Friday, July 21, 2017

7/21/17 Friends From College (Netflix Series)

    I really wanted this to be a good show, specially with so many familiar faces.  It has Cobie Smulders, Key from Key and Peele, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon (who I just saw on Married last summer), and a host of other people who showed up for 1-2 episodes.  The idea of the show is that these people were friends in school, Harvard, specifically, why not?  The show picks up with Key banging away on a lady, only to find out she is not his wife, she is one of the "friends".  She married rich and can fly in and out anytime, Key is living in Chicago and has now decided to go to New York which will bring all six friends back in the same town.
    Key is a writer and part of the problem is too much time is spent on his character and he is not the most interesting in the bunch.  Smulders plays his wife and for a few episodes thay are distracted with the idea of a baby, I don't know why, they are living on one of the other friend's couches and don't even have their own place.  Key is trying to make his character eccentric or something, but he keeps dropping into voices which don't make sense.  I think he would be better playing it straight, it seemed he was forcing funny where there didn't need to be any.
    Another problem is he still wants to bang his friend who is another member of the group, but she is married and has two kids.  They get sloppy a lot of times like they are begging to get caught, but they really don't.  The lady seems like she would prefer to get caught until it gets real, Key tells her he is going to confess to his wife, and the other lady starts begging not to do it, it will end her marriage and he has no right, blah blah blah.
    All the other supporting cast is annoyed by them still hanging onto each other.  Savage plays a gay dude, and his partner played by Billy Eichner is always annoyed because the friends always seem to be around.  The husband of the lady Key is banging is also constantly on her about why the need to hang with the group of "losers", he is rich with multiple houses, and doesn't generally care for the group.
    Smulders ends up hooking up with another member of the group, played by Faxon while she is away on a retreat.  She immediately feels guilty and wants to confess to her husband.  She does, and the last ten minutes of the show has everything pretty much falling apart, I can't see a reason for a second season, but who knows.

Thursday, July 20, 2017

7/20/17 My Mighty Mite Army?

    Perhaps I am inspired by all the superhero movies, be that as it may, I am going to let you in on yet another secret.  Back in college and before Wife, I created life, by myself.  It's the whole reason I wanted to study chemistry.  I wanted to be like the greats, Dr. Frankenstein, or maybe even Dr. Hammond creator of the Jurassic Parks.  Instead of starting with dead material, I thought it would be easier with stuff that is already alive, seems like you are halfway there.
    Just like in the movies where the creator pours all of his abilities into his creation, I too, poured all of my "creations" into my capabilities and considering myself halfway there, I proceeded to add a solution capable of sustaining life with its high nutritional value, patent pending, and I developed my own warming oven from an old toaster to keep my creation at a warm 98.6 degrees.  It took me longer than I wanted, but in the end, if you reach your goals, does time really matter?  I kept them hidden, I was unsure how society would treat a new entity.  They were not quite human, not quite plants, but they did like sitting in soft earth and connecting to the ground with a root like appendage.
    I actually created five different clans with five different secretions.  I have studied these things more than you, trust me on this.  They say we have millions upon millions of sperm every time we "produce", but they are mostly jackasses moving the best ones forward in a pocket of protection and motion.  When you slow them down, you can see that only about 1% are perfect to create life.  I think with all the pollution on the planet, more and more sperm are "making contact" and thus why the planet seems to be getting full of stupid people, they come from the stupid sperm, but I digress.
    This 1% is what ended up becoming self sustaining, and even able to understand rudimentary commands.  As to what they looked like, think sea monkeys but approaching two inches.  In the beginning I kept them in an aquarium, but slowly and gently I released them into the wild.  That is the whole reason I needed a boat, they were getting a little out of control, and I figured if I put them out, either the elements would take care of them, or they would be discovered as a new species of animal.  Either way, I decided to put my beakers and Erlenmeyer flasks away where it came to creating.  What I do now is still "chemistry", but it in no way compares.  I miss those little guys every now and then.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

7/19/17 TIme For Confessions?

