I wasn't sure if I had a mouse or not.. Set this in the old bedroom, and
this morning.. Well there was a commotion.. I thought either Skootr was
having fun at four in the morning.. After a while the curiosity got the
best of me, I grabbed the flashlight to see what she was doing.. The
mouse tap was gone.. But the can wasn't there, wasn't caught in it..
Then I saw where the mouse trap went to.. There was a mouse in it.. And
it was still ALIVE!! How you might ask.. The mouse must have not
liked the bait that was in it. He must have decided to show me how
disgusted in the bait he was by shitting in the bait area and the trap
caught him.. I've never seen a mouse get caught by the ass... So shortly Skootr makes a triumphant visit, she has that wild eyed look like she knew something was up, I couldn't decide what to do with the mouse, should I take to the bathroom and give it a chance on the waterslide or.. So I thought I'll just let Skootr do her deed.. She walks into my room, wild eyed like she knew something was up.. In the mean time the mouse made more noise and all I could think was I hope the trashcan holds him there.. There is no way he could get loose with this thing strapped to it's lower body..
So Skootr gets over there dives down and starts to investigate.. I hear a commotion and then it gets eerily quiet.. So I figure I'll let her negotiate the terms of surrender.. Tasty not tasty.. And I shut the light out and tried to get back to sleep.. Shortly after this I felt her walk across me and I thought "GAME OVER cat 1 mouse 0"... I wake up later in the morning check the trap and it is EMPTY... Where is the mouse?? Wholly shit, the mouse is gone, skootr set it free... Well now wait a minute, maybe he is there by the trashcan.. Nope.. The mouse is GONE.. Turns out there is a dead mouse downstairs in the dinning room. Was it's ass perforated?? I couldn't tell, I picked it up and waterslided it.. Then Sunday the reset trap had nailed another mouse shoulder blade area, another normal kill.. Water slide and reset.. What is the most I've ever caught?? More than there, less that seven.. The trap above being my favorite.. Second choice is this one :
Such a genious design, the tilt trap.. So easy to set and humane too.. Unless of course you are me and believe mice can hold their breath for five terrifying seconds as they make the whirrlpool trip down the waterslide.. Set them free??? I do.. They can be free if they can hold there breath for five seconds.. Come on sport..
What I watched this weekend movie wise.. Strange weekend is what this weekend was.. Friday I watched Back to the Future
Back to the future is a favorite movie and I got the box set a few years back at Christmas time in one of the trades with my brother that saved both of our Christmases that year.. I fully intended on watching the trilogy but Saturday saw me get sidetracked and and then we had something to do that afternoon in a wild blowout shindig that saw me get sicker as the minutes passed.. I've never been in a situation where I couldn't get cold.. It was twenty degrees out and it still wasn't cold enough..
So Sunday morning saw me out of it watching this sequel to Fletcher, Fletch Lives.. Kind of a cool way to try to both watch and not care what was on.. This is on Crackle on the roku and yes it has commercials but.. Thems the breaks..
The Art Of More, I had seen this advertised and decided to try it.. After a day of blurrily watching football and that included last nights great game of the week from Denver, I watched The Art of More, a series on Crackle.. I seem to go towards Crackle every now and then when I want something different.. They have a lot of cool series including Chosen, a series I think I've seen all of but I'm not sure.. You get the gist on that, every episode is short.. I guess it's a way to show they are different than regular tv.. In the case of The art of more the name of the show tells it all.. It is an art type of series.. I watched/dozed through episode one.. I'll try to watch it all and give a better final review..
Source material for yesterday's entry "with or without" This above is the Full Withing Temptation Black Symphony concert which can't be watched here in the United States anymore... I was lucky to get it when I did..
The bonus concert which is still watchable here and very much worth watching...
Let Us Burn, the latest concert.. Faster is the third song some seventeen minutes in.. There is a long conceptual overture before the band hits the stage pretty much the same as Black Symphony, if you are able to ever see it..
Whadya watch over the weekend?? Well I had a Rocky fest weekend.. Started with the first movie and went through to five.. First off.. Rocky
The first movie in a series is more often than not the best of them all.. Down on his luck boxer Rocky Balboa is a collector of debts for a loan shark.. Fairly goodhearted and wanting the local woman at the pet shop to date him, his luck changes when the champ Apollo Creed gives a relatively unknown a shot at the title..
Rocky II is a close second in the series being the second movie and a good tell for Rocky who just barely lost in his bid to with the title..
Rocky III, the beginning of the wheels falling off but still a good movie overall... Rocky, now the champ gets harassed into fighting Clubber Lang with the help of Apollo Creed coming to the help of his old nemesis when Sylvester Stallone writes Micky out of the series.. Take that..
Rocky IV.. The wheels are falling off the franchise as Adriane pleads for Rocky to retire but Rocky listens like the jock he is by going off to Russia to fight a steroid using blood doping ruskie after he pulverizes his friend Apollo Creed..
Rocky V.. that is Rocky five.. The fifth is the saga that is.. wait, was that a tire we threw there?? Yes the wheels are falling off the franchise and yet it seems to move along.. In this installment Rocky gets the bad news, his brain is turning to jelly, and in fact it is getting hard where the grey matter that is dead brain cells, and is told by everyone retire or die.. So Rocky ignores them all, trains a kid to be just like him and then street fights him in an epic battle of good versus really not good, greedy little bastard, ungreatfull little worm.. And dies in the process.. or does he..And who cares..
There was one more in the series, Rocky Balboa but it is currently unavailable at Netflix.. Just as well I did watch it from disc on Netflix a couple years ago or whenever it was.. Not impressed but I felt I should watch it.. Now the new movie based on the Rocky series "Creed" has Rocky helping out Apollo Creed's kid.. In theaters shortly or now or whenever.. It might be worth a view. Hard to say.. did they find the wheels?? Anyway..
It's been a while but.. Here is the latest album I put together..
This is the promotional video for the new Within Temptation compact disc release "Compilation Live" hitting the shelves on December first ... The song title is "All I Need"... Now a little back story for this...: For the past year or maybe even two I have had these concerts by Within Temptation and they were (are) YouTube acquisitions and I really like the entirety of all four but there are songs that stand out more than others.. So I would fast forward and try to remember which song was on which concert.. So in the past three months the project started to nag on me to get this idea done or at the very least try it.. A live compilation.. Trouble with a live comp album is the crowd noise rarely if ever matches up.. And so with that in mind is where I started from on this disc.. I checked mostly that at the start/end of the songs to try to match up the crowd noise as best I could.. It never does work completely like I think it will.. But this was close, there are only a few times it didn't work out.. The shows this was taken from were :"Black Symphony, Black Symphony bonus concert, Let Us Burn deluxe edition (two disc, four concert set).. The song set is as follows : track one Dangerous, Dangerous was new to me coming from disc two of the let us burn set... Quite the opening track it sets the tone early that this show is going to be a lot of fun.. Track two Faster, Faster was the big hit off of their latest studio album Hydra.. It hit the top of the charts world wide.. Everywhere but America where the retards rule the scene.. I shouldn't say that but America stays in the rap is the best music in the world mentality, or Justin Bieber is the greatest.. What does he play, what instrument does he play?? That's right.. He doesn't play ANYTHING.. I digress, Faster is the second track and is the best song after Dangerous.. You get the feeling they will all be the best song.. That is what a hand picked best of is supposed to be.. Track three End of the World, a nice slow down from Dangerous speed, and Faster heavy rock sound.. Track four, Restless.. Restless is from the Black Symphony bonus show and is one of those seriously great ballads that this band produces on every record, but restless shows Sharon's voice off right now... Stand My Ground, track five is just as good as you remember, sort of the only filler song on the entire set.. Track six : Somewhere, a return to the ballad side of things.. Duet with Sharon den Adel and Anneke van Giersbergen from the Gathering another great duet and the third slower song in a row.. It might seem odd to have these songs appear so early in this compilation but it holds true to the set arrangement from their Let Us Burn album when they hit the softer side of their music by the forth song.. track seven is Angels, another slower song but again another rather huge hit for them.. Track eight The Last Dance, while not a hard rocking track, it is one of those that signals the end of the slow down.. Now we're gonna turn on the jets.. Track nine, Covered by Roses gets things moving again and there won't be another slow song until you hit rewind.. Track eleven Sinead... What can I say, this one.. Gangster on the loose, tough and sassy... Sinead is a tough.. Silver moon from the Let Us Burn second disc, was really a filler track but became more, it pushed another track out.. Damn you compact discs for being limited to 79 minutes.. The promise gets things really moving, like you knew after Dangerous these guys can kick it into the high gears without being in the low gears.. No warm up needed.. Mother Earth is track fourteen and is that sound that Within Temptation would be known for and the reason people either love them or really love them.. Finally the track All I Need rounds out the show.. A really nice slow down song with a powerful message, it was why I picked it to end the set.. Not a ballad, it has that first part of KISS "Black Diamond" feel to it but the orchestra really helps make this a very powerful song.. Interesting side not here, the promotional video above isn't the same version used on this album, The version above was from the Black Symphony show, where the version on the disc was from the bonus show, a completely different show all together. How do I know?? Sharon's hair has a dark red streak in it in the video above, where the bonus show it's not there.. Also the version on the disc is much more powerful, they used a chamber orchestra on rather than a full orchestra and vocalists on the main show..
So there you have it.. The album that won't ever see the light of day.. OR WILL IT??
So... This past Friday we were down at the Walmart to do our usual Friday grocery shopping and.. I break away and head towards the chest freezers and am just looking to look more than anything else and.. when suddenly this lady who lives just across the street and corner comes up to me and says I know what is going on, aren't you excited.. I know she is on Facebook and she likely saw the "news" that I saw earlier in the day.. Aren't you excited??... Well, about what??? I bait her, I know exactly what she is talking about, but I bait her, act all innocent like I know nothing.. And she says well you're going to be a great grandfather or.. not that.. a grand.. great.. she stammers a bit on then says well you know what you are going to be.. I read it on facebook.. You read it wrong there sister.. Here is what it says .. :
So
if you are not friends with my wife or you are wondering what is going
on, the news is we are going to have another boy come early April.
And she saw the lower part, not the date on it.. I tell her yup, he was born on the 4th of April.. Almost three years ago, name is Ryan and a little ornery boy.. She looks at me in total shock... I tell her that was one of those news things from back a few years they do that at Facebook sometimes.. Sort of a remember when type of thing.. Well... Then to change subjects she asks well have you gotten your turkey yet.. I say no, we are still searching for a place to run one over, we like ours free range and fresh with just a hint of axle grease marinating it.. She said WHAT??? Really??? Why not..
Movies this past weekend were many.. I guess.. But a few oldies and some start and not finishes..
Gothika.. Kind of a psycological movie.. Girl is a doctor at a mental hospital, girl gets into an accident and gets tossed into her nut house hospital and finds out they are accusing her of murdering her husband.. Twists and turns and while I'm thinking it is going in one direction it actually goes in another.. Really good movie..
The Enemy Below.. Here is a classic movie with the commander of a war ship going against the commander of a U boat or submarine.. A very good classic movie with the challenge of two commanders trying to out think each other.. Who will win??
A Simple Plan... Seemed harmless enough.. These three guys are out on New Years Eve day and find a crashed plain and in that plain is a stash of 4 million dollars.. What could possibly go wrong?? Quite the twist in plot.. It had a feel of Fargo to it but ... not... But a fairly good movie none the less..
Other shows I watched was :America's secret D-Day disaster.. About the dress rehearsal for D-Day that went horribly wrong but was kept out of the history books until quite recently..
Psychic Investigators.. Interesting show and thankfully just the half hour variety.. Farfetched??? Hard to say, I tend to believe some of them.. It's if they ask for money that you know they are scam artists..
Just started Jane the Virgin last night... A fairly funny show..
My second run through of the show Weeds is entering the running from Agrestic part, where they move in with the father in law at Ran-mar California the seedy little shithole where they will start selling her MILF weed and get into even ever more trouble.. Why run through a second time?? I did just get done watching it the first time this past June.. Well.. Sometimes show needs to be watched again.. and again..
So what makes a movie or tv show that watchable or able to be watched over and over like that?.. There are those who can watch Seinfeld over and over again as well.. With me I am watching Friends again some of the first two seasons will be the forth or fifth time counting seeing them when they were on originally on the network.. I just like the show.. I would do that with Seinfeld if it were on Netflix.. It's not, it's on Hulu.. So what is the big deal?? Hulu is free.. Not the subscription version isn't.. There are movies that are that way... I'll write about that in another blog entry..
It's always tricky talking about things after the fact.. Things you swear happened but might not have.. Then there is the total recall "this is exactly what happened"... So with that in mind.. My brother followed me down to take the car to a shop in a town close but not quite walking distance from here.. And then I rode with him back home.. We talked about various things and then hunting came up.. He has in the past hunted deer, and while that might sound like a terrible thing, when you accidentally hunt a deer using your car.. That is a terrible thing and really I'd rather deer be thinned by hunting than with a car.. He was talking about the various seasons and what they use, black powder, bow and arrows.. Then crossbows.. Those just sound like fun to use, I mean Darryl from walking dead seems to have all the fun with his cross bow.. Then I thought well how long is the hunting season with a sling shot.. Not that I have one, but I could use a rubber band and kill a deer, but you have to be right close to deliver the death blow and have a deer that likes to play around with it's very life.. Then there is my pellet gun.. But let's not get ridiculous here...
Movies from last weekend were a small number...
Kristy is about a girl who stays behind at college on Thanksgiving weekend and gets more than she bargained for as a local cult like group hunt her down.. Kind of a group that makes death scenes (real death scenes) for a web site.. A love story. Not really at all...
The Song Remains The Same, Led Zeppelin... Well if you can believe this.. I ordered this dvd at the same time I ordered The Endless River, Pink Floyd's "last" album.. (why quotation marks around that?? You never know, they say it is the final album but.. you never know.. never say never is my motto) And these were ordered at the same time from of all places Barnes and Nobble with a gift card thing.. The song remains the same was truly a lark, I was just looking for something to add up to get the whatever the final price was.. Anyway I had seen the movie in the theater way back when it was originally released.. My older brother and I went to this and truth be told the longer song sequences damn near put me to sleep then.. I have since gotten this on VHS tape and then the DVD version now.. The early part of the movie, the opening sequences, I don't remember.. That is so sad to me.. But the rest of the concert.. FANTASTIC.. They don't do concerts like that anymore.. If you want to see what influenced me to really get into rock music.. THIS IS IT..
The Omen... This classic movie I had seen parts of but never the entire thing in one sitting.. This was supposed to be the Halloween movie but I couldn't find it on the netflix search.. But then the next day it showed up and so i watched it.. This is a very interesting movie, maybe not a you gotta watch it type but still it is worth a view..
Other shows watched.. Surviving Progress.. A documentary about the way things seem to be heading in the world.. It is a worry that we could all end up in a world like the old road warrior scenario where there is fighting for a drop of gasoline.. As well as other things.. I don't officially list it as a show I watched because I got too depressed to watch it all.. I've had dreams of this type of shit..
Vexed.. This is a British tv show, a nine episode only series.. Very funny and just one of those shows that ended long before it should have.. The subtitles are Italian, but the show here is English sound..
This was one of Ashton Kutcher's entries on Facebook recently.. http://www.higherperspectives.com/deceased-loved-ones-1437230454.html
5 Signs a deceased loved one is nearby.. This sounds like bull shit but the truth is after my dad passed away I felt he was nearby for a while.. And one night I even thought I heard him say my name up in the hallway near my bed room.. It was within a month of his passing away and it was as plain as the weeks before.. Then now with my niece passing away recently there have been little signs here and there.. What is really sad is while I feel she is nearby in death, when she was alive she rarely was down here.. From the time she graduated until her untimely death she was down here maybe an average of maybe five times a year.. And that is giving her two... She was almost never here.. Like when she moved to Tennesee and I thought at the time well.. It's like she is here, we never saw her before her move, and we won't see her now.. And it was well about a year before we did see her, just a few weeks before her grand dad died, and it was just like normal.. Maybe it was a good thing we rarely saw her.. When she came down with her daughters we always marveled at how they were growing so fast.. And that is true, when it was three to four months between visits you can see the growth that way..
What are some of the signs that my niece might be nearby?? Little things.. Going to my bedroom one night I could swear I saw a red light (like a digital clock) from one of the spare bed rooms, I turned back to look and there isn't ANY red light in there.. Then one night the scanner (radio used for monitoring police and fire radio activity) there was something strange happened.. The static on a channel was there.. And that happened with my dad as well.. In this case there was static in a rhythm sound and a very high beeping type of sound, almost music sounding.. I wasn't freaked out by it but I did think of her.. For whatever the reason....
So.. I'm NOT religious at all really.. More spiritual than anything and truth is I do believe in a beyond but not a heaven type of beyond.. More of .. ghost... maybe.. Some sort of other phenomenon beyond the religious BS (Oh she is in a better place) thing.. I do think she is in a better place and she might be wrangling and being amungst us now.. At least for a while..
From the article :
1. You smell them.
No I never have smelled her.. In fact if you were to hive five things and one of them had her smell it would be a stab for me to get it right.. So no, I don't smell her..
2. They appear in your dreams.
This is easy.. Very few people who lose a loved one don't ever dream of them.. In my case within a week I dreampt of her, she was on the front room sofa.. Everyone was crying and talking to her and asking why, and how... She gave and answer that made everyone cry even harder than they did when she first passed away.. What was that answer?? I have no idea..
3. Your items go missing.
Nothing has gone missing that I know of.. Not now, when she was here when she went to school down here things went missing but.. not now.. not yet anyway..
4. Unusual thoughts.
No unusual thoughts.. But the day after her funeral while cleaning her place her mom and sister found something that was very concerning to them.. I will eventually write about that when and if it ever gets cleared up..
5. Signs at the funeral.
I've been to funerals where things go awry but hers seemed to go off without a hitch so.. No signs at the funeral.. Although there is a reason I came up with as to why her spirit might not have even been there.. She had troubles getting anywhere on time, even before she had the twins she was late or pushing being on time to the breaking point.. I figure she slept in, her funeral started at ten in the morning and I do believe she was in fact late to her own funeral.. That was my dads line by the way.. When she was here going to school and she would be getting ready to go and dad would drive her the whole block and a half to school he would say that girl will be late to her own funeral..... Someday..
Badge Henry
And then last night happened.. Someone called and I tried to pick up just before the answering machine did as is my way of getting the phone just before the answering machine picks up and say hello, just as the answering machine goes off and runs through it's message of leave a message after the beep.. And the beep sounds and there is this massive amount of feedback sounding stuff.. Was that her messing with the answering machine??? They aren't allowed to communicate from the other side and yet I wouldn't put it past her to break every rule in the book...
I completed the alternative videos to the memorial videos this week.. Basically what they are is video ideas if I had more time and the ability to think a bit about it.. Truth is the videos that were done in a relatively short time (the videos that got done) show what can be done with the idea that I have x amount of time to get it done DO IT... Just do it, get it done.. I was happy with how things came out, but given enough time and the ability to get a little distance from it, these were the videos that got done..
Wish You Were Here covered by Tangerine Dream from their Under Covers album.. This is the original video with the soundtrack altered a bit.. And the final bit is still Opus Reprise by Schiller.. Again another idea.. Better??? Eye (ear) of the beholder..
The alternative memorial video.. Most of the video clips are from source discs which hopefully translate into a more watchable video.. Some of the clips are identical almost to the second, but others are not.. The croquet video with dad in it is longer by a little bit.. And other videos were added seeing that I had a lot longer to do it this time.. The original had videos that I wanted but the quality was so...wanting.. Actually wanting quality.. but the video source in this case was disc, and the trouble with that is that any video that was of Tabitha before her daughters were born was vhs tape transferred to dvd some 8-9 years ago.. and they don't seem to be aging very well in that state.. Thankfully analog tapes, the original tapes are still stored where they can be viewed.. Other things added on this video.. A picture from an early trip to Moab Utah.. How early.. Long before Tabitha was even born..
This video marks the true end to this project.. There will be no more... And this video will only be up for a week.. Enjoy it while you can..
The memorial video was tough to do.. I've said it before on another entry on a different blog.. This was tough.. I really liked doing it but unlike a graduation, this was a good bye forever thing.. And so when I was asked to do it I started working on the music first.. The pictures was the easy part, there were other people in charge of that.. I got home and started to work on the pictures that I got via email.. Some of the pictures would show as sideways and for everything I tries to get them all rightways up.. There was a shitload of frustration getting them to agree with what I wanted them to do.. So after trying several things I loaded the pictures on to Picasa program and lo and behold they were all rightside up.. But they showed the same way on Faststone viewer so.. The only way to try it would be to burn a disc and cross the fingers that they would burn the way I wanted them to... Thankfully they did.. Now the music.. I was crosswise with ideas as Saturday night would see me find 75 or so songs that I thought might work and others I hadn't heard in a while so I listened to just because..
Then as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning and I had the video ready to be done.. The music was still not there.. I had tried many things from Neal Schon solo work and Craig Chaquico as well.. I then settled on Pink Floyd TBS9 and TBS14 as a way to just try a sound track.. Anything.. Then as the video was completed I set the process of getting the video to set up as 1080p.. That took a ton of rsources and the computer locked up.. Well shit.. I give up.. Went to bed at a little after 2 Sunday morning... What is going to happen?? The next morning I awake to a message From Freda that stated just use Cannon.. Alrighty then.. Something to work from.. So the first song would be Cannon, and it really seems to fit with the video as the pictures go by..
Cannon was a great choice for songs but I had found a few of my own favorites including Black Garden View, by Christoph Franke originally from Tangerine Dream, this song was one from his Pacific Coast Highway solo album.. It is a very emotional track on it's own.. And as I set the track to this video it really brought out the emotion in me...
Track three on the original video is Cannon and it works quite well.. But after a few days I thought what If I try a different song in that section so... I tried this song, originally the song was placed on a video I did after I found some pictures I had never seen before or didn't pay attention when I did view them.. My Back Pages/Goin' Back as done by Michael Stanley on one of those acoustic shows, they didn't ask him to do it but.. He did it anyway..
Track four remains Amy's Lullaby as recorded by Mars Lasar... Well almost as recorded by him.. I edited the song to fit, the very first part I found wasn't needed so I cut to where the winding up of the music box and then went from there.. Every time I heard this song before this project I would be fairly emotional.. This was just really what I think I saw..
Then there is this idea.. The first part of the video with a different song on there.. In this case the song is Blue Sky Song by the Gathering Field.. I was torn between using this, the original version, and the Michael Stanley version.. Seeing as how I already had him with the second song I decided to try the original .. Had I done the video with Blue Sky Song as the starter I would have run well too long.. So the original idea was the best and is really my favorite version, this was just a way to try another idea.. The running order of the pictures seemed the best as well...
In editing the pictures really aside from getting them all to be upright, I tried to doctor them a little, using the Fast stone picture viewer and a little bit of Paint dot Net... I was just after trying to lighten the pictures up a little.. There is one of Emmy that she is at the park and the place she was in made her very orange so using the curves I took that colour not be as prevalent.. Tried to get the dark shadow areas to be less so.. Just general touch ups..
When the video was done I had to have someone watch it so I could relax a little.. I am never thinking the video is even remotely very good.. I needed someone to give the thumbs up.. Freda took the time out of the busy getting things together and looked at it.. She said it was great.. And kept it.. Thankfully she kept it because I was likely going to tweak it a bit here and there.. Actually I was quite relieved she kept it, I figured it was done.. And done that Sunday morning so.. Two days ahead of schedule.. I could see me on Tuesday morning working on it to get to perfection.. There is no such thing as perfection for me.. I say I throw these videos together and really they are.. Tweaking will just make me go nuts.. Perfection is unattainable.. Even with this second idea video.. If you compare the two videos and especially with the opening track of Blue Sky Song, it is way longer than Cannon.. The third song being My Back Pages/Goin back was too short, and... You know sometimes things just work out, the first time.. Roll with it..
I listen to Steve Czaban in the mornings and he has a segment called "I'm so done with.." and people call in with their gripes.. Steve is tired of instant replay to get the calls right, they lean on that bit of technology to get calls right.. In college they almost use that as a way to get calls right exclusively.. In the pros with the game being faster they do need it but it really is a crutch.. Well here is mine and there is a good amount of a rant here so.. Pardon me..
Yeah, I am tired of the tv announcers stating it is now four down territory.. You know what 4 down territory is right?? Well in case you don't know, it's a team that is desperate to get points on the board that they need to ignore the old 4th down is the punting down.. Now this can occur in the second quarter or the fourth.. Say the team is down by anything from one to 16... They are at their own 20 and have to drive to at least the 30 going in to give their kicker a chance.. That isn't what I am tired of, it's the idiot tv announcer that says two down territory and I always think so they have two downs to make a first?? No what that idiot should say, this is four down territory, it is third down, and they very well might use forth to get the first down.. Please explain it rather than go the dumb as shit was saying this is two down territory.. These idiots take the easy route, yep it is third down but I am thinking they are going to forth down, not punt it now, this isn't Canada rules football.. Sheeeut..
RANT OVER..
Yesterday I set the ball rolling to end the other blog.. With the statement that it will end about a year from now, the Monday before election Tuesday 2016.. The YMB entry isn't set.. It is set for November 7 2020... Have to back that up just a bit.. A series of three entries will signal the final entry with YMB being the penultimate entry and The one with the video of Sirius from the album And The Stars Go With You... That is the final entry.. So.. the day after that will be no entries from then until...
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Glenn died... or did he.. oops.. spoiler alert.. Glenn died.. I need to start watching Walking Dead rather than binge watching it.. More the reason is the size of the files, they are getting too large to hold until the first half of this season is over.. Why are they so big this season?? Do they think we need to see the blood and guts in better detail?? I should say kero syrup and wheaties mixed with Kix.. I keep hearing rumors about what is going on, and I did last year when they killed off that little blonde gal.. That was tough to take, watching as close to the holidays the way I do.. Gonna start watching next week or.. sooner..
