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abacomike

I took a chance Friday and began watching a Netflix series called “Ozark” starring Jason Bateman for lack of a better TV option.  Once I got into it, I completed watching the entire 2-year’s worth of episodes yesterday.  I just couldn’t stop watching.

This is a continuing series which has been renewed.  Without giving it all away, it’s about a financial advisor who gets caught up in a Mexican Drug Cartel money laundering operation and how it affects/changes him and his wife and son and daughter.  I couldn’t keep count of the bodies.

It’s part action, drama, suspense and...!  Try it - you’ll like it! 

abacomike

This entire Labor Day weekend has been totally rained out.  Constant thunder storms, street flooding and torrential rain.

I was invited onboard a 65 foot yacht for this morning but got a call early canceling due to marine warnings of heavy seas.  The yacht is owned by a dear and close family friend who moors it in Sebastian (just south of Melbourne).  He was down here looking at a home that’s for sale on Star Island located in the middle of Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach.  Many Sports Stars, actors and recording artists own homes on that island - prices range from 4 to 35 million dollars depending on whether the house and lot have an adjacent pier and anchorage on the bay.

So much for a 48 hour cruise to the Bahamas.  We were going to sleep on board. There were 12 guests invited.  

iluvmysephia1

abacomike said:

I took a chance Friday and began watching a Netflix series called “Ozark” starring Jason Bateman for lack of a better TV option.  Once I got into it, I completed watching the entire 2-year’s worth of episodes yesterday.  I just couldn’t stop watching.

This is a continuing series which has been renewed.  Without giving it all away, it’s about a financial advisor who gets caught up in a Mexican Drug Cartel money laundering operation and how it affects/changes him and his wife and son and daughter.  I couldn’t keep count of the bodies.

It’s part action, drama, suspense and...!  Try it - you’ll like it! 

Thanks for the tip, abacomike! We just had DirecTV (we're repeat customers) installed yesterday mainly to get a free year of NFL Sunday Ticket. That opens up many new and different viewing opportunities for us.

henryn

iluvmysephia1 said:

Thanks for the tip, abacomike! We just had DirecTV (we're repeat customers) installed yesterday mainly to get a free year of NFL Sunday Ticket. That opens up many new and different viewing opportunities for us.

Mike ( @abacomike) was talking about a series on Netflix, nothing to do with DirecTV. And Mike, I have had that experience before with binge watching a series on Netflix. The most recent was "Stranger Things", a great show if you've never watched it.

andres3 said:

No, this is a receiver I was using just fine for 3.5 years, and all of a sudden, the digital circuits when haywire.

I've isolated it to the digital processing.

Onkyo home theater receivers have a known problem with the "hmdi board". No sound will pass through any of the hdmi inputs until the receiver warms up. My Onkyo was several years old when it developed this problem. I have adapted (for the moment) by letting the receiver stay on continuously (volume all the way down).

The fix for the Onkyo costs $280 out of warranty. I've been looking on Craigslist for an alternate solution.



I have been called OCD by some people, but realistically, there are often workaround, everything doesn’t have to be perfect all of the time.

On my Kubota ZTR mower the charging circuit has stopped working. Not an easy fix, involves pulling the engine. I have discovered that I can use the mower for around 2 months at a time (around 45 minutes per week) before I need to charge the battery.

driver100

abacomike said:

I took a chance Friday and began watching a Netflix series called “Ozark” starring Jason Bateman for lack of a better TV option.  Once I got into it, I completed watching the entire 2-year’s worth of episodes yesterday.  I just couldn’t stop watching.

This is a continuing series which has been renewed.  Without giving it all away, it’s about a financial advisor who gets caught up in a Mexican Drug Cartel money laundering operation and how it affects/changes him and his wife and son and daughter.  I couldn’t keep count of the bodies.

It’s part action, drama, suspense and...!  Try it - you’ll like it! 

