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rain_gryphon) wrote2017-09-01 08:08 pm
rain_gryphon) wrote2017-09-01 08:08 pm
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So...
It's been twenty years since Princess Diana's death. That doesn't seem right. That feels like it happened in another lifetime.
Lewis Hamilton wrote a poem for her, which is sweet of him.
The two chief things that stuck in my mind from that time are that this was exactly in the middle of the "Princess Sally gets killed" arc in Sonic Comics, and that some had a hissy that Di's death got more attention than Mother Teresa's.
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I finally broke down and bought a new TV. It's one of the Samsung OLEDs with four-channel colour (they have a yellow channel, which makes more of a difference to colour fidelity than you'd really expect). It's a 32", which is to me a large TV, but is apparently at about the bottom end of the available sizes these days. It weighs a good four pounds, and is about two inches thick, which is astonishing to me. It comes sans feet, which is annoying, and which I didn't realize until unpacking it. I'll need to buy some. For the moment, it's on the floor, leaning against the old TV.
The old Philips soldiered on for 19 years. It still works, but I wanted an HD one to watch my various furry DVDs in full-screen. Erfy the Foxboy and I got that TV one night from K-Mart, when the old TV blew up, and it was only 45 minutes until South Park. We went down the road like bats out of hell in his tiny car, ran through the store with a pushcart and spent a good two minutes deciding what to buy. Getting the TV set, myself, and Erfy into the car was a challenge. I ended up in the backseat floor, with the TV on top of me. We got it home and set up with about two minutes to spare :)
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That was, IIRC, about a week or so before Flaster showed up, looking stunned, all muddy and dishevelled (I'm very sure he was close to, if not in, the tornado that we had - for the first few years, he was absolutely terrified of storms), wanting someone to feed and comfort him. I ran down to that same K-Mart, and bought some catkeeping supplies for him :)
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Good Lord - it's been almost two months since I posted here. I hadn't realized. Sorry if I worried anyone.
Edit: And the TV does come with feet after all. They were hidden inside the packing material. I just about carried them out to the dumpster.
And, in replacing the TV, I lose the flat six inch wide top of the old one which I'd been using for a knick-knack shelf. So it goes...
Lewis Hamilton wrote a poem for her, which is sweet of him.
The two chief things that stuck in my mind from that time are that this was exactly in the middle of the "Princess Sally gets killed" arc in Sonic Comics, and that some had a hissy that Di's death got more attention than Mother Teresa's.
*****
I finally broke down and bought a new TV. It's one of the Samsung OLEDs with four-channel colour (they have a yellow channel, which makes more of a difference to colour fidelity than you'd really expect). It's a 32", which is to me a large TV, but is apparently at about the bottom end of the available sizes these days. It weighs a good four pounds, and is about two inches thick, which is astonishing to me. It comes sans feet, which is annoying, and which I didn't realize until unpacking it. I'll need to buy some. For the moment, it's on the floor, leaning against the old TV.
The old Philips soldiered on for 19 years. It still works, but I wanted an HD one to watch my various furry DVDs in full-screen. Erfy the Foxboy and I got that TV one night from K-Mart, when the old TV blew up, and it was only 45 minutes until South Park. We went down the road like bats out of hell in his tiny car, ran through the store with a pushcart and spent a good two minutes deciding what to buy. Getting the TV set, myself, and Erfy into the car was a challenge. I ended up in the backseat floor, with the TV on top of me. We got it home and set up with about two minutes to spare :)
*****
That was, IIRC, about a week or so before Flaster showed up, looking stunned, all muddy and dishevelled (I'm very sure he was close to, if not in, the tornado that we had - for the first few years, he was absolutely terrified of storms), wanting someone to feed and comfort him. I ran down to that same K-Mart, and bought some catkeeping supplies for him :)
***
Good Lord - it's been almost two months since I posted here. I hadn't realized. Sorry if I worried anyone.
Edit: And the TV does come with feet after all. They were hidden inside the packing material. I just about carried them out to the dumpster.
And, in replacing the TV, I lose the flat six inch wide top of the old one which I'd been using for a knick-knack shelf. So it goes...
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I'm watching the U.S. play Costa Rica and we're losing 2-0. Tim Ream has been garbage today. DX
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I also miss that 'shelf' on top!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuIDtL6ydg
Admittedly a rather ghoulish observation: I remember watching Mother Teresa's cortege passing through the streets of Kolkata, and as the carriage rolled over a bumpy portion of road, her body pitched forward and back as she lay in her coffin, stiff as a board.