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"71": Every year I like to do something special for my birthday, I prefer to not do it alone but that's hard for me to arrange given that most of my friends have to work & have other responsibilities. This year, I arranged a trip to West Virginia starting 2 days after my 71st birthday. I was fortunate to have Eric Lipsky as a traveling companion & collaborator. I'd reserved a ziplining tour for the 2 of us. Our shooting was in the New River Gorge area, the Ace Adventures ziplining tour (which I highly recommend), the Days Inn pool, & my Days Inn room. A multitude of things went wrong & the ziplining footage was extremely disappointing because we only had one trolley apiece & that caused us to spin - rendering most of that footage useless. Nonetheless, death hasn't caught me yet - even though I'm 71 I'm still giving it a good chase - as this movie demonstrates. Anyway, as my 1st movie made in Chinese, I'm sure it'll be a big hit with about 1.35 billion people. - September 9, 2024 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE