1. Started to watch an episode of Home and Away.
2. Relieved to see that Leah (Ada Nicodemou) has finally made the choice to get the aneurysm surgery.
I have sympathy for her fear of the surgery, and I think people have the right to make choices about their medical treatment.
BUT...I think waiting for a aneurism to maybe burst is very nerve-wracking.
3. Thought that there are probably a lot of people who are ticking time bombs. Many of them probably don't know about it which is both a blessing and a curse.
If you know about a condition, you can sometimes take steps to protect yourself. But sometimes the steps are difficult, and people don't have the perseverance. Or sometimes, like Leah, a person has to undergo frightening surgery.
If you don't know about a condition that's going to kill you, or almost kill you, you can be blissfully ignorant.
Well, it will be blissful until the shits the fan. Then you and your loved ones, or JUST your loved ones, are not going to be very blissful anymore.
4. Saw Zac (Charlie Clausen) being very selfish.
Leah tells him there are thing she wants to take care of before the surgery.
Zac is dismissive about her worries. He has the attitude of, it's going to be fine. No worries.
I really hate when people act like that towards someone with a medical condition. Do they REALLY think they're doing anyone a favor by giving false and/or dishonest reassurances?
Anyway, then Zac takes things a step further by telling Leah they don't have to talk about it. It's almost like he's presenting it as a favor to her. At least he could be honest about his selfishness and say, I don't want to talk about it. Instead he acts like he's relieving Leah of the burden to talk about it.
If Leah didn't want to talk about it, then she wouldn't have brought it up.
5. Started watching another episode of Home and Away.
6. Annoyed to see Andy (Tai Hara) and Hannah (Cassie Howarth) together.
I forgot that they undid their break-up.
7. Liked Matt's (Alec Snow) sense of humor. I think, joke-wise, he's my favorite on the show.
In the episode I'm watching today, he apologizes to Leah for causing her stress. She replies in a loving supportive way but does ask him not to rob anymore ATM machines. Matt says he won't have to, since he's now scratched that off his bucket list.
I think that's cute.
Then when Nate (Kyle Pryor) and Kat (Pia Miller) insist on being there for Matt during his court appointment, he requests that they refrain from heckling.
I know it's not funny when I write it down. I think it rarely works when people try to describe or explain comedy they've seen elsewhere. It's just I didn't want to say I think Matt was funny without having evidence to back me up. In my school days, I learned that was a no no.
Anyway, I like that Matt can bring light to serious situations. He doesn't do it in an annoyingly avoidant way as some people tend to do. He still takes things seriously. But then he makes a joke or two to help release the tension.
8. Bewildered by what the neurosurgeon (Luke Pegler) says about the aneurysm surgery. He says they don't go through the skull. They go through an artery in the groin.
Did I hear him correctly?
It seems to me that our groins are pretty far from our brains.
Medical stuff amazes me sometimes.
9. Looked at a medical website.
I didn't mishear the doctor.
There really is an aneurysm surgery where they go through the groin.
10. Learned from the website that if an aneurysm is very small, it doesn't need to be treated right away.
I guess this is when they take a watch and see kind of approach.
11. Looked at a website about endovascular coiling, the surgery Leah is planning to get.
There's a lot of scary risks listed, but the website doesn't list how common they are.
The list includes stroke, paralysis of half the body, loss of ability to speak, and rupture of the unruptured aneurysm.
I don't blame Leah for initially not wanting to have the surgery.
2. Relieved to see that Leah (Ada Nicodemou) has finally made the choice to get the aneurysm surgery.
I have sympathy for her fear of the surgery, and I think people have the right to make choices about their medical treatment.
BUT...I think waiting for a aneurism to maybe burst is very nerve-wracking.
3. Thought that there are probably a lot of people who are ticking time bombs. Many of them probably don't know about it which is both a blessing and a curse.
If you know about a condition, you can sometimes take steps to protect yourself. But sometimes the steps are difficult, and people don't have the perseverance. Or sometimes, like Leah, a person has to undergo frightening surgery.
If you don't know about a condition that's going to kill you, or almost kill you, you can be blissfully ignorant.
