Random Thought

So far I only ever had to clean up a P trap like once every decade. Once in my student apartment was the worse of them all.

The thing with the tanks/parade turned out ok. But I'm still against it for many reasons: the cost that could have served the services better, and frankly, the danger of possible coupe, or other violent acts.

Honestly, I think those Voyager haters are purely Janeway haters trying to masquerade it for all kinds of reasons. It's unreasonable and there's no way to reason with these people either so I won't bother with them.

Agents of Shield S5ep8
Was good with the surprise twist. Ok maybe not that surprising as Izel was fishy from the start. I'm rather more dissapointed in the two smartest people not realizing anything... Anyhow the episode got me on toes.

interesting over the weekend the Nationals played a game honoring the 50th anniversary of the Expos and wore Montreal uniforms.

Yeah, it began when the original actress who was to play Janeway bowed out before the start of filming for the pilot and they cast Kate Mulgrew, so some of the Janeway hate maybe over that still.

I think Sarge is another fishy character. He seems not to have told his own team the whole story; that and the fact his idea of stopping the Shrike involves an A Bomb!
Welp….Fitz and Simmons may be the two smartest members of the team but they have been known to be overly gullible at times.

My last post probably until next Wednesday as we are having my sister from Arizona over for company. Also one of my Aunts on my mom's side died so maybe a funeral as well.

Though probably will stay at home with my dad as he has dementia.

I also need to get my doctor's appointment for this year some time toward the end of the month. I hope this time I can get the dosage down to once a day and slowly work it down until I only have to take it on a need to basis. The last time we tried this my family was living in western Washington ( I think) and it didn't turn out too well,so I'm hopeful that bringing it down slowly will work.

If it weren't for that musical Eva Peron wouldn't be as well known or liked these days. Turns out that the Perons were big supporters of the Nazis and were involved in letting Mengele, Eichmann and others into their country. They also personally seemed to have owned several works of art that the Nazis stole from the Jews.

My aunt from New Jersey and one of her daughters are coming today for my other aunt's funeral on Saturday. All this stuff happened pretty quickly. Last week, my aunt who died was still pretty well as far as we knew.Nobody was aware she had a stroke until we didn't hear from her after the 4th and then it was a couple days before a man from her church went to check on her and found her in bed.But it was a good thing she was there and not outside, where she might not have been found for awhile.

So in my mother's family she has one sister and one brother left. All of my dad's family are gone now and he is the last one. Morbidly, I keep thinking he will be the next since he has dementia and is already 95. His remaining sister died at 100.

Actually my paternal grandfather had an uncle who lived to be 90 and my maternal grandmother's father and paternal grandfather both nearly lived to be 90. So you never know.

Very cool new thing on Myheritage: they now have it where you can see how you and one of your matches may be related. Fun!

Speaking of fun, I wrote down my top 50 anime. Will post later next week.
1-22 are pretty much set in stone. 23-50 as well as 50-100 are more or less whatever popped into my head at the time.

Voting on the library district here, undecided but leaning no,just think wrong time to have such a vote.Especially after the city spends so much money on a new long term care unit for Alzheimer and dementia patients.

And yeah...I do volunteer at the library Mondays so....

Start Little Busters Season 1 part 2 Thursday, I was thinking of getting Seasons 2 and 3 but will wait to see how much I enjoy Season 1 and also if they're still around.

Interesting. But I'm not sure if the feature is a good idea for customers...

Gosh, I gave up on making lists long ago.

Hmm, a show about batman's parent's special friend...

12 Moneys has ended so I watched the two summary episode. I can say I guessed as much from what I saw in season 1. It made me curious about a few details, mainly, the character relationships to each other but otherwise not so interested in the whole show.

I watched Stranger Things because of all the talks but imho only season 2 and 3 were worth it. Season 1 is basically just for the scifi/paranormal uninitiated. It's so-so and frankly some things are familiar, including some scenes.

