Check In: Chapter Five: Arabella (2015)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt3742686/

Working backwards

Strange and Norell, episode 4

Dinner at ihop with van, waffles

Iced tea from a mutant at dd

No more bubble tea at Korean place

Arts fest at Anne Marie gardens

Got 2 tote bags, Poteet creature print, two log pillow puffs, Tettimer star earrings, a lot of fried food. Arranged to set up another Poteet original.

Intended to wake early for waffles, but we dallied until noon. No worries there.

Saturday, we watched Strange and Norell episode 3, and zonked on the couch.

As Allison faded in and out of wakefulness, I watched cute animal videos and youtube miscellany.

Visited target and picked up a skiff-load of Halloween loot, some jammies and tops.

Went to Sandy pony donuts, and got what were possibly the least palatable beverages in the form of bubble tea. I got black tea, She had taro.  Both were bland to flavorlessness,  with few tapioca bubbles and  No sweetness save for what I added after the fact.

Visited ginas cantina with s.I.r.s.

https://i.redd.it/fhtnzzop93mx.gif

Check In: Chapter Two: How Is Lady Pole? (2015)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt3711072/

Chapter Two: How Is Lady Pole? (2015)

Whilst Norrell is celebrated for a daring illusion, persuading the French that the channel is full of English ships, John Segundus and Mr Honeyfoot visit Jonathan and his wife Arabella, introducing them to Mr Norrell. Norrell is impressed by Jonathan’s intuitive form of magic and takes him on as his apprentice though he is dismissive of the younger man’s belief that all magic stems from the Raven King, the last practitioner of magic in England some three centuries ago. Lady Pole meanwhile is subject to disturbing dreams, imagining herself in Fairy-land, and Norrell summons the Gentleman, who explains that this was the bargain for her revival, which cannot be reversed. The Gentleman also encounters Pole’s valet Stephen Black, transporting him too to Fairy-land, where he is promised that he shall be a king. When Lady Pole explains her predicament to Arabella Stephen swears her to secrecy lest the lady be thought mad.
Jonathan amazes the onlookers, incurring Norrell’s envy, when he re-floats a stricken ship with horses conjured out of sand, prompting the prime minister. Lord Liverpool, to suggest he goes to Portugal to help the English in the Peninsular War against the French.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3711072/plotsummary?item=ps2359979

Check In: Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt4302938/

Check In: Absolutely Fabulous (1992)

Season 1 ep 1

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0105929/

Check In: Keanu (2016)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt4139124/

Just set my Samsung tablet back to Santa’s workshop for repairs for the second time. Same issue, power. Battery drained and the device wouldn’t charge.

Got a warning for soft stopping at a sign, I’m appreciative of not getting a ticket, my only time to be pulled over since the first week on having my license at 16. That’d be February of 1985.

Met with a good headhunter today and hopefully will have a line on a fresh gig soon. Nice guy, Patrick, a friend of Mary from knitting, who is a cool lady- knits, plays video games, horseback rider.  Speaking of it and knitters, fixed another ipad setup at knitting last night,  general apple tech minors,  but Betty appreciated it, as did Toni, when I fixed hers. Ipads, at least the models I just worked on weigh a ton… I can’t see how folks use those dinner trays as cameras or handheld media consumption.

I don’t charge the knitters for tech support, maybe if it took me on a long trip out of my way, but if I’m already at the place then I’ll happily give a device a once-over. Betty is bringing her laptop next week,  and I figure that it’s just a case of the thing being old tech that can’t run up to speed.. all she uses it for is email and browsing, near as I have heard.

I’m about 6 episodes behind on Mr. Robot. I tend to watch what I think Allison will enjoy, which is lately Salem if we’re up to the gore, or misc Netflix otherwise. Very British Problems is amusing and not hard on the gut.

Played a little fallout 4 nuka world dlc, and that’s pretty adorable. Disappointed that mods aren’t happending on ps4, but the raw play is very satisfying.  I might get the pc version for the mods when it drops to sub $20 or appears in a humble bundle later on down the line.

I’ve pretty much given up on no mans sky,  but may check it out again if I hear of an amazing patch or something.

Minecraft continues to be very amusing,  I think I have a version on just about every electronic device I own, except for the fitbit.

In fitbit news, I briefly fell out of the habit of using  it. Back to wearing it now, though my exercise has been limited due to sciatica.  I’m building back up to it, and taking it just to the point of reasonable difficulty and pain. Losing the additional weight again, little by little. Glad it’s cooling down outside.

Podcasts I currently listen to when I walk or work out are:

• Tanis
• Doughboys 
• Magnus Archives
• Greater Boston
• Uncanny County
• Lore
• Wolf 359
• The flop house
• Ars paradoxica
• King falls am
• The bright sessions
• Harmontown
• Return Home
• Dana gould hour
• Black tapes
• Archive 81
• Scoop hound
• Small town horror
• The monster hunters
• Our fair city

Mostly humor, chat, twilight zone / horror type stuff, or clever sci-fi drama.

Duck date tonight with Allison, went to Anthony’s, had a nice time save for smokers by the door giving me a hell of a coughing fit.

Check In: Very British Problems (2015)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt4960806/

Check In: eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd (2016)

http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt5344704/