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1. Beautiful weekend, I should frolic in it. But low energy and a desire to just veg...have kind of downplayed that. But I'm grateful it's lovely - particularly since a co-worker is doing the triborough bike race today.

Also sunshine makes me happy.

2. People on Twitter bewilder me.

They post something controversial or negative, then act shocked the next day when they are inundated with angry notifications. Or folks have ganged up on them or a fight broke out in their "mentions" (direct replies to their post).

I don't know where they think they are posting this stuff on? A personal blog? Because it's not. It's a marketing platform - that is specifically designed to get responses and to spread information or ads.

There's been a couple of interesting kerfuffles. One was between the academic soap viewers who thought you needed a masters degree or were a professional actor/writer to criticize the writing, editing, acting, and costume design on a soap.

Poster: I have two masters degrees and I think the writing on GH is amazing.
ME: Two masters degrees doesn't mean much of anything, unless of course you are the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.

[It also shows you either managed to persuade someone to give you loans, have a lot of money, or can't make up your mind and happen to like taking tests, listening to lectures, and writing long papers that few people will ever take the time to read.]

Unless you are applying for a job right out of college, or for a job in a specific field that requires these degrees - such as a professor in a University, they don't mean squat. I know because I review resumes constantly in my current occupation - we procure consultants and contractors, and we don't care what their educational background is - so much as whether they have a license, and experience.

The other interesting kerfuffle - which happens in every fandom I've ever been on. Is..."this character takes up too much screen time and I hate them" fight.

Doctor Who - they whined about River Song (who was barely in it).
Vamp Diaries - it was Damon.
Angel - Spike (who was barely in it)
Buffy - Spike (also barely in it)
General Hospital - Carly (whose barely in it at the moment)
BattleStar Galatica - Starbuck or Apollo

It's always my favorite characters they are whinging about for some reason or other. (Although, it helped that I had a lot of favorite characters in each series - or I wouldn't be watching it. Which allowed me to ignore the whiny fans.)

Both kerfuffles are not unique to GH. I see them in every single fandom. It's why I'm leery of fandom and keep a safe distance. I may dip in from time to time, but I won't invest again.

I love this ..."If you hate such and such pairing, you should stop watching." Folks this is a television show that is dependent on ratings (sometimes subscriptions). If people stop watching, you won't have the television series. Just ignore these fans.

Seriously, some people don't have any common sense.

Twitter: I'm upset the mute button is broken and I can't use it. It made Twitter usable.
ME: It's not broken, I can still use it.

Littered among all the whining, Soap Twitter is very whiny, is posts about being kind and mental illness awareness.

Station Eleven...among other things

Finished Station Eleven on HBO Max. It surprised me. Or rather the last five episodes did. It's one of those series that takes a while to get into, and gets better as it goes along.

The story follows five characters that are loosely connected to each other during and after a pandemic. Two die in the pandemic, the rest, somehow survive.
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I think it's safe to say that I don't have COVID. No symptoms to speak of. I'll probably do the PCR test anyhow. I think I was about as exposed as I'd be going to the subway each day.

Mother keeps checking on me anyhow.

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Entertainment Weekly is no longer being published as a "print" magazine. Instead of just cancelling my subscription - they sent me a tiny postcard informing me of it, and that they'd send me People magazine instead, until I called to cancel it.

I hate People magazine. I cannot possibly express how much I despise that magazine. It's pure celebrity gossip and promotion of celebrities that I do not care about or want to know about. But it does explain why I have gotten two issues, so far, that I've promptly thrown out without reading. Now, I'm getting a third. I called and cancelled, but apparently not fast enough to avoid getting the third issue. But at least I'm getting refunded $40. Also getting a $30 refund on my glasses, since they don't make the more expensive version of the lenses they'd talked me into ordering any longer.

I'm not shocked about Entertainment Weekly. It's print had gotten smaller, and most of its articles were available online free - long before they published it. Also it had moved from a weekly mag to a monthly one. It was just a matter of time. In other words the internet killed the magazine (along with so many others). The internet isn't killing books, it's killing magazines and newspapers.

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Found out on Twitter last night that Kansas City Unanimously banned co-living rental units or made roommates illegal in Johnson County Kansas.

A city in Kansas has banned co-living, effectively making it illegal to have a group of unrelated roommates split the cost of rent in single-family residential zoning districts.

Shawnee, located in Johnson County, unanimously voted early last week to ban the living arrangement in an 8-0 vote by the City Council, The Kansas City Star reported.

As rental and housing prices have climbed across the country, people have turned to roommates to help balance the cost.

The Shawnee ordinance said a group of people is co-living if it includes at least four adults who are unrelated. Only one adult needs to be unrelated for the entire group to be classified as unrelated, according to the Kansas City Star.

"City Staff received input and concerns from residents and City Council members regarding a relatively new trend where single family homes are being purchased and converted into rental units with multiple individual tenants," a memorandum of the ordinance said.

"In this arrangement, individual tenants have leases of varying lengths, have separate secured access to their rooms, and often do not know or have relationships with the others who are also occupying the same single family dwelling," the memo continued, saying the rental arrangements are "not typical of common rental uses in single family districts that are occupied by family units."



Texted Bro to ask if he knew. His response: Whoa, that's messed up.
Me: My thoughts exactly. WTF? Right?

So somewhere along the line, Kansas City became fascist. Or the Kansas side did?

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Also making my way through Julia - two episodes left, which should be airing this week. (I think there are two.) It's better than expected.
Although David Hyde Pierce's portrayal of Childs is kind of grating. A little too Niles Crane for my liking. Sarah Lancaster is, however, terrific as are the rest of the cast.

I'm thinking of watching The Batman tonight. I don't really want to buy any more food - have enough, and thinking a salad for tomorrow with nuts should be enough. Defrost the chicken, or just have quiche. I made a quiche. It's a light quiche. Half n Half (in lieu of cream), three eggs, cheddar and parmesene cheese (I'd run low on cheddar), spinach, and bacon. The cheddar was white, and it was lighter than some of the brands.

[As you can see, I can cook and am rather good at it. I just don't like appliances - or recipes - and can't figure out crock pots or insta pots (although I have both - so there's really no excuse). But it's not helped by the fact that I can't eat rice, most grains, gravies, and don't like stews. There's not a lot I can make in it - where I remove all of that.

They are still fighting over a specific character taking up too much air time on Soap Twitter. They all look like idiots. I want to smack them. I kind of tried too - but it's Twitter, they ignored me. They just can't seem to ignore one another. And on twitter? People fight by posting individual tweets at each other on the timeline. Or they retweet. It's like this huge battle of the marketing/promotional people.

Took some time to work on revising my novel, but I find it hard to revise when I'm on the computer revising and editing stuff at work. Lazy weekend for the most part.