LadyCrimson

Back on my IPS monitor. It may not be the bestest high quality IPS monitor, but ... I'm spoiled now. I love my IPS monitor. It's a little backward-tilted still (stupid cable placement) but it'll work. As long as I don't have to stare at that horrible other thing I have. Time now to curl up with Sherlock Holmes (not literally) and fall asleep.

Previous thread of funnies

Always room for more funnies! ... in the new thread, over thisaway.

Considering these "experts" mention surgery, I'm going to guess they aren't generally talking about people who need to lose 10-20 pounds. More like 60-100+ and at that point for a few to several years at least, with several serious failed attempts to lose. I highly doubt any ethical doc. is going to recommend something major like gastric bypass surgery as the only way to get/keep the weight off to someone who wants to lose a minimal amount of weight. While it may be true there is some kind of cellular or hormonal or whatever memory that makes it harder to take weight off once you've gained it, the main thing for most non-morbidly obese is actually sticking to diet/exercise changes forever. Forever can be a scary word to some. Drinking Slim-Fast and eating Jenny Craig isn't exactly something most people should/are going to stick with, but many keep doing those things vs. real changes, because they're not actually committed to changing lifestyle habits forever. They just want to look good this summer.

If you have a city house with a yard, you can still grow your own vegies + a few fruit trees. Not an acre size farm, unless you're rich, but still a good size for single/family use. Not the same, I know, but you can.

Me:"Monitor stand broke. " Hubby: "See those 4 holes? That's for a real monitor stand. Maybe I have one that'll work." Me: "My hero!" (few minutes later) Hubby: "Here's one." Me: "My hero!" (few minutes later) Hubby: "Hm, monitor cable placement gets in the way, panel would be tilted up too much." Me: " " Hubby: "Might have a couple different ones that would work (at office), I'll try later tonight." Me: "Ah. Poo. Well...you're still my hero. Just a delayed one."

*playing a game* ... *monitor suddenly falls over towards keyboard, scramble to catch it* ...wtf? ... the plastic piece that goes from stand into back of monitor to hold panel up broke/split. lol. Now what. I don't suppose crazy glue could hold 27" lcd monitor weight? Man quality these days .... Edit: Plugged my 23" non-IPS into main PC. Oh, ugh, no no, this won't do anymore. Must...get...new...monitor.

Eye Doctor: "Everything seems fine, you're just at a point where you may find you heal slower than you did once." Me: "So basically you're saying I'm getting old." Eye Doctor: "Yup." Me: "All righty then, good to know!" ...that taken care of, now time to take my slow healing old self to the autoshop, DMV, the accountant office, and the grocery store.

Fury - I dunno, there were some great action scenes (ending especially), set pieces, characters were consistent, and it's the first time Shia LeGoof didn't annoy the heck out of me, but overall I found my attention wandering at times. Also, I'm no gun expert and I know tracer fire is a real thing, but all the super thick red and green in a couple brief bits made me think of Star Wars. So...B+ for effort but C+ for narrative storytelling. Also, for making WWII seem like sci-fi.

There's rain that I've seen, but I'm not sure if it's variable or just a set pattern for certain areas. There was a discussion re: that in the beta form somewhere but I don't recall much of it at the moment.

^^ Ahahaha.....soooo true.

Not as techie-nerd, but that is likely why I like certain building/crafting/survival games lately. It's not for any "scary combat survival" aspects - if anything too much of that gets in the way. I used to like more dramatic or decision making games but now I just want to search for the perfect base spot, build, and boil water. Apparently, I need to go camping again. ...think I'll rent Fury tonight then go to bed early (hopefully). Have a long day tomorrow.

So I scratched my cornea's some days back. Nothing too serious I'm told but one eye worse than the other. Patch and drops for one eye for a couple days, the other was just "don't rub it". That eye is fine again, but the worse one is still an irritation. Doesn't hurt too much anymore but still light sensitive/a bit blurry at times and feels a bit like there's grit in there. Guess I'll go have them check it again make sure it's on course. I'm lazy about most doctor stuff, but vision I don't mess with.

I miss John Ritter. *sniff*

Stranded Deep update made sharks more aggressive. People whined. So they changed it back and now they're sort of in the middle. I still find them too easy. And people are still whining it's toooo haarrrrrd (and not realistic shark behavior). It wasn't even as remotely as hard/annoying to The Long Dark's wolves, either. I get the feeling the dev's had this idea for a game but their early access release (missing a lot of planned features) made people used to it being more of a casual island vacation/diving for treasure sim so now dev's are evil if they make sharks very threatening. lol.

The Walking Dead : yawn, boring episode. I get the grief/downtrodden/worse before the dawn stuff, but dragging it out for a full episode seemed a bit much. The aspect of traveling/being hungry bits I liked tho. And ... darnit, that wasn't Morgan. But still cool.

Went for a walk, tooled about town, had half a deli sandwich, briefly checked out the new hotfix patch for Stranded Deep, ate the other half of a now-cold leftover deli sandwich, currently settling in for some Walking Dead.

I don't like labels and didn't call myself a feminist even back in the late 70's/80's. Even then for many it tended to bring forth images of, say, "hippies" in shirts with printed slogans on their chests and that is not who I am at all, so I've never liked the term. I am for equality in legal, political and social rights, whether gender or race or other based, but this does not translate into what is often popularly viewed/depicted in media/seen as "feminism." It's not about a single gender, it's about a general concept of principle, like "morality."

Dungeon Keeper 1, Remastered, that's one I'd buy! ...oh wait, EA, never mind.

I really liked the intro of Nacho (Michael Mando) and looking forward to seeing how his chr. develops.

*romps around outside in 76F Feb. sunshine while wearing shorts and a t-shirt* California does have it's perks, sometimes. Although I expect it to be rainy and mildly chilly a few more times before true Spring.

Oooo...Netflix has 2nd season of Crossing Lines. I know what I'm doing the rest of the night!

I'd just like to say that any game that allows you to play it in a window, should never have the game pause/stop when that game window isn't the desktop focus. Totally ruins my ability to leave the game running to do something else while I'm waiting for some game task to finish. It's a travesty, I tell you, a travesty.

Well, guys made out of hulking red rock usually aren't my thing (I'm more into the skinny geek made out of tacos and beer) but if he can dance and not step on my feet, then ... uh ... maybe?

I used to love Peter back in the old old days. And I'd still like to love Peter. But he's largely dead to me now. He has nice concepts at times, but I wouldn't trust him to put a game into release that I'd actually want to play, anymore. I mean, one never knows what the future holds, but it's not like I'm going to be buying anything of his on 1st release anytime soon.