Wordless Wednesday: January 13th, 2021
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Why must you do the thing, Nintendo Switch?
categories: consoles; word count: 195 words
Or Internet?
Why must you do the thing, router?
Why must both of you do the thing in tandem?
I’ve had to babysit the Switch to ensure that everything does download, because as soon as there’s lag — and there invariably are spots of lag whenever the kids are playing on their WiFi-connected devices or there’s inclement weather — the Switch drops whatever it’s doing, and based on my observations of it, you have to manually set everything to resume downloading once that has happened. Luckily it managed to get half through our game collection before that happened, and since it’s at 100% power I am babysitting it through the rest of the way or as much through the rest of the way that I can before I go to bed for the night. If it’s still downloading games then, I’ll do what I did last night and set it up to automatically download while charging, hoping that it actually finishes the second time around. I have some hope for that as long as the Internet holds at the speed it’s at, but… not a whole lot of hope. I just want our games on a better microSD…
Music Monday: January 11th, 2021
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I’ve been a fan of Garbage for as long as I can remember. I don’t think there’s a song that I dislike.
Once I’m done with Supernatural, what next?
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After I watch all of the episodes of season fifteen of Supernatural, whenever that day actually is… as stated, I will continue to be active in the fandom, but I won’t be giving the series a rewatch at any point in the future. I might have considered it if the nineteenth episode of the fifteenth season was well and truly the last one of the series, but the very last episode of the series and the season messed things up so much for me and a lot of other Supernatural fans that I think one complete watch of the series is all I can give it. It’s not like any of the Supernatural executives in any way regret the handling of that episode, least of all Andrew Dabb, the executive producer and writer of several episodes (am I getting this right? I think I am) by gleefully announcing that only 30% of people would like the series finale, followed by him practically going into hiding when… wait for it, wait… almost no one liked the finale. He has not come out to play on social media since.
I’m going to continue to stay away from shows that air on the CW, especially if they’re extremely popular, but also as a rule helping to boycott the CW. However, I’ve heard enough good things about Lucifer that I think I’m going to give that show a watch since it is on Netflix, and I’m going to finish up watching the BBC’s interpretation of Sherlock since I never actually finished that. At some point in the future since it’s been “forgotten about”, I may make a bit of an exception to boycotting the CW — I’ll still be boycotting active shows on it, don’t get me wrong — and finish up The Vampire Diaries, especially since that show wasn’t quite butchered like Supernatural was. It also has a special place in my heart for a number of reasons…
I mean, beggars can’t be choosers here, so…
categories: blog maintenance; word count: 227 words
It seems like a lot less people write in WordPress than they did in the 2000s.
I’m fine with that, though, because I enjoy using WordPress to write with.
I suppose it’s just a matter of finding other bloggers, especially ones that use WordPress (and it’s even better when it’s self-hosted WordPress!) and adding them to my blogroll, although even if they don’t use either one of those two things that’s fine too. I don’t write for anyone else but me, although that doesn’t mean that I don’t like reading what other people have to say and having a more active, robust blog than I do now in terms of comments. It seems like it’s a ghost town out there since, comparatively speaking, so few people blog openly like this. And that doesn’t go to mean that all of my posts will be open — once I get more readers, or enough readers, I might make password-protected posts in here, that way I don’t wind up locking everyone out whenever that time may be. I suppose I should figure out what those posts may be about, and consider coming up with a password or multiple passwords for these posts that aren’t really easy to guess…
I mean, that may be awhile out, but it’s better not to forget about the whole thing and scramble to work on it.