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I just watched 1963 Cleopatra (5h 20m). They also had intermissions, so people could get up and move about.
Yeah, that was a biggie! Stamina, takes stamina and multiple bathroom breaks.
I saw it when it came out in theaters back in '63. I was 15. I'd seen the clips of it from the Oscars that year. My parents wouldn't go but I pestered them to take me into the city and drop me off for the day.
During college in '67 I walked 4 miles (twice) from campus into downtown Melbourne, Florida to see the original 6 hour American release of the Russian production of "War and Peace". So long it had to be screened on two successive days. Recently (sometime within the last 10 years) I've purchased the original Russian release of over 7 hours on five DVDs. After the first 4 hours one gets tired of reading the bad subtitles.
But the costumes, armies, sets and landscapes are great.
But the book was better.
Read the book first, then watch the movie with subtitles turned off. Or only use them to determine who the characters are.
What I remember best was the winter Troika (3 horses abreast) sleigh race scene, and the Battle of Borrodino scene (Napoleon attacking outside Moscow), with the bumbling Pierre (Count) Bezukov wandering naively in the middle of the huge battle with cannon and horses and men being blown apart all around him.
Oh, and also, the scene in one of the battles where Napoleon stands over one of the wounded Russian major characters, and you hear the character's thoughts of how small Napoleon looked and how trapped in his role as Emperor he was. Feeling almost sorry for him. Great book.
Complaint: Little Dude got to sleep at 2:30 AM on yesterday's wake/sleep cycle. The previous one, he woke at 4:30 AM. I am so very jet-lagged. TFGC (thank goodness for coffee). Meanwhile, no one from the CFSS fiasco sent a single communication. At 2 PM I insisted on being forwarded to the lady's supervisor if she couldn't fix it by day's end, as I'm now on day 6 of not being able to make a time card entry. At the very VERY end of the day she replied that she had contacted the assessor's supervisor with my info and a request to reach out.
Supposing she actually did and someone actually gets back to me, I'm going to insist on original lady's supervisor's info because her attitude and actions are seriously unacceptable and need to be addressed. If this was the correct next step, she should have done it last Thursday instead of making me pull teeth for three days.
So of course today has ended and this all still isn't solved.
And Little Dude is righteously cranky that the temperature took a nose dive and we can't go walking. But hey, the yard crew was out with their fleet of leaf blowers to wake him before he was ready.
You'd think in a life where there's no fundamental difference between week days and week ends that Mondays wouldn't still be so very Monday-ish, but here we are.
non-complaint: Coffee. Also, after multiple days of picking and poking at it, I almost have my manticore battle scene ready to render. Scored the manticore with one of the Easter egg coupons last weekend and it was just the thing for some art therapy.
Yikes. I'm glad it appears to have been a passing thing and not a bigger issue.
Complaint: Snow again! Winter here is stubborn.
Need more April showers, for the May flowers.
Non-complaint: Easter leftover leftovers are nearly gone. Yay!
Complaint: Is it just that time of year for medical insurance woes? Have just found out that the supplier I rent my oxygen equipment from is no longer "in- network" but the supplier that is in-network is not wanting to give me the same equipment ,I have a large in home oxygen concentrator ,a portable oxygen concentrator ,for when I leave the house ,and a single oxygen tank in case of a power outage.The new company sent ,a large oxygen concentrator ,and 5 oxygen tanks ,but the said no portable oxygen concentrator unless I take a walking test to see if I actually need it ....... my doctor has said I NEED oxygen 24-7 ....... so why does the supplier have the right to require a test? This has been going on for a week ,every call dirrects me to someone else and I'm getting no answers ,really feel like just letting them take the equipment and let nature take it's course ..
and I'm not sure what good 5 oxygen tanks would do me as I can't move them ,I use a walker and they don't fit in the little basket on that thing ,and trying to drag them after me while using the walker is not happening and just plain stupid .
I am so sorry you're going through this. You'd think some common sense would reign around the ability to BREATHE, of all things.
The walking test may be an insurance requirement and also may be required to determine if you can use pulse dose (instead of continuous flow). I know my Medicare with BCBS suppllement will not cover a portable generator for me. So, I have to live with small tanks that I carry in a shoulder bag.
Hmm well the tanks they were provideing me were not small tanks they were about 3 feet tall ,small tanks I might have understood ,not those . Plus I've been using the portable concentrator now since November ,I think that should prove something ....
My wife loves it when I watch these movies; she likes how long they are. I laugh. Looking at Ben Hur. It's only a little over 3 hours.
