Year 2 - Day 201

Had a long talk with Wales today.

Wales: I'm experiencing anxiety.
Me: Completely get that - no wait, how are you experiencing anxiety?
Wales: About being alone, living alone, my dad (her mom's Dead), work, my life not going anywhere...and I am anxious about visiting you and Greenwood Cemetery - it seems so far away and hard to get to.( The effects of PTSD from the Pandemic )

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So I didn't do much this weekend or today. I sent the robot vacuum around the apartment, and did a little dusting.( Read more... )

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I did try to watch various television shows. Foundation Episode 2 - I went to sleep during again. This does not bode well for this series. It's the second episode that put me to sleep. I think the problem is that I don't buy the premise - which is math is the language that explains the deepest and most important concepts, and how everything is mathematically based. I don't think mathematically - in fact math tends to bore me. My immediate family is tragically bored to tears by math. So, an entire science fiction series that focuses almost entirely on math, and has long speeches about it - is guaranteed to put me to sleep. This explains why I couldn't get into the books.

This episode? I stuck with it until they had this long speech about how the Foundation had to agree on a counting system and there were several counting systems available such as base 10, and base 12, and base 27. And if we couldn't agree on how to count, how could we agree on anything else. And I thought, I don't understand counting systems, and suck at counting...and my brain just wants to sleep for a bit, bye now. I woke up at the end of the episode.

I may give it another chance, I don't know yet.

The Morning Show - is kind of triggering this year. It takes place the three months before COVID happened in NYC. And watching these people kiss, lick each others faces, be in mob scenes, knowing full well they filmed this thing this year, is kind of...disturbing. I made it through the first episode, but spent most of it, cringing at various points.

The Squid Game - well the English dubbing is atrocious, and the subtitles don't fit the dubbing. Also I can't stand the protagonist - he's a pathetic gambling addict. I feel sorry for anyone who cares about him. Gambling addictions I don't understand - I'm not a gambler and I don't like to play games, so I struggle watching things about folks who are, without getting irritated. So there's that. Also it's very violent - but in a frustrating way - in that you are watching the protagonist get beaten up and tortured in a horrendous fashion constantly.

This is the number 1 show on Netflix. And two of my co-workers love it.

I do wonder about folks sometimes.

What If? I did finish streaming this finally. It's not that good. I was kind of annoyed during it. And frustrated. They do a lot of really dark episodes in a row, only the first two are positive. Also the animation is pretty, but kind of clunky motion wise. The characters don't move smoothly or naturally, you can feel the mechanics behind it.

So far the best Marvel Streaming Series were WandaVision and The Falcon and Winter Solider.

(Loki is admittedly forever tainted by my brother telling me about the assholery of the lead actor in it towards a close friend of his. My brother keeps having odd run-ins with famous folks and telling me about them. I dislike Jared Kushner, Lena Durham, Jennifer Warren (Alias), the star of Madam Secretary, Tim Burton, Scean Young, Luke Wilson and Paul Wesley Anderson, Oliver Stone, Karen Black, Steven Spielberg, and now Tom Hiddleston because of my brother.)

Finished Gentleman Jim by Mimi Mathews - it was okay. Did most of it by audio-book. I liked the narrator better than the book. It would have been better if there was a bit more of the highway man and more action, and less "oh I love you, but I can't give up my land and estate..." nonsense. Also, I found it frustrating. Far too much time was spent on irritating villains. It's important to establish interesting villains.
Or interesting obstacles. But the male lead - I rather liked, quite a bit.
So there's that.

Still listening to the Cooking Gene by Michael A Twitty read by the author - but it's kind of boring. He's not the best narrator. It's hard to narrate these things by the way. You really need a voice actor to do it, otherwise it sounds like a monotone at times. Also, he's doing content about genealogy in detail. I don't find genealogy all that interesting. It tends to bore me. But, I'm also not an immigrant or African-American. I'm Northern European, and my ancestors all hailed from the British Isles and Scandinavia, Germany and Belgium - which is rather boring. African-Americans are into genealogy because they want to reclaim their heritage. He does a very good job of explaining that, why they need to do it, and all the resources they can use to do so and how it is done.
After I listened to him for a bit, I understood why MD was so obsessed with it.

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