JJ

Can't look at any glowing screen anymore. I'll be in front of the fireplace flipping the physical pages of my comfort book.

crashed a movie shoot this morning. as in, drove into a parking lot that was blocked off for a movie shoot. So... watch out for my car in your next show 😬

(no one was harmed in the process... ok, maybe there was a 🤏teeenny tiny traffic cone that was kind of invisible and kind of got run over)

Noted.

Have you seen Spies of Warsaw? It's mid as far as spy shows go, but WWII, David Tennant AND Janet Montgomery made for a special indulgence ;) Oh and set in Krakow, a city I love. Ok, I realize maybe this is just a "me" indulgence but whatever...

Binged 4 seasons of Slow Horses over 4 weekends (and a long flight). Im saving s5 for when I need to watch tv next

Im like the worst type of audience. I dont watch tv much or often, and even when I really like a show, I can stop watching whenever(sorry Orphan Black, you lasted for a good 2 seasons)

subscribed!

Look up, way up

I discovered that I could watch apple tv on the airplane (thanks to the wonder that is in flight wifi lol). Oh and I'm starting to see the point about KST!

you know how in Slow Horses when Roddy asked River for the real reason he was in Slough House and River was just about to tell him but changed his mind? (Roddy was there because no one could stand him.)

I felt that today. Sometimes I feel some people can't help being the way they are.

Hope you feel better!

Heh just as I entered that I realized I forgot to count Washington and Oregon yet again. Sorry Washington, sorry Oregon!

That's pretty good! I got 2 (states) over and over again.

Read Ted Chiang's Liking What You See on the airplane. Man, this guy and the topics he chooses to write about!!! And the angles he goes at them 🤯

Also, Ted Chiang/Massive Attack is a very enjoyable combination.

Oh yeah, the music high. That's also very nice and I hope it won't go away like estrogen fluctuation haha.

A few days a month I feel more things much more intensely. Moderately moving stories make me tear up. A good piece of writing makes my heart almost burst with awe and emotions. A random reminder makes me miss people terribly.

PMS is wild. But I also kind of like these intense feelings.

i binged the whole s1 last weekend. the deadpan situational humour kept throwing me off, but it was part of the fun.

Nice surprise on the walk today. It's not often they come so close to shore.

ok Slow Horses is also quite good. Best spy thriller I watched in recent years. (While we're at it, Black Bag was very meh. Black Doves, on the other hand, was entertaining, in a pulpy and overly stylized way.)

"there would not be enough air traffic controllers" (some news article) - wtaf?
sometimes the analogy of living upstairs from a meth lab is just too apt lol

I make a point of not following US news. But now I actually have to care for the next few days. What's going on?!? Are airports working?

I know I've been online too much when I suddenly feel the urge to tell someone on the Internet they're wrong.

heh it was a bit deceitful of me to call it a hotdog. It's Wagyu Japadog. It was good, perfect for a light snack! I'll stick with regular Japadog though. The "Japa" was worth the extra $$, the Wagyu... not so much.

Since I'm photo dumping, here's a $15 hotdog from the same afternoon.

The other stairs are better looking (no, I don't have an obsession with stairs but I do love this building.)

@skateellis.bsky.social are these the stairs you were looking for? (I wish I'd had better lighting, but ya know, October...)

anti-gravity might or might not have happened here

heh. i might be misremembering, but i think i've been to jackpot the records store. or maybe a different records store with a different name in the same area?

did you work at bagdad or jackpot?

dim sum after cardio is a bad idea. do not recommend.

i am a morning person. there, i admit it. mornings are nice, everything is fresh (coffee in particular), and i'm filled with optimism and energy.
... but not if i have meetings at 6 or 7am. then i'm a grumbly, half awake corporate drone who wishes everyone would just stop. asking. me. questions.

I was driving back from my trail run on my day off in my hydrid car, with Calexico blasting on the stereo and the windows slightly open (so as not to disturb the neighbourhood).

Then it dawned on me that oh no, I am a fucking stereotype (of my age and my environment).