How'd your Halloween go this year?? Ours was good.. mom got peanut butter cups reaces to pass out.. I told her kids with allergies might be a problem.. She seemed to not care but as the nephew found them and ate them and ate them and.. polished them off she wasn't slapping him away.. like she ever would.. So I made the grand announcement that with the candy gone to hand out for Halloween that we would go the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown route and give out rocks.. That should work out well.. However mom had other candies stashed and so we handed out that stuff..
That's your movie.. Watched a few movies this past week..
Would You Rather is a movie about this woman that decides to play a game and try to make money to help her brother who has cancer.. The end was so predictable I should warn you this movie will make you say well there's an hour and a half of my life I will never get back..
Dark Skies was really interesting but coming off the night before movie it felt like I had seen it a little bit.. Still not a horrible movie, just kinda predictable...
I remember this from... way back.. Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry... Mostly I remember my cousins giving their aunt shit about this.. Her name was Mary but she wasn't really that wild.. Or maybe she was..
This was the scary movie of the week.. Extraterrestrial.. Maybe I was just wanting to be scared and let it do that.. Most scary movies don't scare me anymore because the gags are all tried and true.. But this had a little bit more to it than that.. A fun movie to watch.. I did not see the end happening the way it did..
Back in Time.. The Back to the Future documentary and I will say that it helps if you have seen the first Back to the Future movie.. The second as well.. And throw in the third just to make sure you know what they are talking about.. I was given the trilogy to.. Lord of the Rings one Christmas.. And I thought, ok.. Meanwhile my little brother was given the Back To the Future trilogy.. and since I tend to not like lord of the rings and he does and he didn't care for back to the future and I did.. We traded right there on the spot.. I honestly really do like this movie but wasn't sure of the two sequels.. That changed after watching them.. The whole series is really good and unlike a lot of series movies, this was shot over the years rather than back to back to back.. Really interesting to watch this documentary.. If you've seen the movies..
Badge Henry
(P.S. the videos that I did for my nieces funeral, the ones I said I would take off around yesterday or today, will hopefully be kept up until after the first of the year.. I want them to remain up indefinitely, but hope to at least keep them there through the first of the year.. However if they are up and have the music muted it means that Google found them and shut the music part off.. That might not be a bad thing in the videos I have made recently, but in those videos I want them to remain as is.. )
Trying so many ideas to fix a browser.. What gives.. So I think I have written about my favorite browsers before.. Right now it would be Palemoon (a Firefox type) browser that runs alright, does an ok job.. UC browser is like chrome but has a gigantic flaw.. No sound at all.. What happened there?? Every other browser has sound but UC has no sound in anything I try to do.. Everything is silent which would be ok, just that sometimes I'm using the browser and find a video to watch and try to watch it.. Boink, no sound which means shut the browser off, and open any other browser see see and hear the video.. Clean your cache.. Well alright, where is it??? Right, found it.. Deleted everything in there, not just some, I figure the nuclear option should fix it.. IT DIDN'T.. Where to now then?? I've tried Googling it, I went to their forum and asked about it.. There is no fix.. I deleted the program, deleted flashplayer (such as can be done, it can't be unless you DELETE IT.. I'm leery about getting it that rid of, been there done that and have ended up taking a week to fix that idea.. And then as I was thinking of who I could contact to ask about this, I thought that I think this issue started when I decided to delete Chrome so in an act of somewhat desperation I downloaded Chrome hoping that would fix it... Guess what happened then?? Yep Chrome has sound.. that means UC will then.. Got her fixed.. Tried a video in UC browser.. No sound.. Wait, restart the machine, it needs to be restarted.. Did that. Sound in UC now.. IT'S THERE right?? NOPE and so now.. What to try...
Why is still a thing?? Why do we get the fun of looking forward to this every year?? It bothers everyone.. It bothers everyone.. Don't go be saying it doesn't ... IT BOTHERS EVERYONE and you know a way to abolish this would be to have it happen on a week day.. instead of the weekend.. like the video says it was started by Germany in WW I... Yep those damn Germans... The very people that brought us the phrase "those damn Germans"...
