u/rfw1979

You know, I thought I had this under control. I bought a 2 liter bottle of wine on Wednesday after I got off work, that I didn't begin to drink until late last night (Thursday). Because Thursdays and Fridays are my off days, and I try not to drink on my work days. And even on my off days I've done a good job of not drinking that much.

But I don't know what happened in the last 24 hours. I came to over an hour ago with "Ghostbusters" playing. Realized I over did it and I'm going to have to go back to sleep to get up and ready for work tomorrow at around 10 am. Immediately left for the corner gas station to get one more 4 pack of wine to get me through the rest of the night. Only to come back home and see that I had done this several times in the past 24 hours. I have gone through 3 of those 4 packs of wine, and was not even into my third and I didn't see it before I woke up. Panicked and went to get what now seems to be the 4th one.

I don't know how I got here. I have so much alcohol. I came back from the gas station to find that I have 3 bottles (drinks) left from my previous buy that I don't remember doing. And I'm going to finish watching "Ghostbusters", bc why not? I do not know what happened in the last 24 hours that got me here. When that demon gets ahold of you, it doesn't let go. I've been doing really well in getting this under control. Keeping it to just to my off days. But I don't know what the hell happened in the last 24 hours to lead me to this. I went to get another wine pack of 4, thinking I didn't have anything more. And I've got to go back to sleep in a few hours to get ready to go back to work tomorrow. And I came back home to find that I have 4 left from the last time I went there that I can't remember.

I have way too much alcohol to finish the night. There's no way I can drink it all before I officially go to sleep in 5 hours to get up and go back to work tomorrow. And be functioning. It's just I lost track of things and now I have more than I need or can handle before I have to go back to work tomorrow. But when that demon hits you, it's hard to shake off.

Proof that Pink originally came out as a Hip-hop artist. I know this wasn't her choice, and she broke out of it and became who she wanted to be. But Mad TV was all about making fun of things that you weren't supposed to make fun of. And the ridiculousness of making us believe this white woman was this Hip-hop star, Mad TV got and perfectly skewered in this. Along with it really being about Whitney Houston, which they were relentlessly hilarious about.

I got an email from Walmart asking me to take a survey about my recent purchase for a chance to win a $1000 gift card. I was like sure why not. I could use that gift card. And the survey asks about your experience and I just put the middle selection on every question just to get through it. Except one question asked on a scale of 0 to 10 how much would I recommend Walmart to someone else. I put 0. Then later got to a question that asked if I was an employee. I had to say yes, if I won and said no that would be bad. I submitted and instantly regretted it. I don't trust this company, what if this gets back to me somehow? And the emails will not stop coming, they want me to take more surveys and are kinda being aggressive about it when I don't respond.

It wasn't Blockbuster, it was local in my college town of Auburn, AL. It was called Premiere Video in 1999. Actually, Blockbuster wasn't much of a thing at that time in the south. It was here and there, but it was just among the other video rental places. But all the love it gets and how everyone talks about it, I get. Blockbuster is the face of that industry, that's just easy to reference. I've even heard podcasts about people who used to work there, and my experience was the same.

I grew up in the 80s on movies, went to the theater almost every weekend. What I didn't see in theaters I saw on VHS when rentals were extremely local. I lived in the rural south, just happened to live near a gas station that was the only gas station in a 20 mile radius. It had a rack of videos they would rent to you. And they called if you didn't return it. I got a job at this place in college at 20.

My interview went like this: the manager asked me what my top 5 movies were. This was a store that had the employee section of their top 5 favorites to get you to rent. I answered without hesitation, and in order. I can't remember what was my top 5 at that time. But number 1 has always been "Jurassic Park". But he was so impressed, not with just how quickly I responded and didn't have to think, but also of my movie selections. Got hired on the spot. The store was doing so well they opened up another location and I went there to be a "key holder". I could open and close.

I was also in charge of arranging the video wall getting ready for the new arrivals. That was my favorite part of the job. Reducing the previous popular movie from one full wall to half a wall. And then as the weeks progress that movie went from half a wall to 2 shelves to one shelf and so on. But the best part was that we got the new releases before they went on display for rental on Tuesdays. Had to look it up to make sure my memory was correct. Tuesdays were the days for new release movies on video. We would get them days before and take them and watch them before the general public. It was great. And I was there at the beginning of DVDs, because we started renting them out as well.

My worst memory is checking out these 2 white sorority chicks who were discussing just seeing "The Sixth Sense" and that Bruce Willis was dead the entire time. I hadn't seen it yet. They ruined it for me. When spoilers were in person and not online.

