television topic reflection on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken along the way. This is a regular Sunday part of this blog in addition to the television posts. Right now I'm covering Big Brother: Over the Top daily -- you can find those posts at this link. I'm also live blogging Survivor episodes as they air on Wednesday evenings. Come join the blog parties!

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! As per my usual, I spent the day here with Vincent. I don't really have much family left and, of what few are left, no one is local. I often turn down invites to join families of friends for the day. I would feel like an intruder and, after all, it's not my family. After decades of such, I've grown to like the peaceful solitude of the day. I made a turkey breast feast for myself and relaxed. I always have to work the Friday and Saturday after the holiday, so I can't travel anywhere. I'm also in a very busy and stressful work environment, even worse at the holidays. So, I'm content with what I do for the holiday. Maybe, if I ever do get to retire before I pass, I'll travel to visit family. But for now and many decades gone by, as they say, it is what it is. Christmas is pretty much the same.

So, this isn't really my favorite time of the year. I do enjoy seeing the excitement of children, especially toddlers, seeing the hubbub and lights. I do have some very good memories of the season. But it's all photographs and memories at this time for myself. And, work, work, work, then more work.

I am thankful for the friends and family I have in my life, as well as you folks who faithfully follow this blog! I'm certainly thankful for Vincent, as well as my previous cat companions over the years. I'm thankful I've always held a job and kept a roof over my head even though I'm so ready, beyond ready, to retire and pursue things I want to do rather than things I have to do. I'm thankful for Peapod Grocery delivery so I don't have to deal with supermarket madness. I'm thankful I live in an area with so many different kinds of people with lives so different from my own, yet enriching my own life and enforcing the realization that the majority of people are good at heart.

Okay, onto this week's photos! I didn't really get great shots this week. I managed to arrive near the train station one day just in time to snag a few photos of another (the same?) Red-Tailed Hawk atop the Chotola Apartments Building on North Avenue just as he was preparing to fly away. 
 

Sitting in the railway station ...

... got a ticket for my destination. Whoowoo. ('Homeward Bound' - Paul Simon) I was actually homeward bound. This is last night when I arrived back home in Plainfield after yet another workday in life. Although the train itself stretches perhaps a long block, only about ten people got on or off at this time at the Plainfield Station. However, inside the train -- the two cars that were open -- it was quite full for a train this day and hour. Many people were heading home to NYC from the holiday or just heading into town (Manhattan) for holiday season happenings. I just wanted to get home and put my feet up.

Where'd they all go?

Y'know ... there was a party going on with pigeons and starlings here. I come and they all flew away! Do I have bad breath? Am I inappropriately dressed for the party? Every time I try to join in on the bird fun, everybody leaves me here alone! I feel shunned! It's enough to give me a complex! 

Getting ready to swoop away.

At least I got nice detail on that red tail of his!

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