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Dec. 18th, 2018 08:48 pm1. Conversation with my brother via text messaging:
Me: Let me know if you get the t-shirt and candle that I sent for Xmas. Also, please ask T (his wife) if she saw any ghosts at Mom and Dad's house.
Brother: No ghosts.
Me: Oh good. Although that means that our father is actually hallucinating people in the house, and not seeing ghosts. Did you see the Haunting of Hill House Netflix series - scarier than the movie and the book.
Brother: Got the candle and the T-shirt today. Thank you so much! And no, dementia does't equal a sixth sense. Also no on Hill House. Have a safe trip, and a great holiday.
Sigh.
Me to Mother: Well I've good news and bad news.
Mother: Good new?
Me: You don't have any ghosts.
Mother: Bad news?
Me: You don't have any ghosts. Apparently Dad is just hallucinating people.
2. Out of curiosity - is anyone out there NOT receiving or being bombarded with Chinese Robocalls?
[As an aside, curiosity is one of those words that I struggle spelling. I want to spell it curiousity, which is wrong according to my computer which now automatically spellchecks me. I also struggle with convenient. I want to spell it conveinent. Because that's how it sounds. Convenient makes no logical sense to me. Same with Curiousity -- Curious works, so why not Curiousity? Because, curios is also a word, and apparently curiosity -- works as a noun meaning a "curiosity" and a noun meaning feeling curious. No wonder people have issues with the English language -- I have issues with it and I'm a native speaker.]
Apparently the Russians attacked us via social media and the Chinese are trying to get at us via robocalls.
I think the Russians have been more successful. China needs to step up its game plan. According to the news this morning Russia targeted Instagram more than FB during the 2016 election and went after Minorities via faked viral videos of police brutality. (Okay. Makes me happy I wasn't on Instagram during the 2016 election -- actually I left FB during most of it...because I thought it was bad enough.)
3. Oh...and apparently Steven Universe has about FIVE NEW EPISODES coming your way? Go HERE for promo.
[No, I don't watch them, never heard of it until cjlasky wrote about it, checked it, thought the animation was a bit too reminiscent of video game animation and -- I've grown insanely picky about animation over the years...I blame comic books and anime. I'm just posting for the benefit of friends who are into it and hadn't heard. Steven Universe is this bizarre cartoon that pops up without warning, goes long periods of time without new episodes, then suddenly has new ones and the fans worry and squee over it -- because they could either be great or horrible, no way of knowing really -- and you never know when more will show up -- also they don't rerun them, apparently.All of which are very good reasons not to get into the series. But it's also apparently, really subversive and out there.]
4. The more I read about the acting profession - or entertainment profession, the happier I am that I'm not in it, and watching from afar.
Latest? Geoffrey Rush accused of Sexual Harassment..
So not surprised. This morning another allegation was lodged against Woody Allen, a woman stated at the age of 16 - she got embroiled in a long affair with Allen and had done threesomes with Mia Farrow. (Also not surprised. It's sad, ten years ago, maybe fifteen, I would have been -- now? Not so much.)
I was thinking about the stories I heard over the years about the Buffy and Angel sets...and all I could think is..ugh. Not a safe work place. But then none of them are. They are making an insane amount of money in some of these shows but...show little respect for one another.
As bad as my work places have been -- at least I haven't had to deal with some of this stuff.
Me: Let me know if you get the t-shirt and candle that I sent for Xmas. Also, please ask T (his wife) if she saw any ghosts at Mom and Dad's house.
Brother: No ghosts.
Me: Oh good. Although that means that our father is actually hallucinating people in the house, and not seeing ghosts. Did you see the Haunting of Hill House Netflix series - scarier than the movie and the book.
Brother: Got the candle and the T-shirt today. Thank you so much! And no, dementia does't equal a sixth sense. Also no on Hill House. Have a safe trip, and a great holiday.
Sigh.
Me to Mother: Well I've good news and bad news.
Mother: Good new?
Me: You don't have any ghosts.
Mother: Bad news?
Me: You don't have any ghosts. Apparently Dad is just hallucinating people.
2. Out of curiosity - is anyone out there NOT receiving or being bombarded with Chinese Robocalls?
[As an aside, curiosity is one of those words that I struggle spelling. I want to spell it curiousity, which is wrong according to my computer which now automatically spellchecks me. I also struggle with convenient. I want to spell it conveinent. Because that's how it sounds. Convenient makes no logical sense to me. Same with Curiousity -- Curious works, so why not Curiousity? Because, curios is also a word, and apparently curiosity -- works as a noun meaning a "curiosity" and a noun meaning feeling curious. No wonder people have issues with the English language -- I have issues with it and I'm a native speaker.]
Apparently the Russians attacked us via social media and the Chinese are trying to get at us via robocalls.
I think the Russians have been more successful. China needs to step up its game plan. According to the news this morning Russia targeted Instagram more than FB during the 2016 election and went after Minorities via faked viral videos of police brutality. (Okay. Makes me happy I wasn't on Instagram during the 2016 election -- actually I left FB during most of it...because I thought it was bad enough.)
3. Oh...and apparently Steven Universe has about FIVE NEW EPISODES coming your way? Go HERE for promo.
[No, I don't watch them, never heard of it until cjlasky wrote about it, checked it, thought the animation was a bit too reminiscent of video game animation and -- I've grown insanely picky about animation over the years...I blame comic books and anime. I'm just posting for the benefit of friends who are into it and hadn't heard. Steven Universe is this bizarre cartoon that pops up without warning, goes long periods of time without new episodes, then suddenly has new ones and the fans worry and squee over it -- because they could either be great or horrible, no way of knowing really -- and you never know when more will show up -- also they don't rerun them, apparently.All of which are very good reasons not to get into the series. But it's also apparently, really subversive and out there.]
4. The more I read about the acting profession - or entertainment profession, the happier I am that I'm not in it, and watching from afar.
Latest? Geoffrey Rush accused of Sexual Harassment..
So not surprised. This morning another allegation was lodged against Woody Allen, a woman stated at the age of 16 - she got embroiled in a long affair with Allen and had done threesomes with Mia Farrow. (Also not surprised. It's sad, ten years ago, maybe fifteen, I would have been -- now? Not so much.)
I was thinking about the stories I heard over the years about the Buffy and Angel sets...and all I could think is..ugh. Not a safe work place. But then none of them are. They are making an insane amount of money in some of these shows but...show little respect for one another.
As bad as my work places have been -- at least I haven't had to deal with some of this stuff.