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Did you watch "Suits"? Everyone I know of who has seen it loves it....even people who don't usually watch lawyer stuff.

Mr_Shiftright

isellhondas said:

dino001 said:

So now we're into taxing wealth? That's where rational discussion ends.

Yes, and socialism begins....want some?

abacomike said:

This entire Labor Day weekend has been totally rained out.  Constant thunder storms, street flooding and torrential rain.

I was invited onboard a 65 foot yacht for this morning but got a call early canceling due to marine warnings of heavy seas.  The yacht is owned by a dear and close family friend who moors it in Sebastian (just south of Melbourne).  He was down here looking at a home that’s for sale on Star Island located in the middle of Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach.  Many Sports Stars, actors and recording artists own homes on that island - prices range from 4 to 35 million dollars depending on whether the house and lot have an adjacent pier and anchorage on the bay.

So much for a 48 hour cruise to the Bahamas.  We were going to sleep on board. There were 12 guests invited.  

It wasn't the SS Minnow, was it?

henryn

Mr_Shiftright said:

isellhondas said:

dino001 said:

So now we're into taxing wealth? That's where rational discussion ends.

Yes, and socialism begins....want some?

abacomike said:

This entire Labor Day weekend has been totally rained out.  Constant thunder storms, street flooding and torrential rain.

I was invited onboard a 65 foot yacht for this morning but got a call early canceling due to marine warnings of heavy seas.  The yacht is owned by a dear and close family friend who moors it in Sebastian (just south of Melbourne).  He was down here looking at a home that’s for sale on Star Island located in the middle of Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach.  Many Sports Stars, actors and recording artists own homes on that island - prices range from 4 to 35 million dollars depending on whether the house and lot have an adjacent pier and anchorage on the bay.

So much for a 48 hour cruise to the Bahamas.  We were going to sleep on board. There were 12 guests invited.  

It wasn't the SS Minnow, was it?

If you remember the SS Minnow, you're too old!

ab348

driver100 said:

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Likewise. That seems the case for many/most of these cable channel and online scripted series nowadays. People seem to have an unlimited appetite for blood, gore, violence and misery. I don't get it.

I haven't seen it myself, but a friend is absolutely ga-ga over the series "Billions".

bwia

So there was a BIG reason for the Edmunds sign-up change. This morning I received a sales promotion email from Edmunds with suggestions for Labor Day vehicle purchases; two SUVs, two sedans and two trucks with savings of 30% off.

It was inevitable, the opportunity to monetize our participation in these forums was too tempting to overlook. Alas, there are no more sacred cows.

driver100

Bwia....did you think the forums were done as a public service?

It is like when I am watching the U.S. Open tennis match, and my wife says, why do they have to show these commercials. And, I try to explain, well you see, if it wasn't for the commercials....we wouldn't be watching the tennis.

suydam

Sending you emails is going a bit far in my book. I got one too.

tjc78

I get at least 100 SPAM emails a day on my personal email account .... just another one to delete.  

Heck even my work account gets some because I’ve had to buy things for the office on commercial websites. 

carnaught

suydam said:

Sending you emails is going a bit far in my book. I got one too.

But, don’t overlook the reduction in our dues we got to offset that

carnaught

If you remember the SS Minnow, you're too old!

I resemble that!

28firefighter

Maybe I’m in the minority here but I feel like I get way more out of this community than I put in and the lights have to be kept on somehow. 

 If that means Edmunds sends me an email periodically, then so be it. Doesn’t bother me in the least. 

tjc78

28firefighter said:

Maybe I’m in the minority here but I feel like I get way more out of this community than I put in and the lights have to be kept on somehow. 

 If that means Edmunds sends me an email periodically, then so be it. Doesn’t bother me in the least. 

+1 

jmonroe

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Likewise. That seems the case for many/most of these cable channel and online scripted series nowadays. People seem to have an unlimited appetite for blood, gore, violence and misery. I don't get it.

