SHRILL and PEN15 on HULU. THE OTHER TWO on COMEDY CENTRAL. Really enjoyed third season of CRASHING and sorry HBO cancelled it. Stopped watching BILLIONS. Just couldn't take the characters. Best line was when Richard Thomas told the lead that the only pleasure he would ever get from money was in giving it away. I agree with that. Same with Ray Donavan. They moved the show to NY but the characters are still going down the same path. Did they think tall buildings would make it better?
Watching a lot of TV as we are pretty housebound. Although I am lucky to have friends rescue me. A couple of meals out with them. Went to a book talk. Do miss movies but there have been few good ones of late.
Like the Podcast HIT PARADE.
Megan is coming out in two weeks for two days. Yay!
Reading Peter Robinson's CARELESS LOVE. Real trouble in concentrating, sleeping, living. I never realized how much I depended on getting out. I am not a homebody.
So what are you up to?
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I guess I am more of a homebody than you. All those years of working alone at home never bothered me. Of course, after the first couple of weeks with the broken shoulder we have been able to get out, as we have a bus right at the corner (and now I can drive). Basically, I go to PT twice a week and we go out to eat most days in the neighborhood, only occasionally venturing farther afield, though I hope as the shoulder gets back to normal (fingers crossed) that will change. Jackie has several trips planned for this year, though dates are tentative until we get good news from the doctor.
We started the last series of CATASTROPHE last night. I like them and the show. Also watched episodes of MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE and WILD AT HEART (all on Amazon Prime). But my favorite viewing of the week was the delightful 2014 documentary (on Netflix) MEET THE PATELS. I love his parents, especially his father. Recommended.
I did finish a couple of books and I'm close on a third. Still reading more short stories than anything else.
We didn't see anyone I recognized on THE DEUCE, but they sure disrupted the neighborhood by blocking up parking all week. We did see them filming in St. Patrick's Church on Fourth Avenue and 96th Street (also used in Bill Murray's ST. VINCENT).
Diane and I had fun at dinner with friends last night at the Village Eatery. Green beer and Corned beef and cabbage were on the menu but I opted for a Veggie Pizza and Sangria.
We enjoyed NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE at a local movie theater.
Most of our snow has melted away, but there are huge piles in every parking lot. So far, we've had 114 inches of snow for this Winter!
I agree with you on BILLIONS. Jackie, on the other hand, loves it. I can't stand RAY DONOVAN.
That's the other good thing about this week: the first hints of Spring! After a week of 20s and 30s, we were up to the 40s and 50s mostly, and Friday was 75! Spring starts Wednesday.
We had the most disgusting Shepherd's Pie for St. Paddy's (as they now call it) day. It had cheese in it. Lots of cheese. Ugh. Isn't the cream enough?
I guess I can't follow the money well enough.
Patti, I wish you could get back behind the wheel and get out. We didn't do anything for St. Patrick's Day (as it's still called here), as we'd enjoyed corned beef just two weeks before. I helped Barbara, who is getting better, move things around for her quilt group, since they are here this time. They will be quilting / sewing on our main floor instead of downstairs in the quilt studio, so its of rearranging, including putting the leaves in the dining table so there's room enough for six and their sewing machines and stuff.
Since I'm not much of a TV/Video watcher, all those shows the rest of you watch pass me by (or vice-versa), and I read. Just finished three mysteries by Claire Booth featuring Sheriff Hank Worth in Branson, MO and the fantasy novel I feature today. I just got, from the library, an 830 page fantasy novel, THE ORANGE TREE PRIORY which I may or may not read. It's a lot bigger than I expected!
Beautiful weather here, 68 yesterday, same or warmer today. Nice.
Our girls and their girls took a mini-vacay to New Orleans this weekend to catch the Pink concert yesterday. We kept Jack for the weekend and he kept us entertained. The girls were kind enough (?) to send us pictures of them eating beignets so we could experience them vicariously; we both love beignets and there's no better place to have them than NOLA. The concert was great, evidently. Jack really wished he could have gone after he heard that the act contained fire!
We're taking the next step against the anemia that hospitalized Kitty two years ago. Her hemotologist had her on a low-dose prednisone regiment that had been keeping it in check and it's now time to move on to chemotherapy. It's not the cancer chemo that Jessie has been on, but a much milder you-don't-lose-your-hair type, given once a week for four weeks and then once a month. There's a good chance this will eliminate the anemia; if not, the next step would be a spleenectomy. She got a medi-port this week (owie! owie!) and will begin treatment later this month, two days after our anniversary. With her anemia, mature red blood cells are being destroyed and she keeps producing immature red blood cells and several hundred times the normal amount. It would be great to have this under control.
Erin's Winter Guard team had an exhibition on Thursday and she did fantastic, never missing a beat or a move, despite an injury. While tossing her sword she somehow hit herself in the eye with the point. No damage to her eye, but she teared up and was unable to see out of it, losing her peripheral vision halfway through her performance. Nonetheless she completed her act perfectly. She's a trooper.
Enjoyed watching INTRUDERS and began WHISKEY CAVALIER. With Jack around, the last three days have been filled with TRANSFORMER cartoons and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, with occasional snippets of MOANA **sigh**
Been slowly working my way through the 83 stories in Otto Penzler's BIG BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, interspersed with a lot of SF short stories by Henry Kuttner. Lots of fun, in both cases.
After some cold rainy days the weather has warmed up in a glorious sunny fashion. Spring might well be here!
As always, wishing you and Phil the very best for the coming week.
The Scouts had a lock-in with the new Scouts who are all 5th gradera. I am happy I did not lose my patience or get aggravated with a bunch of 10 and 11-year-olds.
My family went to see CAPTAIN MARVEL on Saturday. The movie was good but I am getting so sick of super-hero movies. Clark Gregg and Samuel L. Jackson were digitally made younger and the effects generally worked but a few times they looked like wax figures.
As Jeff might also agree, sorry to have anticipated your antipathy to BILLIONS...I made it through the first season, as I do generally like the cast (and can watch Siff and a few of the others through some very bad drama indeed), but, as mentioned, the arrested adolescence at best of what are supposed to be engaging when not admirable characters tires me quickly (as, again, with Gillian Flynn's work and their dramatizations). Almost as intolerable as plot-bent characterization, sometimes even when it does have satirical value.
RAY DONOVAN seems to me to have improved over the last couple of seasons, if remaining a bit soapy...one of the improvements is in cutting that back.
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