Little Boy - 715k yes - 775K - August 19

Each and every year you are bombarded with news and footage of floods all around the world and here i haven't seen a single one in this 21st century.
No earthquake,flood,Flash flood,cloudburst,drought,no mountains so no snow storm or avalanche or mud slide, no tornado or typhoon.
What a boring place this is. Still the most secure?
The only once that can bring some change is Climate Change and the the most probable one is Less rains, erratic rains causing severe drinkable water shortage and slowly turning the region dry.

Live Nation, the world's largest live entertainment promoter and ticket seller stated that the pandemic has cost it 98 percent of its revenue year over year. Live shows, from concerts to theater, have dried up. On the radio I heard a man state that his musician friends have no money to pay their bills. Most bar bands are independent contractor who depend on gig after gig to get paid. My state's restaurant association stated that more than half of the pre-epidemic bars and restaurants will permanently close because of health restrictions and shut downs.
Even major studios which have pushed back this summer's big releases to 2021 have decided the revenue drought has to stop. Disney will now stream the live action Mulan movie (for $30). Some big bands have started to stream their concerts on a pay-per-view basis.
It was once said that people liked going to movie theaters and concerts because it was a tribal or shared experience. I wonder with the shift of daily life to all-digital will limit in the future these shared experiences.

I find myself watching fewer kdramas recently than my long-term average, while I spend more time doomscrolling on news sites. Few drama writers know how to write really gripping drama as well as whichever gods hate us so much can do.

Also I'm re-reading the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series. Love his subtle humor.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

My father’s hernia appeared again, much worse than last December, and since mother and I are helpless without him, it has been a challenge to care for the godsiblings and the household and to mobilize ourselves without his crucial input. Last time the whole ordeal lasted until the lockdown started and affected my mental health, so I am of course worried history will repeat itself. One of my best friends and confidants might have cancer on top of many other life altering health issues and has decided to hermit until the biopsy results are out.😔 A part of me wants to reach out to her and others because this second wave with social contact limitation is much harder to bear that the first one, but I won’t because she wants to be left alone and I am exactly the same when dealing with stuff.

A silver lining to the isolation is that I spent last weekend finishing up a complicated job application file that had been bothering me and got an invitation to subscribe for another state job exam.🙂 The results from the other state job exams I took part in are delayed because of the pandemic, so I am still officially in the running for a few applications, hopefully until September arrives.

Maybe I should stay locked inside with my books, K-dramas and movies until then. We are at the beginning of a week-long heat wave around here, the perfect excuse for binging! ☀️☀️☀️

Looking for a new apartment in the midst of a pandemic is not easy. I want to go into apartments and get a feel for the space and ask questions and keep getting "heres a video tour!" A video tour doesnt tell me how loudly the neighbors walk or talk. A video tour doesnt let me test out water pressure or make sure my cellphone has bars in every room.
I was really hoping to be in a new space by Sept 1. All year long my dad has been CONVINCED that the corona virus was going to come back harder than ever (even though it never left) amd he was going to die. My plan was to move into a bigger apartment this month and if we do go back into shelter in place mode I would go pick him up so he wouldnt be quarantined alone. But now its not looking like its going to happen.
This past week Ive been bingeing the old sitcome Cheers as Ive never seen it all the way from beginning to end and ai just have to say: Diane Chambers is a total jerk. I dont get how Sam falls in love with her. Shes so arrogant and smug and condescending. I just watched the ep where single mom Carla announces that shes pregnant with her 5th kid. She knows that her ex husband is 100% not going to help her with the baby so she tries to pin it on a decent, hardworking guy who makes decent money. This is a completely gross thing to do. Buy at this point Diane is SUCH a jerk that I spent the entire ep yellingnat Diane to leave Carla alone.
I read somewhere that by the time Shelly Long left the series that she and the writers hated each other. I wonder why? I also read that the actress who was Newhart playing the rich, ditzy maid auditioned for the role of Diane but was passed over for Shelly Long. A few eps into season one she guest stars as a friendnof Dianes. I wonder if that was awkward for her?
Anyway. I hooe youre all doing well!

Recently, I introduced a friend to Asian dramas - and she's hooked. She asked me a question I couldn't answer, but maybe some of you know. "Do Koreans in real life scream at each other so much?"
Anyone...?

