The Weekend..Finally..

Deep exhale...I survived the week from heck. Although the last two days were better...so that provides hope.

My eyes still can't handle the contacts, so I'm wearing glasses. Hope this doesn't continue - since my depth perception is completely shot with glasses. I have about 10-20% with contacts, and nada with glasses. Oh well, at least, I got glasses that fit me and are light weight this go-around.

If it continues - I may try to move up the eye doctor appointment - which got rescheduled for November. Getting to see a doctor in NYC is..difficult to say the least. You have to book well in advance, and often get rescheduled.

We need more doctors and less people. Stop having kids folks. Or stop moving to NYC, shoo.

In other news, I was able to replace my hard drive at work with a faster model, and without getting the bothersome lap-top hookup that so many others have.
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The other thing that went well - is I brought to BYT's attention the evil addendum situation. She quickly resolved it with head-honcho, who agreed it was an unnecessary evil that we had no time for.

So I resolved two problems in one day - by finding a way to talk to BYT. I also begged BYT for the 7 days at Xmas to visit my widowed mother.( Read more... )

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Bro still has stomach bug.

I have itchy eyes, which is causing me to wear glasses and am slightly congested. Sis-in-law has hives that won't go away. Brother has severe IBS.

At least niece and mother appear to be okay.

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ON FB, MD (former church friend turned acquaintance) brought up Microagressions. She'd done microagression training recently.
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I didn't respond to her FB post - because I've learned the hard way - not to do that. I'll write about it here - but I won't do it there.

The most I said on FB today was that "My difficulty with oral communication is invariably I'm going to say the wrong thing. Foot and mouth disease. The reassuring thing? Is so will they. I think even a robot would at this point."

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A few of us realized on Twitter the other day - that we've known various people online for twenty years. Started on the Voy forums, gravitated to LJ, then to DW. Twenty years. Some of you know me better than my family members and close personal friends and co-workers do. You've definitely seen more sides of me.

It's a beautiful fall day. With fall like weather - crisp and cool, but not too cool. I've finally been able to turn off the A/C, as has mother down in South Carolina.

I'm grateful for today and a chance to crash a bit, with no major requirements or duties outside of making lunch ahead of me.

Television shows...

The lovely thing about technology and digital age - is movies come to television a lot faster. I used to have to go to the movie theater to see these things, now, I do not. And I'm very happy about that. Movie theaters have kind of gotten annoying - people do not know how to turn off their cell phones in them.

Do not text in movie theaters folks - it is akin to shining a very bright flashlight in your fellow movie goers faces. There should be instant karma for that? If you text in a movie theater during a movie, automatically someone blinds you with a flashlight.

This is why I prefer to watch at home. Well that - and the fact that I can pause it to go to the bathroom. It does help having a movie theater size screen for the most part.

Have done nothing much today but watch television - although to be honest it wasn't until 8pm that I found anything on television that held my interest. Most of it, my interest wandered during.

1. Reboot - this is the new Hulu situation comedy about a group of people rebooting an old and fairly bad situation comedy (actually 80% of situation comedies are bad, so...). I wish I could say this was an exception, it's not.

I watched three to four episodes before giving up. So I did give it a chance. Same chance I gave Ghosts (it's better, and that's saying something. Or at least less crude at any rate - being a network series.)

For a bit I was trying to figure out if Alyson Hannigan had gained a lot of weight to star in the series. Until I realized no, that's not Alyson Hannigan, it's the far more talented and relatable Rachel Bloom - who is the best thing in it, next to possibly Paul Reiser. But it is crude and kind of offensive with the constant barrage of inappropriate and unfunny sex jokes, many bordering on sexist.

Examples, because you kind of need them to know what I'm talking about, since your idea of crude and borderline offensive may not be the same as mine. I'm fully aware of that. I admittedly have a lower tolerance for this sort of comedy than most.
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Anyhow the set up of this thing - isn't bad. The daughter of sitcom writer wants to reboot his old series, with the original cast, but a more updated setting, darker jokes, and edgier. It's a family sitcom - instead of the family always doing the right thing, they do the wrong thing. (In other words they've decided to copy about half the current family sitcoms.) It's a satire about making a television series. Except way too much emphasis on crude below the belt sex jokes.

I really should stop trying these things. I never like them. It's just a waste of my time.

2. Drifted over to Rings of Power which I could not focus on to save my life. Also the first episode was kind of slow. A lot of action, but not a lot happened? Also way too many characters. It reminded me of the Wheel of Time Series that Amazon did. It didn't pull me in. That said, it has potential - there's some interesting characters in there. The Harfoot's are interesting. But the elves kind of look alike except for the guy involved with the human.

It could just be me, my focus is off at the moment.

3. Seregeti II didn't even hold my focus, I got bored and jumped away from it too.

4. Tried the flick The Romantics which was on cable - commercial cable, and got bored of it. It's based on the novel by Galt Neffenbarger (sp?) entitled The Romantics. About a guy (Josh Dushumal) who gets involved with two college roommates, and apparently can't make up his mind between them - one is Jewish (Katie Holmes) and one is Wasp (Anna Pacquin) - but weirdly this isn't emphasized in the film. I had no idea - discovered it when I looked up the book description.
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5. Monarch

It's fun. Kind of a soapy musical. Much like Nashville, I prefer the music to the story. I also preferred Nashville - which had more relatable and diverse characters. This feels a bit like Dynasty or Dallas with country music. Or a country music version of Empire, which again, Dynasty or Dallas but with hip hop music.

6. New Amsterdam

Kind of picks up where the season finale/cliffhanger left us. With everyone's broken relationships. The only one's I felt sorry for were Bloom and Max. Iggy is a self-involved narcissist, but then so was Max's finance, so Max is better off without her. I think he may end up with the deaf oncologist who took her place as oncologist - they have more in common and fit better. I loved the actress who played the previous oncologist, Dr. Helen, but the character was annoyingly self-involved.

7. Arcane - on Netflix

This is really good. It won the Emmy for best animated program. It's an adult animated series on Netflix, adapted from a video game and is surprisingly brilliant. It deserved the Emmy. I think it only has 9-10 episodes (like everything on Netflix - Netlix has short seasons). It allegedly has a second season, even though Netflix shuttered it's animation studios and the group separated from Netflix and did the second season with another studio. But I think it kept Netflix as distributor.

Anyhow, it's detailed in a good way. The animation, the world building, the characterization, and the plot. It's also diverse. And melds fantasy and sci-fi well.

For a computerized cell animation - it's rather good, amazing really. Kind of falls along the lines of Anime.

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That's the first three episodes briefly summarized, it's a lot better than that.

And by far the best thing I watched today. I will most likely binge it tomorrow.

So, skip everything but that - is my recommendation at the moment.