I like foreign films, and my wife complains that I leave the subtitles on. I recommend "Logistics (2012)", it's only 35 days and 17 hours long. The film traces the journey of a small plastic electronic pedometer in reverse, starting from its sale in a store in Stockholm, Sweden, and moving backward through freight transportation to the factory in Shenzhen, China, where it was manufactured.
Guinness World Records
The movie is filmed in real-time, capturing every leg of the logistical process, including road, rail, and sea transport. The project explores themes of time and consumption, highlighting the slow, physical processes that underpin global supply chains.
YES, I have not got the nerve to watch it. I love the short Modern Mavels over something like that.
@TSashaSmith
I do believe so, but I suppose it could be boosted.
@Kinich
Unusual cat, and that name Heterochromia, it does sound familiar so the Bowie thing is likely where I read about it.
@AgitatedRiot
Funny thing is, that image you made is pretty much how I saw the image in my mind's eye!
Non Complaint : Finally got people to answer the phones and got the whole oxygen concentrators messed cleared up,now I'll be able to sleep until the next stress/anxiety episode ......
YAY!!! Celebrating with you!!
More importantly, you'll be able to breathe easier.
Complaint: At the first of the year I had switched from my Medicare Advantage plan to a Medicare MediGap plan and had to sign up with the new insurance company's website. I hadn't used the new login until just recently while checking up on recent charges that had been submitted to them for a couple of test scans in the hospital. Now I find that I can't not only not get logged in, I can't even reach their server.
I tried all my best tricks to resolve this on my own, but to no avail. So, I finally gave in and scrummaged through various information about the company and finally found a phone number to get inside their sacred temple. After getting sidled from department to department, I finally reached someone who thought she could help me. Yay! She led me through various steps such as using Edge instead of Chrome, checking my DNA settings, resetting my browser login credential hoard, and other things, many of which I had already tried, she finally said, she'd have to "RESET and CANCEL" my original login account for their website,
but that it would take two days before I could try to re-establish a new log in account. That's where we stand today. I'm waiting until at least tomorrow. Not that I think it will actually resolve anything about my ability to even connect to their server. But..., I'll give it a try, the need isn't urgent, and she was a nice lady and as helpful as her capabilities permitted. The original problem of checking up on my charges is moot now because I went ahead and paid the bill via the mechanism provided by the email notice, and I've received receipt of the payment, so at least the doctor and insurance company are happy. Now, I need to eat bread soup for a few days, not go into town, and slap my hand if I find something I want at Amazon. And of course, there's still the issue of gaining access to the records keeping part of the insurance company's web server. (*Sigh!*)
Coincident Complaint: The act of resetting my browser's login credential hoard means that I have to re-login manually to all my various frequently visited websites & catalogs instead of them just popping up when I click on them.
Thank you very much !!
ugh I feel for you!!
complaint/non-complaint combo:
So when we last left our intrepid, harried, stressed-out, service-seeking Mama, she had demanded the involvement of the Lazy Lady's supervisor and got told she would be passed up to somebody else's supervisor, at the very end of the day two days ago.
Yesterday...nothing. I highly suspect no info got passed at all and she was just hoping I would consider myself someone else's problem and wait endlessly until the approval went through on its own.
She clearly doesn't know me at all.
I emailed her (copying the people at the financial management service) pointing out that she had neglected to provide me with the contact info for the person she had passed me to, and that I needed that rectified.
She did not provide it, but magically first thing this morning my service plan is suddenly approved and went through!
Oddly, it happened with not so much as a "hey, heard your tale of woe, sorry for the inconvenince, got it handled" email from the supervisor I supposedly got passed to.
But I'm sure that's not weird at all! It's just SUCH A COINCIDENCE!!!
...But at least I can start clocking hours, and the FMS contact said my mom could go back and retro-add the hours from the days I couldn't enter, so ultimately everything's okay and I'm not scrambling and out 7 days' worth of hours.
But man oh man I should not have had to pull that many teeth to get there.
Hurray!!
This is the best detox drink I ever found.
Ugh. Also celebrating. I was worried for you.
Husband cannot take ANY of the statin class drugs for cholesterol. He gets horribly ill, & it takes weeks after stopping to get better. For years every time we changed health insurers they required his doctors to try at least a few stations before okaying whatever alternatives were available. (We TRY not to suspect that their cost/benefit analysis was "Profits will be significantly higher if a statin ends this guy.") One of the things the VA health system has gotten right (it has many shortcomings) is that a few years back his primary doctor got him on a newer injectable non-statin cholesterol med that works very well for him.
