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Dec. 30th, 2019 03:54 pmGoing
[TW: alcohol/verbal abuse?]
I got home yesterday from a week in Tennessee with my mom and her bf at the bf's new-ish anticipating-retirement house, same as last winter break. Also the same, I returned ambivalent about the experience: refreshed from the change of scenery and outdoor time in the warmer weather and lack of TV/internet and glad to have spent time with my mom, yet somewhat the worse for wear physically and emotionally, although I'll take this year's hot tub-related rash over last year's wood stove-related itchy eyes and sore throat. I don't like being around fighting family members, especially when there's nowhere else to go, and it continues to disturb me how he talks to her when he's frustrated or drinking; and I missed doing Hanukkah traditions more than I expected to.
Highlights: digging up our own pair of Christmas trees from the woods behind the house, one "real" one and one Charlie Brown-style wimpy one; eating fresh grilled beef and venison; sitting on the porch in short-sleeved shirts playing Scrabble and listening to the neighbor's roosters. We reviewed footage from their motion-activated camera and saw a bear and cub, a coyote and lots of deer; when we played one night with the bf's Xmas present, a pair of infrared binoculars, we saw a skunk on the front lawn. I wrote 400 words or so of miscellaneous fic. I'm trying not to fixate on the bad stuff.
Doing
After putting it off as long as I could, I ordered a new laptop. This post comes to you from it. Reason #1: It will run Windows 10 instead of the Windows 7 that will no longer be supported in about a month, even though I dislike Windows 10. Reason #2: With souped-up components, it's supposed to be able to handle Premiere and After Effects, which would allow me to replace my current, eight- or nine-year-old everyday laptop and vidding desktop with a single, portable machine. I need to see how well it runs within the 30-day return window. It would be nice if everything worked properly, not least because a replacement wouldn't come with a significant holiday discount. $$$
I do have half a Festivids draft. We'll be finishing that on the current/old computer, because we all know it's a bad idea to change programs etc. mid-vid.
Watching
What I actually wanted to tell you about is this Israeli/German movie I watched on Netflix last night while too travel-tired to do anything else, The Cakemaker/Der Kuchenmacher/האופה מברלין [The Baker from Berlin], because it could have been GREAT and instead a single story decision made it THE WORST.
Setup: A man from Israel, Oren, who comes to Berlin regularly on business, starts sleeping with a young bakery owner there, Thomas, whose cakes and cookies he has fallen for. ( Spoilers and infidelity )
[TW: alcohol/verbal abuse?]
I got home yesterday from a week in Tennessee with my mom and her bf at the bf's new-ish anticipating-retirement house, same as last winter break. Also the same, I returned ambivalent about the experience: refreshed from the change of scenery and outdoor time in the warmer weather and lack of TV/internet and glad to have spent time with my mom, yet somewhat the worse for wear physically and emotionally, although I'll take this year's hot tub-related rash over last year's wood stove-related itchy eyes and sore throat. I don't like being around fighting family members, especially when there's nowhere else to go, and it continues to disturb me how he talks to her when he's frustrated or drinking; and I missed doing Hanukkah traditions more than I expected to.
Highlights: digging up our own pair of Christmas trees from the woods behind the house, one "real" one and one Charlie Brown-style wimpy one; eating fresh grilled beef and venison; sitting on the porch in short-sleeved shirts playing Scrabble and listening to the neighbor's roosters. We reviewed footage from their motion-activated camera and saw a bear and cub, a coyote and lots of deer; when we played one night with the bf's Xmas present, a pair of infrared binoculars, we saw a skunk on the front lawn. I wrote 400 words or so of miscellaneous fic. I'm trying not to fixate on the bad stuff.
Doing
After putting it off as long as I could, I ordered a new laptop. This post comes to you from it. Reason #1: It will run Windows 10 instead of the Windows 7 that will no longer be supported in about a month, even though I dislike Windows 10. Reason #2: With souped-up components, it's supposed to be able to handle Premiere and After Effects, which would allow me to replace my current, eight- or nine-year-old everyday laptop and vidding desktop with a single, portable machine. I need to see how well it runs within the 30-day return window. It would be nice if everything worked properly, not least because a replacement wouldn't come with a significant holiday discount. $$$
I do have half a Festivids draft. We'll be finishing that on the current/old computer, because we all know it's a bad idea to change programs etc. mid-vid.
Watching
What I actually wanted to tell you about is this Israeli/German movie I watched on Netflix last night while too travel-tired to do anything else, The Cakemaker/Der Kuchenmacher/האופה מברלין [The Baker from Berlin], because it could have been GREAT and instead a single story decision made it THE WORST.
Setup: A man from Israel, Oren, who comes to Berlin regularly on business, starts sleeping with a young bakery owner there, Thomas, whose cakes and cookies he has fallen for. ( Spoilers and infidelity )
