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Cooling Weather, Chilis, etc.
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SO the week at work was uneventful, the weather is cooling down - 20 degrees top in the day, low down to 4 or 5 degrees at night. By this weekend it should be freezing. The Thai chilis are giving it there all; but the rest, well, they're not doing so good. Maybe I should move them indoors, where they can have warmer temperatures (but worse light), but I'm plumb-damned-darned almost giving up.
I'll have to think where I can move them indoors. And maybe look for a full spectrum grow light.
The water is still too high to bother with a trip to Balfour to search arrowheads, the town is quiet, and I'm restless.
Today, groceries, yogurt, fruit, made a giant bowl of properly spicy salsa because in all my shopping I've tried every brand and none of them - even the hottest, are remotely spicy.
Complaining, of YouTube, the algorithm, completely wrong, seldom lately has it delivered anything I can listen to, it's been taken over by AI narrated/generated videos, utter nonsense, and so I'll go back to "This American Life", "NPR", "Radiolab" and look for more audio intelligence to accompany my little art projects, that background noise that's just intelligent enough to allow me to free my hands to do other things.
Otherwise, little of note in my reading and film frontiers, I've a big pile of books to get through before I bring any new ones home anyways. So in lieu of an exciting personal life I might start reading excerpts from my poetry...
I've discovered that my income is greatly insufficient to the life I want to be living and maybe this will solve things?
And, for the moment that's all.
House M.D. Season 5
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Absolutely no improvement, instead grasping at plot-and-character straws to try and keep the viewers hooked. A shame, there's a lot of work went into writing and producing it, but that work would have been better invested serving the plot and principle characters rather than the impossibly rare medical cases they'd come across and solve each week. And while it's "Escapism" it's also pure ridiculous silliness, for escapism to work it must some how allow you to "Escape" and that into a plausible alternate world or environment.
This fails.
That said, I gotta adopt his "Epiphany" moment, that signature Camera-Zoom-in goofy expression turning to intelligence and "A-Ha", which seems a sure fire great way to get out of awkward conversations...
Consider "Breaking Bad" - few of the episodes have a "goal" that needs solving each episode (eg "the health of the patient") and it works because every episode builds upon what we know of the characters. And it succeeds - although not strictly speaking "Escapism" (you rarely felt better after an episode, especially the later ones) you were compelled to see it through and realize the conclusion of the plot.
Anyways, fortunately I have a lot of other media to get through on my phone, so I doubt I'll be held hostage through another season...
The Purge
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OK - based on the recommendation of a certain Andrea, a long time ago, and as I had need of some mindless entertainment I thought I would give it a try.
Now, once the premise and the main characters are introduced the plot flies like an arrow to it's inevitable destination. Never have I been so unsurprised at a film - what amazes me is that anyone would think to discuss or recommend it. Absolutely - 100% predictable, with not a curve in sight.
So, even by the standards of B or C films it was completely appalling. I just needed a break from House M.D. and all I can do is find films that make me appreciate it all the more...
The Wife of Martin Guerre - Janet Lewis
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This was a curious read - and, without giving away too much...
A 16th Century French Peasant takes leave of his wife, family and estate. When he returns 8 years later at first he is welcomed with open arms, his wife especially. But soon there comes to grow on her the suspicion that he is not the same person that left her, and the kindness and maturity she notes cause her - against the will of the Family and Estate - to repudiate him, and through the courts she seeks her retribution...
Now, based upon a true story and to go further would spoil the plot, but the author Janet Lewis introduces more than a few ideas regarding identity and truth...
A slim book, well researched and worth the read.
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