Well, it will be blissful until the shits the fan. Then you and your loved ones, or JUST your loved ones, are not going to be very blissful anymore.
4. Saw Zac (Charlie Clausen) being very selfish.
Leah tells him there are thing she wants to take care of before the surgery.
Zac is dismissive about her worries. He has the attitude of, it's going to be fine. No worries.
I really hate when people act like that towards someone with a medical condition. Do they REALLY think they're doing anyone a favor by giving false and/or dishonest reassurances?
Anyway, then Zac takes things a step further by telling Leah they don't have to talk about it. It's almost like he's presenting it as a favor to her. At least he could be honest about his selfishness and say, I don't want to talk about it. Instead he acts like he's relieving Leah of the burden to talk about it.
If Leah didn't want to talk about it, then she wouldn't have brought it up.
5. Started watching another episode of Home and Away.
6. Annoyed to see Andy (Tai Hara) and Hannah (Cassie Howarth) together.
I forgot that they undid their break-up.
7. Liked Matt's (Alec Snow) sense of humor. I think, joke-wise, he's my favorite on the show.
In the episode I'm watching today, he apologizes to Leah for causing her stress. She replies in a loving supportive way but does ask him not to rob anymore ATM machines. Matt says he won't have to, since he's now scratched that off his bucket list.
I think that's cute.
Then when Nate (Kyle Pryor) and Kat (Pia Miller) insist on being there for Matt during his court appointment, he requests that they refrain from heckling.
I know it's not funny when I write it down. I think it rarely works when people try to describe or explain comedy they've seen elsewhere. It's just I didn't want to say I think Matt was funny without having evidence to back me up. In my school days, I learned that was a no no.
Anyway, I like that Matt can bring light to serious situations. He doesn't do it in an annoyingly avoidant way as some people tend to do. He still takes things seriously. But then he makes a joke or two to help release the tension.
8. Bewildered by what the neurosurgeon (Luke Pegler) says about the aneurysm surgery. He says they don't go through the skull. They go through an artery in the groin.
Did I hear him correctly?
It seems to me that our groins are pretty far from our brains.
Medical stuff amazes me sometimes.
9. Looked at a medical website.
I didn't mishear the doctor.
There really is an aneurysm surgery where they go through the groin.
10. Learned from the website that if an aneurysm is very small, it doesn't need to be treated right away.
I guess this is when they take a watch and see kind of approach.
11. Looked at a website about endovascular coiling, the surgery Leah is planning to get.
There's a lot of scary risks listed, but the website doesn't list how common they are.
The list includes stroke, paralysis of half the body, loss of ability to speak, and rupture of the unruptured aneurysm.
I don't blame Leah for initially not wanting to have the surgery.
What would our world be like if we
knew for sure there
was life after death, and
we could easily talk to our
dearly-departed on the Internet?
The Dead are Online a novel by Dina Roberts
12. Went to the Tropfest website.
I think it's been awhile since I've been there.
Today I'm going to watch a 2011 finalist film called "The Applicant".
13. Started watching the film.
The actor in it looks familiar to me.
I'll find out who is he later.
14. Saw another actor that looks familiar to me.
Then I realized it's Nicholas Bell.
Or at least I think it's him.
15. Got the idea that the mystery actor played a villain in one of Jonathan Shiff's shows. Maybe Scooter: Secret Agent?
16. Finished watching the film.
It was interesting.
I didn't love it.
I didn't dislike it.
I guess that would mean I like it, but I don't think I really did.
I guess my feelings are between like and dislike.
17. Guessed that I would like the project more if it was the beginning of a TV series rather than a short film.
I think many short films are too long, but then some rare ones are too short.
18. Decided to watch the film again.
It's one of those films where knowing the ending might give a different perspective on the preceding events.
19. Started liking the film.
Knowing what it's all about makes a big difference—at least for me.
Though it would probably ruin the film if it gave away the end at the beginning.
20. Liked the film a lot after watching it a second time.
I still wish it were a TV show, though...now even more so.