    Those of you who know me, just think you know me.  I have let on one of my subtle abilities, and I think it is time I let y'all in on what is happening.  Every time you see me falling asleep, I am actually leaving my body and entering various other people and controlling them, for a bit.  I have been working on this skill since I heard about it one time when I went out of the country.  As things like this always go, it started in Mexico back when I was in college.  We joked and made a cover that we were going to some whorehouse for somebody's bachelor party, but we were really studying the mmm let's say grey arts.  I can't say good or bad, it's what you do with it, but ever since I was told old family members were into witchcraft, it lit something in me, as I have always felt like I could curse a fool if I put my mind to it.
    There were a couple of trainings in Mexico, then of course here in the US, eventually we have to go to New Orleans where more knowledge was gathered.  It starts out as basic notes, if you saw them you would just chuckle, but then again, you are a simple one who can only see what is in front of you.  Eventually, you can lock in to your inner voice and he or she doesn't always mimic what you say, if you can shut yourself up, usually your better ideas come from this guy.
    So yeah, I have been conversing with inner Mando more, we have been practicing mental invader.  The less people use their brain, the easier it is to go in and manipulate.  In a couple more years, with phones continuing to rot most people's brains, it is going to be so easy to go in and control most everybody.
    From the outside you may just hear me murmuring and talking to myself, but internally, I have finally found someone I can look up to, someone who is teaching me to be greater than normal.  You think driving a car or a truck is awesome?  You should try driving a human, it can seem a little crowded at first, but honestly, humans are so lazy, if they feel someone else will do the work for them, they will let you take over.
    I know, most of you just rolled your eyes, if you read all the way down here, but this has a reason.  I couldn't take over your body until you "technically" knew about my ability, so, I will let you read it, we'll have some laughs about it and when you find yourself missing hours of where or what have you been up to, well, that's me, in control.

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

7/18/17 Overhauling Me, Day One?

    Since I am officially done visiting the doctor for my leg gash, I decided to be proactive and start taking care of other things.  I went to see the doctor at Victory Medical, which is where I got the blood work done that told me I was more woman than man, based on my testosterone levels.  Maybe it's not what was said, but that is what I heard.  I finally manned up and decided to hear her out.
    As I figured, I have been doing everything wrong.  I have very low Testosterone, she said it doesn't matter how much weights I lift, I need testosterone to see improvements past a certain point.  I also had very low Vitamin D, which I had started taking over the counter.  I stopped because I didn't see the point to doing just that by itself.  She got after me, saying I need Vitamin D for the production of testosterone and other stuff.  I also have a hypothyroid, so I also got a medication for that.
    Underlying everything she said is that I was too fat.  Where Testosterone resides in the muscles, estrogen resides in the fat cells and I give too much space for estrogen to make itself at home.  I am supposed to start a diet, she did include an anti hunger pill amongst my set of pills.  So my plan as of right now will be to cut the morning eating, which is what I do right before I go to bed.  I am supposed to take the thyroid medicine with no food present, or it ruins the effect.
    Apparently, we can't be eating fast food, who knew?  No more Whataburger, Bill Miller, Wendy's, for awhile.  She suggested I look into stuff like Blue Apron, who will deliver all the ingredients to cook a nice healthy meal 3-5 times a week.  I don't know that I am ready to start ordering pre packaged meals.  The boys will not cook by themselves.  I might be better off with those quick meals at HEB that pair a piece of salmon with some rice or veggies.  I know that is healthier to eat, but I also know I like convenience and speed.
    The bottom line is some changes are going to have to be made.  Since I had stopped all my exercise activities, I ballooned past 400pounds and I know it's going to suck to get back down.  But for the first time, I have a guide and my body is being monitored.  They want to see me about once a month to see the progress with the medications and I assume I will need to be showing some weight coming off.  She wants me to have Chubs join me in eating healthier to get him to loose some weight and not have some of the issues I have had.  This will be an interesting next few months.  I already told myself, no more excuses.  I walked two miles tonight, and hopefully, I will get back to 4 miles a night in a while.