I haven't seen it myself, but a friend is absolutely ga-ga over the series "Billions".

You left out cars jumping over other cars and sometimes school buses and yet they continue to out run the car that is chasing it or it is gaining on the car it is chasing. Way too much fairy tale stuff for me. And if you go to the movies to see these flicks, once you are turned off and don't want to be insulted anymore, it's way too loud to fall asleep and people wonder why I watch black and white reruns of Perry Mason on MeTV. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a show on the major networks and just about everything I watch today is put on the DVR first, so I don't have to watch commercials, even the nightly news.

This has to be an age thing because I used to like going to the movies but then again I don't remember them trying to insult me very much. Even when watching the 007, Matt Helm and the In Like Flint movies.

jmonroe

jmonroe

suydam said:

Sending you emails is going a bit far in my book. I got one too.

I just checked my email and I haven't received one of these emails from Edmunds. Maybe that is because I checked the do not disturb box. In any case nothing so far. But I am curious about those that have received these promotional emails from Edmunds. Did you guys have to eat your cookies, clear your browsers a time or two or even gone in the back door (incognito) before it launched?

Just curious.

jmonroe

stickguy

you can also turn off some of the notifications. But like others, I am just used to the ad emails at this point, and skim through occasionally and just send them to the trash.

if you are particularly annoyed, you can set up rules to send emails from specific email addresses straight to the spam folder, never to be seen.

tjc78

I’m sitting by the pool at our hotel and started browsing the old Stories from the .... thread.  

Wow, some good stuff in there.   Went back to around 2006... a lot of the posters are still here.  

jmonroe

28firefighter said:

Maybe I’m in the minority here but I feel like I get way more out of this community than I put in and the lights have to be kept on somehow. 

 If that means Edmunds sends me an email periodically, then so be it. Doesn’t bother me in the least. 

I agree with you and that is why I'm still here. But I have to wonder what else is lurking out there?

jmonroe

jmonroe

tjc78 said:

I’m sitting by the pool at our hotel and started browsing the old Stories from the .... thread.  

Wow, some good stuff in there.   Went back to around 2006... a lot of the posters are still here.  

Must be a boring day at the pool. Nobody almost drown or what.

jmonroe

28firefighter

jmonroe said:

Maybe I’m in the minority here but I feel like I get way more out of this community than I put in and the lights have to be kept on somehow. 

 If that means Edmunds sends me an email periodically, then so be it. Doesn’t bother me in the least. 

I agree with you and that is why I'm still here. But I have to wonder what else is lurking out there? jmonroe

Jeff Goldblum. 

tjc78

jmonroe said:

I’m sitting by the pool at our hotel and started browsing the old Stories from the .... thread.  

Wow, some good stuff in there.   Went back to around 2006... a lot of the posters are still here.  

Must be a boring day at the pool. Nobody almost drown or what. jmonroe

Ha ha ... relaxing day.  Kids are being good splashing around!

jmonroe

tjc78 said:

jmonroe said:

tjc78 said:

I’m sitting by the pool at our hotel and started browsing the old Stories from the .... thread.  

Wow, some good stuff in there.   Went back to around 2006... a lot of the posters are still here.  

Must be a boring day at the pool. Nobody almost drown or what.

jmonroe

Ha ha ... relaxing day.  Kids are being good splashing around!

I know what you mean, those are the best of times. I'm a little jealous. I even got a second chance with my 5 grandkids but now they're even too old for that stuff.

Enjoy it while it lasts, take lots of pics.

jmonroe

suydam

jmonroe said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Likewise. That seems the case for many/most of these cable channel and online scripted series nowadays. People seem to have an unlimited appetite for blood, gore, violence and misery. I don't get it.

I haven't seen it myself, but a friend is absolutely ga-ga over the series "Billions".

