graham59 Posted April 16, 2020 Posted April 16, 2020 There will always be others waiting to take one's place.... . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofthecoldland Posted May 17, 2020 Posted May 17, 2020 Looking for something different to do as a shut-in during the Great Lock Down of 2020 ? You can do it while sitting on your butt all day at your computer, and your relatives might even laud you for it, since they will benefit indirectly from your time and fingertip effort. I started this in the early 70's, using laborious and time consuming traditional methods. and had to leave it there until 2013, when I restarted while here in the PI with a computer and new technologically advanced methods. I paid for 6 months of data base access and pretty much limited out on my achieved goals at the time. It was cheaper then for the access to the best data sets. More expensive now, but the free alternatives have vastly improved, which I am using now as I restart my efforts, knowing that the 7 intervening years have allowed immensely greater digitalization and program use improvement. Sorry to say...... it has nothing to do with porn or investments. I'm now again doing family genealogical research on an open source and posting site, that, like Wikipedia, requires good documentation and allows for corrections, editing of other's errors, etc. I looked at my great-great grandfather's grave monument today for the first time (Find A Grave Index) in Illinois where he homesteaded his farm after he arrived in 1845, coming upriver from New Orleans where his ship from Marseille dropped him and his family off. On my maternal side, I am still dead-ended and stuck at a small village of 400 in Austria, near the Hungarian border. Pop. was 1200 when they immigrated in 1905. I thought it would be an easy lay-up, but so far its a brick wall. But I'm aworking at it. Its an interesting hobby for those who like detective work. No cost for the No. 2 site. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manofthecoldland Posted August 4, 2020 Posted August 4, 2020 On 4/5/2020 at 5:29 PM, manofthecoldland said: For a bit of evening entertainment.... This year I am slowly working my way through 5 seasons (1957-1963) of "Have Gun - Will Travel" w/ Richard Boone. Simpler times when right was right and wrong was wrong. The youtube channel of 'will travel, have gun' has the five seasons in order on a sidebar. Two or three years ago I focused on the 1962-1973 Japanese TV series of "Zatoichi - the Blind Swordsman" set in the late Edo Period of 1830s-1840s. They also made several movies with this character. Last year I focused on the Japanese, "Lone Wolf and Cub" films..... about a wandering assassin and his orphaned child. It passes the time. I'm still spending a bit of time these days, digging around on Youtube, looking for an old opal field that might be reworked or an old placer creek claim that might have some nuggets in the bedrock cracks. Stumbled across a recently posted old Brit series that I found entertaining..... at least to my sensibilities. Several year series sets about a lady hotel inspector who assists owners who ventured into the hospitality business and are in over their heads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iY0Oe9fEuE&list=PLQgkLKcGEt8dQ9209vvQY4kStrrNY7nPB&index=3 It might not be your cup of tea, but many of the episodes make me think ridiculously run small town lodgings I've found myself and the wife staying in over the years when we were traveling about the islands and had to spend the night is some small town to catch the next bangka or ferry. The low end budget traveler here could easily make a comedic series of what passes for accommodations in places here in the PI. So far, after watching maybe 8 shows from various seasons, I have seen nothing even remotely comparably problematic on this GB program to what I've encountered in this part of the world, but it is still a good watch if you haven't much else to do to pass some time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Old55 Posted August 4, 2020 Author Forum Support Posted August 4, 2020 On 4/5/2020 at 2:29 AM, manofthecoldland said: For a bit of evening entertainment.... Two or three years ago I focused on the 1962-1973 Japanese TV series of "Zatoichi - the Blind Swordsman" set in the late Edo Period of 1830s-1840s. They also made several movies with this character. It passes the time. We've enjoyed watching several Zatoichi movies didn't know it was a TV series. Highly recommended. During the ending credits on one the entire cast clog danced on stage in full costume. Kinda unexpected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimeve Posted August 5, 2020 Posted August 5, 2020 Watching a show on Netflix.... (Still life) it's about 2 Scottish pensioners going about life in Scotland. I find really funny and entertaining. It's the only thing that makes me laugh on the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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