Monday, July 17, 2017

7/17/17 A Little TLC To Our Biggest Expense?

    I love going to Home Depot and Lowe's, honestly, that is one place I do enjoy that Wife is three hours away because when she goes with me, I know I have about a half hour before she gets bored.  I am always thinking of a new project.  Currently, I notice we never use the balcony in front of our house.  Although it is a weird place to convene, it could be a nice place in the Fall, to enjoy a cold front coming in.  Or maybe to sit out there and enjoy a thunderstorm.
    The first thing I needed to do was replace the old lighting switch I tried changing a couple years ago.  Apparently, a light can be a one pole or a three pole device.  If it only has one on/off switch it is a one pole, if it has a couple areas where it can be turned off/on, it is a three poly.  By luck, I bought the wrong one and still tried to install it and then left it there for a couple years.  I remembered today while looking at the lights and things at Lowe's and bought the right one this time.  Now, however, we can dim the lights if we are ever up there and want it to just be cozy enough.  I felt successful after fixing it.  All it needs now is a good cleaning with the power washer, and some chairs.
    This came after also fixing one of our bedroom fans that wasn't turning off or on anymore this morning.  I had replaced the remote a couple years after we moved in the house, when I could not make the original remote work.  I guess it had lived out its warranty too, but I bought a new controller, opened the fan, rewired it, and the new remote does the job same as before.
    There were also the matter or the two lamps that were in our room that stopped working at almost the same time.  I went and got a lamp we weren't using almost immediately to replace the one on my side of the bed, because as I have said before, working 20+ years on nights, I am a little scared of the dark, to sleep.  But it also turns out there was nothing wrong with either of our lamps, they just needed the right new bulbs.
    Speaking of new bulbs, I am curious as to the savings from the solar cells is going to be.  Either way, we have come a long way inside too.  The kitchen where I would normally have five big 100 watt bulbs burning up the place, instead have five fluorescent bulbs which give no heat to the surrounding environment.  Chubs was worried about the bright new bulb in his lamp by the bed,if it could start a fire.  I told him I don't know how, if I can wrap my whole hand around the bulb and not feel much of any sensation.  I was surprised that after 10-15 minutes on, the bulb hadn't heated up much.  Not only are these bulbs not heating up the inside of the house, the way they work is supposed to also be cheaper than superheating a tungsten wire, which is old technology and barely being produced anymore.
    These are little projects, I can't wait to start changing out the floors here soon.  The carpet has gotten so ugly, but what should we expect after ten plus years of good living?

Sunday, July 16, 2017

7/16/17 Spider-Man: Homecoming (Movie 2017)

