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Cleaning out or up of the RSS reader has amounted to sites being transferred to either Facebook or Twitter or both.. And the recent number of posts by one of the sites on Facebook made it easy to unlike them.. A pop site, teen pop or pop music site that kept giving me updates on one Justin Beiber and my not giving a shit at all about him, and me wondering why do I have these updates set like this.. Well that's why.. Unliked that site really quick.. I think I am two to three days away from getting the reader cleared out at least to the point where it should be easier to get down even more the next time.. Then I will check both Twitter and Facebook and see what are relevant to what I need.. Some sites were acquired through sites like reddit, where one entry grabbed my attention enough to make me want it.. Some from other sites like Fark or other link dump sites.. Thing about this is sites like reddit get the best entries from these sites, and they might not get another and I may not ever see even if they do because I had just way the hell too many RSS to check them all..

So what is the magic number of RSS sites??  I don't have a set number in mind to make it truly useable but.. Hopefully the number will be right with me using this because just like having all those extra channels on the dish tv thing, more isn't better, more is just more.. Clutter, to put it mildly..   New folders were added over the past few weeks.. One that is very important is the Roku folder which has four or five sites that are relative to that new device and I use it regularly.. Three or four deal with what is on Roku with one being the blog for roku.. Another deals with the state of sites such as Yahoo mail and all sites like that (Facebook) that tell if there are any issues such as them being down and for what reason and any other information they can give..

Mom got her Valentines day tree set.. Shortly after getting the Christmas tree down she got her holiday tree back up.. She wanted me to get her a string of red lights and I found a string of C-7 lights on sale and they are RED.. seriously red.. The little twinkly lights are really not my favorites anymore.. They fell out of favor a few (quite a few actually) years ago.. They are neato cool but are a serious pain in the ass to mess with..  

Friday night was different.. At one point I wanted to try something on the Roku and looked on the youtube site for the old Midnight Special show from way back in the day.. I remember staying up late on Friday nights back when I was in junior high or maybe earlier and watching these groups playing live.. I was taken back watching the old groups from that time, some really good music.. I will admit I am way out of touch with the modern music but the old songs from back then..  It is just magic to me.. Songs like Dream Weaver, even back then I thought this song is a song that I will never forget how I feel when I heard it for the first time.. Some of the old songs we listened to on radio stations like KOMA out of Oklahoma City..  That station out of Los Angeles  or St. Paul  Minniapolis...  Those days are over, they ended sometime when I was in high school I think.  But the good lod days of the Midnight Special can still be lived online..  Those great old days..

Speaking of old days, I don't know why I am looking at old shows online.. Streaming some old movies last night I find myself watching some old movies with a very young Vincent Price and Bella Lagosi and they are in "scary" movies and for their time I think they had some sort of scariness about them but they aren't scary like todays scary movie.. But back then they were scary in a different way.. More anticipation rather than blood and guts.. Blood and guts wouldn't transfer when the movie is black and white anyway..  The lighting and the editing are what I look at as well..     But the old days take me back as well.. Looking at the old.. everything  it's just interesting to me now.. It never used to be this way.. I never used to like watching old movies, but now I do.. Strange and I don't know why it is this way.. There are sites that have old commercials on them..  Really interesting things to watch..

Badge Henry