This has to be an age thing because I used to like going to the movies but then again I don't remember them trying to insult me very much. Even when watching the 007, Matt Helm and the In Like Flint movies.

jmonroe

Yep. You’re old.

imidazol97

abacomike said:

So much for a 48 hour cruise to the Bahamas.  We were going to sleep on board. There were 12 guests invited.  

I hope you intended to send us live reports as you traveled in luxury. Did it have internet for WiFi?

ab348

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in. 

iluvmysephia1

henryn said:

Thanks for the tip, labacomike! We just had DirecTV (we're repeat customers) installed yesterday mainly to get a free year of NFL Sunday Ticket. That opens up many new and different viewing opportunities for us.

Mike ( @abacomike) was talking about a series on Netflix, nothing to do with DirecTV. And Mike, I have had that experience before with binge watching a series on Netflix. The most recent was "Stranger Things", a great show if you've never watched it.

No, this is a receiver I was using just fine for 3.5 years, and all of a sudden, the digital circuits when haywire. I've isolated it to the digital processing.

Onkyo home theater receivers have a known problem with the "hmdi board". No sound will pass through any of the hdmi inputs until the receiver warms up. My Onkyo was several years old when it developed this problem. I have adapted (for the moment) by letting the receiver stay on continuously (volume all the way down). The fix for the Onkyo costs $280 out of warranty. I've been looking on Craigslist for an alternate solution. I have been called OCD by some people, but realistically, there are often workaround, everything doesn’t have to be perfect all of the time. On my Kubota ZTR mower the charging circuit has stopped working. Not an easy fix, involves pulling the engine. I have discovered that I can use the mower for around 2 months at a time (around 45 minutes per week) before I need to charge the battery.

henryn - no, I understand what abacomike was talking about, a new series on Netflix. I was merely stating that the series he's talking about may become available to us soon as we scramble up our TV and entertainment availabilities here at the home. It's change-up time.

T'would be a great time ta buy a new or new-to-us rig, too, eh!

tjc78

ab348 said:

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in. 

That’s a crime!!!!

Mr_Shiftright

henryn said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

isellhondas said:

dino001 said:

So now we're into taxing wealth? That's where rational discussion ends.

Yes, and socialism begins....want some?

abacomike said:

This entire Labor Day weekend has been totally rained out.  Constant thunder storms, street flooding and torrential rain.

I was invited onboard a 65 foot yacht for this morning but got a call early canceling due to marine warnings of heavy seas.  The yacht is owned by a dear and close family friend who moors it in Sebastian (just south of Melbourne).  He was down here looking at a home that’s for sale on Star Island located in the middle of Biscayne Bay between Miami and Miami Beach.  Many Sports Stars, actors and recording artists own homes on that island - prices range from 4 to 35 million dollars depending on whether the house and lot have an adjacent pier and anchorage on the bay.

So much for a 48 hour cruise to the Bahamas.  We were going to sleep on board. There were 12 guests invited.  

It wasn't the SS Minnow, was it?

If you remember the SS Minnow, you're too old!

Oh c'mon---strangers meeting on a cabin cruiser, a storm off the coast of Florida--it's a perfect scenario. Anyway Mike remembers even if you were an embryo then.

jmonroe1

ab348 said:

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in. 

Maybe it's a trade-out.

jmonroe

driver100

jmonroe said:

suydam said:

Sending you emails is going a bit far in my book. I got one too.

I just checked my email and I haven't received one of these emails from Edmunds. Maybe that is because I checked the do not disturb box. In any case nothing so far. But I am curious about those that have received these promotional emails from Edmunds. Did you guys have to eat your cookies, clear your browsers a time or two or even gone in the back door (incognito) before it launched?

Just curious.

jmonroe

Probably jmonroe1 gets all the emails

jmonroe

driver100 said:

jmonroe said:

suydam said:

Sending you emails is going a bit far in my book. I got one too.

