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shadowkat1. My laptop's charger is on the fritz, so ordered new ones from Amazon. Hopefully that will help. I have to keep turning it off, and praying the charger works. Do not want to buy a new lap-top, although may not have a choice, my current one is close to ten years old.
2. Cousin ranted on her Facebook page about a Clinton ad that basically reiterated Trump's lewd comments about women, which her 6-year-old daughter accidentally saw. She's writes that she is now 100% undecided, mainly because she's decided she hates Clinton as much as she hates Trump. (Actually she has always hated Clinton, possibly because her husband hates Clinton - but he at least has an excuse, he's a conservative. I don't know any conservatives who like the Clintons -- Hillary is left of Obama.) I restrained myself from posting: "maybe consider not watching television or monitoring it until the election is over? And seriously, considering the sexual content of various billboards and ads on television, this annoyed you the most? Also, let's see, you have decided a woman who is posting an ad warning us all about a man who sees women as nothing but objects for his own sexual gratification and has been accused of rape, is as bad or worse than that man -- because you didn't want your 6-year-old daughter to see the ad? Alrighty then. "
Meanwhile, my other cousin has no problems with her six-year-old and eight-year-old kids watching Game of Thrones.
Weirdly, I have managed to avoid Trump's lewd audio tape and the ads reiterating it -- but I also don't watch commercial television that often and not without a finger pressed firmly on the fast-forward button.
3. My parents have decided to move in with my uncle and the Retired Catholic Priests until it is safe to go home to their house in Hilton Head. They may drive up to check things out, then flee again to see relatives in Chicago. (Their island was hit by Hurricane Matthew.) My mother is less than pleased. My father's original idea was to fly out to Vegas and watch the debate, but my mother nixed that plan right quick. "Why would I want to go to Vegas? Let alone watch a debate in person that I can't bear to watch on television?"
Right now there is no potable water or flushable water on the island. They are providing porta potties and urinals, and well buckets to residents for the time being. The hurricane put added stress on the plumbing, and with the weakened root system, well...the sewage system is backed up and can't be used for the time being.
Makes sense to just stay put for the time being. They drove down, so there's no real need to drive back. And a neighbor managed to get news to them about their house and is going to email them a video. He said that while there is some damage, it's not major and the house is intact. My mother is the sort of person who always envisions the worst, so in her head - this means a tree fell on the roof somewhere or the windows blew out. While in mine, it's probably just a few downed trees and broken windows.
I'm just glad I'm no longer down there with them -- they were driving me crazy with all their worries. And there was nothing I could do, except listen.
4. Seen two new series..no wait, three.
* No Tomorrow - a situation comedy about a young woman who supervises fork lifters in Seattle, who hooks up with a man who thinks the world will end in eight months. So he's living life as if it will end for everyone in eight months time. Together they cross various things off their bucket lists. It's rather charming and likable. Funny? Not so much. But who knows?
* Channel Zero: Candle Cove -- this is a new eight-part horror anthology series on Syfy. The first installment is about a creepy children's show that aired in the 1980s, went off the air, and now is suddenly airing again. But here's the thing -- it only aired for a brief period of time, when several children went missing. After they disappeared, it stopped. Also, it may never have aired at all -- except in their heads.
Creepy psychological thriller. Not sure I'll stick with it, it's the sort of thing that would give me nightmares.
* American Housewife - gave up after ten minutes. Too negative, and all the jokes are sort of whiny and stereotypical.
2. Cousin ranted on her Facebook page about a Clinton ad that basically reiterated Trump's lewd comments about women, which her 6-year-old daughter accidentally saw. She's writes that she is now 100% undecided, mainly because she's decided she hates Clinton as much as she hates Trump. (Actually she has always hated Clinton, possibly because her husband hates Clinton - but he at least has an excuse, he's a conservative. I don't know any conservatives who like the Clintons -- Hillary is left of Obama.) I restrained myself from posting: "maybe consider not watching television or monitoring it until the election is over? And seriously, considering the sexual content of various billboards and ads on television, this annoyed you the most? Also, let's see, you have decided a woman who is posting an ad warning us all about a man who sees women as nothing but objects for his own sexual gratification and has been accused of rape, is as bad or worse than that man -- because you didn't want your 6-year-old daughter to see the ad? Alrighty then. "
Meanwhile, my other cousin has no problems with her six-year-old and eight-year-old kids watching Game of Thrones.
Weirdly, I have managed to avoid Trump's lewd audio tape and the ads reiterating it -- but I also don't watch commercial television that often and not without a finger pressed firmly on the fast-forward button.
3. My parents have decided to move in with my uncle and the Retired Catholic Priests until it is safe to go home to their house in Hilton Head. They may drive up to check things out, then flee again to see relatives in Chicago. (Their island was hit by Hurricane Matthew.) My mother is less than pleased. My father's original idea was to fly out to Vegas and watch the debate, but my mother nixed that plan right quick. "Why would I want to go to Vegas? Let alone watch a debate in person that I can't bear to watch on television?"
Right now there is no potable water or flushable water on the island. They are providing porta potties and urinals, and well buckets to residents for the time being. The hurricane put added stress on the plumbing, and with the weakened root system, well...the sewage system is backed up and can't be used for the time being.
Makes sense to just stay put for the time being. They drove down, so there's no real need to drive back. And a neighbor managed to get news to them about their house and is going to email them a video. He said that while there is some damage, it's not major and the house is intact. My mother is the sort of person who always envisions the worst, so in her head - this means a tree fell on the roof somewhere or the windows blew out. While in mine, it's probably just a few downed trees and broken windows.
I'm just glad I'm no longer down there with them -- they were driving me crazy with all their worries. And there was nothing I could do, except listen.
4. Seen two new series..no wait, three.
* No Tomorrow - a situation comedy about a young woman who supervises fork lifters in Seattle, who hooks up with a man who thinks the world will end in eight months. So he's living life as if it will end for everyone in eight months time. Together they cross various things off their bucket lists. It's rather charming and likable. Funny? Not so much. But who knows?
* Channel Zero: Candle Cove -- this is a new eight-part horror anthology series on Syfy. The first installment is about a creepy children's show that aired in the 1980s, went off the air, and now is suddenly airing again. But here's the thing -- it only aired for a brief period of time, when several children went missing. After they disappeared, it stopped. Also, it may never have aired at all -- except in their heads.
Creepy psychological thriller. Not sure I'll stick with it, it's the sort of thing that would give me nightmares.
* American Housewife - gave up after ten minutes. Too negative, and all the jokes are sort of whiny and stereotypical.
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Date: 2016-10-13 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-16 03:24 am (UTC)Apparently Channel Zero is a new horror anthology series, each season six episodes in length, and next year's will feature another adaptation of an online story.
It's a good idea -- dramatizing horror stories posted online, as long as they are doing it legitimately, which they probably are -- too obvious not to be.