China is about to have 600 million cameras online next years. Using the gait recognition software from Watrix.ai which recognizes people with just two steps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReVvICTrCM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNf4-d6fDoY
It's the forever one-party nation.

Anyhow, it seems many minsters are planning to step down when Boris Johnson becomes prime minister. Now this' gonna be interesting.

Lists can be fun but also frustrating as every time I make a list I realize there's something on it I left out.

Looks like ANN isn't a fan of The Rising of the Shield Hero.

Or it could be their not fans of Crunchyroll.

The Kyoani fire was tragic not only for the lost of material but more importantly the fact that 34 people were killed.

Went and got some more comics today including more Doom Patrol I wonder how the tv series is doing.

And for my fave anime list. Today 40-30 and Wed.29-16:
40.Haibane Renmei
39.Ranma 1/2
38.Kampfer
37.You'r Under Arrest
36.Akame Ga Kill
35.Brynhlidr in the Darkness
34.Arpeggio of Blue Steel
33.Giant Robo
32.Magic Knight Rayearth
31.Angelic Layer
30.RWBY

yeah I know technically #30 isn't really anime...still...Also has I said #1-#22 are the only ones really set in stone the others aren't so much.

part 2 of the list as promised:

29.The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
28.K'ON
27.Girls Und Panzer
26.The Vision of Escaflowne
25.Gundam
24.Gundam Seed
23.Gundam Wing
and now we get to where it's set in stone like the laws of the Medes and Persians:
22.Ghost In The Shell
21.Madlax
20.NOIR
19.Devil Lady
18.Spice & Wolf
17.Tenchi Moyu(Basically anything and everything Tenchi related including War on Geminar and El Hazard fits here with the exception of Dual.)
16.Kaleido Star

The conclusion with #15-#1 later.

AFAIG with my comic book collection this Monday I bought the following to add to it:
1.Ghost Rider vol.2 #6
2.Ghost Rider vol.2 #15
3.Ghost Rider vol.2 #30
4.Captain America #331
5.Captain America #334
6.Captain America #337
7.Doom Patrol '04 #1
8.Doom Patrol '04 #2
9.Doom Patrol '04 #3
10.Doom Patrol '04 #4
11.Doom Patrol '04 #5
12.Doom Patrol '05 #6
13.Doom Patrol '05 #7

the last two have January and February '05 which is why I put '05 instead of '04. AFAIG: really enjoying the Doom Patrol comic but ironically it took the X Men to get me into reading it.

Doom Patrol? Honestly, I've my doubts about the show. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

So I went ahead and watched Pennyworth. Well, it's an interesting alternative world. *coughs* It's good but it feels like they are overdoing it. I mean I can imaging Lara Croft's butler being specifically selected with such a background and all but Wayne's Alfred? nah.

Just saw the koreans have made their version of the Designated Survivor. It seems by law he can only stay in office for 60 days until elections determines the replacement.

Also finally got around to watch the trailer for Star Trek: Picard. Looks like a "the resistance" kind of show and takes place during the 2480's when the borg stage their major attack.
This show is a testament to the failures of JJ-Abram's and Discovery's. So they decided to return to the proven originals. I'm not sure about the Picard centric theme but I welcome it nonetheless.

The comic isn't too bad, especially if you come from the perspective of an X-Men fan. They're certainly alike in some ways and other ways different. The biggest being that the X-Men were born with their abilities while the Doom Patrol gain theirs through accidents.

Will Locutus show up to haunt Picard? That be fun if they could do one where Stewart plays both as two separate indiviuals confronting each other.

And now the finale of the list:
15.Puella Magi Madoka Magica
14.Neon Genesis Evangelion
13.KOR
12.RahXephon
11.Sailor Moon
10.Wedding Peach
9.Betterman
8.Boogiepop Phantom
7.Case Closed
6.Cowboy Bebop
5.Serial Experiments Lain
4.Crest/Banner of the Stars
3.Dual!
2.Inuyasha
1.Silent Mobius

I put Silent Mobius #1 as it's the series that really got me hooked on anime and also it's interesting to note is from the same creator that gave us Martian Successor Nadesico which explains why one of the characters in the latter show looks like Lum Cheng!

