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I sort of like the Ewerts, udder gun and all. I know a few serious farmers and they have skill sets that I can only dream about. Keeping a dairy farm going nowadays is a complex. I also wonder at the newest Ewert and can imagine the arguments that lead to his breaking away. And I'll cheer any flipper. Especially since they learned a way to do unlimited flips in three minutes. And the flippers usually have protected tires, which seems to be a no brainer to me.

Variety produced this summary So far I've seen brief summaries at the Chicago Tribune, and at the Daily Mail. I would guess that the usual distribution of first four episodes of the season happened (without commercials) I've saved the LATimes for a lunch break (and to see the movie PR for the latest awards)

OK, I'll be the Grinch. Too darned many commercials. To me it felt as if it were 35 minutes of commercials, 25 minutes of show. And I found it hard to follow because, in some cases, the commercials seemed as if they might fit, but didn't. I may rewatch, but it will have to be on the biggest screen we have so I can read the captions. And, for the nth time this decade, fast forward will be my friend.

Some good ones tonight. And it would have been better if: the imperfections in the floor stopped interfering: the killsaws seldom kill, but can take out a good competitor. Something that bothered me: Smeeeee. Several years ago I read the rules of that season and they were very specific: that the bot MUST FIT WITHIN THE BOX painted on the floor before the lights hit green to start. Maybe they dropped that requirement, but only half of Smee fit. Does anyone know of that rule got tossed?

One bot's stage to die on became another bot's playground.

Kerry Greenwood is the author responsible for the magic in the Miss Fisher series. Because I liked her writing so much and for creating characters that I really like, I went searching. Problem is, she's from the southern hemisphere. and my local library only had her Corrinna Chapman mysteries. (I am most thankful for whoever at the library discovered her and got Corrinna and Phrnie). I also really like the Corrinna Chapman series. Set in an apartment building I would love to have lived in with characters that I can remember vividly after reading the series obsessively before Covid , I will just say I wish they'd made Corinna a series instead of the vapid successor to Miss Fisher that somebody thought would appeal to me.

Have you fallen into the Google earth rabbit hole? For Shetland and also for Vera it's so easy to go to Google maps and enter the name of an island, or a part of Northumberland. Then go for a walk/drive with the little yellow-orange man who shows where the camera has driven the roads or even walked the trails. (Also really cool for some of the Game of Thrones shots on the north coast of Spain). I have enjoyed the Shetland drives around their islands, then seen some of the archaeology sites on the map, and read up on those sites.

A read about Ghost Raptor, but really more about the layout of the venue and how things are done. They keep the lithium batteries in a separate tent, and other stuff about the show.

Several lessons for this evening: In two matches, no good deed went unpunished. I will starve before I spend five cents for a certain Cheese and Pepperoni Pizza. At least six times in two hours is an insult to viewers. When you make a decent looking older contestant put on a faux mohawk hair mass, maybe your values and mine no longer coincide Too many bots are just variations on the same theme.

In some parts of the USA, the phrase "Good job" is used to reward the less-than-full-speed folks who barely and seldom complete a task, but tried. As in started putting silverware away but got distracted. Used for folks for whom a partial accomplishment is all that they can do, and for them it's a "good job".

Who was it that commented about the fighting floor that there were" more corners to get trapped in"? Was that why the raised platform was added? Or an unintended consequence?

But did it matter? The bot marooned up there had been upended a number of times down on the flat. It was a goner for a least a minute before the other bot got it up there. I do see that the corners increase by 50% where a bot can be trapped by a stronger bot. Something else re the judges: They are covid-distance apart, but that also means they have less opportunity to influence each other. This year the phrase "primary weapon" hasn't been used. So damage isn't limited to the mayhem done by one part of the bot. That would have changed outcomes in some previous years where the primary was out but the body of the bot was still fighting.

Is the slot of "pretty woman with a brain asking good questions" gone for good? Will anybody use the raised platform after the ?? single use the first episode.?

They called it Battlebots: Bounty Hunter. The bots from previous seasons (and maybe some from this season) are competing in the usual way, Their objective is to go against the more original Bronco for a cash prize of twenty thousand dollars (I might have the number wrong,) There may be additional competitions against other pr4eviously awesome bots. I was a bit confused when the two hour show ended and suddenly we were in a competition where I recognized the bots but their staff were older (and Chomp's was pregnant) (The walking chomp from ?two seasons ago as chomp didn't compete last year, IIRC.

