less summer than previous

[jazzfish]

I survived the heat wave, thanks primarily to the cold robot (all hail the cold robot). I even survived having folks over for gaming on Saturday, which was pretty great actually. Turns out I can fit one table of gaming into Corvaric with minimal difficulty, but more than that will take some serious rearranging, cannot realistically be done while the cold robot is in place, and is probably not worth it. Ah well. Farewell to the hosting of John-Kerr-like twenty-person game days, at least for now.

I made one egregious error: on Sunday night when it was projected to get down to like seventeen or so overnight, I turned off the cold robot to save energy/$$$ and went to sleep. I did not, however, open the sliding door to the balcony. Result: heat from the hallway oozed its way into the condo, with nowhere to go. I woke up at two-thirty broiling and unable to get back to sleep. So Monday was a total write-off. I've recovered by now so mostly I'm annoyed that this is not even a new error: a couple of weeks ago I turned off the robot so it would be quieter for watching TV with Mya, and it got up to twenty-six in the condo before I realised.

Luckily Monday was a holiday, so I didn't even have to pretend to be functional for work. I spent the day binging on Person Of Interest, a show from the 2010s that I believe laurel pointed me at a few years ago. The central gimmick is that a reclusive programmer created a surveillance-gathering program for the NSA that can identify terrorist threats before they happen. It can also identify other violent crimes but the NSA won't do anything about those. So he and his pet Rogue CIA Agent hang out in New York City trying to prevent these predicted crimes. It lacks the character and relationship depth of Elementary or even of Leverage, and especially for the first few episodes is very much thriller-of-the-week. But it's building a larger plot, or rather several larger plots, and I'm enjoying the way those narratives are being woven in & woven together. Will probably keep watching.

Working from work today. I resent the commute, but it's good for me to be in an office setting on occasion. Keeps me focused a bit better. (He says, while writing a journal entry on his Ipad.) Tonight I'll see a couple of films noir at the Cinematheque, including Sunset Boulevard, about which I know nothing other than "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr Demille!". It's good to be back doing city-type things and not just hiding out in my own space.

Comments

[sartorias]

I remember liking the first year or so of Person of Interest.

Sounds like Fun Was Had. Except for the heat.

[jazzfish]

Oh interesting! Did you stop liking it, or just drift away?

[sartorias]

I lost interest when the delight, wit, and mystery went out of it, so to speak, in favor of more big bads and violence. (Considered better answers, but everything was too spoilery.)

[snippy]

Laurel is the reason I found so many shows that I love, and PoI is one of them. I have watched it all the way through at least 3 times.

[carbonel]

It's always interesting when people I know from different venues turn out to know each other. Do you know Laurel from DW/LJ? I've known her from the Minneapolis science fiction community roughly forever.

(I think I first met you at Farthing Party; does that sound right?)

[jazzfish]

Yeah, I met Laurel on DW sometime in the last, um, fiveish years, I guess. It's odd, there are people on DW/LJ who I've known for ages and who I know exactly how I randomly met, and then there's a handful who I picked up sometime in the last decade (Laurel, Delight, a couple of others) who I couldn't tell you how our paths first crossed if my life depended on it.

(And yes, we met at the last Farthing party! And may have interacted in person at one or two Scintillations, though I wouldn't swear to it.)