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Another adventure in home ownership. It's the coldest week so far this winter so naturally my electricity failed. Only in about half of the house. I still had hot water, kitchen stove and internet. The bedroom was dark and I had to move the frig to the other side of the room. It happened after I plugged a space heater in a socket, which was asking too much of it.

So I had to call somebody, a stranger had to come to my home and I had to talk about it on the telephone. I worked myself up to it after feeding the birds, retrieving the trash bin from the sidewalk, taking a shower. Usual delaying tactics. I was told somebody would be here Friday afternoon. Ok. I took off my 'meeting people clothes' and got into my robe, which is warmer. Five minutes later I see the company's car in my driveway. It turns out the owner just stopped by to check out the problem.

He was here about 4 minutes. Just did something at the electric panel and everything was on the way it should be. Now I had turned the main off and on, as I believe he did. But nothing changed. So now I look like an idiot or maybe just a confused old person.

But I'm back in the bedroom watching tv, so all's well. Electricity hates me.

Back from the 6 month eye dr visit. Yeah, glaucoma still there, come back in July. Dilated eyes,dilated the hell out of my eyes. Very cautious drive home. The visit seems so far away, and then it's here.

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

I owe fandom for my creativity, such as it is. I wouldn't have written the stories I have without the inspiration of the characters on the screen. Most of my stuff are moments that could have happened offscreen when characters interacted.

And icons! I have absolutely no artistic ability so making icons was a joy to me. I made art, not just had appreciation of talent.

Snowflake Challenge #2

Challenge #2: Pets of Fandom

Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want

I have two cats. In the last place I lived I fed the strays everyday. In the summer I had an open window and some of the cats came inside when they wanted. It was open house! I took these two to the vet, spayed/neutered, chipped. They were mine now.

The female surprised me. I thought she was a kitten and I could only tell her from the other gray small cat because of the rings on her tail. But the vet said she was about three. Now she's a little bigger and kinda chubby.

They get along and groom each other but are ready to start a John Wick type fight at any moment. They both really, really want to go outside and I have to go in and out by the back door because I can close the laundry room door before I open the back one.
Thwarted.

Fanwise, I get upset at Dr Who because they kill animals too often, like the dinosaurs. And that cat in the last Dr incarnation.

So it's Friday and seems like Monday, so I'll be confused for a few days. Tomorrow's Saturday, right? I'll be reassuring myself several times, I'm sure.

I was going to stream some movies on Christmas but I never got around to it. Insomnia, slept the morning away, made bread 'cause I was out. And…it was too late and I was tired.

I saw two wren-like birds taking baths in rain puddles today. Cute. I put seeds and sunflower seeds in the backyard. I notice the squirrels hog the sunflowers. Everybody's gotta eat.

The fire alarm started beeping on Christmas night. I'd already had my holiday bourbon and soda so climbing up to disengage it was…ha, ha, fun.

The tree people came today and whisked away the tree. Therein lies the tale.

Months ago the mobile park management agreed to spring for the cost of removing the dead tree in my backyard. The manager told me it would be a while til it happened, but that was good because the birds still might have had nests in it. Well, time passed and at the end of Oct I asked so, tree coming down soon?

The manager said, we have to wait until the tree company can fit us in. ??? Sort of, we await their pleasure. That's not how it works…. We're the customers, we make an appointment when they have an opening. We have a date for the work.

So time passes, nothing happens. Yesterday, I wake up to…Tree people. One comes to my door to tell me that they're cutting some branches that are too close to my house. I mention the dead tree. He's never heard of it. He messages the Park manager and then told me 'we'd probably do it in January'. Okie-dok.

Here's what ticked me off. Today, they started trimming my neighbor's too tall tree. I talked to her after the manager knew about my tree, and she sort of mentioned, oh maybe I'll talk to the tree people about mine. She obviously talked to management and hers was put on the schedule and mine was a surprise to tree people.

Then they tell me they have permission to take tree down.

Anyway, tree is gone and will not fall against my house as the roots weaken.

As you know, Bob, I bought some solar Christmas decorations (they look like colored light bulbs on silver sticks) to put outside. I put them in the backgarden to watch if they worked. Nothing happened and I thought, well, Dollar Tree. What I didn't realize until later, much later, was that there was a small cardboard tab that had to be pulled to activate the solar. When I made that discovery I thought, yes, that makes sense. They have to be activated..

I've put them out front and they're as cute as a bug in a rug. Only it's mostly rain and clouds here so they don't gather much solar and don't last late into the night. But I'm decorated for Christmas. And a couple don't work because I've broken them somehow.

These questions by heartovmidnight for Friday Five.

1. What's your favourite TV network?
The one I watch most is Youtube. And ID or other true crime shows.

2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?
Cozy British murder mysteries or crime shows with actors I like. And I have a weakness for sitcoms.

3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?
Not as a child but I would like more Firefly.

4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?
I don't see the appeal of most reality shows, but to each his own.

5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?
I have a bookcase full of show dvds; I don't buy streaming. I'd buy The Mandalorian.

I changed my Medicare provider. Because the last plan was going up $100 a month. Let's hope I haven't made a mistake. I did a comparison of plans but these things confuse me.

I couldn't sleep last night and was listening to a Miss Marple story on Youtube. It's easier to catch flaws in writing by listening rather than reading. Reading I'm just rushing along; listening I have to go by someone else's pace.

Two people are concerned that there's something rotten happening at a dairy. Either could have gone to the police with worries about fraud to get things cleared up quickly. Instead the plot spins around to include:
Three or four sets of account books
12 hand engraved milk bottles
A cryptogram
Blackmail
Disappearing milk bottles
Disappearing people
A mother throwing suspicion on her son so as to throw suspicion away from him
Murder

I couldn't even understand the fraud. Look, if it's a tax scheme you're doing, the business books should show the lower prices charged, fake invoices, less profit, less tax. The other set of books show high prices you charge, more money for you. Here, the business books show the high prices. You own the dairy, it's not a fraud, you have a milk monopoly. You're just price gouging.



Also, in this very quiet village there's a dairy with thumping great machines going at all hours and nobody cares. I don't think that's realistic.

It was 4AM and as I said, easily confused.