Got my bike fixed so I can ride it again.

Walked about a mile or so today. Had to go to library and post office as normal but also to Safeway pharmacy to pick up my mom's medicine.

We're having new grass put into our front lawn and it looks like they were here marking where to work.

Got my order from Rightstuf today. Spelled my last name wrong though with an extra e in place of where the first n should be. Oh...well...used to it by now.

So Northern Italian is different from the rest of Italy.

More news about Kyoani: in spite of the fire they will be releasing their latest movie which will be a side story to the Evergarden anime.
It appears that the arsonist or someone with the same name sent in a submission to a writing contest the company was holding. The top prize winner would have their novel turned into an anime by the studio. The person with the same name as the arsonist however did not follow the proper format set by the company and his submission was rejected during the first round of the contest(which is not unusual for writing contests).

So...legendary Cuban born pitcher Luis Tiant while he was playing winter ball in Florida was once traded for 500 Teddy Ruxpin Teddy Bears ($69.99 a pop in those days). He was happy about the trade since it brought him closer to Miami and the Cuban population there.

Ummm….is the Saturday Night Live writing staff writing the material for the Dem candidates or at least for the debates? From what I read only Bullock and Delaney are making much of any sense and don't forget that Webb was the only Dem in '16 who made any sense as well and look what happened...

So Bernie...who do ya think's gonna pay for all the "free stuff"?

The Mariners remain in free fall although they won 6 in a row but have only won 47 games this season. Could be worse they could be the Tigers!

The Dems may get the majority of the house this time but I think Trump has a good chance to be reelected.

Brexit is still on course, too. *anxious*

New Ultraman movie is in the works with high level people in the industry at the helm.
I dunno never truly liked the genre that much to begin with.

Out of curiosity I watched the korean version of the "Designated Survivor-60 days". Story wise it's virtually the same except for korean specific laws and politics and other details. I think the american version is better for the most part. The cast is also better. The korean cast only has a few good ones. It's not bad but not good enough either. It certainly could be better if they ventured more on their own.

A good example is the indian "Bang Bang" movie which is their version of "Knight and Day". Half the story and scenes are the same but everything else if different and often better imho. If only it didn't have those dances (except ED).

Nasa finally figured we need orbital factories for "transporters" and refueling stations. Well, they are certainly needed and might reduce some cost. I still think space elevator and life support systems should be priorities. Anyhow, this is obviously in conjunction with the industry's wish to deploy hundreds of internet satellites. So much for the effort to reduce space junk.

I have cousins in Ireland. If you read about it from the Irish pov there's a lot of questions still about how it'll affect trade and travel between the North and South.

I really haven't seen the Dems do any more than the GOP did when they had the majority plus the whole AOC and friends bit is wearing thin.

Here's an idea: nominate people who are serious about doing something about the nation's problems and not ones who only want to see themselves in the paper every day.

Irony: teen thugs in NYC beat up a man who was wearing a MAGA hat, the irony was he was brown skinned.

FWIW department: Lenny Wilkens still more popular in the entirety of Washington than any Governor.
Then again he also has had a better career.

Checked out an easy to learn Italian book from the library today. I wish we had a similar type book for Japanese.

I don't know about the Doom Patrol tv series but I am enjoying what I have of the comic. FYI:
The Doom Patrol came out months before X-Men. Ironically X-Men weren't as popular as later on and were on the verge of being cancelled when Stan Lee introduced the first revision that gave us Storm and Wolverine.

While I do enjoy Marvel I remain at heart more DC than Marvel but it's close. A quiz I took showed that I was 47% Marvel and 56% DC.

The shootings in Dayton and El Paso are going to further feed the Gun Control Crowd, although as we have seen in Japan and elsewhere even the strictest gun laws aren't going to stop evil people from doing evil.

