filling space
Not a lot to report on today. I rode my bike home from work yesterday, spent the evening at home for the most part. I had a DVD to pick up at the library and I spaced it; hopefully I remember today. I keep doing that.
Also there's a movie I wanted to go see, but the only showtime after work last night was at like 6:00, whereas today there's one at 4:50. That's kind of perfect so I'm going tonight even though Shobhit had his Project Management class last night and not today.
I had to do some last minute editing of my birthday tribute video to Gina, after Angel just randomly messaged me a few fantastic childhood photos. This meant re-loading the entire music track and re-doing the many edits I had already done to that, but it was worth it! These really needed to be included, as, as you can imagine, her childhood gets far less representation than her life from about ages 20 to 50. This took the under-20 shots up to 7 from 4, so for the first 20 years of her life there's an average of one shot per 3 years or so; thereafter the remaining shots and clips represent on average about one per eight months. It's still very effective overall though and I am very proud of it, as I tend to be of all these tribute videos.
Anyway, I still had the dried lights of the laundry to put away, so I also had that to do; they weren't quite dry yet when I went to bed the night before. And Shobhit left his class an hour early because, apparently, the remaining discussion was not relevant to what he called his "deliverables" and so he just bowed out—and we then went to the Central District PCC to do a bit of shopping.
I think Ivan might have expected us to be gone longer than we were. This was new: when we got back, he was in the middle of watching the premiere episode of the new season of American Horror Story. He had messaged me the other day that maybe we could watch, and I expressed fairly halfhearted interest. Evidently he just decided to go ahead and watch without me. Although it's interesting to see Macauley Culkin in something again (I can't recall anything of note with him as an adult since 2003's Party Monster, although according to IMDb he's actually had relatively consistent work in the meantime), based on what I saw, it didn't look like I was missing much. American Horror Story long ago took several steps sideways into The Dumb.
Ivan did message me the other day asking how he can access Netflix on our TV, and I told him the steps needed. He must have just followed the same directions to get to Hulu. Our TV setup is kind of unduly complicated, as we have one remote just to turn on the TV set; another for the Xfinity DVR player; another just for volume on the stereo which connects to provide stereo sound (from a very old, 50-disc CD changer stereo I purchased in 1998 and have still never gotten rid of or replaced; it's easily been 15 years, probably more, since any CD has actually been played on it); yet another for my also-old Apple TV box (which I believe I bought in 2010; it's so old it doesn't have an app store application on it). Oh, and I guess I should mention the Blu-Ray player remote, which I do still use very occasionally, particularly when I check movies out of the library. Like the one still waiting for me to pick up!
In any case, Ivan sometimes seems to find it a challenge to follow certain multi-step tasks that have not been shown to him (like finding the former art room but now turned mail room for packages in the West building, which I finally had to walk him to last week), so I was kind of surprised he made the effort to figure out the TV. Evidently he did, though. I think we may have slightly caught him off guard as I have a feeling he expected to have time to watch the whole episode before we got back, but he was only about halfway through it.
Did I really need to just write out all of that? I'm not sure what point there was to it, other than to fill some space in today's DLU. Well whatever, back to work!
[posted 12:29 pm]