We were so slow that they had me go through my ULearns and one was a VR one that seemed to only be an ad for this thing Humankind they're promoting. Really? We're doing this now? And it be a VR one at that. Just send another useless promotion in the mail like they normally do. This is ridiculous we have to sit and do this stupid shit. And also the situation in the scenario is stupid, because he can't afford anything. Gee, I wonder why that is.

I've put this off for a few weeks, because I have feelings. This is my first rewatch of seasons 1-9 (I think). Whatever was on Netflix at the time of covid. It got me through the beginning of covid binge watching, but I was drunk at the time. So just remembered liking it and some plot points. Fast forward to January this year where I decided to watch it from beginning to end finally.

I don't binge shows anymore. I watch methodically, from one night to the next after I get off work. It helps to take at least a day off from any show, before going back in again in my opinion. So, this show took 7 months to finish. What a ride. And I didn't want it to end. That's why it's taken me so long to post this after I finished a couple of weeks ago. I understand the hate on some seasons. I get why some people say they lost interest. But who the fuck cares when you really get into these characters?

Frank was the be-all, and end-all of this show for me. Mainly because how can you hate William H. Macy? I mean, everything he does is golden. And this show would not work without him. He's the absolute worst human being. But, can't stop watching because of him. So the ending was very appropriate. It's what you wanted. I heard the spoilers, but with no context. And it did not spoil it for me. You can hate all you want about the ending, or even the last few seasons at all. This show served it until the final shot.

And now I feel empty.

P.S. Debbie is the worst in every way. I hate her more than any other TV character. And that's how much I love this show.

I got the boxed set that includes 2 soundtrack CDs, and this song is on the first one. You can look up the soundtrack on YouTube, it includes all the amazing songs featured in this show. It gets you into a mood when you put the playlist on. For some reason this song is not included on the YouTube playlists that I found. I don't know why, it's on the first CD "Everything Ends". But if you're a fan you need to hear it.

I liked this show for the diversity of the cast when it first came out without giving it much thought. But the lore to this show is very vague, but when I look it up online it's so dense it's hard to read. On this rewatch I'm just figuring out that the 12 colonies are 12 planets. And they're named after the zodiac signs. I really thought it was just one planet with 12 colonies on it. So with knowing there's more to the lore that the show just hints at, are we to believe all the different races of the cast are from different colonies/planets? Or am I over thinking it?

So if you follow the conspiracy threads you know that the number 33 is important for the elite, for some reason. I know vaguely it has to do with the Freemasons. I follow this stuff, but don't whole heartedly believe in it. I think the truth lies somewhere in between and that we'll never really know the truth. But it just came up twice for me in the media.

In the new Spider-Man movie, Jean Grey can only jump from person to person as long as they're 33 feet away. I kept thinking, why that very specific number? Especially when she's way more powerful than that, until you realize that she's just beginning to realize her powers. But why 33 feet? It bothered me.

At the same time I'm beginning to rewatch Battlestar Galactica. Which from my memory, leans very heavy into this stuff. I mean, it clearly is taking heavily from the Anunnaki story. Which also ties into the illuminati side of things. But there is a 3 hour movie before the series begins. And the first episode of the series is called "33". Because the Cylon's are jumping to their point every 33 minutes. Even in the show they are asking why 33 minutes, and never figured it out.

I tried posting something similar to this on the Battlestar Galactica subreddit, and got so much hate I had to delete it. I'm just asking an honest question from someone who knows about this stuff, but doesn't get to heavily into it. And the comments were nothing but hate. So I'm posting this here, in hopes someone else will see what I'm saying.

This is my history with this show, if you care. If not, please don't read and leave a hate comment. I had to sit here and do the math for my history and where it began. This show came out in 2001, when I was 22. Came out gay in Alabama in 1999, moved to Atlanta around the time this show came out. Over the next couple of years I kept hearing about this show on the radio, and vaguely through friends I think. Can't remember exactly. In Spring of 2003, around the time the 3rd season was beginning, I decided to order it through Netflix.

This was back when Netflix was just starting and you could order the DVDs of every season. Went through the first 2 seasons quickly, could not get over how much I loved it and what an impact it had on me. Couldn't wait to get the third season, but by the time the 4th season came out I was caught up and ready to go. There was never a bad episode, it was all just so great and so meaningful. I had a roommate at the time of the last season that was into it like me, but we didn't watch it together. But we made plans to watch the finale together. We sat there, at the end, watching it happen. Just completely breathless. Even after it ended and the credits rolled, we just sat there stunned unable to talk starting at the screen.

