This and That

or The Post in Which I Remember the Strikethrough

Time for another check-in. In summary, the more things change, the more they remain the same. As some parts of Maryland are slowly opening up, the part I live in is in lockdown until the cows come home at least another couple of weeks. It makes sense because in some rural parts of the state there are only a few cases, while the metropolitan area where I live has the highest concentration of cases and deaths, as well as climbing numbers of new cases and hospitalizations. I'm okay with staying put and continuing to go crazy at home teleworking for a little while longer. While I really want to have more freedom, I want it without worry. And that's not going to happen for some time. 

So what have we been up to? We're adding some new shows to our usual TV watching of old reruns. Actually what I mean is that we've become obsessed interested in the show The Good Place. A friend recommended it and I was able to find the first two seasons in the library before it closed. While I wouldn't exactly call it binge watching, we went through the first two seasons rather quickly. We tried to go more slowly and savor the show, but there were just too many plot twists and turns to not keep going. And then all at once there were no more DVD's to watch and I was on a frantic methodical search to find season three. 

We finally signed up for Netflix where we watched season three and it won't cost us anything IF we remember to cancel before thirty days is up. Now we're facing the biggest problem of all inconvenience of not being able to watch season four until maybe November when the whole season will be released. We can see the last few episodes which are still available in reruns, but doing that without watching the beginning of the season would ruin everything be anticlimactic. I guess we will survive find some other fun things to watch. Any recommendations?

Until next time...

Note: A few things about The Good Place. The basic premise for the show is fairly simple in that there is either The Good Place or The Bad Place you go to when you die. There are complications to this with some mistaken identities that drive the plot for the series. However, while the premise of the show may be simple, the actual details are not. If you think you might be interested in the show, start from the beginning. If you pick it up in the middle, it will seem very stupid confusing. 

BTW, Blogger is driving me crazy bothersome. Somehow I got updated to a new version and I'm having problems inserting pictures into this post. Thus, no pictures this time.