I am done! It’s over! It’s finished! Oh thank the King of England, at last I am through it all!
13 seasons of NuWho, 26 seasons of Classic Who, and one made for TV movie co-starring Julia Roberts’ fairly untalented brother!
My Epic Binge Watch of All Things Doctor Who is Complete! I am Done!
Now what do I do?
What are your favorite websites?
Daily writing prompt
Do people still think in terms of favorite websites? Wouldn’t you say they are more like commonly used tools now rather than favorites? Back in the early days I might have thought in favorite terms, but I don’t think I do anymore.
I can give you a list of commonly used sites. These are the tabs that I keep open on my browser on my personal machine:
Really, I could do without all of those except Gmail, WordPress, and the food spreadsheet. The rest are not really that important.
Honorable mentions? There could be a few. The For You page on Google News gets a lot of use. So does US College Hockey Online, the NHL, MLB, and ESPN sites. Of course the one page that gets used more than almost all others is Google. Anything that comes up gets a Google search. Wikipedia is probably second on the list, but it’s a distant second.
I guess the answer to the question what are my favorite websites though would be… none, I think.
I took both of these early this morning and then sort of forgot about them. Happy caturday anyway.
A Saturday evening haiku for you…
Date night with my wife.
The Deathly Hallows Part One.
Movies on the couch.
Forgive me for hyper-focusing on the whole guitar-in-the-shop topic, but this is just a little nerve wracking to me. It’s like sending an old friend off to the hospital with the knowledge that the old friend might never be the same again.
Are these the last photographs taken of my beloved 1978 Les Paul Custom before the neck is ripped to pieces?
Probably
Oh my poor little baby Les Paul Custom. I hate leaving it behind, but it’s time.
Today is the 1.5 year anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery. In celebration I stepped on the scale and I surely wish I had given it a miss this month.
My exercise routine has been greatly reduced over the last couple of months, partly thanks to Covid, partly thanks to travel, and partly thanks to hurting my back. There have been a lot of days where I should have exercised but did not. The result? I went up 10.8 pounds since last month’s weigh in. Yikes! I am at 215.8, which is still miraculous. I am not complaining here, not even a little bit. I just want to get back onto the exercise track and get back down to around 210 or maybe a little less.
Better luck next month, right? See you again on December 4th! I’m going to a hockey game in Vermont on Sunday December 3rd and I took Monday the 4th off of work. I can celebrate my 19th monthiversary with a day off! Sweet!
New office chair assembly: Complete.
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?
Daily writing prompt
This is one of those difficult questions that requires a little too much self-examination. A little more than I am willing to do at 6:39am on a Saturday morning at least.
A year I would re-live… The answer, of course, is none of them. It is also all of them. The catch is that I would re-live them all only if I could do so without changing anything. There was a time in my past when I wanted to go back and change everything, especially myself. I was basically cripplingly shy and afraid of everything. Socially speaking I was useless and romantically… well, that was literally non-existent.
Then in April of 2007 I went on a first date with someone remarkable. On some strange subconscious level I sort of said fuck it and got over all of my hangups and some how, magically, that first date turned into my first relationship which then turned into my marriage. At that point it occurred to me that all of the problems I dealt with before April 2007 were just steps on the path that lead me to the place… to the me… that I needed to be. Those experiences made me someone that Jen could find value in. Someone that Jen could fall in love with and marry and allow to be a step father to her two children.
That is why I don’t want to re-live even a single day, because doing so runs the risk of changing the eventual outcome. That is literally the last thing in the universe that I would ever want. I wouldn’t mind observing the me that I used to be, but I wouldn’t want to do so in a way that would affect any decisions I had ever made. I would especially like to re-observe everything post April 2007 as that would allow me to see myself becoming that one thing I had always believed I would never be… happy. That’s a movie I wouldn’t mind seeing.
So the short answer to what year or age would I want to re-live is none. As hard as it is to believe, I think I got it right on the first try. I mean, how weird is that?
It has been about four months now but I am finally into the home stretch of the most epic Doctor Who binge watch. 13 seasons of new who down and 25 seasons of classic who down too. The next episode I watch will be the season 26 premier. The 26th and final season! I have 14 episodes and one made for TV movie left and then I am done!
60 years of Doctor Who binge watched in four months! Amazing! Incredible! I am so burned out on this freakin’ show I can’t even tell you!
Then new episodes come out at the end of the month! Good heavens there is so much Doctor Who!
Insert maniacal screaming sounds here!
Inside the Red Head's Head 