Three hours, though, was almost an overload. Does anyone know what substances caught fire, and stayed burning? And how hot the flames were? The intentional burns happening at the same time as their opponents unintentional burns made it hard to see what was happening. I wish they'd put the third hour on a different night, because I found it confusing that some of those bots had fought two hours earlier.

Is there an alternative source to Discovery +?

I don't want Cathy Bates to play Vera. Nothing against Cathy, but Vera is a British show set in the northern part of Britain and it's brilliant in itself. (She will always be his biggest fan. Full stop.) Let Hollywood make new shows rather than messing with British jewels. So Hollywood gets the challenge of finding new material.....they're adults, let them work for their salaries. Two recent remakes were well done but didn't need to be made. When one of them chose to copy and then (because of Spacey's disgrace) had to go off on a tangent- it lost in the translation from the original cynical sarcastic ending that felt just right to me. Or, in a century will we have as many talents playing Vera as have played Sherlock Holmes? Or will they opt, instead, for a version of Murder on the Orient Express?

A summary of Dr. Tolin's publications, mostly for the general public. It mentions more than 100 scientific papers. If I can find the Amazon Scholar link to those, I'll post it

The lack of running water would have been a block, unless her address was given as her daughter's house. I thought the Grandchildren's hugging their Mother was the only real thing I saw, that and the Daughter's take on the whole mess. Was Martha heavily medicated? we'll never know. Was Martha living off her parents' income - if so, no way was she letting them move elsewhere. Martha's compliance, Martha's 'whatever you say/want/think' just rang totally false to me. Especially the hypothetically tossed out money. It's over and feels the same as when a self invited house guest overstayed a three day visit by four days. It's good when it stops, and better forgotten.

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I think the word for the evening is Condescending. And to honor that word, I'll award really tacky paper badges for condescending actions to Robin and Dorothy. Whoever edited this episode has my deepest condolences. I don't know what they hoped to show or what they had to work with, but they sort of got an arc out of it although (to me) most of it didn't make sense time line wise or content wise.

I did not fall asleep during the second hour. But I'm darned if I can tell why, all of a sudden, things started leaving the property. The finished property was so very, very different from most efforts: the rooms looked as if they could be lived in with enough but not too much furniture, with wall decorations, etc. The master bedroom was good, the other two were ghastly crowded but that is a reality in a lot of more recent houses. Where she lived is a lovely part of the world, with Asheville just down the road. Why would she want to move closer to her Father?

OK, guys, let's talk about calling someone to do the jobs we don't want to do. The workers we bring in, for the most part, aren't any smarter than we are. My husband and I reroofed our old farm house, he did the rewiring, we did the sheetrock, we installed the solid wood flooring, I did a huge amount of the painting and varnishing the wood floors. (We moved the bathrooms, etc. because in our county we could without permits.) This was something we taught ourselves. We both had office jobs in the oil industry. But we figured we could retire early if we did things ourselves. For the plumbing, go to your library and borrow a how to book. Readers Digest made a great one (I had one before we got married and so did my husband.) check u-tubes on plumbing repair. Being able to do things for yourself is more empowering than you can imagine, until you do "it" the first time. With the hoarders, they seem to get power from imposing on the people who love them. They play the "poor pitiful me" card to the max. When you have the power to replace the cords in a venetian blind, to use duct tape to force stop a pesky leak before you have the time to get the right tools to take that pipe apart, to open a cardboard box, to repair a rip in a sheet that is otherwise usable, then you and I have the power to make our own decisions. To rule our roosts.

Short of tying Carl to a bed in a home or forcibly medicating him into docility, there's not much that can be done. Put him in a safer place, unmedicated, and he'll walk home to where his history is. Carl wants what Carl wants and the rest of us don't count with Carl. Lots of arguments can be made about the rights of a person to live as he chooses versus what his community expects of him, about can mental illnesses be cured and what is cured, and is changing someone to conform a cure or an imposition. Someone I know from that part of Florida died in a fire in his home and the Firemen couldn't get into the house because of all his belongings. He was a lot younger than Carl, and my friend chose his life. When I watched Carl, I thought of my friend and had a whole lot of "What if's" that have no answers.