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May. 10th, 2022 07:30 amI've been watching Masterpiece Theater's "Around the World in 80 Days" with David Tennant. I like the show but not greatly - I had expected to be very enthusiastic about it but instead I feel torn. Tennant's character is... complex. Likable and yet not. Cowardly, in most cases, and overwhelmingly rude. In truth, probably right in the standard mode of a man of means from that time period. So many times I don't like him and other times he shines. Tennant's portrayal is brilliant but I want to like the character! And as an aside, Mr. Tennant is freaking skinny. He looks unhealthy. A strange thing to notice perhaps but there you have it.
I've been watching more stuff on my computer lately. In the evening I watch TV with my spouse, mostly to spend time with him (spending time doing something else isn't really in the cards except for grocery shopping) but that usually means watching Jeopardy at 1930 and then watching a recorded show or two - which he will doze or outright sleep through until I either get bored and leave the room or wake him up and see if I can get him to go to bed. Normally, I cannot, and I'll end up in bed myself with the doors shut to muffle the sound of the TV and his snoring or in front of my computer with headphones on, again, to muffle the sound of the TV and his snoring. He's going deaf so the TV plays pretty loud.
Aging while married is not for the weak.
(As an aside, he's 70 years old. That he's still getting up at 5 or 6 each morning and heading to work every day is remarkable. That he falls asleep sometime after eight each evening should be unremarkable.)
I've been watching more stuff on my computer lately. In the evening I watch TV with my spouse, mostly to spend time with him (spending time doing something else isn't really in the cards except for grocery shopping) but that usually means watching Jeopardy at 1930 and then watching a recorded show or two - which he will doze or outright sleep through until I either get bored and leave the room or wake him up and see if I can get him to go to bed. Normally, I cannot, and I'll end up in bed myself with the doors shut to muffle the sound of the TV and his snoring or in front of my computer with headphones on, again, to muffle the sound of the TV and his snoring. He's going deaf so the TV plays pretty loud.
Aging while married is not for the weak.
(As an aside, he's 70 years old. That he's still getting up at 5 or 6 each morning and heading to work every day is remarkable. That he falls asleep sometime after eight each evening should be unremarkable.)
