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April 2005 ArchiveFriday, April 29, 2005GIANT TEEVEE!Yesterday was a day filled with a providence and delights. I came home, turned on the teevee. As I watched, the screen slowly faded to black. I banged on it, and the image came up slowly and then fell down again. Banged again, a temporary image again. Teevee, R.I.P. 08/97-04/05. That teevee was 20". Long live Teevee 20". Behold Teevee twenty-seven inches:  The teevee is exactly as wide as the metal cabinet it sits on, making me want to put eyes on the teevee, and arms on the cabinet to make the pair look like a stocky robot with a huge head and tiny legs. My Chicago reception is Crap. Crap with a capital C. Now 27" Crap. I can't get UHF until I get a better antennea. No Charlie Rose, 24 or America's Next Top Model until then. *sniff* *sniff* BUT now I can read those darn tiny-type DVD title menus that are designed either 1) by designers who don't know their medium at all, or 2) designers who assume people are watching their DVDs on $1000+ teevee screens. I wouldn't care so much about the screen size if I wasn't so much of a movie geek that's slowly getting irrevocabily annoyed with seeing movies in theaters with people. People who make too much noise. I am tolerance-less. Or intolerant if you prefer the real word. Last year, I watched 200 movies through Netflix, so I was going to get the biggest screen my $300-350 budget could buy. This is a combo of TV, DVD and VCR, since I was replacing a TV/VCR combo. Even plays Audio cds and MP3s on disc. Hot damn. Realized I only need my stereo for radio - which I techincally could listen to on my computer. The BONUS? I went from three remotes to two; one if I don't use the stereo. I am absolutely giddy. _______________ At a kitchenwarming at Cinnamon and Andrew's, I was talking to Richelle and Leah, who couldn't believe I watch teevee. Well, I've got a very specific schedule, so I pretty much never just click through the channels. And in January and February, I had very little work or money, so teevee was cheap entertainment, getting me hooked on this season of shows. That conversation and Claire of Loobylu's conversation of tv on the other side of the world bring me to this: My schedule: Daytime: Starting Over at noon. Perfect time to get away from the computer, make lunch and fill the rest of the hour with puttering around the apartment. Anyone who's unemployed, depressed or generally malaise-ridden won't improve themselves with daytime tv. It's all soaps, court shows and talk shows of marginal merit - really just all negative. Starting Over is an exception, and the women on the show are genuinely looking to improve their lives. Sunday: Law and Order: Criminal Intent. I've always loved L&O. Monday: 24. I heard it's good and I've been impressed an entertained with this, my first, season. Tuesday: The Amazing Race & Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. TAR is the classiest reality tv show, and I dig armchair traveling with the racers. L&O is L&O. Wednesday: America's Next Top Model & Law & Order. Boy, howdy, I will defend ANTM to anyone! It is a great show. Really well designed with the different ridiculous (but not far fetched) challenges for will teach these young women something about modelling. I enjoy watching to see what girls have the looks, which have the moxie, which actually learn from the opportunity given to them, and get better over the season. Again, L&O is L&O. Thursday: Survivor. Only if I am invested in the people of that season. This season have been good. Friday: Law & Order: Trial by Jury . Saturday: Ebert & Roeper. Saturday is WBEZ day, puttering around the apartment and/or making stuff. And doses of Charlie, when the topic intrigues me. posted on 4/29/2005 02:45:00 PM Saturday, April 23, 2005Master of My DomainI kicked some serious butt today. Last weekend I had no social plans, with the intent to spend the weekend cleaning. Well, Saturday morning I crawled back in bed to get a few more winks, and I was punished with a terrible, terrible crink in my neck. Seven days later, I can still feel the shadow of it. That weekend I puttered around the apartment, but was in a distracting amount of pain. This weekend was wide open. Last night, I knew I was pooped out. I did the low key job of reducing my magazine pile by half, tearing out things to file and things to save for collage. Today, I rocked AND rolled. I tackled my walk-in closet. It was in serious, serious trouble. For a long time. Huge