I made by mother get me the boxed set years later for Christmas, the one with the grass and plaque on top, still have it. I think I fully rewatched it once after getting it, can't remember. That was the late 2000s. I know I haven't fully rewatched since then. Tried a few years ago, but got distracted by life and took to long before I felt I needed too start over again. But just was never ready. Not ready until I could fully commit to go all the way through. And now I am, and at the end of the first season. And remembering why it's my favorite, and why I've been putting it off. There's a lot of feelings to be felt watching this show. I haven't been ready again until now.

I'll post later about my feelings about the show, as I just finished last night. I live in Atlanta, in the ghetto. On the west side of downtown. I went to see Spider-Man today on the east side with a friend who has lived there for over 10 years. And it's super gentrified now. We left the theater walking to a restaurant, and some guy ran into me and said "right side" as he ran past. He ran into me. And said it after the fact. Just like what happens to Mikey on the West Side in that episode. So yeah, I felt the rage that he felt. It's just nonsense at what's going on there, this is not how it used to be. Not quite like Shameless, but similar. Pissed me off just like Mickey. My friend had to calm me down.

If you want a spoiler free review look elsewhere. Which at this point, I'm not sure that matters anymore. Because all the spoilers you read online are true. This is what I hate about this culture, you can't enjoy anything for what it is. Yes Sadie Sink is Jean Grey and yes she's behaving that way because of the death of her sister. But why? Why introduce her this way in this movie?

I'm an X-Men fan, from the comics. I've been waiting for over 30 years for them to bring the true X-Men to the big screen. Not the Fox version, as great as it was at the time because that's the best we could get. The announcement years ago that Marvel and the MCU was going to bring the X-Men into the fold was big and it's been such a long drag as to what they're going to do and how they're going to deliver. And this movie is the supposed to be the beginning. But it just doesn't make sense.

Why Jean Grey in this movie? Her and Spider-Man don't have any real connections in the comics. And this is a very young Jean Grey. So they're going with an all new all young cast of he X-Men going forward. Her powers early on in the movie got me upset, because it didn't make any sense. Why can she only jump from one person to the next in the exact measurement of 33 feet? Unless you're a Freemason, or understand that symbology. Which I'm not going down that rabbit hole, or suggesting anything. But that's a specific number and very weird to me.

But that symbolgy ended there, as I'm trying to make sense of things. Those aren't how her powers work, and thankfully they addressed that and showed that she was just in the beginning of understanding her true powers. But to what end? There was no mention of mutants or anything. Where is this going? I thought this was a great movie in it's own right, but not to the saga that they're asking us up getting invested in. It just brought up more questions than it answered.

New poster here. This show was a guilty pleasure back in the day when you had TV, before streaming took over. It was never appointment TV, if it was on you couldn't help but stop flipping through channels and watch. And they were always back to back, so you would be watching for hours.

I forgot about this show because of streaming and not having cable TV anymore for over 10 years now. But over a year ago I got a Roku TV to watch my streaming shows. Not paying any attention to the "Live TV" option, for like 9 months. It's my own dumbass fault for not really exploring the TV. But also I was dumb to think that it meant Live TV as in right now like cable. And I don't have cable so didn't think it applied to me. And it's not at all what I thought it was. It's several hundred channels dedicated to one thing, streaming live. And one of them is "The First 48", streaming 24/7. And now I'm hooked again.

Why do I love this show so much? It makes no sense. It's the same story each time, it's always the obvious suspect, it's always in the same community. Except for a few very interesting cases, it's the same every episode. And I can't get enough. I put it on when I'm not watching my regular things. I will put it on for hours. It's my comfort blanket. I will wake up early, put it on, and fall back asleep. Is something wrong with me? Is this normal?

A lot of it has to do with my age and I've been in customer service my entire life, but these customers take the cake. It's hard to hide what I'm feeling in my face, I can't help it. This might be the stupidest incident to date after over a year doing this. A customer stops me to ask me how long a 6 ft cord is, and she's holding her hands out like she's measuring something. I say, "What do you mean? It's a 6 foot cord so it's 6 feet." And she was like yeah but how long is that, and kept measuring her hands out.

I'm a little confused, because I was having trouble believing the truth. This was a girl in her early 20s, nicely dressed and appearance, spoke well. None of this was making sense to me. She was buying a 6 ft cord to something in electronics and didn't know how long 6 feet were. She wouldn't say she didn't know, and I didn't trust myself to ask her in a normal way. She just kept moving her hands apart from each other as if I was going to say, "Yeah, right there is 6 feet". So I stopped her and told her "I'm 5'10", so that would mean..." and she said, "Oh OK, so a few feet above you." I was like yeah sure and walked off. Like how do you not know basic measurements?