Ehh to both Hollywood and weather

[altivo]

So the promise of a dry week to follow Friday's deluge and wind has already been broken. It's been raining on and off this afternoon, and the next few days are once again filled with "chance of thunderstorms." Water in the pastures is again deeper than the top of my rubber boots, and I think deeper than it was at its peak earlier this spring. I can't get to the vegetable garden without a boat, even though I can see the snow peas hanging there begging to be harvested. In the first nine years that we lived here, we saw flooding like this only once. On that occasion, we received four inches of rain in a 24 hour period, so anything was certainly possible.

Since the stupid developers busted up the tiling in the 250 acres of land uphill of us, we are seeing this every time there is an inch or more of rain in 24 hours. That's about six times in the last two years. Our ability to use our land has been damaged by this, significantly so. Our chance of getting anything done about it is, of course, non-existent. I take great pleasure in the fact that no one has actually chosen to build anything in that "development." I hope the developers go bankrupt.

We went to see the Star Trek film this afternoon because Gary wanted to. Even setting aside the fact that I now have a headache imposed by the earthquake inducing level of the sound in the theatre (which always irritates the hell out of me...I guess everyone else is already deaf from listening to stuff at those decibel levels, so they keep escalating) my reactions are mostly negative. There were some cute moments and an occasional clever concept, but c'mon, folks. Star Trek has used the time paradox thing far too much. It's no longer credible to me. I never liked Kirk and I like him even less after this film. Giving Spock a romantic interest, even at a young age, doesn't wash with me either, no matter how cleverly they could play it off against Kirk. The young Scotty, McCoy, Sulu, and Chekhov were interestingly portrayed, but they can't carry off a weak plot all by themselves. I won't even dignify it with any apples at all.

On the way home we stopped and used the "coupon" (plus $16) to get a digital conversion box. I don't anticipate it doing any good here, but we can always give it to someone else if it's completely useless.

Comments

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Most people suffer from hearing loss and attention deficit, I've decided. All you have to do is observe them screaming into their cell phones, shouting to one another when the distance between them is just two or three feet, or where they set the volume level on their car radios or television sets.

Unfortunately, hearing loss due to environmental factors escalates as people try to compensate for it by increasing the volume level.

[keeganfox.livejournal.com]

They do that at work! Dash 60 (gas turbine generator, you've got an idea of how loud that would be) is running, and it's using the bleed air (noisy) to drive an air conditioning unit (also predictably loud), and instead of just giving up on hearing their "music"*, they'll turn that all the way up. Making it even louder doesn't help, you still can barely hear it (good thing) but it's even noisier still.

*"Music" being some sort of death metal grind core something with the singer screaming incoherent lyrics, or maybe just is gargling gravel. Awful, no talent crap. Coming from a guy who likes Def Leppard, Hammerfall, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Nightwish...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hee! Keegan, you're a fox after my own heart. And you sound like me, though I never liked rock music much beyond the Beatles era.