LadyCrimson

Turning the area by the back fence into the bird and squirrel feeding station. Got lots of sparrows, doves, bluebirds, and there is this flock of magpjes around. Nice to sit under the porch cover and watch them squabble. Evenings are less peaceful then we would like tho, due to a neighbor who sits in her yard and talks loudly on the phone for literal hours, almost every night.

Mom was huggy. By the time I was a mid-teen she rarely tried to hug me. For 40 years hugs are reserved only for bf/spouse. Occasionally I'll tolerate a hug if it seems super rude to refuse or something but my usual method is to keep a good distance or literally hide behind someone else when saying goodbye or whatever, so people rarely even try to initiate one.

Since we were unmotivated/tired hubby and I finally saw SW: Rogue One last night. It's been in my (short) Prime watchlist for years, haha. At the least I didn't end up walking away like I did trying to watch Solo. It felt like it at least sorta tried to stay closer to the spirit of the first movies. I liked the robot. But they kept having these moments where I felt like we were supposed to care about chrs. demises or happenings and I didn't care at all because they gave me no reason to. The original SW trilogy is no characterization masterpiece, mind, but even less here then in those. Or maybe I just found the two leads unsympathetic, dunno. Still, it was at least watchable and there was no "I hate sand" type cringe... Sidenote: Last time I saw Forest Whitaker in a "sci-fi" role was in Battlefield Earth. From his small role/makeup/acting in Rogue One, I have decided he should stay far away from any more sci-fi roles.

These aren't really super funny, didn't know where else to put them. ...it's not just with dads. I can confirm at some point I hugged my mom this way all the time. ...opposites attract may work out for many, but I dated an extreme extrovert once, as a teen. That didn't work out so well.

I think it's Epic exclusive for some months first, like BL3's release was, in case you weren't aware/cared. I'm mildly curious about it but yeah, I don't care about BL3 at all at this point - not sure I would even get excited about a BL4 - and my expectations would be low. But maybe we could check it next Xmas, when hubby usually feels like revisiting the series.

Think I'm finally taking at least my main PC up north. Saw a game on Steam I'm half interested in (Ghostwire: Tokyo). It'd be nice to download it here then have something new to check out a bit. Doesn't seem like a masterpiece game or anything but it might fit my more casual/jump in and out, explore/expose a map, not too difficult combat style these days. Also, you can pet/feed make friends with dogs and cats or something, for some reason. Sounds like me, right? Hm.

Yeah, I try not to judge. We all have moments in our lives, just most of us aren't in the public eye when it happens. >.> Not a huge fan of C. Rock the entertainer but I did admire his keeping cool and how he kept on going with the show. Although mostly right this second I feel a little weird having randomly seen this clip (I thought it was a joke at first) and then falling into the trap of being curious enough to spend time googling for a few minutes. Haha. Back to ignoring the net.

More Google says Will's past year has been full of ... weirdness. Mid-life crisis perhaps.

I didn't even know the Oscars were on, but for some reason a video of that showed up in my YT feed some minutes ago. Using Google-fu, it would appear Jada has hair loss issues (hence her haircut) and thus C Rock's joke could be seen as not cool. But Wil's reaction was ... well. Whatever. Hollywood. I guess Wheaton has become strange? I used to like his blog way way way back, before it moved a few times. He seemed like an all right dude. I've seen some of his low budget films and he's a terrible actor, sorry, but that old blog was interesting to read anyway. Haven't paid attention to him in a long time tho.

I think that's what people mean when they talk about "sunk cost fallacy" re: TV series, like Lost, or The Walking Dead. I sort of understand that one too, but I've never done it. Loved Supernatural for 7 seasons, started to find it "eh" after season 8-9, and then stopped entirely. Stopped Walking Dead too. Same with Game of Thrones and many others. I guess my hope-o-meter isn't large enough, haha. I also tried watching Sharknado because of all the 'net hype about how bad it's funny it was, but I didn't make it past 10-15 minutes before I basically FFWD'd to the credits then turned it off.

As much as most of you seem to dislike the new Treks, I also am one who doesn't understand why y'all seem to keep on watching them. Is it a "watching a train wreck" type thing, so to speak? ...I remember watching that first episode of Picard ssn1 when they put it up for free on the web to promote it. I immediately decided that outside of simply enjoying seeing Patrick Stewart again it wasn't going to be for me and haven't bothered even looking up clips for it, let alone subbing to Paramount (or whoever it is that owns it, I forget offhand, pfft). I didn't hate that first episode but .. eh, didn't care either. ...I mean, I can watch a lot of "bad" TV sometimes if bored enough so maybe I can understand it a little bit, but...just like with anything (new) Star Wars, I've lost all interest in anything (new) Star Trek. It's not just whether the writing is good or logical etc per se ... a lot of creative/writing/thematic trends in tv/film is just not what I look for (or I became bored of already), in general. Another sign of becoming your parents, right.

