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shadowkat1. Want to make millions - be a high profile actor in a high profile movie, with a high profile director. One catch? The director is bound to be an asshole.
Entertainment business is nasty.
2. Dental appointment went well. Considering I've been eating too much M&Ms. No cavities. No gum disease. No issues except sensitive teeth due to well grinding and clenching. It didn't cost as much as expected - since my insurance did cover it, and I didn't have to fill out the form that I thought I had to - no all covered electronically now.
Out of pocket? $250 - 350
With insurance? $176.
Not bad. I may actually go back in six months. Also I could use the FSA card, so additional savings.
Add to all of that - it was a ten minute subway ride, and a one minute walk - it's located around the corner - literally around the corner - from the subway stop. I got lost because I thought it was across the street - and went through the scary construction project. (They had dug some sort of hole through the street to the subway station below, which was about ten feet down, with a boarded sidewalk across it. (Transit - you need to kick your contractors into shape - just saying.)
Subway = Transit.
3. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Just throwing that out there for prosperity.
Also don't want to make dinner and lunch. Not hungry.
4. Television
Decided to watch some of last year's episodes of Station 19, which I skipped over last year. All are available on Hulu. They aren't that good.
Grey's was better.
So for that matter is Rings of Power. But unlike Rings, they don't require any concentration.
In other news? I've pretty much given up on the soap opera fandom and the comic book/movie fandom. SMH. Although Alan Moore's statement that we'll all become fascists if we continue to make and flock to superhero films seems a touch disingenuous, considering all of his comic books and said adaptations were more than a little on the fascist end of things. To such an extent that I was never quite sure if he meant it to be satire or was fascist himself. I'm guessing the former, but seriously, it was often a toss-up. Moore really needs to get over himself. It's a pulp genre. Most people who watch and read it, don't take it all that seriously. Just the insane fans do - and well, we ignore them for our own continued mental and emotional preservation.
5. Mother is worried about traveling overseas now - note we do not currently have trip planned, so this is kind of baseless worrying? She found out from a friend that all travel is electronic now - you don't use paper tickets overseas. Her friend is flying to Europe, then taking a cruise back to Fort Lauderdale, and flying home. And each league of the way requires an electronic ticket and her phone.
Mother: So you have to make sure your phone works overseas -
Me: Trust me, they do work overseas.
Mother: Do you need a special app?
Me: No, just tell the carrier, and you should be fine. I switched off my cellular data for the most part, but it worked in Costa Rica.
Mother: But how do you handle the electronic tickets?
Me: The airlines have apps, you use it to check in, and pull up a boarding pass - then scan it at the airport, you can also print it off at the kiosk.
It's actually easier than the paper variety, because you are less likely to lose your phone.
Mother: I was hoping to travel overseas again, we always went through travel agents, but now its all electronic and I can't even...
My poor luddit soon to be 80 year old Momma.
ME: Look, it's not like we're traveling anywhere now. Let's cross this bridge when we come to it, shall we? It'll be fine.
Now I know where I get this tendency to worry about things that haven't happened yet from.
Entertainment business is nasty.
2. Dental appointment went well. Considering I've been eating too much M&Ms. No cavities. No gum disease. No issues except sensitive teeth due to well grinding and clenching. It didn't cost as much as expected - since my insurance did cover it, and I didn't have to fill out the form that I thought I had to - no all covered electronically now.
Out of pocket? $250 - 350
With insurance? $176.
Not bad. I may actually go back in six months. Also I could use the FSA card, so additional savings.
Add to all of that - it was a ten minute subway ride, and a one minute walk - it's located around the corner - literally around the corner - from the subway stop. I got lost because I thought it was across the street - and went through the scary construction project. (They had dug some sort of hole through the street to the subway station below, which was about ten feet down, with a boarded sidewalk across it. (Transit - you need to kick your contractors into shape - just saying.)
Subway = Transit.
3. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Just throwing that out there for prosperity.
Also don't want to make dinner and lunch. Not hungry.
4. Television
Decided to watch some of last year's episodes of Station 19, which I skipped over last year. All are available on Hulu. They aren't that good.
Grey's was better.
So for that matter is Rings of Power. But unlike Rings, they don't require any concentration.
In other news? I've pretty much given up on the soap opera fandom and the comic book/movie fandom. SMH. Although Alan Moore's statement that we'll all become fascists if we continue to make and flock to superhero films seems a touch disingenuous, considering all of his comic books and said adaptations were more than a little on the fascist end of things. To such an extent that I was never quite sure if he meant it to be satire or was fascist himself. I'm guessing the former, but seriously, it was often a toss-up. Moore really needs to get over himself. It's a pulp genre. Most people who watch and read it, don't take it all that seriously. Just the insane fans do - and well, we ignore them for our own continued mental and emotional preservation.
5. Mother is worried about traveling overseas now - note we do not currently have trip planned, so this is kind of baseless worrying? She found out from a friend that all travel is electronic now - you don't use paper tickets overseas. Her friend is flying to Europe, then taking a cruise back to Fort Lauderdale, and flying home. And each league of the way requires an electronic ticket and her phone.
Mother: So you have to make sure your phone works overseas -
Me: Trust me, they do work overseas.
Mother: Do you need a special app?
Me: No, just tell the carrier, and you should be fine. I switched off my cellular data for the most part, but it worked in Costa Rica.
Mother: But how do you handle the electronic tickets?
Me: The airlines have apps, you use it to check in, and pull up a boarding pass - then scan it at the airport, you can also print it off at the kiosk.
It's actually easier than the paper variety, because you are less likely to lose your phone.
Mother: I was hoping to travel overseas again, we always went through travel agents, but now its all electronic and I can't even...
My poor luddit soon to be 80 year old Momma.
ME: Look, it's not like we're traveling anywhere now. Let's cross this bridge when we come to it, shall we? It'll be fine.
Now I know where I get this tendency to worry about things that haven't happened yet from.
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Date: 2022-10-11 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-11 11:28 pm (UTC)I talked to co-workers today about it - and as one put it, " I don't want to be that dependent on my phone, I'd need backups or something just in case something went wrong. Like what if the phone died? Or it got lost?"
Paper you can put in a hotel safe. Or make copies to ensure you don't lose it.
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Date: 2022-10-12 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-12 05:37 am (UTC)My parents are traveling overseas soon. I'll have to see how things work out for them, since my dad always prints the tickets, either at home or at the airport. They're good with their phones so it shouldn't be a problem but it is definitely something to get used to. I mean, they even went to the movies recently and definitely still took their at home printed tickets rather than downloading the app or the QR code in the email.