Not sure where the heck June went or how we're this far into the year already, but here we go:
Current clothes: Blue shorts. A gray t-shirt that says, "I'm not lazy, I'm prolonging the probable heat death of the universe by conserving energy," which is the kind of physics joke that amuses me unreasonably. White ankle socks.
Current mood: I'm in a really good mood, and have been for the last couple of days. I've got some extra time off this week. I've been getting enough sleep. I've been getting some things accomplished, while not stressing out about the things I haven't gotten accomplished. And all of life's little pleasures seem somehow more pleasurable than usual. It's pretty great. I'm fully expecting it all to dissolve tomorrow morning when I have to get up and go to work, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.
Current music: Nothing much.
Current annoyance: Still the stupid hot flashes, although I think they maybe haven't been quite as bad for the last week or two.
Current thing: My televisual enthusiasms continue to fluctuate rapidly. Right now I'm mostly fighting off the urge to go and watch Good Omens again. Possibly on a loop. I maaaaay have just bought the script book and the making-of companion, too.
Current desktop picture: Current desktop picture, unsurprisingly, relfects the current televisual enthusiasms, so The Orville is out for the moment and Good Omens is in.
Current book: On the Move by Oliver Sacks.
Current song in head: I think it's mostly been a medley of Queen lately.
Current refreshment: Mint tea.
Currently watching: For a while now, I've been watching Kolchak: The Night Stalker off and on. It's a TV show from 1974 about a reporter. But no matter what he's sent to investigate, it always turns out to be a vampire or an alien or an evil spirit or something. I find I have interesting mixed feelings about it. Part of me keeps thinking, geez, is this was TV was like in the 70s? How on Earth did we watch this stuff? But part of me finds it rather charming, in its own quaint way. (And then all of me feels very, very old at how antiquated the television that aired when I was a child seems now.)
Current happy thing: Being in a good mood, having time off work, and getting enough sleep! I mean, really, how often does all that happen? Especially that last part.
Current thought: When is someone gonna bring me that dump truck full of money so I can retire and have time off of work and enough sleep all the time?
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KOLCHAK!!! [As yelled by Simon Oakland]
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah.. 1970's TV was special.. this was on at the time of Six Million Dollar Man, NBC Mystery Movie, and Planet of the Apes... nostalgia makes them seem better than they were. As I explained to my kid when we watched one of them: How did we watch it? Because most people had 4 channels (ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS?) and you were happy for a show like Kolchak to break the monotony of retread shows since the 1950's.
/me asks the nurse to wheel him over to the air conditioner and some apple sauce
I think most of the shows from the 70s are probably better left in the land of nostalgia, rather than re-watched. (Although Kolchak isn't a re-watch for me, as I was a little too young when it first aired, and if it ever showed up in reruns I missed them.)
DeleteA lot of 60s and even 50s TV is actually quite good -- I mean, classic Star Trek! The Twilight Zone! -- so it's almost a little odd how bad 70s TV seems in retrospect. With a very few exceptions, anyway. There are reasons absolutely everybody was watching M*A*S*H. There was nothing else decent on!
Over here we could watch Doctor Who in the 1970s, of course. What's the emoji for a smug grin? :)
DeleteI'm glad that things have been going well for you lately.
I think your TV in the UK was probably better in the 70s than ours, too.
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