21. Saw that the mystery actor is Peter Rowsthorn.
He's from Kath and Kim! He's the husband. I remember now.
What I can't remember is which one is Kath and which one is Kim.
22. Got help from Lord Wiki.
Kim is the younger one. Peter Rowsthorn played HER husband. Or maybe they were just dating. I forget.
23. Saw that Peter Rowsthorn was NOT in Scooter: Secret Agent.
24. Saw that Nicholas Bell was recently in a TV show with Rebecca Gibney called Wanted.
Stephen Peacocke from Home and Away was in it too.
25. Looked at the filmography of Tim Dean, the director of "The Applicant".
He also made "Fences". That's the film where the father reluctantly takes his son out on one of his police jobs.
26. Saw that Chris Corbett, the writer of "The Applicant" is pretty established in the business.
He's written for Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Neighbours, The Secret Life of Us, McLeod's Daughters, Blue Heelers, All Saints, etc.
27. Saw that Corbett was a script editor for Wanted, the TV show I mentioned earlier.
28. Learned from Lord Wiki that Nicholas Bell is an English actor.
He's worked in Australia for twenty years.
I guess he hasn't gotten citizenship. Otherwise, I think Lord Wiki would call him Australian. He'd be an Australian born in the UK...like Naomi Watts, Julia Gillard, and many others.
29. Learned that Nicholas Bell has been a narrator for some audio books.
At least four are religious related.
Is Nicholas Bell into religion? Or maybe he just has the right voice for it.
30. Followed one of Lord Wiki's links, and saw there's a website where you can listen to excerpts from Nicholas Bell's audiobooks.
31. Listened to Nicholas Bell talk about Jesus.
32. Thought that since Nicholas Bell is British, he can one day play The Doctor on Doctor Who.
I don't know why I'm thinking that. I see lots of British actors and don't consider them being The Doctor.
Well, I might have done that when we were in the midst of watching Doctor Who. But now I don't think of the show very much.
33. Thought that maybe there's a Doctor Who quality to Nicholas Bell.
It could be something about his voice, since I thought about it while hearing the audio book.
Or maybe Jesus made me think of it. Because I was hearing about Jesus when I thought of the Doctor Who thing.
34. Realized it's not really true that I haven't thought much of Doctor Who lately.
We've been watching 12 Monkeys lately—the series, not the movie. There are Doctor Who elements in that.
35. Googled Chris Corbett, and saw from Chrome that I already went to a website about him, and I went to his Twitter page.
I must have already watched something of his.
36. Saw that it was the same thing I watched of Tim Dean, the director.
They made "Fences" together.
37.. Consulted Lord Wiki about Peter Rowsthorn.
Once upon a time, he was a drama teacher.
In the 1980's, he was part of a comedy-singing duo called The Cactus Brothers.
38.. Saw Cactus Brothers videos on YouTube, but they're from the 1990s.
I don't think it's the same thing, but maybe it is.
39.. Learned from this website that there was a Nashville band called The Cactus Brothers.
I think that's what I'm seeing on YouTube.
40. Learned, from Lord Wiki, that Rowsthorn's brother and father are wealthy businessmen.
They worked for a transport company called Toll Holdings.
41. Learned from this website that Peter Rowsthorn was featured on the show Who Do You Think You Are.
He learned about his convict ancestors.
42. Wished I knew more about my ancestors—not just their dates of birth and dates of death; or their jobs or where they got married.
I wish there were diaries.
43. Thought it would be neat if, one day, my descendants (direct or non-direct) read my blog.
44. Imagined my great granddaughter reading my blog in the year 2016.
12 Monkeys is messing with my head.
45. Thought it would be silly of my granddaughter to spend her time-traveling adventure reading a blog.
Although if blog-reading was keeping her busy, she'd have less time and chance to mess up her timeline.
Or maybe not. She might leave a comment, and that could have an effect. Then she might find her way to Twitter and mess with the time continuum there.
46. Started to watch a Thank God You're Here segment with Peter Rowsthorn.
47. Liked the segment a lot.
It's about property development. Rowsthorn had some very funny lines.
I should watch that show more often.
