LadyCrimson

So if I eat a few tablespoons of butter with my fruit pops, it should be fine, then, right? ...but then I'd have a heart attack, especially since Type2 seems to keep my triglyceride levels elevated (even tho the other LDL/HDL #'s are "super great" at the same time...). I can't win. ...vegies/small amount of meat and some high fiber bread/grains seems to be the thing for me. Some Type2's state they can't even eat a few common crackers or a single cookie etc but such doesn't bother me too much as long I'm not scarfing down a whole box every day HAHA

It's not access, it's the sugar/carbs. Oh sure, like all such, if I ate one once a week it'd be fine but that wouldn't happen. My self control usually comes from ... not having any such in the house. I didn't buy/eat ice cream all the time but if I bought a pint, it was eaten in one sitting. When I got out of the hospital I was all "veggies and fruits, low carb, low fat!" etc. And I bought a watermelon. Apparently I should not eat watermelon (bananas are apparently pretty "bad" too). Or a lot of the high sugars fruit. When I stopped eating an apple or a pear or a handful or two of cherries with every meal my blood sugar went down/was more stable. Fruit hit me worse than eating a slice or two of bread, or a couple squares of dark chocolate. So now it's largely just veggies/low fat proteins. Anyway ... next time I actually walk-in to a grocery store I might try sugar-free fruit bars (Splenda) ... maybe they'd be tolerable and be half the carb/sugar content of most fruit bars. Amazon Fresh tends to be terrible with more specialty items like that.

The weather is growing warmer and I want strawberry fruit popsicles.

My mother was like that - she'd leave the front-street living room curtains open all day. There were zero curtains in the family room/kitchen. She'd enter my kids bedroom, cluckcluck at me, and throw open my curtains like I was a plant that needed sunshine. Then she'd leave and I'd close them again. Makes sense to switch office spaces if you have different preferences. ============ Unrelated, but the convo made me wonder if I could take a picture of how dark my room is during the day if no lights on. With the phone. It's seemingly impossible because of all the auto-filters and focused auto-exposure phones like to do. I had to put it on "Pro" mode and still only got sorta-kinda close - and the reflections in the TV look purpl/brighter when they're not. Actually I'd like it a bit darker for watching movies/TV. Need to toss up a new black sheet on each window I think. It's noon when I took it. Edit: if you have your display brightness way up, it's gonna look way brighter than it should be, too.

^ You could hire hubby. ...at any rate, re: windows, you just need black curtains. Multiple layers if they get actual direct sun exposure, because over time that will fade the black into brown/purple. If no direct sun exposure, it won't fade much. So a couple white sheets, then a couple black sheets over that for example. It won't be pitch black (well, unless you go all-out with window coverings of some kind, like nailing boards up) but it'll be dark enough. If too much light around window edges just tack stuff to the wall to cover those. :P Plus black curtains don't show up reflected in monitors much.

^ I feel like making a basement dweller joke, but I shall refrain. ...If we had a basement I'd prefer to be in it because it would likely be a lot cooler in summer.

I don't think they have a consensus and/or don't care - they just focus on Earth, because Earth is obviously super special. Also, according to one such believer asked in a Newsweek article, our sun is "special" because it doesn't "twinkle" like other stars. https://www.newsweek.com/we-asked-two-flat-earthers-what-about-other-planets-728959

I've probably said it before but times like these I'm happy I'm an extreme non-social introvert. My current order of pounds of kimchi arrived. So I am now going to make some beef/veggies with a little bit of rice, and then eat it with an excessive mound of kimchi next to it. After that I will probably go into a food coma and take a nap. Altho I slept a lot yesterday so maybe not... ... after 1st vax shot, my arm/neck muscles felt a little sore a few hours later. Then I grew really sleepy and napped - woke up - an hour later was really sleepy again and fell asleep for 12 hours. Woke up. My arm /neck is still sore. Otherwise it's fine. Cross fingers 2nd shot when it comes won't be too much worse than that. Oh and hubby got his first shot too.

I will never understand serious anti-vaxxors. Smallpox, polio, tetanus ... y'know? I have two vaccine scars (young kid ones), shoulder and top of foot. I don't know what what they were for, I assume smallpox was the shoulder one. Didn't grow a 3rd eye. As an old-fart-chicken I understand being nervous and wanting to be cautious about new ones, but actually anti-vaccine... pffft. If covid continues to be a thing, eventually it'll just become the norm to younger/not yet born gen's to get vaccines for it, whether at schools or the annual checkup. It won't seem weird/scary to them because it'll just be part of life. And to travelers it's just one more that they have to have. Sure there may be some as adults who become lazy about keeping it up but that's always a possible factor.

Nudist beaches* are cool. No one cared about what clothes, style, hair, anything, say about someone. You just waved and kept on walkin' down the sand. Outside of weather or environment protection, clothes are a pure social construct anyway. *...waits for Keyrock to make another hipster comment

It was my mothers. :P I had it in a closet for ages but I think last time we moved over a decade ago I finally tossed it. I see ppl selling similar for $200-$300 these days. Drat. In other daily news: I was poked by Pfizer. It was just a quickie tho ... Pfizer got no time for foreplay. The worst thing about leaving the house is having to get dressed in real clothes. So uncomfy. I wonder if anyone would care if next time I just stay in my kitty night-shirt and fuzzy slippers.

