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29th January 2022 - TV Repeats ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Written while listening to a mix of George Harrison, the Kinks and other such 70s rock. I have found myself rewatching a lot of series. Why, I have no real idea. Boredom from the darkness of January I assume. Comfort is another reason I guess. There is comfort from repetition. I have finished another rewatch of the brilliant Canadian comedy Trailer Park Boys. It is well worth a watch if only for the master of drunk acting, John Dunsworth. This is a mockumentary following the lives of Julian, the straight man and planner who always has a rum and coke in hand, and Ricky, a weed loving oddity who is hard to describe. The characters are cartoonish but you can believe such a person could exist in this world. Worth a watch but be ready for a strange filming style which arose from small budgets rather than stylistic choice. I am currently in the middle of Him & Her, a British comedy about a couple in the early stages of their relationship. They are in their mid 20s and jobless although that suits them fine. Who can blame them when those around them are working retail and seemingly worse off. The programme is near enough entirely filmed in a single bedsit. It is sweet and each episode involves the couple wanting to eat in bed while watching dross but always being interrupted by family, friends or the weird chap who lives upstairs. I love the dynamic between each character and have known many people like them. It is nice to see a programme about fairly introverted people without making that the main focus. The programme is intimate too and shows the silly things couples do rather than relying on big gestures to show the characters love one another. Russell Tovey is wonderful in it and I actually didn't realise he was gay until embarassingly recently. It is a credit to his acting skills. Next, I suspect Arrested Development will be selected. It has been a while and we all know that there is always money in the banana stand. If you have not watched it, go now and ensure you only watch. None of this watching while browsing reddit or sitting in com nonsense. It is worth the attention and time. Recently, I have been a bit reclusive and yet social. It has been weird. I have been out a fair bit but that was mostly to do with Scouts and climbing. I have been talking to people but mostly through work. There has been little talking to family or friends. Normally, I would blame this on SAD. January is always a miserable month where people are broke, dieting and in a nesting frame of mind. I have been taking fairly strong vitamin D supplements to avoid my usual morose times and that has been helping. Working from home helps with being able to see the day light too. Yet I feel a bit numb and bored of life. I think this is the key culprit for wanting to rewatch programmes. So how to break out of this? Well I am seeing people today. A friend has organised a meet up in the centre of Birmingham for their birthday and that means I am with people. So that is good. Add in a new work challenge and a new Scouts challenge for good measure. The work challenge is to design a new control architecture for a specific platform from scratch. It makes me nervous as it is meant to be adaptable for future platforms but it is a challenge I have missed since early on in a formative project. The brain has been firing away with ideas galore and I need to work out the constraints. With Scouts, I am now helping with the digital side of life for the county. I like working out ways of automating boring stuff and helping others. It also helps that we are nearly in February, the mental month. Things get brighter and the weather is so screwy you don't know if you will have weekly storms, snow, heavy rain or beautiful sunshine. Hell, it might even be all 4 in one day. It often shakes the January blues away ready for the joys of spring. Enough navel gazing for now. Time to get sorted for tonight.