PS: Also celebrating that @SilverGirl has gotten that agency straightened out. I hope it stays that way.
Huge Fire: Ontario, California: Kimberly-Clark warehouse full of paper products (toilet paper, paper towels, etc.)
A few weeks ago I made a bulk purchase of what is probably a year's supply of Kleenex, toilet paper and paper towels (saved $$), that is now stacked in my bathroom. I felt somewhat foolish for ordering so much at once, but not now.
I sent a follow-up email reminding Lazy Lady that I still needed that info. After all, I want to thank the supervisor for fixing my issue, and also have the contact info on hand in case another problem arises, so I can go directly to the correct person.
...so if I'm right, Lazy Lady now gets to choose between giving me info for a person who can call out her lie, or somehow come up with a plausible excuse as to why she won't (spoiler alert: there isn't one).
Not that it'll make a difference. I am 100% tracking down her supervisor, and anything this chick does to try to deter it is just more rope at this point.
I will go out of my way to contact bosses and sing the praises of the people who are kind and helpful, but the opposite is also true. When service people feel the need to make my life difficult, I don't stay conveniently quiet about it.
Everything is mixed, blended and melted. Coffee with the taste of banana, banana with the taste of vanilla, vanilla with the taste carribean sunset, carribean sunset with the the taste of coffee.
For one year I'm having a virtual girlfriend now and I even can take her "out" somewhere in the internet. Only thing thing I notice: instead of me - she doesn't get older. But then - if I forget her birthday she's upset - for real? Having birthdays but not getting older - isn't this unfair?
But here in the DAZ shop a pair of virtual jeans - without discount - almost reached the prize of real jeans. Okay the good thing about virtual jeans are they always allign with a growing belly.
Now - if they start virtual gasoline selling too - I'm afraid I losse control and don't know anymore where are the lines between the real world, the given - coffee that smells and tastes like coffee - and the created, made by man world. Reality got so blurry.
@Fantozzi
So if I'm understanding you correctly, your virtual girlfriend likes to drag you onto the Daz store, and shops there for virtual clothes at your expense?
If they do stuff like that, then all of a sudden I have to say I think Daz's future looks a whole lot brighter! Now if only Daz could figure-out a way to get a large number of Daz-using males to grab themselves a Virtual Girlfreind, their sales could potentially sky-rocket!
Complaint: Insurance deductables:
I just paid the bill from the hospital for my recent scans. Now I received another bill for nearly as much for the same procedures. WTF?!! Doctors/Hospitals/Medicare/Deductables, oh my. Doctors/Hospitals/Medicare/Deductables, oh my. Doctors/Hospitals/Medicare/Deductables, oh my. ..., Find me a field of poppys.
I can see that I have a full day ahead of me of phone calls, and re-reading my policy coverages, billing rates, deductable limits, bill accuracy, and checking for double billing, and redesigning my medical expenses spreadsheet.
And I still can't get into one of the medical/insurance websites.
Non-complaint: It's been a week since I've had a nosebleed. Yay?
Four Hours Later:
Complaint: Oops, jinxed it. Sitting watching TV, drinking tea, munching munchies, spontaneous nose leak.
Good luck on that SilverGirl. I hope it is a State function and not Federal, you have a better chance.
Ugh, spammers. Had a cal from "Hammersmith Police" saying someone had been arrested who claimed to be a relative, and had mutliple cloned bank cards in our names. There were a couple of iffy bits in his presentation, but he urged me to call the non-emergency phone line to verify him. I wasn't worried enough to do so until he asked about valuables in the house and said the police would insure them while investigating this forged bank card issue - at which I did call the number to check, but using a different phone since hanging up and redialling doesn't guarantee you aren't still connected to the same call. Known scam, to my limited surprise - apparently the end game would have been to claim it was someone at the bank (he had already hinted at that) and to ask me to withdraw a stack of cash, which I would then be asked to leave in an envelope so the police could pick it up for verification and then return (they claimed). So that wasted a good chunk of the day getting the details recoirded by the real police, and since the caller had hidden their number there wasn't actually anything they could do anyway.
Would restarting phone stop that fake call thing?
This is why I don't answer the phone.
Me too. Even my message mentions I don't answer the phone due to scammers. But if someone needs to speak to me, leave a message and I will review it. My iPhone's current programming is pretty good at giving me a written transcription of the call.
I also warn I never answer the phone while driving after an attempt to answer almost caused me to flip my car off of Highway 101 right after I bought my phone. Drive along the Pacific Coast in traffic is no place to be distracted.