Random Musing Today: More Library Movies, Halloween is Coming, etc.

 In today's random musings, i will muse about whatever pops into my head or is annoying me.

* Had to pass a stupid Twitter/X Arkose Challenge. Replying to stupid MMT/UBI types, liars like Robert Reich and Biden are not spamming.  Like those accounts don't virtually spam Twitter/X with their inanity?  Wish that BS would quit showing up on my timeline.  Apparently, they put a flag on my account accusing me of being a spammer or something.  Had the account for a few years (i think).  

* More movies from the library: 

LEGO Sets That i Wish i Had

This post is a post of some of the LEGO sets i wished i had.  Many of these are from before i bought my first LEGO Classic set (right before "15 days to flatten the curve" COVID "pandemic" kickoff in the US).  Turns out, i'm not creative and need instructions to make anything.

Here are some of the sets i would get if i had a time machine and unlimited money.  There are probably more i don't know about.  Maybe Jaws and Bumblebee (Transformers) from this year, though not at those prices.

Just Saying 8

 Finally, Just Saying post 8 is a reality (well after i click the publish button).

i gave myself LEGO Notre-Dame Cathedral as a birthday present.  An annual "tradition" since Architecture sets tend to release around August 1st.  Last year it was Himeji Castle.

What did i do my B-day weekend?  i built a cathedral, you? 

This was the biggest Architecture series set to date, weighing in at 4,383 pieces (the 10,001-piece Eifel Tower isn't an architecture series). Also, the most expensive one too.  Kind of reminiscent of the LEGO Creator Expert sets that were retired long before i bought my first set.

Random Musings Today: i Hate Smart TVs, birthday, etc

 So, time for another random musings post.  What am i thinking of today

- Have i mentioned i hate smart TVs?  i just want plug and play.  Streaming sticks do the internet thing better than the TV does.  i don't want the TV to scan every time i change inputs (5 devices, 3 inputs).  Then we'll get into the shitty remotes that come with today's TV. Remember when they used to have real remotes, not garbage "voice command" ones?  A Toshiba HDTV remote vs a Samsung 4K ready set.

- The Xbox 360 online store has ended - end of an era.  Moved my 360 to a different room (since Wi-Fi in my room is really bad) so i could download a few final things.  Took a lot of tries to get my Samsung 4K ready (UN30MU6300) to finally recognize the 360.  When it did, the display was suboptimal and kept cutting out.

- Having a hard time with WI-FI lately, keeps buffering and disconnecting/reconnecting randomly on different devices.  Wired is always superior to WI-FI (if available).

- Got an Enhanced ID last week (well, not delivered yet). Precisely why i signed up for voter registration a few years ago - "document" with proof of address/residency.  

- As a practical matter, voting in this state is beyond useless.  The only thing i ever voted for that won was advisory votes (which are meaningless and have since been discontinued).

- "Happy" Birthday to me.  i still contend i was the biggest bomb to come out of that calendar day, not Nagasaki (Fat Man).  If you're asking, i'm somewhere between 15 and 16.

- Why do my winning lottery tickets always turn losing after i check them?

- Finally started my LEGO Notre-Dame Cathedral.  Biggest LEGO set so far, by piece count.  So far, a decent build, though LEGO has issues with curved sections 

- Playing some video games.  Kind of weird that Game Pass (MSFT Rewards) has me holding off playing games to get the daily achievement "reward" of virtually $.005.

- Liberals online are kind of insufferable (though the most insufferable are paid accounts/astroturfers).  i'm getting some serious Schmeerskahoven vibes from them, buuudy.

Happy 8/8/88

 Happy 8/8/88 for all those who celebrate.

Hopefully, this awful summer will end soon.  Though, i'm not looking forward to going back to school.

Only a month or so until the Seoul Olympics start.  At least USSR is in this one.  Though those East German women kind of look like guys.  Kind of the opposite of Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)".  Top Secret wasn't wrong.  Probably going to watch this on our Montgomery Ward color TV (dad got for the 1984 Olympics) hopefully the antenna on the roof will work.

Wearing out my Faith tape.  George Michael has such an awesome voice.  The new song "Monkey" is kind of cool - i like the radio better than the album version.  Guess the same was true with Wham! "Everything She Wants".  But i still can't get "One More Try" out of my head.  i would never sing along to it, would i?  Probably going to need to listen to Make It Big (listen to it more when i get stressed) a lot of times this year.  Wonder what is one the radio - when is Casey Kasem's countdown again?  Maybe i should just "Roll with It".

Wondering what's on TV? Probably not much since it's summer.  Can't wait for the new seasons of Alf, Growing Pains, Night Court, Head of the Class and others.  Too bad Family Ties is getting kind of preachy.  Can't believe APK went so soft.  i blame his ex-girlfriend, Ellen.  Never fall for a liberal.

What about this new movie Die Hard?  i think it is with the guy in Moonlighting.  Too bad i can't see it because it's a R Rated movie.  Maybe i should see Roger Rabbit, Big, or Short Circuit 2 (wait they made a sequel?).

Election year: am i going to have to put up with all of those stupid political ads again?  Hopefully Bush can continue the Reagan awesomeness.  Maybe this is the year my state finally has a GOP governor (one hasn't been elected since 1980).