The screencap was just to show the overused roar animation expression that I dislike. It's reached the point where I don't even like it on real animals, eg a rabid (real bear actor) grizzly in some horror movie. In terms of CGI: think of the first two Alien movies and close ups of the Alien's face/opening jaw or when its face is close to an actors face. It feels present and there and 3 dimensional, because it was filmed that way (or at least mostly). Things like the cave troll do not feel "present" within the scene, to me. when paired with live-action actors or other things - they do not give me the illusion of actual 3D on a 2D flat surface - eg, a video game effect. Maybe in another 20-25 years they'll finally have perfected such creature CGI.

It's where it and Frodo are playing peek-a-boo around a pillar, not long before Aragon tries to help then Frodo is stabbed. I'm pretty sure (so my memory says) that it was in the original theater cut, although the theater was so long ago I could be mistaken (edit: or maybe it was in theater but they changed it a bit still on dvd?). It's in my version of extended, which I think was the first released version of such (if there are other special extended versions that came after I do not know of/have any of those). I took the screencap from a YouTube video tho, since I was lazy. Edit: this youtube video: (checked my extended dvd, it matches)

Know what I miss about this thing? ...the manual carriage return. When you were typing frantically at high speed for hours and slapping that lever like a madperson...and that sound of it moving, with the little ding (that told you to return). It was so much more satisfying then pressing Enter. And of course, the clacky sound of the keys striking. ...I don't miss changing the ink ribbons, or one day trying "erasable" typewriter paper and finding out it smudged like mad and going back to liquid paper fluid or a whole new sheet/re-typing.

Skin texture, lighting/reflection issues, wrong or absent shadows, facial animation seems stiff (not anywhere like the worst or anything but). Just didn't look "real" to me at all. When I was in the theater I was just ... "ugh." Also, not specific to that movie, I'm just sick of the generic cgi monster roar-face, which includes brief moments in The Mummy which came before LotR. Not every monster has to roar like a lion or grizzly, darnit. Shadows and CGI use in movies were often a problem back then. Probably still is, but often a little less noticeable now. Like in Return of the King, ever notice the wide shots of the Rohan army near the end have massive shadows projecting directly in front of the horsemen all lined up on the hill, but they disappear whenever they show closer shots of the human actors/the king making his speech/hitting all the spears with his own sword etc? Not that it doesn't still make it an exciting/awesome movie moment when you're caught up into the film, mind. I love that whole ride of the rohan sequence. But I notice stuff like that all the time.

I thought they looked bad even at release, at least that one scene in that ... courtyard? Y'know, the one where Keanu does the thing with the pole. The LotR cave troll still bugs me to this day (especially the roar animation), and anything that came after that was very similar. It's a lot better now but still, every time Godzilla face-expressed (human expressions on Godzilla....) in that recent film I lol'd. Sorry. In my defense, it was a good-natured/fun sort of lol.

That whole scene is so iconic, imo. I don't have it on 4k disc but I did get it and T2 on regular bluray. Although I have to say, when I see it now, every time the lady in the blue tiger stripe appears I always think "DANCING SO 80'S". I swear everyone in my highschool danced like that at parties. EVERYONE.

--sometimes I feel like many people forget Cameron directed True Lies. --I should note when I first saw T1 (I missed it in theaters, had to see it on VHS on a 19" CRT TV) I was obsessed with it. Watched it over and over, paused it, slo-mo'd it, etc. It being 3rd on my Cameron list is mostly due to time passing/the other films coming out.

^ People just like making fun of it at this point. It really wasn't that bad - just nothing special. The visuals (including motion capture) and/or 3D for the time are what sold it - such wasn't commonplace at the time. But these days grand (and CGI and motion capture) visuals are a dime a dozen. For me it goes: Aliens > T2 > T1 > Abyss (especially extended) > True Lies I did kind of like Titanic. Not in a superfan way but I enjoyed it for what it was. It felt grand (occasionally cheesy...), I liked the attention to detail, and it had it's moments, although Jack running around the ship yelling "Rose!" over and over and over wasn't one of them.

Feeding time: 3:38. Cat "ice cream" on a stick: 6:35

Made/ate lunch. Played mobile slots. Scratched my arse. Pestered hubby in the backyard. Browsed the 'net. Made/ate dinner. Pestered hubby in the garage (outside was too windy apparently). Listened to music. Scratched my arse. Now it's either time to watch a little TV, play more slots, or play Dungeon Keeper. I'll toss a coin. ...pretty much like every other day, in other words. ...I wish we had a cat cafe like they have in places like Japan, near here. I think there's one in San Fran, but I'm not driving up there.

There's two versions of this song played at points in the series. This is the male singer version, which is played at the climax/end of the series and which I prefer. If you're curious, female version is here. Anyway, I find it beautiful/haunting/melodic. Hasn't been long but I think it's already time to rewatch it. ..they're sung in English but if you have a hard time understanding all the words/care about such, the brief lyrics:

You know what this means, don't you ... your workbench is not big tall enough. Sounds like a nice upgrade tho. Enjoy! Also...I can't live without my Soundblaster. Onboard sound ... pffft.

I thought Avatar was passable brain-at-door fantasy entertainment, just nothing special/memorable or worthy of extreme adulation. I think over time many realize the main draw at the time was likely the "new" type of 3D. People were curious about that (including me - the 3D is the only reason I went to see it in as theater) how well it worked etc. I always thought the joke that it was like Dances with Ferngully (or Pocahontas or whatever) were pretty apt, tho. I'm sure the first weekend for the sequel will make big bucks if only because people will be curious, but one problem with taking so long to finish sequels is ... most people lose their anticipation. It could be the sequels will be much improved/better than the original but it could also be that Cameron's ego will finally over take him and after the initial curiosity box office it'll be downhill from there (edit - and if the 2nd film isn't considered masterful, the 3rd when it releases would do worse etc).