Random Musings - 2/2/15

-I'm not sure sometimes if I can really trust any weekend to be quiet, especially with my situation.  Yesterday in particular was just one big disaster after another, what with my car's battery suddenly "dying" (it needed a jump and a long engine run after I was sitting around in my car in a funeral parlor waiting for mom as she was at a funeral for a friend's child), then dealing with yet another sister crisis as she cried up another river about her fiance's current condition.  And I couldn't do much since I was on alert, dealing with car matters and moving stuff from my 2TB external drive to a 5TB one.

-Someone was giving my advice yesterday about how to deal with talking with girls online, telling me things like "I should have more pictures of myself on my Facebook" and whatnot.  The problem is that I sort of like having some senses of privacy when it comes to Facebook, mostly cause I don't want to be fully out there or for things to end up hurting me, thus I minimize my own pictures and put up something silly as an avatar.  Not to mention its not like I'm very good in even meeting girls out in public, with my own fears that even saying hi could just end up being treated like sexual harrassment, and with how sensitive our society is today I don't want to cause a ruckus in that sort of way. (and its not like there are real meeting places for males and females outside the web anymore, and even then you all know the story about my situations with that)  And it also doesn't help that my sister, in the midst of her own crisis, keeps criticizing me saying that I don't have a girlfriend and that I'm just a pity party; I didn't even bring that up and I know about my situation and just taking care of it one bit at a time!  I think after all I've been through I deserve to at least have a break or to deal with matters as they are.  I don't like other people giving me advice on my crappy love life and reminding me that I'm not what anyone wants.

-I'm slightly frustrated regarding how Sentai was pre-empted this week in Japan due to important news: not because of the news itself (which was extremely important and sad)...but in that other shows didn't get the same pre-emption af if the network found them more important. (they held off any more important pre-emptions until after KR and Pretty Cure; only Sentai was affected)  I get that Sentai doesn't matter in the long run to Japanese pop culture but this just blatantly proved some of my own theories that if the franchise went away tomorrow, no one would care cause it isn't as culturally relevant as KR, Ultraman or "the craze of the moment".  Sometimes I wish it would take a bit of a break; maybe enough so that someone can revive it and get their creative juices going to create something that proves how the franchise has power; yeah the toys still sell but I sort of think that a ton of franchises are only toys without TV shows and they keep selling...then again its not like the nostalgia market wants to mine Sentai anyway with how every obscure Rider gets things and yet it takes an arm and a leg to even get the Gorenger certain notability out there.  Its beyond my control but sometimes I just sort of wonder why cultural relevance matters...heck there are things in this country I wish would end but don't due to so-called "cultural relevance" and the braindead management and fans who just won't let something else have a chance.

-Oh...and Phil predicted 6 more weeks of Winter...at least its officially "spring" now in Japan and Setsubun tomorrow...I really should have gotten a pic of Biishiki or something.