I just checked my email and I haven't received one of these emails from Edmunds. Maybe that is because I checked the do not disturb box. In any case nothing so far. But I am curious about those that have received these promotional emails from Edmunds. Did you guys have to eat your cookies, clear your browsers a time or two or even gone in the back door (incognito) before it launched?

Just curious.

jmonroe

Probably jmonroe1 gets all the emails

Impossible, I closed his account.

jmonroe

driver100

jmonroe said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Likewise. That seems the case for many/most of these cable channel and online scripted series nowadays. People seem to have an unlimited appetite for blood, gore, violence and misery. I don't get it.

I haven't seen it myself, but a friend is absolutely ga-ga over the series "Billions".

You left out cars jumping over other cars and sometimes school buses and yet they continue to out run the car that is chasing it or it is gaining on the car it is chasing. Way too much fairy tale stuff for me. And if you go to the movies to see these flicks, once you are turned off and don't want to be insulted anymore, it's way too loud to fall asleep and people wonder why I watch black and white reruns of Perry Mason on MeTV. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a show on the major networks and just about everything I watch today is put on the DVR first, so I don't have to watch commercials, even the nightly news.

This has to be an age thing because I used to like going to the movies but then again I don't remember them trying to insult me very much. Even when watching the 007, Matt Helm and the In Like Flint movies.

jmonroe

What you got there, a Motorola works in a drawer?

I like old Parry Mason's too. And I like Murder She Wrote but Jessica's relatives are all getting knocked off....I think she must be the killer.

There is some fantastic stuff on Netflix, but, car chases, shoot em ups, digital readouts on bombs going off - doesn't do it for me anymore. Has to have real people in possible situations, and have some cleverness to it. SUITS has it, especially the cleverness.

fintail

So who moved there from FL, NJ, or NY?

ab348 said:

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in

berri

If you remember the SS Minnow, you're too old!

Heck, I remember Maynard G. Krebs on Dobie Gillis back from the beatnik era

berri

Did you buy that LaCrosse with the vinyl roof off of Mordy Seinfeld? Less ostentatious than the Cadillac and might have gotten him back on the Boca Vista Condo HOA board

imidazol97

I had an abaco experience at the local post office. I dropped in a couple of bills and was going to get stamps out of the self-service mailing machine. I had noticed a man who walked out as I parked had carried out a small tripod like device. I thought, Hmmmm, odd that he's bring out things. Usually people take them in, use a box, tape or stick it closed and ship it.

He came back into the small lobby with a rifle case. I looked and was debating running for the door. I had unlocked the car with my remote.

Usually people don't go postal with only another customer in the post office however. He laid the case down and started unzipping it. He said something to the effect of would it bother you if I opened it and took a rifle out?

I noticed there _was_ a rifle inside! I was ready at this point for Depends...

He explained he weighed his competition rifle on the post office scale. The rifle has be under a certain weight. I suggested he should just go ahead on the scale where I needed to use the computer to purchase stamps. I'd buy stamps some other day or other week! and I headed for the door. I didn't even get to check our box for mail.

As I left he was trying to figure out how to stand the rifle on the 12 in x 12 in square scale plate.

Little old ladies pinching tomatoes in the grocery aren't nearly as scary.

driver100

ab348 said:

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in. 

NICE!

Would be the perfect car......in Florida!

driver100

imidazol97 said:

I had an abaco experience at the local post office. I dropped in a couple of bills and was going to get stamps out of the self-service mailing machine. I had noticed a man who walked out as I parked had carried out a small tripod like device. I thought, Hmmmm, odd that he's bring out things. Usually people take them in, use a box, tape or stick it closed and ship it.

He came back into the small lobby with a rifle case. I looked and was debating running for the door. I had unlocked the car with my remote.

Usually people don't go postal with only another customer in the post office however. He laid the case down and started unzipping it. He said something to the effect of would it bother you if I opened it and took a rifle out?

