Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, doing not much of anything, listening to some music by the marvelous English composer Phyllis Tate – some light music and then her alto saxophone concerto. She also wrote a very interesting opera based on The Lodger. It was another somewhat quiet Indiegogo go go day, as I suspected it would be, but we did go up to 72%, so that was good. Maybe today will bring another percentage point and wouldn’t that be loverly. Here is the handy-dandy link to the handy-dandy perky perks. Something for everyone, from inexpensive to expensive, but all under one million dollars. Wouldn’t that be something – if someone came in at the last minute for one million dollars. Think of everything we could do with that money. Get into every studio, do every project, do 1000 more Kritzerland shows, a few productions, and eat.
I did watch the first four episodes of a new Amazon Prime limited series entitled The Terminal List. I do love a good vengeance story where the bad guys get their comeuppance but good. But this thing is so dreary, so not fun, so stretched out and paced poorly, and dourly acted that I’m not sure I’m up for the other four episodes, which I’m sure is just more of the same. These kinds of stories are tricky because you have to root for the person who metes out the vigilante justice – i.e. Dirty Harry, Paul Kersey of Death Wish, and, more recently, the two Jack Reacher films with Tom Cruise, and the two The Equalizer movies with Denzel Washington. Those are satisfying because they’re clean – clean villains, clean plotting, and forward momentum. Here, a two-hour movie is stretched to the breaking point of eight hours. It also doesn’t help that the film’s star, Chris Pratt, is just a big zero in this. And the hyper-violence doesn’t really help, either. We’ll see if I actually finish it. And now, I’m waiting for a little snack from Taco Bell, which should have been here thirty minutes ago, since the jernt is two minutes away. The problem is that the store itself is closed and so I’m sure there’s a line all the way to the street at the drive-through. The poor Dasher has been sitting there for thirty minutes in this line. There isn’t even a real ETA. The first ETA was eleven o’clock, the second ETA was eleven-twenty, which has now come and gone, mostly gone. New ETA is fourteen minutes. We shall see.
Yesterday was okay. I only got about five hours of sleep, if that, mostly due to the computer freezing, which it does like clockwork every two damn weeks and always just before I’m ready for bed. So, you have to manually shut it down, the reboot and that takes at least twenty to thirty minutes for everything to load and actually work. I was up at eight-thirty and out the door twenty minutes later. I stopped at the ATM and got some cash for the weekend, then went to Hugo’s and had an omelet and a tiny Caesar salad instead of potatoes. After that, I went to the mall, bought a few pieces of See’s candy, killed time, then went to Gelson’s and got some lox, cream cheese, and bagels, mostly for today’s food. Then I came home. I did a few things on the computer, relaxed, eventually had a bagel with cream cheese for a snack around four, and then I began watching and that took up the next four hours with breaks in between. Let’s check on our ETA, shall we? Still fifteen minutes. I just texted the Dasher, but they don’t always respond, although he certainly is just sitting there like so much fish. I had a couple of telephonic conversations, too. Aha – on his way at long last. Didn’t want to eat quite this late, but alas, so it is written, so it shall be done.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do some cheerleading, I’ll get some perks prepared to add, I’ll have a telephonic conversation, but mostly I’m going to watch, listen, and relax. I’ll eat the bagels, lox, and cream cheese at some point.
Tomorrow, I’m staying put and being safe, and I hope you all will be, too. People are crazy with their illegal fireworks and then there are the alcoholics, so stay safe. Then the rest of the week is a LOT of cheerleading, starting to write the other scripts for the web series, and more cheerleading, as well as a couple of meetings and meals.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, cheerlead, prepare a new batch of perky perks, have a telephonic conversation, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have gone up to 72% and let’s continue to climb every mountain and ford every stream.