Even the Democratic Socialists can't stand each other it seems. More bickering at their national convention in a single hour than in three days of even the most ruckus Democratic convention.

Today the sod finally came for our new lawn and it is being put down.

Thinking of getting seasons 3 and 4 of Ikki-tousen at the end of the month if they're still available.

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD heading toward the final season. So looks like the Chronitons are going to be the final villains of the show.

Wonder what ever happened to The Resident? Did it not get picked up for season 3? Seen ads for a couple new shows and I know that The Orville is coming back some time later this Winter or so, but haven't seen any news about The Resident.

Biden's personally a nice man and all but I wouldn't vote for him as he wouldn't make much of a good President. Though he still be better than Warren or Sanders.

The mayor of Portland, Oregon is worried about Conservatives holding a rally against Domestic Terrorism and this despite the fact that Portland has a black eye from Antifa's presence there. So he's less worried about Antifa than a bunch of well meaning Americans peacefully rallying against thugs like Antifa.

So the NFL pre-season is underway. Meaning right now it's mainly the Pro version of the JV teams getting their time on the field while the Varsity sits and waits for the regular season to begin.

For some reason I've failed 3 times to post this so trying to rewrite the content.

I've watched the Outpost out of curiosity. Not as bad as some say but not as good as Xena. The lore and background seem interesting and far to complex so I think they will fail to deliver and due to budget. I find it amazing how they are able to shoot within the same 10x10 meter of space (tavern+street) without being noticed. Best use of space in any show I've seen.

Agents of SHIELD S6 ep13
So Coulson/Sarge is dead and we got another time travel case. It's a mess. I think the show starts to abuse time travel too much like Eureka did.

1.5 degrees over land report
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Not really surprising since this is the same as continental climate.
I'm more concerned about the recent fire in russia. This is gonna feel burned in coming summers.

Considering that season 7 is the final season for Agents of SHIELD this is probably going to be the last of the time travel stories unless they decide to do a movie.

Welp, The Resident will be on Tuesdays this Fall instead of Mondays.

Re-reading a book documenting the British tv series The Avengers, which brings us to the question which one was first the tv series or the American comic book. I think it was the series as it debuted in 1960.

The Yankee fan blog Pinstripe Alley had a question about what was the most boring sport to watch.
Most of the answers were soccer but there were some who voted for golf.

Looks like the trade war with China is going to be good news for Vietnam and Thailand as a lot of Japanese companies have started re-locating their American targeted factories to those two countries to get pass the tariffs.

It's hard at times to remember the gist of what happened two or three days later, but it's also a good memory exercise to try to do so.
AFAIG: I think the most violent video games, tv shows, anime and movies are rated either R or MA and the ones that are really so NC-17 to begin with. ( The X rating got coopted by the Porn industry, even though originally it was meant for movies like Midnight Cowboy.) This of course means that anyone under age aren't suppose to play or view them to start with.
Ok, but what has that to do with the shootings? Quite simply most people who play or watch violent games, tv shows, anime or movies don't go out and shoot crowds of people. It's easy to lay the blame on a strawman you build without looking into the shooters actually motives or his past.
The same came be said for Confederate symbols; instead of looking into the life of the shooter and his motives people,in the case of the South Carolina church shootings, immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was a racist because of the Confederate memorabilia on his site. He would still have been a racist if he had no such memorabilia on his site; it wasn't the Confederate memorabilia that made him a racist, it was the fact that he WAS a racist that made him a racist.

The same goes for the El Paso shooter: it wasn't Trump's immigration policy that made him target illegals, it was the fact that he was a racist that hated Mexicans that made him shoot. Even if they were here legally he would still have shot them because he hates Mexicans and that's the only reason he needed to kill people.

But now we have people who want to press down even harder on anti-firearms laws, even though there have been more killings caused by gangs in places like Chicago then in El Paso and Dayton combined both before and after the killings, and I don't see anyone saying anything about cracking down on the gangs. Perhaps cracking down on the gangs should come first...

sorry for the rant.

