I thought this might be funny enough. Maybe there's an app for this, or on a particular smart phone...

Just set my alarm for Tues breakfast at my alp.
(I go back to sleep after brkfst)

It happens to be pancakes.🥰😄🥰

I'd love when needed to have a programmable speaking alarm so like:
"Get up! It's Pancake Breakfast Day!"
"Get up! It's Pancake Breakfast Day!"

😄 🥞 👍

What Hobbies did you have as a kid? What did you keep on doing? New ones started later on?

Hopefully this'll bring back fun memories.👍

Probably coloring books with Crayola Crayons might have been my first. 🖍 😄
Then drawing at home after we did it in school.
Definitely a reader for life!
Acrylic painting in my teens through early 20's. May try some again.

In my early-mid teens I started doing bead-weaving on a hand made shoe box loom.
Got somewhat fancy w it.

Some years later changing over to bead stringing with glass, brass, semi-precious stones, sometimes sterling silver beads, and later water pearls! I made this one gorgeous bracelet in my 40's with fancy SS beads, labradorite, and ?glass beads. Lost it years later. : (

But in my 30's the bead stringing got too expensive for what I wanted.
I invented my own often unique wire jewelry w, w/o beads. Used brass, and sterling silver.
Still making this stuff like 37 yrs later! Though bc of low income changed to plated sterting silver. Rings, ear cuffs, pendants, bangles! 🥰😄
I made some very pretty, and unique necklaces, too!

I learned some of the non-loom bead weaving, but didn't do too much. Might have to try it for a few pieces again bc I still have some seed beads, and these gorgeous "peacock" colored ?bugel beads (tubes).

Finally, in my late 40's I finally learned to knit after 2 previous failed 😄🙄😄attempts! I got inspired by these women at the Green Market in Brooklyn who sold their yarn, finished pieces, and kits. Oh, they had such lovely colorways! I bought their sampler card just to have them.
.Then in my early 50's I learned to crochet inspired by the Crochet Reef Project.

I still do those, but always been on the slower side. Afraid to go too fast, and mess my hand up for drawing. I don't have the patience for big projects. Once I made a 10" x 5 ft solid knit scarf early on in the excitement of learning.

The one medium big project I would like to do again having had to throw away the original is big Cowl! About 19" high, and 30" inches around using 3 strands of chunky yarn together. It was a Lion Brand project. It was very cool! 😄🧡
I truly salute anyone doing sweaters, tops, afghans, blankets!

.Actually, the newest thing is doing digital art first on my tablet 6+ yrs ago, but even better a fantastic phone app! I got a stylus from a cousin just recently. Doing this steadily for over 2 years.
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So - what fun have you had? Even your "tribulations" in learning.
Wood working? Yarn craft? Pottery? Sewing? Furniture making? Weaving? Cooking? Drawing & painting? Jeweling making?
Etc!

Macy's Fireworks 2025: A touch of subersiveness...

Hi, NYC'r here. 👋

So visiting my sister this evening, she had DVR'd them for me.

We think there was some subversion there.
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters" - gospel style no less!
"What's Going On" newer version of Marvin Gaye's '60s hit (referring Civil Rights, maybe Anti-Vietnam War).

And she told me the Black & Hispanic singer for "God Bless America" is openly lesbian.

So Quest Love (who picked the music) got some digs in. 👍

The fireworks themselves were really extra great adding The Brooklyn Bridge fireworks were fabulous!

Oooh, saw a trailer for "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir (The Martian). Loved the book...

Wild phenomenon. Unique alien meeting up!
Hopefully will be good. 👍

Buttons that say: Don't Blame Me I Voted For Her...

Leaving it just like that could imply Kamala and Hillary.

Or add in smaller type:
2016/2024

Don't forget Assisted Living Places/Facilities. Plus Dem Strategies........

.MIne is SS/Medicaid/State funded.

So my place may close sometime in '26.. I don't know what some of my nicest neighbors m here situations are. I dread a "emergency meeting" here at some point in the future.

Since my sister (only sib) is a NYC liberal, and pays some to a lot attention to politics depending... I can imagine her calling me up .."What does this mean for you ". And me bursting into tears.

She only has a 1 bedroom apt, so no place for me. And meds? Lose some, all? Three of five most cocerning, other two I could ween off. Might be able to pay for some.

Go to a Women's shelter?

I sure fucking hope The Dems get out there and start roaring about what's down the road BEFORE this Nov '25 Elections that might change some results this year.

In turn that result might fuel more fire to a Blue Tsunami in the '26 Elections. Make major changes, reverse it all, and have enough 60 Votes to override drumphf's certain veto!

I happen to have a vivid imagination, which is great for art m-making!
Not so good for Worrying!

Meanwhile, I'm going to try to mostly compartmentalize my nasty to worst case scenarios (I'm sure there will sone crying jags), and enjoy what I have, can/now; family, friends, art-making, crafting, nice weather & nature, other people's art, and crafts, [kitten vids 😄👍 ], music(!), my city, etc.

