Again, God, and the Universe...

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

Neil Gaiman  & Terry Pratchett

Blood Ties / iTunes whine

There I was being a good little TV viewer, and not buying this week's episode until I watched it first on Lifetime, and went right after to buy it, and it's "not available" WTF?? They streamed a little message on the bottom of the screen, "now available", so I'm just hoping they are overwhelmed and not keeping up with requests.

I did accidentally tape it, too, so that's good. I was curious about closed captioning, since the iTunes ones don't have it. It did come up on my TV while I was watching live, so I'll see if my tape catches it.

The soundtrack of my life

So, I was just musing about the fact that there's always music in my head, and how I so often hear (and sometimes say aloud -- though I've learned not to do that so much in my adult life) lines from songs. It's comforting sometimes, knowing that what I feel and experience must, in some ways be, if not universal, at least not so strange.

Of course, then there are those times that the one line is all I can remember from the song, and I spend the rest of the day hearing that one line or two, over and over, trying to remember what the rest of the song was, or who sang it.

And then, since it's 4am, and life gets funnier this time of day, and I'm talking about hearing things, I'll repeat what I learned from experience one night in an ER:

If you're ever in a hospital ER because you are depressed, and some nice medpro asks you, "Do you hear voices no one else hears?" the correct answer is NOT, "How would I know whether others hear them or not?" HA Psychpros have NO sense of humor.