Backyard Action

Some more activity in my backyard courtesy of my trail cam.  A lot more deer action this time.

TV Recommendations

Here are a few random, and somewhat niche, TV shows I'm currently watching:

- Hostages: a documentary on the Iran hostage crisis, a chapter in history that (just about) occurred in my lifetime but which I knew very little about

- The US and the Holocaust: a self-explanatory Ken Burns documentary

- Let the Right One In: there are a couple of vampire shows currently airing, but this is the one that has stuck

- The Vow: a second series about the sex cult Nxivm

- Miss Scarlet and the Duke/Magpie Murders/Annika: PBS are currently showing this trifecta of British female-lead detective series

- East New York: about as close to the CSI/NCIS/Law & Order type show that I can tolerate

- Tales From the Territories: stories from pre-WWF wrestling, a much wilder time than today's "professional wrestling entertainment"

- Lucifer: my current choice of lightweight watchable show to binge on

- Documentary Now!: a deep and funny parody of documentaries, most of which I've never seen the original

- So Help Me Todd/Alaska Daily: a rare couple of new network shows that I am actually watching among all the detritus out there 

Great Scott!

It was released a while ago, but I finally managed to get hold of my latest Lego set (this one was right at the limit of necessity, since I'm surprisingly indifferent to this particular film series):

Windfall

I know it is somewhat unseemly to talk about money and income, but I have to mention this.  Yesterday my company published its third quarter earnings, and they beat the estimates.  So what happened today?  The share price only increased by nearly 13%.  And what does that mean for your humble narrator?  Well, I checked my stock account today and I noticed that my account had a little bit of a daily gain.  I don't want to give a specific number, but let's just say it was in the $50k to $100k range.  In one day.  Nice.  If I had any sense, I would probably sell some of my shares to capitalize on this unexpected windfall.  But no, I'm in it for the long haul so these daily ups and downs don't really mean much to me - though this is a particularly unusual and extreme and welcome up.   

Trench Warfare

Well, it's on.  I am officially at war.  With moles.  Again.  And I use the plural, because the devious sods have initiated a 2-prong attack.  A massive assault on the front of my house, accompanied by some minor skirmishes round the back.  I guess the recent, and long overdue, rainfall has caused this brazen and unwarranted assault.  And it appears they might succeed - I don't have any poison bait to fight back with, at least not yet.  So all I can do is flatten the huge molehills, and make an absolute mess of my lawn.  They clearly have the upper hand - it's that time of year when leaves and tree debris cover the ground, so I can't easily see where the next offensive will occur.  And we are under a wind advisory right now, so I expect a load more crap will come down tonight to cover their tracks.  They may have won this initial battle, but the war is far from over.       

TV Theme Tunes #1

It's time to change things up.  Nobody cares about my songs of the week, so I'm going to do TV theme tunes instead.  Predominantly memorable theme tunes from my childhood, though not necessarily from children's shows.  And I have to start with a classic.  But this particular version is special - because it includes some lines that were never actually used on TV.  If you've heard this theme tune as many times as I have, you'll pick up on this immediately.  Enjoy!

The Work Blues

I'm fed up with my job at the moment.  Fed up with being a pawn in some weird power struggle between my manager and another manager.  Fed up with not having much say in the direction my job is going in.  Fed up with having to engage in some crappy training course I don't want to do.  Fed up with the news I found out today that they're thinking about making Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday core days where we have to go into the office.  A ridiculous notion that I don't agree with at all - it's basically going to result in an overcrowded office on those days, and absolutely nobody there on Monday and Friday.  Even the appeal of free lunches at work has lost a lot of it's luster.  These are not good signs, I think I need to give a lot more thought as to how I want to live out my twilight years professionally.