LadyCrimson

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.

"Home" for a couple days. Already used to the house up there, to a point, but I still like it much better down here. Also, I missed my desktop. That laptop I own is some cheap $300ish thing from maybe six years ago, it's like emergency use only. Hubby's feeling a little less stressed but we're still very undecided where we're going to live. We'll probably just get sick of driving back and forth in a few weeks, splitting our time, and make some random decision. Pfft.

Since I dont have my desktop pc, been goofing off a tad with Diablo3 on ps4. Noticed current season has the Diable pet as reward, but to get it you have to finish all goals on Season. Which as solo I would never do. Would it be possible... sure, if I had the full 3 months and played every day. As is...oh well, guess I shall remain miniDiablo petless. just let me optionally buy one for 10-15 bucks. Its cosmetic. We dont all want to grind forever and ever for cute pets. pfffffft. yes im lazy now.

The issue is I can hear hubbys every word if he is having a phone meeting, plus gaming or tv noise is too loud even if door shut even at lowish volumes. At least for my tastes. We replaced the cheap hollow doors already. I dont expect silence but its way too loud for our lifestyle, especially me being a nightowl. House walls are typical usa drywall and wall thickness but no wall insulation which is common in houses from 50s and 60s. Previous houses were concrete floors, this one is wood foundation. carpet in bedrooms hallway, wood and linoleum tiles in living areas. I grew up with wood foundations so I know theyre louder but this whole house is echoy feeling. I became too used to being able to be loudish and barely being able to hear it. >.>

Well if we choose to stay here, would have to tear down the drywall in a couple bedrooms, insert wall insulation and use that "soundproofing" drywall (it's denser/heavier or something) and see if that makes enough difference. Has anyone done something like that, does it really make much of a difference? Stuff like those foam wall squares ppl tack on walls wouldn't work, I see them as hard to clean dust collectors. >.> My allergies have also been very bad up here for whatever reasons, not fond of that. Also, would you like coyotes with your golf course? Neighbor asked if we had cats because (outdoor) cats around here supposedly don't last long with coyotes around.

We have noticed up here in the Sacramento area suburbs, a lot more people not wearing masks, vs. the Peninsula where it's been rare to see anyone without one. All the stores/places have the "face covers must be worn" signs but people ignoring them, including, at times, the workers. Kind of depends on the area tho. The "richer" areas you see most people complying, the less nice/more run down blocks/shopping areas, much less. Don't know the area enough to know what other social lines patterns to the mask compliance there might be vs. just the obvious seeming economic ones.

I meant to post this a while ago but ... hubby bought some mini 3d printer and he's been messing with it again. Seems to be a higher quality thing, needs less fiddling. Mostly tho I just think it's cute, being so small. Put some googly eyes and booties on it and it could be a pet. He brought it up here with us as something to do but hasn't messed with it yet. So far the best thing about this house (outside of more living space) is still the yard. Could definitely see us hobbiting up here. Hubby's still over-stressed tho. Doesn't even want me taking a walk around the housing blocks out the door, by myself, even at daytime - which is definitely psychologically unreasonable. Doesn't seem any worse to me than the area around the Peninsula house. From my side tho, the Peninsula is still home (I grew up around there after all) and this area still isn't. Not sure how much I like it up here re: wandering around, driving, shopping etc. So mixed feelings. I'm not safety stressed tho. >.> A park/schoolyard nearby has weekend farmers mart and we got some food-truck food there. That was nice.

Doom at Your Service, via Viki I like kdramas that have a fantasy flair. Not the dragons and castles type of fantasy but the mysterious god beings in human world type fantasy. So this seemed up my alley. It's gloomy and dark but also darkly funny. The scene editing feels a little janky at times tho. It's been interesting to note that kdramas as a whole seem to getting darker and less quirkily "wholesome" or light fairy tale in tone, style...not that there isn't still the fluff and silliness, but much like in the US media, the overall mood landscape has altered I think.

