The fun comes when you need to flush the toilet. Believe it or not, after a couple of days of no water a wee while back, I invested in a plastic garbage can with a tight-fitting lid, and when the water came back, I filled it. I put a bit of bleach into the can to keep algae at bay. It sits out back, for those 'just in case' toilet flushing moments that I'm sure we'll get, eventually. I also keep a couple of plastic 5-litre bottles of clean water for washing, and about 5 large glass jars of clean water for drinking. (These are good, because you can put them in the fridge.) I am PREPARED. The toilet flushing thing got really bad before the pipes were fixed, and it's a situation I never want to repeat.
That moment when you wonder if @hirundine is British with a flashlight or an American practitioner of the Black Arts.
I actually like the show. It's over-the-top ridiculous with some of its plot twists, and they keep coming at such a fast pace they leave my head spinning, but there is far less bitching and annoying interpersonal drama of the romantic kind than e.g. in The Walking Dead (I survived almost to the end of season 2, then I wanted to be eaten by the walkers myself). Something horrible happens to Gemma in Season 2, and it was handled so well I was actually blown away.
TMW you are writing a spin-off of your General Mystery (involving Kevin McKinley) starring a ten-year-old boy who gets himself into a mystery of his own, and Chapter Two opens up with him drafting a brief email to one of the major (female) characters from the General Mystery (both that and this story takes place in the same town, at the same time) and suddenly, you find that you wrote this: Hmm... EDIT: To be clear, the reason he's trying to email Kim, a college-aged student, is because #1- he found a copy of her email lying on the table at the bar, and #2- he thinks they can help his family with a threatening letter they got claiming they're out to kill his adopted little brother.
I just lost it with the incessant Scheherazading of the story, and (what I found to be) the utterly unbelievable abilities of the gang. Spoiler: Season 1 Spoilers, wait, did I watch Season 2 also? Ok, so your gang is charged with serious, heavy duty assault and weapons violations, but you somehow manage to not only swing bail, but sneak out of the USA, into Ireland, commit a couple of murders that no one notices, and then sneak back? This is not getting a cookie from the kitchen after midnight when your mom's sent you to be without supper, good day sirs, I wish you well.
Yes, I agree, those bits were so implausible. I was like, really, this is how it works in America?! Wow.
TMW you're sick (wicked throat infection) but you laid in bed all yesterday (yes, man-sick style) and now you're restless and don't want to lay in bed and do this back and forth jig between the fridge and the bed.
TMW you lock yourself out on the deck at 2am and contemplate whether it'd be more dangerous to wake up the wife or jump 10 feet down into the snow....
That moment when you'd rather doodle a little skeleton army than write an in-depth breakdown of Cormac McCarthy novel to film adaptations, but then you remember you're getting paid $500 to write it.
The focus is on why No Country was successful while All the Pretty Horses and The Road pretty much spectacularly flopped as adaptations.
I really liked No Country and There Will be Blood, but I was going through a 'the plot is that the plot isn't whats important' phase.