mess. I was in the perfect frame of mind to purge and move on. I collected two bags for the Salvation Army, eight to the trash, and threw away about 20 boxes I emptied. The best news was that I got 3 boxes of papers down to 2/3 of a box. My biggest problem is the massive paper tiger. The burnt out lightbulb was replaced, the floor cleared and vaccuumed. A dead mouse found. In a plastic garbage can where it seemed to get stuck and starve. I live in a old building, very old, lots of gaps in floorboards. Extensive mouse highway system. The mice are tiny and actually quite cute. Still, they are pests. And they had developed a boldness and frequency, that made me know that they were partying in the closet. Were they ever. Yikes. I finally found the allure. A log of marzipan in a box of random shit. Undoubtably one of those catchall boxes that happens when I'm nearly done cleaning, with only objects without place to go left. Yes, I know marzipan belongs in the kitchen. Or rather, in my belly. Anyhow, it was 80% eaten. Plus, a few kid's safety suckers that I bought to give any at a show and ended up in the Abyss Closet. Thankfully, productively, the closet is 50% clean. The 50% real messy, mouse-encouraging part. Now the 50% left is purging clothes I haven't worn in ages and reduce the stuff that's been stowed too long. Endless times, I told myself, "You thought you'd made something out of X. Too late. It's gone." Out with the old. In with the space. __________________ On top of all of that, I made some stellar soup, another crockpot fulla food. Improved Numo's cage. Washed a small load of laundry. I rock. posted on 4/23/2005 10:54:00 PM Friday, April 22, 2005Holy Holey!In the shower just now, I noticed this:  My fingers have holes! A side effect to having a hedgehog. Yes, he does hurt when he's in a ball. No, it doesn't hurt that much. He's only drew blood once, and that was just after I took a bath. Obviously, his quills do break the skin. But the reciprocal is when he's running over an arm or hand and I get to feel his soft belly fur. Mmmm...soft hedg-eeee bell-eeee. If you've been missing out on the hedgehog action, it's all over here. posted on 4/22/2005 11:24:00 AM Thursday, April 21, 2005SustinenceTonight, I dropped by the local grocery on my way home. The young man in front of me was buying two 2 liter bottles of cola, a box of snack cakes and a cake mix. I then walked half a block behind him in the same direction (coincidence, not stalking) and he was smoking. I feel like a No. 1 bonafide health nut with my pickles (i.e. little cukes), tofu, beets, cashews and a can o' soup. posted on 4/21/2005 09:57:00 PM Wednesday, April 20, 2005LiquidsTonight I spent time with two of my favorite women, Alise and Cinnamon. When Alise pulled up in her car to pick me up, she had just spilled her water bottle on the passenger seat. I sat sorta on it. We meet up with Cinnamon who didn't have her normal bag, because a coworker spilled coffee on it. Cinnamon quipped, "But you know, Mercury is in spillograde." posted on 4/20/2005 09:56:00 PM Tuesday, April 19, 2005I am an Amazing Race fan. But I am a bigger fan of Joyce for cutting off all her hair on the Fast Forward! She looks bee-you-tee-full + she's a badass.posted on 4/19/2005 09:05:00 PM Sunday, April 10, 2005"Your stubbornness is rivaled only by your idealism."Yup. posted on 4/10/2005 10:24:00 PM Tuesday, April 05, 2005File under "Apt"posted on 4/5/2005 06:59:00 PM Monday, April 04, 2005Looking ForwardI'm still breathing. Still swamped. Still getting to know Numo. Still need to get great pics from last week's Memphis/New Orleans trip up. Nursing a new, small hot glue gun burn. Trying to eat three squares a day. (Biggest challenge in my day to day life.) Everything's being slowed down by the fact that my hands are WORN OUT. I started having Repetive Stress problems a couple years ago. It's been bad the last couple weeks - some discomfort, very weak, dropping shit. Finally getting over my stubborness (I am not a machine, as much as I like to think so.) and working on healing and rest. It's forcing me into a slow pace, which is probably good for my workaholic self. I'm minimizing computing and the ergonomic keyboard is on it's way (along with a good book to learn me somethin'). I appreciate patience in my emailing rate and blog updates. Here's to long term health and strength! posted on 4/4/2005 11:23:00 PM Friday, April 01, 2005Thank you, Rod.posted on 4/1/2005 07:45:00 PM |
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