Know what I like about Diablo3 on PS4? That you can play with "yourself" by running the game three times with different "user accounts" on the same single device. So I can take my main chr. on account 1 and drag 1-3 other characters behind me to increase difficulty and drop rates, as well as easy in-game access to tons of mule chrs. on those other user accounts. Make as many user accounts as you want for endless and well organized mule accounts etc. The only other time I remember being able to do similar with a PC game was Borderlands 1, where I was able to alt-tab out of that game and click/start a 2nd running copy (on same PC) to then join/mule/drag a chr. around etc. I'm sure there were other PC games you could do that too but I didn't play (or just don't remember) them. Do PC games still let you do that sort of thing anymore, or has all the digital, online/account and drm measures = never...outside of maybe some indie games here and there? At any rate, I finally got past Greater Rift 70 last week and can get Primal Ancient items now. My main Necro is at Paragon Level 809. I don't use any "meta build" so my damage is still pretty low for the last difficulty (T16) but T15 is now pretty easy. Chance for Primals is all I wanted. The chance is really low, but I have gotten a few.

When circumstances keep you mostly off and not looking at the world wide web, reminding you that for the past several years, you are generally more positive and cheerful then. EDIT we keep waffling on which house, still, but yet we are having a lot of fun doing "stuff" in tne meantime.

Not just when gas prices go up, but every little thing is this style. Or in other words, why I dont watch local/daily news tv anymore.

It's not a cat, but common lizards are cute too. It was under yard debris we were cleaning up. Took 15 minutes warming up before it wanted to move out of my hand and climbed all over my shirt. It was almost pure black-looking initially then slowly turned color. I love creatures/animals/insects/whatever. Well, except mosquitos/fleas/simlar, and those mean and ornery paper wasps/yellow jackets.

...on the PS4 version of Diablo3, I'm still having a fair bit of fun again grinding rifts and the Adventure quests a couple hours a day. I still need to get past Rift70. Nothing like Diablo's for mindless passing of time occasionally. That's about all I have time for tho...probably be another month or two before I feel like I can spend more devoted time on screenshot obsession checking out other/PC games again.

I'm so used to using the PS4 netflix app and getting actual "4k" resolution/higher bitrate video that I forgot using Firefox they limit you to 720/lower bitrates. I think with Chrome it might go up to 1080 but ...you can tell the quality difference hugely on a larger TV. I've heard it's a combo of drm (since web browsers have less control over/it's super easy to record higher quality copies) and bandwidth saving. Annoying. ...anyway, watching the 3rd season of Two Sentence Horror Stories. Seems as decent as the first two seasons and I still like the 20 min. format. The 2nd episode Plant Life had me totally thinking Little Shop of Horrors but then it went in a different direction... @Keyrock I was really excited for Brisco back then too. I liked the first episode or two ok but then I think I never really watched the rest, or only caught bits and pieces of it years later on YT. I think the humor fell slightly flat for me and/or too many other things in my life at the time, but I don't really remember. I'll always love Bruce tho.

I'm used to the other house. It's more rational to live there (if only because it wouldn't rent for nearly as much...) and it's certainly more likely that we will end up doing so. But ...each time we've returned down here for a couple days, my mental mood immediately lifts upwards and I'm more "awake" again. The Bay Area Peninsula will always be "home." ...on the flip side ... Sac, house (more room/yard, they are very active kitties) means I could get some variation of these "grizzled black" chausie cats - I would like one of the 25-30lb ones, please. I would take it for walks around the block.

I would like to see that new "The Batman" movie sooner than later, because Pattison and good "pro" and customer reactions, but I'm not sure I can convince hubby to go to the theater for the first time in years to do so. >.>

Change title to Me in a Room Without All My Stuff and Bored Out of my Mind... I love this YTubers cat. Reminds me a bit of the one I had as a kid.

Not sure which app you're using, but on my PS4 and Samsun/android tablet, (and webbrowser), they both have one of those "continue watching" category lines, often inserted under your Watchlist line, but it can vary in placement depending on Netflix's mood. So anything I click on and watch 10-20 minutes of usually gets socked into there. If you finish the entire thing (as in, credits roll on a last episode" with no episodes considered unfinished) it tends to auto-remove from that line, or you can manually "remove from row" before then, if you want. Although I notice it's slightly more annoying to do it in the browser vs. the apps.. Have never used a smart-TV app tho, so dunno how different they are.

Would you like some park to go with those deer. ...12-15 minutes walking to the park entrance, then you can walk around some short, flat trails near the river. These guys were obviously used to human walkers and I could get a few yards close before they'd look up and stare at me then sllowwwly start to saunter away a bit. It's almost all oak trees tho and by the time we left my skin/scalp (even under light clothes) was feeling all crawly-itchy with a little bit of tiny circular bump hiving here and there. Sigh. There's a reason I stay huddled indoors 90% of the time these days ... besides my asocial nature, I mean. Need more room filter units...old lady in a bubble...

Rewatched Silverado the other day. Still one of my favorite ... light Western/Adventure? ... films. Just a fun little movie. And so many great folks in it. Even John Cleese in a small role as a sheriff. "Today, my jurisdiction, ends here....pick up my hat." ... I still laugh every time.

Re: Netflix watchlist Is there still any way to order your watchlist the way you want? Used to be in a browser there was an actual list and you could shuffle them around. Now it appears it's just the image blocks and you cannot anymore, thus you're at the mercy of the random order netflix likes to do. I swear they shuffle things around periodically - it's not even alphabetical or "last one watchlisted first/on top" order. Just all over the place. Drives me nuts.