I noticed there _was_ a rifle inside! I was ready at this point for Depends...

He explained he weighed his competition rifle on the post office scale. The rifle has be under a certain weight. I suggested he should just go ahead on the scale where I needed to use the computer to purchase stamps. I'd buy stamps some other day or other week! and I headed for the door. I didn't even get to check our box for mail.

As I left he was trying to figure out how to stand the rifle on the 12 in x 12 in square scale plate.

Little old ladies pinching tomatoes in the grocery aren't nearly as scary.

I'll watch the news tonight to see if he did anything.

Toronto is having a bad year for murders this year....almost 90 so far. Chicago, slightly smaller has almost 900.

roadburner

tjc78 said:

I’m sitting by the pool at our hotel and started browsing the old Stories from the .... thread.  

Wow, some good stuff in there.   Went back to around 2006... a lot of the posters are still here.  

And the egregious imbeciles have departed.
Thankfully.

bwia

ab348 said:

Saw this lovely Lacrosse parked on a dealer lot today. Hope it isn’t a trade-in. 

That's a cute looking car. Debating whether this design is more attractive than the current one.

jmonroe1

driver100 said:

imidazol97 said:

I had an abaco experience at the local post office. I dropped in a couple of bills and was going to get stamps out of the self-service mailing machine. I had noticed a man who walked out as I parked had carried out a small tripod like device. I thought, Hmmmm, odd that he's bring out things. Usually people take them in, use a box, tape or stick it closed and ship it.

He came back into the small lobby with a rifle case. I looked and was debating running for the door. I had unlocked the car with my remote.

Usually people don't go postal with only another customer in the post office however. He laid the case down and started unzipping it. He said something to the effect of would it bother you if I opened it and took a rifle out?

I noticed there _was_ a rifle inside! I was ready at this point for Depends...

He explained he weighed his competition rifle on the post office scale. The rifle has be under a certain weight. I suggested he should just go ahead on the scale where I needed to use the computer to purchase stamps. I'd buy stamps some other day or other week! and I headed for the door. I didn't even get to check our box for mail.

As I left he was trying to figure out how to stand the rifle on the 12 in x 12 in square scale plate.

Little old ladies pinching tomatoes in the grocery aren't nearly as scary.

I'll watch the news tonight to see if he did anything.

Toronto is having a bad year for murders this year....almost 90 so far. Chicago, slightly smaller has almost 900.

Geezers, 900 !! Is there anyone still standing in that town? Has anyone heard from @Snake lately?

jmonroe

abacomike

imidazol97 said:

I had an abaco experience at the local post office. I dropped in a couple of bills and was going to get stamps out of the self-service mailing machine. I had noticed a man who walked out as I parked had carried out a small tripod like device. I thought, Hmmmm, odd that he's bring out things. Usually people take them in, use a box, tape or stick it closed and ship it. He came back into the small lobby with a rifle case. I looked and was debating running for the door. I had unlocked the car with my remote. Usually people don't go postal with only another customer in the post office however. He laid the case down and started unzipping it. He said something to the effect of would it bother you if I opened it and took a rifle out? I noticed there _was_ a rifle inside! I was ready at this point for Depends... He explained he weighed his competition rifle on the post office scale. The rifle has be under a certain weight. I suggested he should just go ahead on the scale where I needed to use the computer to purchase stamps. I'd buy stamps some other day or other week! and I headed for the door. I didn't even get to check our box for mail. As I left he was trying to figure out how to stand the rifle on the 12 in x 12 in square scale plate. Little old ladies pinching tomatoes in the grocery aren't nearly as scary.