Good Luck to all of us potentially affected primarily, and secondaries, etc!

If we can, sonehow, Fight back!!!!!

Your favorite Science Fiction shows, movies...Drama, comedy, sone w with some horror element...

Yes, I do a of rewatches, but also look for new (or new to me) stuff.

I just saw on Hulu that they currently have Independence Day (seen that plenty of times. And poor NYC gets walloped once again! [Poor us]). Going to watch again, and I love the the soundtrack!

Just thought of the horror aspect in terms of Wayward Pines which I also just saw is on Hulu. It's got zombie like mutated humans, but the set up, and unfolding plot are really good. Imho.

I love Fringe! It occasionally has a horror aspect in certain physical effects that sometimes happen. But great long arcs, all kinds of twists and turns, humor, really good acting (if you're a John Noble fan he's sooo good, but they all do a fine job).

Person of Interest. Michael Emerson from LOST (Ben). Taraji P Henson. Amy Acker Other very good acting. Yeah, Jim Cavezil, but I think it was before he went totally Christian hawker. They try to fight crime so there's that but who is the prep, and who is the victim.
The science fiction aspect relates to super computers (very interesting) and slowly ratches up in S1, then it starts to take off!

Babylon 5 Great aliens w Major societies. Cool human command cast. It's an Earth Station but the treatment by the creator [who eventually wrote ?90% of 5 seasons] was presented to whichever studio (?Paramount) before Deep Space 9 was conceived (controversy).

Since I mentioned DS9, original Trekker. I enjoy them all - old and newer. My favs over all are Enterprise, Voyager, and Strange New Worlds.
Movie-wise: The Motion Picture, Voyage Home, Undiscovered Country, First Contact, Enterprise.

Love the Jurassic Patk/World Movies! Yes, I had dinos as a kid! The bigger set: Bronto was about 10" long, T-Rex about "6 inches high. All pale light green. And I had tiny about 1 inch ones.

I guess that's about it Yawn it's late. 😄

Please share your favorites! 🙂👍
🎞 📺 💾 📡 🔎🦕🚀 🛸 ♾️

Quick shout outs to Alien Nation (TV show), V, Interstellar, Contact, and Foribbiden Planet.!

Oh, and being a "Cold War baby" my favorite "Atomic Bomb Monster" movie was The Giant Behemoth.

Funny Interstellar meme.
Visual in a library about 10 stacks deep - you know that bc there's a whole empty shelf in the same place in each stack so you see it going back, and back.

Text went something like "I went to the library, and found myself in Interstellar!"

I'm glad it was a nuetral speech. I didn't want to hear his BS, like at Ft Bragg..

My Local WNYC/NPR Political Morning Host Brian Lehrer has covered Rep Nadler, & L.A. protests (w a law professor) Any...

America Diverted: The Loss of Sen. Robert F Kennedy... June 5, 6 1968...

For our younger DU'rs 50yrs old or younger in particular. I'm sure some of you are familiar with this.

Sen Kennedy was considered tough. He was involved in Joe McCarthy 's hearings (HUAC - House of Unamerican Activities); earlier on.
Later he served as Attorney General of the USA under his brother's JFK administration.

According to a biography he was actually a gentle, and empathetic child. But his father hated that. So he toughened himself. Even by playing football.

But after his brother's assassination something began to change. It actually might have started reemerging earlier on while going around the country on President Kennedy's behest.
Poignant photos, story of him in the Mississippi Delta trying to interact w a listless, hungry child. Deeply upsetting experience for him.

At some point he had a meeting with well know Black writers, actors, activists. They really laid down the issues to him. [This was a documentary drama I saw on TV]

He stayed on as AG for a while after LBJ became President. Eventually , he keft, and later he ran, and won the Senate seat for NYS.

So he announced he was running for President which upset the followers of Eugene McCarthy the Peace candidate. He visited and campaigned in Black neighborhoods, in some Native American areas, met up with Ceasar Chavez's farm workers, met with white working class people, had famous people supporting him.

I can remember my mom who'd probably listened to or watched some of the ( and hated) Joseph McCarthy Anti-Communist hearings that ran roughshod over many innocent people; saying to me after now listening to Bobby campaigning. The empathy he now brought forth. "He's changed", she emphatically said to me. I was only 15.

While I later on I wasn't completely assured about his public, and private partnering he proposed instead of just FDR type programs... the empathy he brought, the spanning of disparate groups togther was powerful.

And I'm sure he would have gotten a schooling from feminist groups (I consider myself a feminist, so that would have been something further on).

But he could have brought so much to America if he had become President. Or been around even if not. Or maybe had won in 1972.

If you've never seen footage, or the actual film of his funeral train from NYC to DC you'd see all the various people lining the route who had hope kindles in them by his words, and actions.

Still I was devastated, as many were. Still brings sadness on this anniversary.

I truly believe we were diverted from a better America now, because of losing him back then.