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Y2/D241 - Overall Good Day...
Nov. 12th, 2021 06:48 pmI had to fix yesterday's post - since I had D230, when in reality it is 240. Yes, where has the time gone?
Work went better than expected. I got some stuff done today, and my inherited work is keeping me busy and engaged. Also work "MS Teams" meeting - which I ended up leading - went better than expected.
Mixed feelings about going back to the office full time next week - but at least it will put me back on a regular sleep schedule, even if it requires waking up at 5:45 am each morning, if not earlier. I feel like my time is swallowed up by my commute. Oh well, it's trains. I can do more on trains than if I were driving, plus I get exercise in daily. Not to mention interactions with people. Too much isolation is not good for my mental health or so I've discovered. Although, it's kind of impossible to be completely isolated in the middle of New York City.
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Good news
* ( A Grand Jury Indicted Steve Bannon on a charge of contempt of Congress today )
Yay! Finally, a bit of justice.
* ( Britney Spears free of conservatorship after more than 13 years )
Yay! And wow, she's been in conservatorship for almost as long as I've been working for nutty company.[ I am hitting my Fourteenth Anniversary with Crazy Workplace this month. That's longer than I ever expected or hoped for, to be honest.]
Oh and Amber Tamblyn's Opinion Piece on Britney Spears and how young girls are mistreated in the performing arts field
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Nice to have some good news for a change of pace, isn't it?
In entertainment news...Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Get Back will be dropping on November 25, 2021.
“The Beatles: Get Back,” a seven-hour-plus project that will be shown in three parts on Disney Plus from Nov. 25 to 27, encapsulate the twin sides of the most contested period in Beatles history — the glory of artistic creation by the world’s most beloved and influential rock band, and the grueling conflicts that led to its breakup, announced a year later.
For Beatles fans, or any student of 20th-century pop culture, these are astonishing glimpses into the band’s working life and the tensions that surrounded them.
“It’s sort of that one impossible fan dream,” Jackson said in a video interview from Wellington, New Zealand, where he has spent much of the last four years in a darkened editing suite surrounded by Beatles memorabilia. “‘I wish I could go in a time machine and sit in the corner of the stage while they were working,’” he said, describing a lifelong dream like a child praying for the ultimate Christmas present. “‘Just for one day, just watch them, and I’ll be really quiet and sit there.’”
“Well, guess what?” he continued. “The time machine’s here now.”
I plan to binge watch this thing over the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend. [Yes, I'm an a fan of The Beatles. I own all their albums on my MP3 Player, used to have them on CD, and at one time on record and 8 track. I love the Beatles. Their music changed and evolved over time, and they had a knack with lyrical storytelling, and satirical humor that few come close to. Plus they experimented with musical format in ways few other bands tried.]
Twitter is amusing me at the moment. Twitter hates Facebook and Facebook hates Twitter. (I keep restraining myself from telling both - that are more alike than they care to admit, and have furthered the misinformation and hate equally, along with furthering the power of evil marketing people. But I don't want to get piled on.)
Soap Twitter: We hate Carly!!
ME:You can’t dissuade me, I’m a survivor of Spike Wars in the Buffy fandom. Carly haters have nothing on the Spike haters.
Yep, Soap Twitter is tame in comparison to the Buffy Fandom Shipper Wars.
Soap Twitter: Carly is selfish and she deserves all the pain she gets.
ME: So is everyone in the soap, except possibly Anna. And still not that big a deal. Plus Nina is kind of worse, and I don't care as long as Nina writhes in pain, and since she's being written as a villain, it's bound to happen.
Spike haters: Spike is a rapist and your a rape sympathizer for liking him!
Me: He's a vampire, on a television series, and it wasn't rape, it was maybe attempted but she kicked him across the room rather easily - also she's a vampire slayer, so why she didn't slay him or why he didn't bite her, I've no clue.
The difference? You could argue with Buffy fandom, Soap Twitter is kind of wimpy. They only like to whine to like-minded friends.
Also there's an abundance of folks on Twitter who loved the 1990s X-Men Animated Series, which amuses me to no end. Mainly because when I watched in the 1990s - I honestly thought I was the only one doing so - it was a hard series to find. Felt the same way about Kimba: The White Lion in the 1970s, and Battle of the Planets in the 1980s - all three were hard to find and I didn't know anyone else who watched them.
Oh, yesterday, The Liberal Poet On Twitter did a thread on "What Books You Despise" and listed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and The Education of Little Tree. He got attacked by Jane Austen fans. And inundated by folks telling him how much they despised The Stand, American Psycho, Twilight, and 50 Shades of Grey. Apparently Mark Twain despised Austen, but that's hardly surprising - Twain hated romantic writers and despised the genre on principal. I mean he famously disparaged both Sir Walter Scott and Henry James in Huckleberry Finn.
Mine?
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Reading news...almost done listening to the audio book of Nelsen Mandela's African Folk Tales, some are more engaging than others - a lot of this depends on the reader. Hugh Jackman is a good narrator by the way, so too is Samuel L Jackson. The others I didn't quite register.
And almost down with the book Cat Sebastian rec'd, which feels like retelling of Shop Around the Corner but with lawyers, reminding me of why I'm not nuts about the legal profession. Listening apparently is not their strong suit. The whole plot hinges on their lead characters inability to communicate. They talk around each other, have lots of hot sex, banter, but somehow fail to actually listen to each other.
To be fair? Most romance novels hinge on the dreaded miscommunication or failure to communicate plot device.
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Still wearing a mask - Kn95 and Kn94s. I bought a bunch more KN94s - now that I'm going into the office full time. Most folks in my area are.
Also saw my little brown mouse today. He's very small. Kind of cute actually. I think he lives next door. I should put out the mouse trap, but I'm procrastinating.
