I've been unplugged once again for a few days. I had a busy weekend. Really, I've been a little busy since the 4 of July.

I've been trying to spend a little more time in the real world, socializing with people in my immediate proximity. I find I do need that. Only, it can be kind of exhausting (for me anyway)so unfortunately, I end up unplugging from my online friends for a few days at a time. I just have to sit and veg, with little or no human interaction.

All day in the sun Saturday, after a late night Friday, left me a little out of sorts and tired and sunburned and needing my space. I always eventually need some freaking space. It's the loner/hermit/gonna end up owning a 100 cats part of me.

And when I get like that, I veg to video media.

So, here's the roundup.

I swear, have I mentioned how much I LOVE hulu.com? Yeah, I'm sure I have.

I've been spending time watching first Dead Like Me. It must have been a Showtime or HBO series (because of the language) in 2003-2004. It only had 2 seasons, and while I struggled with the first few episodes, I fought on. It's basically about a 18 year old girl who gets killed in a freak accident. She finds herself dead, and then undead. She becomes a grim reaper assigned to the division of tragic accidents and murders. She's a rebellious teen trying to find her place in this new role that she doesn't want to be in. It's about relationships, fitting in, finding substitute family and friends when you can't go back to the family you took for granted but really want to be with (the ole, you can't go home again) the one you want to be with. It's funny, insightful and Mandy Patiken's character was a hoot. As was the Delories Mybig ("as in my big brown eyes") character and I loved Jasmine Guy's character. I really like how they answered the afterlife aspect of it (not so much in the last season.) It was enjoyable and I'm sorry they canceled it after only 2 seasons. I think they knew it was going to be canned so they answered lots of questions by the end of the second.

Next on the docket is Biographies. I've always loved this show. Most they have on hulu aren't really all that great, however they do have a few.

Today I watched one about Hunter S. Thompson. I did read Rolling Stones in the 80-90's a bit, Dr. Hook's "On the Cover of the Rolling Stones" was a favorite song of mine when I was younger (uh, much younger) but I missed the whole Hunter S. Thompson thing and didn't know about him until Johnny Depp's portrayal of him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was fascinating watching.

Then I watched one on the House of Windsor. Of course, history person that I am, what can I say. I knew a lot of the history, but it was still great viewing. It's kind of difficult to sum 100 years of history in a short doc, but they did pretty well.

Then I watched the one on H. G. Wells. While I've always preferred spec fiction to science fiction, Wells was a little of both. And he was the pioneer of the Sci-Fi genre. He also was a radical departure from the norm (as was Hunter S. Thompson) Because I knew so little about him (and I'm shocked my parents even let me watch The Time Machine, because of his unorthodox for the times and their own conservative natures) it was one of the best docs I've seen from that series. And I think I would soooo enjoy his Outline of History as well as his two stories that helped spur the woman's rights movement.

Now if they'd just do one of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, I'd be a happy camper. Both had to be forward thinkers and quite out of place in their own time periods.

Waiting for Bill Maher (really? Who told him he could take a vacation in the middle of a---usually short anyway---season?)

BTW, my ex-next door neighbor has been terrorizing Scotty. Last night, she tried, again, to break into his house in the middle of the night. She's keyed his car again and again ripped off his car intenna. The man is petrified and the local sheriff's department won't do anything (no proof) but he never had these problems before and no one else does. two and two does equal four. He's losing sleep and stressing out over this. I've decided to help him as much as I can, but I'm not the most credible witness. But it ticks me off when some people get away with their lies and manipulations and others tell the truth and get misery.

For now, I think I'll take my Niquilled ass to bed and watch either Two and a Half Men followed by The Big Bang Theory, or Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Hopefully tonight, I'll get more than 3 hours of sleep.

Hopefully, two of my neighborhood peeps will replace the battery (one kind of creeps me out) I just bought for my car (yes another, but this time new) and I will be back haunting the streets day and night of Cape Canaveral.

The haunting, the roaming, gives me new life.

I think, I hope, at the very least it gives me new stories.

I hope.

;-)