It's interesting how much alike Kanata and Haruka look like in Little Busters when they have ther hair arranged the same way. Also Kanata was able to imitate the way Haruka talks to the extent that...
...insert theme from The Patty Duke Show.

Sunday starting Gingtsune.

IF Alexander the Great had been picked up would that mean we would have heard Jack Lord say: "Book 'em Spock!" instead of "Book 'em Danno"?
Seriously he was up for consideration for the role of Kirk before Shatner got the part. The problem was that he wanted a good share of the show's profits and Desilu wouldn't say yes.

So Israel doesn't want an anti-Semitic congresswoman who supports the whole BDS deal in, kind of like the US not wanting any anti-American politician in our borders.

I don't really like the 2nd/3rd reboot of avengers. Not like I've seen all their movies to begin with... At least missing a few from like 17?

Welp, even without the current trade war sooner or later companies would have switched away from china anyway to some cheaper labor country. Right now Japan has overtaken china again as the lead creditor of the USofA.
China is probably holding back on Hong Kong because they fear this would widen the trade war to others who haven't been involved yet. China needs to keep it's economic progress to finance all the key objectives until their completion.
In another 5-10 years things will be different. They will have the means to face anyone.

In this case ranting is fine by me.
Games and shootings. The only thing that are in common are the practice and familiarization of the actions and "scenes". Everything else is your decision and responsibility unless you are a stupid animal and not-human. What else is the point of being human? Whatever you do it's all on you. Simple as that.

Isreal has made a decision and has made it into law. As a nation and the government they have no choice but to see it through. Otherwise, especially an exception would make it meaningless and it could as well be arbitrary and lawless.
An exception really has to have a strong reason like a humanitarian purpose.

After hearing lots of chatter about a SKorean show I finally gave in and took a look at "Hotel Del Luna". I'm hooked. The comedy side is fun and actors are doing well. The horror side is reasonable, going as far as needed and not further. I'm just not not convinced why romance is needed, though, but I guess it's the standard ingredient.

Yeah, it seems every time there's a mass shooting there's someone who wants to blame it on something like video games. My point about gangs was that, mass shootings are pretty rare when compared to gang violence.

Sent in my order for Ikki-tousen :Great Guardians and Ikki-tousen : Xtreme Xcutor to Right Stuf today. I e-mailed them on Friday on the price but they replied they didn't know about any price changes and told me to order with the existing price ASAP, which I did.
It be fun if they could do a tournament crossover between Hakufu and Ryoumo and the Ikki-tousen characters and Aya and Maya and the Tenjho Tenge ones. Who'd win between the two?

I see where FOX will be airing WWE RAW LIVE now.

Game 2 of pre-season went to the Minnesota Vikings 25 to 19 over the Seattle Seahawks. Actually you take away the one interception Seattle had and it would be 25 to 16. Interesting the Seahawks could only get that one defensive touchdown, the rest of the game they could only get 3 pointers.

Remembered along with RWBY vol. 5 & 6 and manga vol.2 & 3, need to get Banner still. Just thought of that as I was sending my latest order in.

Mytrueancestry changed my ancient results slightly. Now instead of Lombard I have Saxon. Makes sense though since they show my closest Modern matches are in Southern England and Wales.

After Black Lagoon I'm switching gears and re-watching Umi Monogatari.

Sadly Biden with all his gaffes is probably the best the Dems have to offer. Even Obama, who I never liked, would have been better than the majority of the Dem crop this year.

Looks like I'm also a Vandal and Celt as well.

My new anime want list:

1.Banner
2.Little Busters Seasons 2 and 3
3.Penguin Drum
4.RWBY 5- end

As soon as I can get the rest of my collection in either DVD or BD cases I can see how much space I have to add to, but sooner or later got to stop with the collecting and simply enjoy what I have.
Actually need more live action.

The new lawn looks nice but has a few yellowish spots here and there.