Do you think people are streaming radio stations all over the country in their homes right now. I mean their aint nothing to watch on local tv
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There isn't anything to watch.
And no, I would think people are watching streamed video from one of many sources, or playing their own prerecorded video, in the absence of "watchable" local TV, not throwing out TV entirely in favor of out-of-town radio.
Social distancing, remember.
One ain’t got nothing to do with the other.
What year is this? Not 1970.
I suggested that to my better half and she said, not in our house. Come to think about it, my youngest being 11 is a good thing.
My wife has been in a nursing home for a few months now -- physical re-habbing -- and the place has been in precautionary lockdown for some ten days. They jumped on that situation real quick, and real strict, perhaps due primarily to the age of the patients and the many visitors. It's a :10 minute drive from home here, so I see her daily, often twice a day, and bring along krimpets, smokes, hot chocolates, VCR films, calzones, a pet in a cage for outdoor sitting, and other contraband.
Anyway, she's gotta be 20 years younger than any other patient there; hence, her type of boredom (and the required compensation for it) is generationally different from most of the others. The cable TV and the WiFi setups are terrific. There are two sitting / reading / TV rooms, a huge lunch room where theyalso, occasionally, had live bands, religious services, bingo, holiday activities, a piano (at which they frown at me for some reason when I play something), and three squares a day. I bought her a laptop HP-15 so she can go on line into chat rooms that a few of the internet Oldies stations have. Her quarters, thus, are much like a cosseted college dorm, except with worse food.
Well, I *was* seeing her daily. That stopped with the lockdown.
Thing is, she and the other patients have more things to do there than I have home here -- especially now. Not for medical reasons or anything (yet) I've put myself in home-quarantine, too, out of spite and empathy.
The usual TV fare I've observed from dorm to dorm for many is what you'd expect. The Andy Griffith show, Gunsmoke, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Murder She Wrote, that Drew Carey quiz show, the ever-popular Alaska Highway Patrol channel : WNEP Channel 16 carries a lot of that stuff -- perfect fare for many to pass the time. The patients eat up that stuff, just like my Folks did in Florida when they were otherwise active and out-and-about.
What amazes me, though, is how many of the octogenarians have those smart-Pads (or whatever they're called) .... the ones you use your finger to flip from page to page.
I reiterate: There is more for Linda to do there than there is here at home. She is also safer and healthier there for the time being.
Anyway, she's gotta be 20 years younger than any other patient there; hence, her type of boredom (and the required compensation for it) is generationally different from most of the others. The cable TV and the WiFi setups are terrific. There are two sitting / reading / TV rooms, a huge lunch room where theyalso, occasionally, had live bands, religious services, bingo, holiday activities, a piano (at which they frown at me for some reason when I play something), and three squares a day. I bought her a laptop HP-15 so she can go on line into chat rooms that a few of the internet Oldies stations have. Her quarters, thus, are much like a cosseted college dorm, except with worse food.
Well, I *was* seeing her daily. That stopped with the lockdown.
Thing is, she and the other patients have more things to do there than I have home here -- especially now. Not for medical reasons or anything (yet) I've put myself in home-quarantine, too, out of spite and empathy.
The usual TV fare I've observed from dorm to dorm for many is what you'd expect. The Andy Griffith show, Gunsmoke, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Murder She Wrote, that Drew Carey quiz show, the ever-popular Alaska Highway Patrol channel : WNEP Channel 16 carries a lot of that stuff -- perfect fare for many to pass the time. The patients eat up that stuff, just like my Folks did in Florida when they were otherwise active and out-and-about.
What amazes me, though, is how many of the octogenarians have those smart-Pads (or whatever they're called) .... the ones you use your finger to flip from page to page.
I reiterate: There is more for Linda to do there than there is here at home. She is also safer and healthier there for the time being.
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