19 degrees this morning, 22 mph wind wind chill of 3 degrees, 36:59 minutes walking Two earthquakes
Cut walk short due to wind and temperature. Actually not too bad, the part I skipped is the REALLY windy part that I feel. (The houses etc. block the wind in the other areas.) I could have used some “hot hands” today going to look for them. The next three months are the worst of the year.
I need to get back to bicycle riding (not in this wind, but on more normal days). I need to re-equip it with some good lights. Previously (here) I rode in the daylight. After I started my job, my scheduled was a problem, but I can work around it now, but I will need to ride in the dark.
The ice storm never really materialized (except for New Year Day morning in another part of the city), thank goodness.
I need to double check my entry to make sure I put in 2015 instead of 2014. It is taking me a while. I am still getting used to putting “20” instead of “19”.
The other day I started to take a test that was going to forecast my age range. However I flunked completely when the test asked me what TV show I liked most (or something similar) and I hadn’t watched or even really heard of any of them. (There were several cartoon shows, (the Simpsons?) and one about a bar (I think), maybe “family life” or something like that.) I guess I had heard of them, I just had no idea what they were about.
I watch “Jeopardy” and some news shows, some sports, but that is about it besides music. I do watch CNBC, especially Jim Cramer. (I do watch “Downton Abbey”, which maybe could be considered a series of a sorts).
However the questionnaire didn’t ask me about that!
The last TV “series” show I actually watched was “Hill Street Blues”, which may be more of an indication of my age than anything! I still would like to watch it again sometime. I really identified with the Captain, who went from trivial personal matters to matters of life or death in a second.
He also had to deal with some of the “tricksters” who somehow managed to get hired in all professions, the outright crooks and the really dedicated persons, who thank goodness, I have found are the largest part of the population!
Overall, Police Officers have to love the profession to deal with all they have to deal with and still do a good job. Most of them I have known love the profession and are dedicated to it.
Anyway, I really liked the show and haven’t really watched any such show or series since. For a period, I want through a phase where I rarely watched TV (including sports or news) and didn’t have cable tv.
I didn’t miss it at the time, but about 20 years ago, I got cable tv again and enjoy the the shows I do watch. We actually tape 99% of the tv shows we watch (including sports, we just avoid hearing the scores.)
It works for us anyway.
I actually try to avoid quizzes like that (estimate your age etc.) because I figure they probably are trying to do it so they can direct ads to you at best, or torment you with e-mails or steal your identity.
Of course, it works both ways, one time I wanted to take a survey (I don’t recall what about) and I answered honestly about my gender and age.
They advised me the “survey was closed” so I went to another browser and said I was a 24 year old female, and of course, was immediately invited to take the survey.
(I don’t make a practice of doing that, I wouldn’t waste the time, it was just a test to see if what I suspected was true.)
That’s it for now, Sunday, January 4, 2015.
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