.
.
No, not much. A few of the things mentioned were done. Not most, little luck today either probably. Late to bed and a late start. Still, what is, is.
I haven't been going anywhere fast this morning and currently. But I didn't want to do nothing. So I started tinkering with Pale Moon and the silverlight problem. I had misread part of the problem. Microsoft tries to be as clear as mud, and does a good job of it. Pale Moon is just a free offering, so... It is a tech toy offered by techies. They do what they can, if they think something is important, but the user is mostly left to their own devices. After realizing my mistake, and ignoring MS's less than helpful information and finding my own way beyond their dead-end information, I did get the two to pair. First, I had to make sure PM was running in the 32-bit version. Easy enough. Then I had to find and download the 32-bit version of SL. Actually, once those two things were done, nothing else was needed. I suppose I will continue with amazon prime then.
The movies aren't great, for prime, usually. There have been a few very nice surprises. But, for nothing, on a slow day, the offerings can pass the time. And they are free, give or take. Along with sometimes free 2-day shipping, and a number of such things, it's not a bad deal. Actually, I don't borrow books or bother with their music, so far. Music is a new thing. I haven't sniffed around enough to know if that is to my liking or not yet. I have my doubts. Doubting is the secondary part of my job! I'll check it out, just to prove myself correct. If I am wrong? I can't lose. I love pessimism, my sort doesn't stop me from finding out. It just ensures that I am not perpetually disappointed. When I am surprised, on those rare accounts, it is always a good surprise. Which is why liberals are miserable. They actually believe when they are told medical care costs will be brought down by government bloat on top of the typical bureaucratic bloat of real business. Hehehehe I do enjoy watching optimists cry. "I am paying? I thought THEY were paying!?!" Hehehehe Never mind.
Oh, and I am "cleaning" my oven today. It's an automatic thing. I think it worked well last time. The smells though... I always fear a fire, on every stove that I have used that on. I don't know what else I will get to. Trash and recycling this week, I think. The cat litter is still good, I have been tending their brown button garden well, which does make the litter last a lot longer. Dishes could be washed, then set to rinse. I just don't know, that is a lot of work and I am sort of not there. Laundry could be dealt with. Meh... I want to, I just don't know if I have it in me. Lunch, a grilled chop, was warmed and consumed. Just enough. Yeah, I can see where vegetables would be nice, I just can't do it. One more thing, one more pan, more fuss, more muss. Still, it served my hunger well.
It is a wonderful day to rest up, so I don't mind. Need meets opportunity. I would like to get in to church, perhaps this coming Saturday. But making it on time, and actually early for confession... You have no idea how difficult timing is for me. I try, and try, and try. I make huge efforts, using visits with my friend to practice. And, still, usually, I am an hour late... when I am "on time". If not, I could be up to three hours late, or just be forced to cancel. I think I have been on actual time, right when I suggested, perhaps two or three times in this last year. Still, if I focus, plan, set up, arrange, and push... I might be able to do it. There are some other things I am going to try to do, thataway, soon, as well. They have no idea how difficult this is. See, this is where a woman might help. It has in the past. If I can get her on my side, and she can understand that it won't be every time and can live with that, a woman can improve my odds of being exactly on time at triple or quadruple my current rate. Mostly. Lipstick and flashing canines, a smile and a wink or nod, they have lots of tools. And, if I open myself to them it can help.
Well... on to making sure it works. I, Frankenstein is what I plan to view. I've seen it before. It's okay. There is much they could have more fully filled out, some they could have just dropped. It is sort of lame, but not because of the notions in the story, but because they tried to turn it into some sort of metro-sexual love story, missing the real points that a monster flick should, and really did, have. Was the director a woman? Terrible loss, in that sense. But I can work around, and pick the ideas up myself and work with them on my own. It has great bones, just no good meat, not supplied anyway.
Later.
Which Frankenstein movie? Last year's Frankenstein movie? That was directed by a guy. I just checked. Of course you do know the book was written by Mary Shelley who was 18 when she wrote it.
ReplyDeleteI've only seen the original Frankenstein movie and bride of Frankenstein. It'll be interesting to read your stories based on this concept.
Oh, dear me. You are quite mistaken. Frankenstein is a flesh golem, and that story is older than some sands. It was of Jewish design, through midrash or thereabouts, when patriarchy still ruled that line.
ReplyDeleteShelly was raised by a Jewish descendant human secularist, of a very dubious nature. While a devotedly non-Jew by practice, he fancied himself an intellectual and probably shared some of the old stories. She may have forgotten, or not, the source. But she most certainly was not the writer of that tale. She simply updated it to a prog "enlightened" notion, at least of her time. A translator, no more. She didn't create the story.
Oh, and the name is I, Frankenstein. I don't really track when something came out, or such. It is or it isn't.
ReplyDelete