See - crazy things happen all the time, especially if you’re at the right place at the right time.  The fun stuff happens if you stick around long enough to wind up engaged directly with the “abaco” phenomenon.  Most people flee those scenarios - but not the original abacomike - he dives in head first. 

ab348

jmonroe said:

You left out cars jumping over other cars and sometimes school buses and yet they continue to out run the car that is chasing it or it is gaining on the car it is chasing. Way too much fairy tale stuff for me. And if you go to the movies to see these flicks, once you are turned off and don't want to be insulted anymore, it's way too loud to fall asleep and people wonder why I watch black and white reruns of Perry Mason on MeTV. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a show on the major networks and just about everything I watch today is put on the DVR first, so I don't have to watch commercials, even the nightly news.

This has to be an age thing because I used to like going to the movies but then again I don't remember them trying to insult me very much. Even when watching the 007, Matt Helm and the In Like Flint movies.

jmonroe

I haven't gone to a movie in 20 years and don't expect that to change. What's interesting to me is to watch the promos from movies that cost big bucks to produce and disappeared without a trace, when I go into my DVR and watch a TV show that originally aired 2 or 3 years ago and see ads that aired when they premiered. The studios obviously spent many 10s of millions on these turkeys and the ads for them promised all sorts of thrills but the movie was an utter failure. Hard to determine why because it seems a majority of them all rely on the same formula of CGI special effects and cartoon-like characters instead of well-written scripts. Yet some make money and some flop. To me that is the biggest change in the movie business, the decline of writing and character-driven plots in exchange for increasingly complex special effects and visual stimulation. It has zero appeal to me.

iluvmysephia1

That's exactly why the Mrs., our son and I are all so hooked on the series 'Longmire'. Great script and story, acting, adventure, intrigue, romance, and, what's more, it's filmed in beautiful New Mexico!

abacomike

jmonroe said:

Maybe I’m in the minority here but I feel like I get way more out of this community than I put in and the lights have to be kept on somehow. 

 If that means Edmunds sends me an email periodically, then so be it. Doesn’t bother me in the least. 

I agree with you and that is why I'm still here. But I have to wonder what else is lurking out there? jmonroe

Good for you, jmonroe.  Magnanimity has now been added to your myriad of talents and attributes.  “Call Me Impressed!” 

abacomike

Just got a call from my cleaning lady - yes she works all holidays except for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  It’s so bad out with rain and surface flooding that she canceled my appointment for later this morning.  Some kind of tropical storm across the peninsula is dumping torrents of rain on us.

So, I won’t have to straighten up my condo until tomorrow.  I always “clean” the place up so she doesn’t think I am living in a pig sty! 

abacomike

driver100 said:

I had Ozark on my list....a friend who knows every program recommended it. But, when you said "I couldn’t keep count of the bodies" I lost interest.

Likewise. That seems the case for many/most of these cable channel and online scripted series nowadays. People seem to have an unlimited appetite for blood, gore, violence and misery. I don't get it. I haven't seen it myself, but a friend is absolutely ga-ga over the series "Billions".

You left out cars jumping over other cars and sometimes school buses and yet they continue to out run the car that is chasing it or it is gaining on the car it is chasing. Way too much fairy tale stuff for me. And if you go to the movies to see these flicks, once you are turned off and don't want to be insulted anymore, it's way too loud to fall asleep and people wonder why I watch black and white reruns of Perry Mason on MeTV. I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a show on the major networks and just about everything I watch today is put on the DVR first, so I don't have to watch commercials, even the nightly news. This has to be an age thing because I used to like going to the movies but then again I don't remember them trying to insult me very much. Even when watching the 007, Matt Helm and the In Like Flint movies. jmonroe

What you got there, a Motorola works in a drawer? I like old Parry Mason's too. And I like Murder She Wrote but Jessica's relatives are all getting knocked off....I think she must be the killer. There is some fantastic stuff on Netflix, but, car chases, shoot em ups, digital readouts on bombs going off - doesn't do it for me anymore. Has to have real people in possible situations, and have some cleverness to it. SUITS has it, especially the cleverness.

I’ve been watching “Suits” for many years now.  I stopped watching the series because it has gotten very boring compared to a couple of years ago.