So we are down in AZ for a few weeks and I remembered that if you sign up to Amazon Instant Video you can get a FREE thirty days. Yahoo....because....Vikings season one is on this system and my dear husband hasn't seen it and he is getting pretty tired of me yapping about it and discussing it with other people who HAVE seen it.
Side note: our Icelandic cousin, when asked about seeing this series said - It is all bullshit! Well, it may be, but I like it and it was very late in Iceland when I spoke to her and she had been drinking.......hhhmmmm.
Anyway - I signed up on Amazon (only to find out that at some point I had already signed up for an account...and had to have the password on this said account emailed to me - you know how it goes) and then asked dear hubby to connect the computer to the telly so we could watch Vikings....especially one Viking... in particular Travis!!! Well, his Viking name isn't Travis...that's his real life name. Pretty silly to cast a Viking named Travis the Bad or something...now that would be bullshit!
OF COURSE the connection didn't work!! There was no sound and the picture had all the Amazony stuff on the top and the bottom of the screen and husband says "we can't watch it with all this crap on it." and I had to agree it was a small viewing area and the writing all over was distracting. So - we slept on it and may decide to try it again...at some point...some future point....before the thirty free days are up.
BUT we then switched to Netflix for the eveining (we actually don't watch that much tv....but seem to have all the programs to allow us to...for some reason) ....and we watched Craig Ferguson doing stand up. We saw him in Tucson a few years ago and almost wet ourselves laughing.
Okay - I admit I was kind of grumpy after not getting to see Travis maim and kill people, but a few minutes into Craig and I was laughing along with my husband...who was in hysterics.
At one point Craig was talking about how, in his mind, all movies about Romans/gladiators etc. have British accented people portraying the main characters. Ever so posh! Not really, because he grew up with Monty Python...as in -Life of Brian etc.so you have to put yourself into that kind of head space.
Craig particularly mentioned watching Gerard, or Gerry as his friends call him, Butler in the movie 300.
While giving a rousing speech about marching off to victory Gerry yells
"TONIGHT we dine in HELL!"
Fist pumps, yelling and screaming.....and at this point Craig says he imagined some little English guy in the front yelling....... because of all of his Monty Python watching and all the silliness:
"What are we having?"
Trust me it was funny....at the time....okay you had to be there.
So to carry on with our week of computer related things that won't work.....I tired to get the balance on our VISA statement as of the billing date...around May 8th. Easy - do it every month! HA! Because I was using a different computer/server/satellite/cup for my coffee the computer asked me a burning question;
What is your hobby?
The 'primary card holder' on this is my husband so I put MUSIC. EEEEHHHHH - WRONG!
What? and now it locks me out of the account.....!!!
On to the good old telephone I go and of course they have to talk to my husband because...all together now...he is the 'primary card holder'
Half hour later, after being switched to a different department, we find out the balance of what we owe right now...not on the statement....sigh. AND I will have to call back again to have them unlock the online access....I will put that off until we get back to Canada and I have my husband standing by because they won't talk to me!!
AND then.....I receive a message from Netflix that states the credit card I use for charges is expiring...well...yes...I did get a new one and it does have an new expiration date. EASY? HA!
Call up Netflix and it asked me...for....a....password. Think I can remember it - not on your life!!!
Things I have learned this week:
Some times I am proud to be a Canadian. At the exhibit Czech the Light, two Canadians have a beautiful installation called Cloud. Try to imagine a cloud like form suspended about ten feet over your head with long hangy down things that look like rain falling. It really is pretty....and it is made up of....entirely...light bulbs. Have no idea how much a thing like that would cost....comparing bulbs from Home Depot or Rona...or even Walmart....but I'll just bet they received a Government grant for thousands...not to mention an all expenses paid trip to the Czech Republic. Sort of get a lump in my throat just thinking about it.
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The latest rage in China, after restaurants that offer cats to pet for those who can't have pets in their apartments, is Panda Dogs! They aren't a new breed but white fluffy dogs that have their fur dyed to look like little, cuddly pandas. The video we watched had the reporter babbling on in the background about this amazingly cute new trend and was so proud when she admitted:
"Ten years ago the natural instinct was to eat a dog...but now we have them as pets."
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