Random Picture of the Night is from my walk to the grocery store this evening...
Work went better than expected. I got some stuff done today, and my inherited work is keeping me busy and engaged. Also work "MS Teams" meeting - which I ended up leading - went better than expected.
Mixed feelings about going back to the office full time next week - but at least it will put me back on a regular sleep schedule, even if it requires waking up at 5:45 am each morning, if not earlier. I feel like my time is swallowed up by my commute. Oh well, it's trains. I can do more on trains than if I were driving, plus I get exercise in daily. Not to mention interactions with people. Too much isolation is not good for my mental health or so I've discovered. Although, it's kind of impossible to be completely isolated in the middle of New York City.
**
Good news
* ( A Grand Jury Indicted Steve Bannon on a charge of contempt of Congress today )
Yay! Finally, a bit of justice.
* ( Britney Spears free of conservatorship after more than 13 years )
Yay! And wow, she's been in conservatorship for almost as long as I've been working for nutty company.[ I am hitting my Fourteenth Anniversary with Crazy Workplace this month. That's longer than I ever expected or hoped for, to be honest.]
Oh and Amber Tamblyn's Opinion Piece on Britney Spears and how young girls are mistreated in the performing arts field
***
Nice to have some good news for a change of pace, isn't it?
In entertainment news...Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Get Back will be dropping on November 25, 2021.
“The Beatles: Get Back,” a seven-hour-plus project that will be shown in three parts on Disney Plus from Nov. 25 to 27, encapsulate the twin sides of the most contested period in Beatles history — the glory of artistic creation by the world’s most beloved and influential rock band, and the grueling conflicts that led to its breakup, announced a year later.
For Beatles fans, or any student of 20th-century pop culture, these are astonishing glimpses into the band’s working life and the tensions that surrounded them.
“It’s sort of that one impossible fan dream,” Jackson said in a video interview from Wellington, New Zealand, where he has spent much of the last four years in a darkened editing suite surrounded by Beatles memorabilia. “‘I wish I could go in a time machine and sit in the corner of the stage while they were working,’” he said, describing a lifelong dream like a child praying for the ultimate Christmas present. “‘Just for one day, just watch them, and I’ll be really quiet and sit there.’”
“Well, guess what?” he continued. “The time machine’s here now.”
I plan to binge watch this thing over the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend. [Yes, I'm an a fan of The Beatles. I own all their albums on my MP3 Player, used to have them on CD, and at one time on record and 8 track. I love the Beatles. Their music changed and evolved over time, and they had a knack with lyrical storytelling, and satirical humor that few come close to. Plus they experimented with musical format in ways few other bands tried.]
Twitter is amusing me at the moment. Twitter hates Facebook and Facebook hates Twitter. (I keep restraining myself from telling both - that are more alike than they care to admit, and have furthered the misinformation and hate equally, along with furthering the power of evil marketing people. But I don't want to get piled on.)
Soap Twitter: We hate Carly!!
ME:You can’t dissuade me, I’m a survivor of Spike Wars in the Buffy fandom. Carly haters have nothing on the Spike haters.
Yep, Soap Twitter is tame in comparison to the Buffy Fandom Shipper Wars.
Soap Twitter: Carly is selfish and she deserves all the pain she gets.
ME: So is everyone in the soap, except possibly Anna. And still not that big a deal. Plus Nina is kind of worse, and I don't care as long as Nina writhes in pain, and since she's being written as a villain, it's bound to happen.
Spike haters: Spike is a rapist and your a rape sympathizer for liking him!
Me: He's a vampire, on a television series, and it wasn't rape, it was maybe attempted but she kicked him across the room rather easily - also she's a vampire slayer, so why she didn't slay him or why he didn't bite her, I've no clue.
The difference? You could argue with Buffy fandom, Soap Twitter is kind of wimpy. They only like to whine to like-minded friends.
Also there's an abundance of folks on Twitter who loved the 1990s X-Men Animated Series, which amuses me to no end. Mainly because when I watched in the 1990s - I honestly thought I was the only one doing so - it was a hard series to find. Felt the same way about Kimba: The White Lion in the 1970s, and Battle of the Planets in the 1980s - all three were hard to find and I didn't know anyone else who watched them.
Oh, yesterday, The Liberal Poet On Twitter did a thread on "What Books You Despise" and listed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and The Education of Little Tree. He got attacked by Jane Austen fans. And inundated by folks telling him how much they despised The Stand, American Psycho, Twilight, and 50 Shades of Grey. Apparently Mark Twain despised Austen, but that's hardly surprising - Twain hated romantic writers and despised the genre on principal. I mean he famously disparaged both Sir Walter Scott and Henry James in Huckleberry Finn.
Mine?
( Read more... )
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Reading news...almost done listening to the audio book of Nelsen Mandela's African Folk Tales, some are more engaging than others - a lot of this depends on the reader. Hugh Jackman is a good narrator by the way, so too is Samuel L Jackson. The others I didn't quite register.
And almost down with the book Cat Sebastian rec'd, which feels like retelling of Shop Around the Corner but with lawyers, reminding me of why I'm not nuts about the legal profession. Listening apparently is not their strong suit. The whole plot hinges on their lead characters inability to communicate. They talk around each other, have lots of hot sex, banter, but somehow fail to actually listen to each other.
To be fair? Most romance novels hinge on the dreaded miscommunication or failure to communicate plot device.
***
Still wearing a mask - Kn95 and Kn94s. I bought a bunch more KN94s - now that I'm going into the office full time. Most folks in my area are.
Also saw my little brown mouse today. He's very small. Kind of cute actually. I think he lives next door. I should put out the mouse trap, but I'm procrastinating.
Random Picture of the Night is from my walk to the grocery store this evening...