and summer is over...

[wraithfodder]

Well, okay, it's got two days left, or three, can't recall.

I actually got to a beach three times this summer - a record!! I'd love to do it every week but there are no free beaches here :( Sigh...

TV-wise, well, let's see. Nothing has caught me fannishly, like Stargate Atlantis. Virtually everything on SyFy is meh to me, although I do watch Z Nation due to its strange humor, but it's not a keeper, or must-see live TV. Waiting for NCIS to start up to see how Gibbs fares. I know he'll survive, of course, but it will be fun to watch his team angst all over the place. I like The Strain, Longmire (alas, it went to Netflix which I don't have so I hope it comes out on DVD), Person of Interest (probably it's last season), Oh, Elementary is fun to watch and I watch Hawaii Five-O occasionally and it never fails whenever I turn it on it's the same one. It's not the same since they blew up a nuclear weapon off the coast. I mean, that was 'jump the shark' big time...

Can't think of any of the new shows that scream 'watch me' but I suppose I'll check out a few. It's gotta catch me within two episodes or I'm gone. I'll check out the final CSI just for old time's sake.

Only caught poison ivy a few times this summer (yeah!) and didn't have to mow near as much due to the drought. Alas, there are some brown patches in lawn, which I came to realize are the result of the very cute but rather destructive bunny rabbits. Darn, they're so cute...

Will be going to New York Comic Con, despite all the hassle of getting tickets. Their servers suck (I think I whinged about this earlier) so the three-day ticket I had my hands on evaporated due to a crash and all I could get was a Friday. Then yesterday they announce they're selling  them at a comic store (only ONE store, in NYC, so all the other tri-state stores were left out in the cold). Lines formed at 3pm for a 10am opening. Despite hundreds if not a thousand fans showing up, they still have tickets left, which shows that NYCC apparently gave that comic store a ton of tickets that the rest of us poor souls were unable to buy online. Grrrrr.

And otherwise, wow, my life is boring. Can't think of much else but the job, house work (oh oh, I finally bit the bullet, got Johnson's Paste Wax, and it does about as good a job as Preen (discontinued for no good reason I could find) on the hardwood and tile floors, so I spent a few hours waxing today, and also waxed the car. Hopefully that's a portent of rain to come.

I need to downsize, so gotta figure out how to sell fannish collections, even if they're sellable.And VHS tapes, ha, I don't think anybody wants those anymore!

9/21 ADDITION: Oh yeah, I watch ZOO (okay), Under the Dome (about time it got axed, alas), Mr. Robot (which I find fascinating for the psychological stuff), and Whispers, which I liked, so I assume it got killed by ABC.

Comments

[suekay-87.livejournal.com]

I'm much the same with TV these days...was really into NCIS for a little while, but drifted away from it a bit. Nothing's ever gonna replace SGA for me!!

And you need to pay to go to beaches??

[monkey5s.livejournal.com]

For those VHS tapes, I would put a few up on eBay, for cheap, with regular shipping, just to see. And if nobody bites, well,.into the trash with 'em. I just know that there ARE people who still have old technology. You might make someone's day with your titles.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

You don't know anyone in New York who could go to that shop and buy a ticket for you? Or, don't know, call the shop over the phone or something? This sucks indeed. Attending conventions gets more and more complicated - and expensive.

I am afraid I will have to watch the new American Horrow Show season, just because I like Matt Bomer so much. I loved him in White Collar.

I've recently totally unexpectedly fallen in love with the original Star Trek series, bought tons of action figures and have lots of fun with them ;) Trying to catch up with almost 50 years of Trek in the past few weeks, plus everything one certain William Shatner has ever done in his life. Which is A LOT.

While I still love to watch and discuss new series like Arrow in real time when they come out, I must say that binge watching and concentrating on only one thing has its merits as well. Plus the occasional rewatch of old loved fandoms.

I also have chucked away my Stargate tapes now. Ebay is full of them nobody wants. So yeah, I don't think you'll have much luck there.

[jenn h (from livejournal.com)]

I saw the Twitter posts about the tickets on sale for NYCC. I thought that was ridiculous. Going on about the tickets available and that there were no lines for tickets. Seriously, if they had that many available for a comic book to sell that really makes me mad. They should have saved fewer for the store and left more for the online crowd. I'm almost considering going on Sunday just to participate in the NYCC staff panel so I can get on their case for that. Nothing else for Sunday excites me.

I actually tossed a slew of VHS tapes about a year ago. We still have a working VCR so I saved the rare and special (all my versions of Star Wars, the Indiana Jones trilogy, and a copy of the first episode of seaQuest DSV without the visual effects) and got rid of everything else. It was hard though. Some things I have copies of on DVD now but some I don't. But sometimes you just have to purge.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I haven't found anything that I'm fannish about, either. I do like Z Nation. The Zoo is also good.