Don't you just hate it when your watching a show and the dubbing is off. How the hell do you screw that up when you record it?
It's worth it. You get to move to a new house! Excitement! Thrills! Packing! Unpacking! Unpacking only just enough to get by, because you're tired and frustrated with the moving and all! Unpacking some more later when you find you need something you haven't unpacked yet! Unpacking still more when you find something you forgot you owned and decide to mount over the fireplace! Rearranging stuff you unpacked that you only now realize you don't need and should have thrown out! Wondering when garbage day is! Arranging internet, TV, landline phone service, gas, etc.! Filling bookshelves! Rearranging books alphabetically by author! Rearranging books by subject! Rearranging books again by spine color so they look nice! Wishing you'd just bought the Kindle editions instead so you wouldn't have to rearrange them! Meeting the neighbors! Finding out the dishwasher doesn't work right! Establishing close personal relationships with a plumber! Finding a place to park on the street because your new garage is full of still-packed boxes! Unpacking to make room for car in the garage! Sigh.
It's the last week of my vacation and I caught a cold. Yay me. Also, my camping trip to Sweden got cancelled (yet again) because the friend I wanted to go with had to move to a new apartment.
The typhoon knocked out my cable TV, wired internet, and blew out the pilot light on my hot water heater. Judging by the serial-numbered seals on the last one, it's not something meant to be handled by the renter, which means a call to the laziest landlord on earth. Strange to say this, but good thing the weather is still hot, this could take days.
Alack, no. I am, however, inspired to have my MC find a 30yr old brick-phone, that rings when he picks it up. Just have to work out the tech details...
That's brilliant. Technicalities shouldn't be too difficult. Just have to make sure it's a model that can operate on a cell tower frequency still in use today. And the battery might be an issue, but not insurmountable. Might be better if it's off when he finds it, then hang a lantern when he turns it on and it still has a bit of charge. Then once it's on, it rings...
Hmm. There was an urban legend that a maintenance crew reported ghostly ringing phones in a rail tunnel. They later discovered a working payphone bricked into a wall. So, maybe it was on a charger plugged into an outlet that cycled so the battery didn't deteriorate. Seeker can manipulate any electronics, so that makes the absent analog system a fun little wtf moment. The real fun is when he says hello, and Seeker says, "Hello, Truman. I have been watching you."
The problem here is that the masts no longer transmit on those frequencies, so unless Seeker can physically install a new mast there is no way for it to transmit on analogue frequencies. There's also the question of why it would go to this trouble. If it can manipulate any electronics, why not just make the character's own phone ring? An old phone ringing is a cool idea, but there are quite a few technical issues with this and there's also the question of why it needs to happen at all.
Yeah, the idea is to establish that Seeker controls any electronics at a fundamental level, especially pre-smartphone. It will be important later when, as you say, cellular infrastructure is unavailable. Since you inspired the thought, I'll show you how the mechanics of that works. PM me if you're interested.
It's things like that that make me laugh when I imagine a deist "Watchmaker" god poking its head in to see how the experiment is running.
This was totally me, minus the redneckerry, amplified by far more stupid, and at night. Think Gump and Lt. Dan.
So my old smartphone has a cracked screen and the keypad wouldn't respond and it was wasting me a lot of time. I get a new one on Sunday, and tonight I finally activated it. And it's full of bloatware I have to get rid of and I need to rearrange the screen the way I like it and apply new wallpaper to the log-in and home screens . . . and it's wasting me a lot of time. And it's so hot in my study I can hardly think. If it gets much worse, I'll have to turn the AC on for the first time in forever. Oh, yeah. And I can't remember my Facebook password to log on on the new phone. I had to change it a few months ago when I got hacked, and I forget what the new one is. My devices just remembered it for me . . . EDIT: Now it gets really strange. I asked to change the PW, got the code, and did it. But it logged me in as someone named Bobbi! Who the dickens is Bobbi? Apparently someone who opened a Facebook account in 2015 and hasn't touched it since. Tried again, they thought I was Bobbi again! Tried a different email address and this time I'm fine. But why did that other email address of mine result in that???
Why do I always stay up the latest when I have volunteering the next day? It's 5:37 in the morning, FFS.
Sorry, the decision has been made. You are Bobbi now. I'll PM Wrey to ask for your username to be changed. You can expect paperwork reflecting your new identity to arrive forthwith. Good luck in your new life.
This is why I couldn't live in the US. I'd actually have to talk to people and know their names and stop for small talk when I see them. Also, we moved to our new place like 1.5 years ago and our sauna is still serving as storage space for unpacked boxes.