I post this mostly to say that far as I'm concerned, that is the best store bought Caesar dressing ever. I use it constantly and it's what makes eating so many salads tolerable. Well that and the meat I put in them.

At the 2nd house for our trial run. No desktop PC's, no 4k OLED 55" (that's the 4k LED 43") no desk, no most of my stuff at all (I think we have a couple frying pans and we bought a toaster oven for this kitchen). Man, I'm in the wilderness, really roughin' it here, I'm not sure if I'll make it! ...probably won't be very net-active for a while tho. Too busy.

I think I could use to see the eyewear doc. again. I have two pairs of glasses - the newer pair is better for watching TV from couch distance (or driving) but gives me way more eyestrain at desktop-distance, so I use the older pair when computing. It's weird. Probably something to do with being both near and far sighted now with that inbetween zone fluctuating and giving me problems.

Finished the six episodes (it was 6, not 7...) available of Through the Darkness. It stayed excellent. Now I have to wait 4-5 weeks. >.> Netflix recently got rom-com-drama Beauty Inside tho. I remember when that came out and I didn't bother with it then because the premise is totally absurd (female superstar who once a month randomly turns into a different person, male/female/old/young, for a brief period, and a man who has face blindness). But it stars the male lead from Because This is my First Life, female lead from Another Miss Oh, one of the male leads from Cinderella and Four Knights, and a supporting actress from I Can Hear Your Voice. So quite packed cast, for me. Maybe it'll be ludicrously binge worthy at least. First episode seems weirdly cute so far.

*rolls up sleeves, gets out the Scrub-Free, brushes, and a gasmask* *scrubscrubscrubscrub..freakingtoomanyLayersOfSoapBuildUp..scrubscrubscrubscrub..myhands..gettingtoobroken-downforthis..scrubscrubscrubscrub* ...an hour later... "Honey, I have decided. I know you're an Ivory-Man, but no more bar soap allowed in the shower." "....ok....." ...was productive today, doing stuff needing to be done before staying at the other house. If we stay up there, I'll need to do more of course, but there's still an initial minimum regardless.

First two episodes of Through the Darkness were pretty darn good. It is, so far, a crime drama, not a melodrama. There are references throughout of the FBI guy's book Mindhunter - S. Korea seemingly didn't form their own profiler branch until much later (this series is set in late 90's/early 2000's). So I love that's it's a similar type of tale based on real-life person/experiences. The series Mindhunter (especially that first season) was great imo and this is looking to be just as good, although also very different ofc - not from the US pov. or style. Kim Nam Gil is killing it (I think I like his acting even better as drama vs. comedy) and most of the supporting cast as well (including the criminals). Finally, something I can really get into watching! ...sadly the final episodes won't be aired until the end of Feb. because of the Olympics I think, so I can only binge 7 (out of 12) this week. ...oh and if you try watching via Viki, don't watch the second eps. in their list "Episode1-special" second, because it's like a special/edited recap of eps 1 and 2, before you even watch 2. That confused me for a while then I turned it off for the real episode 2.

^ Yeah, that always sucks. I didn't have 14 but when I built a PC (the last one? My current one? I forget) one of the two initial storage HDD's acted all super flaky in days ... didn't know what was going on at first but it was just immediate failure I guess. had to replace it/get another one. I think that's the only drive I've had that was basically just a dud from the getgo vs. lasting years.

Looks like Viki does more film rentals now. I can rent Seobok for $3! Gong Yoooooooooo (and Park Bo Gum). Sometimes I forget about Viki because watching thru the browser is sort of a PITA (app only works on my tablet and is not on PS4). New currently-airing series, Through the Darkness, not on Netflix, is there too. Kim Nam Gil! He was great in Live Up to Your Name and Fiery Priest. Looks like this new one is a crime drama, based on some book re: S. Korea's first criminal profiler/s. Time to start binging Viki for a while again. *happy dance*

Needless postscript: hubby came home from his errand. I guess it's the electric portion that is not PGE in Sac, but the gas still is.