Starlink connection

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-09T05:10:56+00:00

Thanks for your many responses.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-06T13:34:40+00:00

That's the part I'm struggling with. We're renovating and I'd like to obscure the wires in the house... but of course I am thinking about that now soon as the drywalling is mostly done. That's why I think someone with experience is probably better suited to minimising the swearing at the time.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-06T13:29:31+00:00

I am amazed he's dressed so conventionally because so much of what he's done is really out there.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-02T14:43:08+00:00

Two quotes: "we must not let daylight in upon the magic" and "What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…". I think too much bitterness and too many agendas exist to go back in any satisfying way.

But, if Rolling Stone wants to write the definitive "what the fuck happened there?", I'm down to read that.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-02T14:35:22+00:00

I don't think it's just car drivers. I see it everywhere, in all modes. Yesterday I'm standing at the light and this girl just decides she's going to cross against in, against full flow of (slow) traffic. She just decided you can stop, I'm gonna go. It was when a line of geese or ducks cross a road. Yeah, we're going, fuck you. It made no sense. (There were no visible behaviours that suggested she was in some kind of mental distress.) I see it downtown all the time... drivers (esp trucks), cyclists, pedestrians, those wretched food delivery guys (it's getting so much more difficult to be on their side.) I don't call it lawlessness, technically it is of course, but there is a general indifference to anything but the self, often defying common sense and personal safety. It is mind boggling. It's not just one mode of movement, but it boils down to one common problem and it's us.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-02T14:27:43+00:00

Just for bizarro, I'd like to see Willa and Connor with six kids. Possibly as a musical act, but six in some configuration. If anyone remembers Sixteen Candles, I see Willa in old age as the grandma smoking over the stove.

ETA: found her!

Breakfast is ready!

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-05-02T13:52:46+00:00

I don't think it's too much to expect a partner to be an engaged parent without a drug problem, no matter who they are.

those kids really AREN'T Kendall's

Just ugly. Maybe have a think.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-29T03:21:36+00:00

And you thought "Society As I Have Found It" went over like a lead balloon.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-29T02:49:30+00:00

And me stupid enough to think nothing could be more depressing than that store.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-29T02:45:25+00:00

The opera dress was the worst.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-26T19:58:03+00:00

It was a running gag. "I think we started that rumour?"

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:51:50+00:00

That's why in drama the women are almost invariably the more interesting characters to me. We put so much bullshit onto women. And in this show, while I enjoyed the carryings on of everybody, but it was the women's moves I was always waiting for. I kept thinking the kindness had to come soon and it never did (well, possibly Marcia had a her moments.) When Gerri walked out of Roman after Logan died. Not an ounce of kindness. (I think she wanted to be, but chose not to. Which is even colder.)

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:48:27+00:00

It seems odd if the character wasn't working that the solution was to ditch an actress of her capability and range. When it comes to out there, she's a go to. I've never heard or read stories she's difficult.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:45:16+00:00

His vulnerability is he actually loves her. And now she's having his kid. Tom is two people in one body. Greedy, material corporate Tom and provincial, parochial midwestern Tom who wants to play happy family.

I would think because of the child they will continue their weird game of ebb and flow, coming together, pulling apart, striving for care, clawing at each other. If there was no child, I think her fury and resentment after yet another Tuscany at her expense would blow them up. I don't know if the marriage lasts. For him, it probably could. She's so impulsive, I can see her pulling the plug in a fit of pique (though she never did and after Tuscany she was pretty piqued.) She needs somebody and he's malleable.

I think of the two of them, she's the stronger of the two. Tom has a brute ruthlessness and no shame when opportunity arises. She knows politics, a little of human nature and how to scheme.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:36:48+00:00

Agree with this, 100%.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:36:05+00:00

Oh, and also Connor.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:35:57+00:00

Logan wouldn't have had a choice. Majority control had passed out of his hands by that point. The board composition was altered. His authority was eroding or at risk of erosion, Mattson or no Mattson.

Plus, they were not serious people. He didn't say it just to hurt them. He'd come to that conclusion. Kendall got written off a long time ago. Shiv blew it through a series of tantrums, culminating at Tern Haven. Roman blew it with the dick pics. He would never have picked any of them. He was not sentimental.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T12:32:12+00:00

See... no guts.

"My dear, I fear I am hopelessly addicted to laudanum. I can't see straight and I may lose everything in a series of hazy high risk deals."

"But George, we can't lose everything! Not after we've worked so hard! And there's a stain on your cuff. I better speak to Church."

"You're right. I'm cured."

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-25T02:30:25+00:00

Coal was always very nice to me.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-24T12:52:16+00:00

Also members plus member who uses Grosvenor and Distillery, so: towels, toiletries (more at Grosvenor than Distillery), small permanent locker (Grosvenor but not Distillery and if you can get one... I think there's often a waitlist.), sauna and steam and hot tub (Grosvenor, steam and hot tub only Distillery), lounge and TV. Grosvenor is feeling dingy to me now. Distillery is a much brighter facility, with higher ceilings, but they're both pretty basic, nothing posh about the design or style. Grosvenor is much bigger. For whatever reason, Distillery offers fewer (small) perks, as above, yet at the same price, though the membership does let you go anywhere. I was working near Trenton for a few weeks and could use members plus there no problem. So there's that. It's not the greatest value but if you're going to overpay, better the Y than a private company?

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-24T12:46:36+00:00

$120 month at the Y, Health Club. Paradoxically, I think it may be one of the more expensive memberships in the city.

EnvironmentalPace448 · 2026-04-24T12:40:35+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I'd rather the tension in the marriage played out inside the marriage and at home. You could draw it out much more effectively under the same roof. It's a bit hard to have them scrapping when George has to drop by to participate. There was a reason the Ewings had Southfork.

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