{"id":2857,"date":"2016-06-11T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2016-06-11T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T13:40:15","slug":"saturday-11-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/06\/11\/saturday-11-june-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 11 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:40 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara is in Winston today, running errands, having lunch with a friend, and then making a small Costco run on her way back up here.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The final season of Downton Abbey is now available on Amazon streaming. I was surprised the other night when Barbara suggested that instead of just watching series 6, we go back and rewatch it from the beginning. I have no problem doing that, of course. Downton Abbey is decent television. Not as good as the original Upstairs, Downstairs, but good enough to watch again. We&#8217;re interleaving it with another series we&#8217;re rewatching, HBO&#8217;s Rome. That series is annoyingly ahistorical, but at least it&#8217;s watchable and has much better dresses than Downton Abbey. We also have a lot of decent stuff queued up on Netflix streaming, including the latest seasons of Hell on Wheels and Peaky Blinders. We won&#8217;t run short of stuff to watch in the evenings, although Barbara is usually doing crosswords and I&#8217;m usually browsing the web or reading an ebook at the same time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Speaking of which, I just downgraded my Fire HD7 from Fire OS 5.x to 4.x. Fire OS 5.x is better in most respects, but I simply can&#8217;t tolerate the fact that they&#8217;ve moved the navigation bar in landscape mode from the right of the screen to the bottom. The Home icon is in the center, and I&#8217;m constantly pressing it accidentally, taking me out of whatever website I was looking at and returning me to the home screen. All I really use this thing for is checking my own web site and checking webmail, so the new features in Fire OS 5.x are pretty much a who cares for me.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:40 &#8211; Barbara is in Winston today, running errands, having lunch with a friend, and then making a small Costco run on her way back up here.\n<\/p>\n<p>The final season of Downton Abbey is now available on Amazon streaming. I was surprised the other night when Barbara suggested that instead of just watching series 6, we go back and rewatch it from the beginning. I have no problem doing that, of course.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/06\/11\/saturday-11-june-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 11 June 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}