Now for another stream of consciousness thread... Numbered for no reason.
1) Ever not see someone for years, then suddenly see someone on a commercial who strongly reminds you of them (despite how much you tried to forget their existence)? For me it was the Good Rx commercial (i think it was called) "You can save without insurance". The second woman, sitting at her computer saying she ran her own business strongly reminds me of a girl who i wanted to be "the one" in college. Or at least what i pictured she would look like.
2) Girls, you are not livestock (probably) so cool it with the awful nose piercings.
3) Why are there so many small print/disclaimers in ads? Nobody thought a boy (representing an inner child) was driving a car. No need to say that it was shot in front of a green screen.
4) In general, enough of the pharmaceutical ads. Can we please ban prescription ads? At least i'm not seeing the 3-4 AIDS prep ads anymore. Now, it is mostly pigmentation stuff.
5) Watching HULU with ads. Do they just show the same 10 ads ad nauseum?
6) Had my sister pre-order LEGO Notre Dame Cathedral for me. Why? i hate using credit cards (i'll pay her back with cash). i know she wants me to dog-sit for her - so maybe i can get a discount.
7) 10% for sales tax is ridiculous (especially on an on-line order). Not conflating it with GST/VAT (usually included in price). Seems like government exists to liberate you from your money (not to serve you).
8) Heard Taylor Swift came out with a new album (phantom something vinyl) available at Target (damn streaming ads). She called it the Tortured Poets' Department. i'd hate to be as tortured as she is.
i doubt that name evokes the same image it does in my mind. Put Emily Browing on the rack, Walt Whitman in the Iron Maiden, bamboo under the fingernails of Sylvia Plath. Guess i took too many Lit classes in High School.
9) Listening to Keith Urban Greatest Hits this week (sorry Luke Bryan). Has a decent voice, a little more cross-over than Luke Bryan. Some pretty good lyrical songwriting.
10) Would Microsoft Edge quit reactivating Copilot. Have turned that off so many times.
11) Watched a lot of anime on Hulu. Kind of like the concept of an underpowered (or misunderstood power) person overcoming their limitations. Black Clover, Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, My Hero Academia, Chivalry of a Failed Night, A Certain Magical Index, etc type stuff. But then again, i "grew up" playing JRPGs.
The reincarnated in another world genre is growing on me: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Wiseman's Grandchild, etc. Now if only it were possible to leave the garbage past behind and redo life in a different place with more powers.
What does it say about me that i prefer the stuff set in high school. Can you identify as a 15-year-old? Maybe there was some sort of trauma that kind of stuck me in that age range (like maybe my dad dying of cancer).
i wanted it all: the killer job, an awesome wife and kids - turns out i was never equipped for that outcome. Hurts like hell when you realize that you'll never achieve your goals (thought they weren't set that high).
12) Finished reformatting a certain other thing. Now i have to see if i can fix some errors and see if i excluded anything (other than stuff i meant to exclude. Need to save some of the stuff there to file(s).
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