    We were headed to dinner Last night and almost went to yummy Pappadeaux, but Boy doesn't care for it.  I joked that we could just go to Whataburger but Wife was not impressed.  Boy came up with a brilliant idea of going to the movies to see Spider-Man and eat there.  We talked about going but hadn't agreed on anything earlier in the day.  It was about 9:40pm and the movie was starting at 10:05pm.  Perfect timing for a movie, specially since we all wanted to see it and there would be eating involved.
    The movie is a recreation and not a continuation.  I am not sure if this was done to keep Spider-Man young, or Toby Maguire got too expensive, but he was back in high school, being a nerdy geek boy with maybe one friend.  Aunt May was kind of hot, played by Marissa Tomei, and there was no sign of Uncle Ben.  On one of the first scenes Tony Stark shows up to talk with the new Spider-Man, he blows smoke up his ass about needing him to be ever alert and ready for anything.  Spidey is given a cell phone by Stark mostly so Stark can track him, but Spidey really wants to be an Avenger and is too eager to get into some action, even where there is none.
    In this one, Peter Parker really is more of a kid.  He has very little control of his need to be discreet.  He is constantly pushing his want to be in the Spider-Man gear that eventually he gets discovered by his goofy, chubby friend.  His friend then makes me nervous the rest of the movie that he is going to spill the beans and let Peter get discovered by the whole school in an effort to show off how cool they are.
    The bad guys this time around are lead by Michael Keaton, which was a weird choice, but he did work out pretty good.  There is still junk from the big Avengers battle all over New York when the story starts, and Keatons character is a good old New Yorker who had won a contract to clean up the alien stuff and the busted city skyscraper parts.  Five minutes in, some quiet government types show up that this is their jurisdiction now and they will be taking over.  Keaton is angry, he has leveraged his house and business buying new trucks and what not thinking they were going to have a big payday, now it is all gone.  He keeps a few of the loads with alien hardware and they start tinkering with it, creating weapons and gadgets.
    Eventually, Spidey sees what they are doing and makes it his mission to take the bad guys out.  Unfortunately, the weapons are pretty good and the Keaton character even has a flying birdman costume, as if he is playing homage to his movie that woke his career back up.  Another twist is that he is also the dad to the girl Spider-Man has a crush on.  There is a big battle as there always is and true to form, after giving the Bird Man a beating he turns around saves him from dying.  Tony Stark had lost faith in him earlier in the movie, but his actions in the end convince him that Spider-Man is indeed good enough to be an Avenger.
    It was a better movie than I was expecting.  I have been sleeping through some movies lately, Transformers, for example.  This one did not have any downtime.  It was solid entertainment the whole movie through.

Saturday, July 15, 2017

7/15/17 Finally Saw What The Seductress Of Addiction Looks Like?

    I was never attracted to the lifestyle taken by many of my peers in high school and even college.  Alcohol never did much to call my name.  I honestly didn't try drinking to get drunk until my 30's and really because we installed a pool and hot tub and we were starting to "party" with friends.  Even so, beer has always been gross, but I will drink liquor if a party breaks out.  I still remember playing liquor pong a couple summers ago, same as beer pong, but I would run in take random bottles of liquor and use it like beer.  The rowdy crowd we had would play along and good times were generally had by all.
    For whatever reason, those good times have about stopped.  We haven't had a good party in about two years which is probably as long as it has been since I got drunk.  I'll see new drinks, like those "Not Your Father's Root Beer" or some apple cider concoction, buy them and maybe drink one of the beers a weekend, I  have a second fridge in the wash room full of probably expired beers, going by the dates on the bottles.
    I also tried smoking those fat cigars, like the cool guy were doing in the 80's and 90's, a la Arnold Schwarzeneggar, but dammit, it felt like I was trying to hold a penis in my mouth with my lips while sucking in smoke to keep it lit, and then it would get all soggy.  I bought all sorts of different sizes and price points, but they all pretty much suck.
    Last night though, I accidentally smelled a new Seductress, and let me tell you, she let me get my nose deep in there where the good lord split her, ooh man.  I was at work and had worked with some solvents for a customer.  We dilute the solvent by taking a very small amount with a pipette and dilute it with 1% nitric acid.  Because they are solvents and highly flammable, we keep anything they come in contact with in metal trash cans.  I've dealt with the can before and usually I grab my stuff and just tuck it in, barely lifting the lid an inch.  Last night, I was standing, mostly cleaning the area I had been using so I used the foot pedal which opens the can top all the way.  The smell was sweet, but chemicall-y, intoxicating, yet delicious.  I felt like those men in the Odyssey that jumped in the water after the mermaids and their siren song.  It was only a second, but wow.  I wanted to leave it open and have the smell fill the room.
    At my age, I think I can fight any urges, I certainly am not going to turn into one of those skinny junkies, spending all day long huffing spray paint, but I have to say if this is what it's like, I get it.  I could hear the can calling me later that night "Come over here, Big Boy."  "I gotta tell you something"
    I have to figure out where this trash goes, take it out and hopefully, the witch in there disappears, if for awhile.  I did not smell it a second time, but I was thinking about it, the smell was just exotic.