Life of the Lintee Bean

I’ve been neglecting my blog.  However, I have recently cleared my schedule of more trivial activities like Fitocracy (a social media site for fitness tracking, etc), yarn swapping, working out, etc, so I hope to have more time for writing.  Perhaps I’ll even start a new category for “random thoughts of the Lintee Bean”.  We’ll see.

There have been a lot of advances in television viewing in recent years, at least for me.  Rather than plopping in front of the TV and watching whatever happens to be on, no matter how lame, now I can choose from shows recorded on my digital video recorder, shows on NetFlix, Hulu, iTunes, etc.  Now, I don’t really “watch” because along with television advances have come Internet advances and other life changes, and I’m usually watching TV while also on the Internet and/or writing and/or playing with yarn.

I love TV/movie “marathons”.  The other week, I watched Children of the Corn, one, three, four, five, six, seven, AND eight!  (Sadly, NetFlix did not have Children of the Corn two.)

Now I’m watching episodes of “Disappeared”.  It’s a crime documentary TV series on missing persons.  I find it fascinating, when I’m paying enough attention to follow the plot, that is.  I’m on episode 44 as I write.  I’m finding while there are “outlyer” cases, there are also a lot of cases with things in common – which may think I may want to avoid the following to decrease my chances of going missing:

• Leave my friends and decide to attempt to hitchhike home while intoxicated and/or high;
• Go running in the woods and along cliffs paranoid I am being chased, while intoxicated and/or high;
• Get in a huge blow-out fight with my estranged husband with a history of going into violent rages;
• Decide to go off alone, either driving across country or to become a hermit in the woods;
• Testify against a lot of murderous drug dealers, then resume my drug habit – running into more murderous drug dealers;
• Go jogging/running/walking/bicycling – along a road, or deserted path, or… really anywhere.  Apparently you want to avoid cardio at all costs, unless maybe you’re in a gym.  I’m not sure.  I’m just going to avoid all cardio, just in case.