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.