{"id":2148,"date":"2015-01-24T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2015-01-24T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T16:20:51","slug":"saturday-24-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2015\/01\/24\/saturday-24-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 24 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

08:39 –<\/span> One of the things about having Barbara at home all day for the next month is that I no longer have time to re-watch videos that she doesn’t want to re-watch. And until recently that meant any video she’d ever seen. I’d suggest re-watching an excellent series we’d last watched 30 years ago and she’d just say, “We already watched that”.
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While she was in the hospital, I’d started re-watching Jericho. I was surprised after she was back at home when she agreed that I could continue re-watching it with her in the room. She even agreed that it was a very good series. So last night I told her that I’d really like to re-watch Everwood<\/a>, and was surprised when she readily agreed. I’m really looking forward to seeing Emily VanCamp<\/a> again at age 15. I knew she was special partway through the first episode, and I haven’t changed my mind ten years on.
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09:52 –<\/span> Speaking of Netflix streaming, I convinced Barbara to give Revolution<\/a> a try last night. I watched the first few minutes before my bogosity meter pegged. What did it for me was a solid line of cars filling both lanes of an interstate at night. As the power failed, the headlights of the cars went out. But they didn’t go out all at once, no. Instead the closest cars went dark, and then the others in sequence like a row of dominoes going down into the far distance. Geez. What moron wrote this? I immediately backed out to the main Netflix menu, turned to Barbara, and asked what she thought of Revolution. She said it was terrible. I agreed.
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So we went back to watching Borgia, which features the beautiful Marta Gastini<\/a> as Giulia Farnese. One of the things I’ve noticed watching other series is that I often have trouble telling young actresses apart. One generically pretty brunette is much like another, so I often have to depend on non-facial characteristics like hair color, voice, build, and so on to differentiate them. With Borgia, I’ve added one characteristic to that list. It has lots of young women running around topless (and bottomless) and engaging in simulated sex. With the girls’ faces at odd angles, often partially covered by their hair or their partners’ heads or bodies, I sometimes can’t tell which is which. But, I have discovered, all of the actresses in this series have distinctive nipples, by which I can identify them even if their faces aren’t clearly visible.
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11:21 –<\/span> I just re-joined Amazon Prime because today-only it’s $72 rather than $99<\/a>. For $72, it’s worth it to me. Not for $99.
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08:39 – One of the things about having Barbara at home all day for the next month is that I no longer have time to re-watch videos that she doesn’t want to re-watch. And until recently that meant any video she’d ever seen. I’d suggest re-watching an excellent series we’d last watched 30 years ago and she’d just say, “We already watched that”.\n<\/p>\n

While she was in the hospital, I’d started re-watching Jericho.<\/p>\n

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