Hi Beanies! Hope you had a good week! This week was much better than last week in terms of productivity and my mood. Dramawise I haven't made much progress with CRASH LANDING ON YOU, HOSPITAL PLAYLIST AND WAS IT LOVE. However I did add a couple of dramas into the rotation:

IT'S OKAY TO NOT BE OKAY: This show is flawed and there are things I can seriously nitpick, but I really like it. I'm kinda sad it's ending this weekend, but I'm ready for it's conclusion. Oh Jung Se is just phenomenal and I didn't realize he was in WHEN THE CAMELLIA BLOOMS.

MY LOVE FROM ANOTHER STAR: Since I now understand people's love of Kim Soo Hyun, I decided to check this out. I'm about 6 or 7 episodes in and while there is something about it that doesn't flow for me, I am starting to get invested. I like seeing the relationship between the two leads grow and Jun Ji-Hyun's character is great.

Have a good week!

Hi everyone happy ŐŤ
So am watching a lot of dramas and there is so much more to see and dramaland is delivering full time
I̳T̳'̳S̳ ̳O̳K̳A̳Y̳ ̳T̳O̳ ̳N̳O̳T̳ ̳B̳E̳ ̳O̳K̳A̳Y̳ this drama has been a rollercoaster for me, I've enjoyed absolutely every scene of every episode.
BACKSTREET ROOKIE Everyone was concerned about the real life age different between the two leads. But even the show itself new what it was doing, as shown on their first encounter. Nevertheless, I love the show.
T̷E̷M̷P̷E̷R̷A̷T̷U̷R̷E̷ ̷O̷F̷ ̷L̷O̷V̷E̷ I never thought I'd enjoy it as much as I did, I'd picked up the show because of ʏᴀɴɢ ꜱᴇ ᴊᴏɴɢ

Anyone who is interested in some pearls from the world of writers?

There's one about Guy Maupassant. He used to go to cure himself to Brittany ( Bretagne) from alcoholism, not very good choice really - Britons are known as heavy drinkers who didn't considered wine, cider or beer as alcohol and he had considered locals for exceptionally savage people.

After french revolution they've decided to make France a big country with one nation and one language which is a very great idea but they've destroyed many treasures language and national identity wise. There are regions where they didn't speak french at all or mostly educated people or those who were merchants or worked for state spoke it. Even in the beginning of 20's century many Britons didn't speak french and were forced to speak french only.

When Mr. Maupassant came there he couldn't understand them and was complaining a lot in his correspondence about it. I can understand his point but his description of those people made me mad at him.

Pardon me while I continue to ramble and consider what is happening in current events.

I respect the ideals that my nation was founded on. I also am pretty cognizant of where those ideals and the founders fell short. I respect the documents that codify my nation’s governance, as well as the offices that were created to uphold those rights and laws. However, I do not have to agree or like, or even respect the individuals that others have inexplicably placed within those offices. I especially do not have to like or respect those in office who are doing everything they can to systematically dismantle the systems that were writ to protect and serve the people in my country, especially those who most need that protection. If I indulge in acts of protest, that is not an act of defiance against the ideals of my nation, it is in fact, an act that is embedded in the very fiber of what my country was founded on: Fighting against the grinding heel of tyranny to assert an equal and equitable right of freedom to live and pursue a path to happiness.

The tantrums of Karens, and the so-called leader of my country, are not protests for equality and freedoms, they are instead the results of those who are afraid that their place within society is being eroded, that they will no longer have the upper societal hand when the blinders of privilege and a long entrenched caste system is stripped away. It’s strangely fitting how the wearing of a mask has revealed the divide that was so long masked here.

thank god it's the weekend.

i've had such a stressful week. beanies, have you ever been in a situation where you're working in a group of people, deadlines are tight, and yet you seem to be the only person with a sense of urgency? I've got this project that's running all the way until october, and we were all told before it started that it's absolutely critical that everybody's working according to schedule, or else. ominous, I know. I suppose that's the reality of working one of those high pressure office jobs that we associate with unreasonable chaebols and flustered candies. well this week, I /was/ the candy with a pile of work and a bunch of unnecessary road blocks.

I find myself thinking, what did all the other candies before me do? I guess it's time to find a large bridge from which I can and yell into the void. (with my mask on, of course. please, everyone, be safe and stay healthy!)

have a great weekend everybody!