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Chiming the time when you came to my room
So my vacation ended and it feels appallingly apt that immediately on returning to the Boston area I had to see a doctor I hadn't planned (and have to call another doctor tomorrow) and other than watching the latest episode of Chernobyl (2019) my day was otherwise devoted to my paying job. There were some fireworks over the Mystic, their highest explosions just barely visible through our skyline of roofs and trees. Happy Memorial Day.
And then I wrote more than a thousand words of fiction. For the first time in five months. On a project I desperately want to finish because once it is out of my head I will have more room for other things, I hope. Also I enjoy it.
Not a joke: I need more vacations.
And then I wrote more than a thousand words of fiction. For the first time in five months. On a project I desperately want to finish because once it is out of my head I will have more room for other things, I hope. Also I enjoy it.
Not a joke: I need more vacations.
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The Roku is beginning to feel indistinguishable from TV, but TV with way too many pay channels. I can't imagine that was the goal.
Cynically, I wonder....it's like the unbundling of cable services. "Now you no longer have to pay for what you don't want to see!" But you need to pay for every single little thing you do, and while Disney+ is "only" $7 a month those add up really quickly. (I am also kind of nastily amused at the corporate push to make customers pay at the granular level, while corporate banks shame people on twitter for buying stuff like coffee drinks and food.)
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It's just really good TV so far. It could always fail to stick the landing, but right now I don't even know what the landing is going to look like. It's a short series with an unpredictable timeline: the first episode was the first few hours after the explosion. The intervals have widened since, but we're still only a few weeks out. It feels organic; it focuses on whatever it needs to, whether that's a conversation at night or cellular degradation over a week.
(I am also kind of nastily amused at the corporate push to make customers pay at the granular level, while corporate banks shame people on twitter for buying stuff like coffee drinks and food.)
Why waste money on food when you could be purchasing their exclusive streaming service?!