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For many years for anything serious I've been using a laptop I specifically bought and set up for the purpose. I've never had the thing connected to the Internet. Which means that it's outlived several of my Internet computers that died suddenly thanks to updates that turned them into paperweights. The laptop unfortunately has developed problems with its touch pad (I accidentally move the cursor all the time and now the laptop left clicks randomly on its own) making typing on it a nightmare. So I bought a new desktop (no stupid touch pad) for my work. I did put it on the Internet to update the Windows and download a few pieces of critical software. I expected major problems with software, since I have always mostly avoided using any Microsoft software that I'd have to pay extra for. Everybody uses Word and Excel, but not me. I have had problems when somebody wanted to send me a Word or Excel file, but generally I've muddled through. The software I chose to download to the new computer, will take care of that for a while at least. Otherwise my language input software is mostly gone. But I can use the new computer to type the language besides English that I actually use. (I added its keyboard layout software at start up, and I've long since memorized that layout.) With a little effort the new computer reads all my existing language files. So the new computer will not go back on the net again... Not a fan of having Microsoft keeping any of my files on line. It's probably very convenient for work from home, but if ever there was a target for hackers it would be the cloud!
My cat poisoned himself a couple weeks ago. I found him batting at something in the rug near the front door. It was a scorpion, which the cat ate. This was the first scorpion I've had in this house, several got into my house in Phoenix over the years. It's nice to have the cat find any scorpions that get in so I can deal with them, but this one he ate before I could get to it. The cat was in pretty bad shape for about 48 hours, but is fine since. I hope he's learned a lesson. I sprayed around the outside doors and hopefully won't have more scorpions getting in this year.
I rewatched my DVDs of Bones earlier this year and have started rewatching Castle. I got unhappy with Bones in its later seasons, and the rewatch reminded me why. I was a bit surprised rewatching, that the first season of Castle was pretty blah. I'm glad I kept watching back when because the second season is immensely better... We know now that Nathan Fillion is basically an overgrown frat boy and he gave Stana Katic a hard time. I have no idea why ABC thought, however briefly, that the show could go on without Detective Beckett. They wanted to get rid of her to save money. It's well that fan response caused them to cancel the show instead.
My cat poisoned himself a couple weeks ago. I found him batting at something in the rug near the front door. It was a scorpion, which the cat ate. This was the first scorpion I've had in this house, several got into my house in Phoenix over the years. It's nice to have the cat find any scorpions that get in so I can deal with them, but this one he ate before I could get to it. The cat was in pretty bad shape for about 48 hours, but is fine since. I hope he's learned a lesson. I sprayed around the outside doors and hopefully won't have more scorpions getting in this year.
I rewatched my DVDs of Bones earlier this year and have started rewatching Castle. I got unhappy with Bones in its later seasons, and the rewatch reminded me why. I was a bit surprised rewatching, that the first season of Castle was pretty blah. I'm glad I kept watching back when because the second season is immensely better... We know now that Nathan Fillion is basically an overgrown frat boy and he gave Stana Katic a hard time. I have no idea why ABC thought, however briefly, that the show could go on without Detective Beckett. They wanted to get rid of her to save money. It's well that fan response caused them to cancel the show instead.
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Why did Bones turn you off? (I tried it and it didn't work for me - but that's more due to a combination of procedural and I didn't like either lead. I liked the supporting characters, but the lead female character annoyed me.)
Castle - actually Stana Katic was fired because Fillion and Katic could no longer be in the same room together. And unfortunately most people were watching for Fillion and Katic. Fillion won - he has more clout than Katic does, and could get another series, also it was cheaper to get rid of Katic than try to do separate stories. They truly hated each other. This happens a lot on these types of shows? Moonlighting (by the third - fourth season, Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard could barely stand to be in the same room with each other), Remington Steele? Same problem. Bones is among the few that didn't happen - which is why it lasted the longest. NCIS - various actresses couldn't stand Weatherly and left after being paired with him. Bull - Eliza Dusku sued Weatherly (he was a problem).
Say what you will about David B - but he only had issues with supporting or guest actors, not the lead.
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Though I liked most of the characters it got really stale. Some of it was Bones, the character, never progressing toward more "human." A lot of it was repeating story lines. Given the number of years Bones lasted you'd expect story lines to be reused, but it got really unpleasant for me about season seven. Have a story for the umpteenth time where Bones finally learns some important lesson about dealing with real people, then seems to forget it in the next episode... Get a super-intelligent serial killer, who is always three steps ahead of the team never needing to worry about having enough money for their schemes. Keep bringing them back for more episodes over and over, killing them off when the actor perhaps got a job somewhere else. Then start a new serial killer arc a dozen episodes later... I think it was the beginning of season nine, they killed off Dr. Sweets, which was pretty much the last straw for me. I wasn't even that big a fan of Sweets, but they'd used a plot nearly killing him off in season seven. John Francis Daley wanted to leave to direct a movie? Reassign Sweets to Milwaukee or Portland. Have an episode for a send off for him and Daisy. Not that tough. And given the series lasted three more years they could bring them back for an episode sometime.
You're right about Fillion and Katic hating each other, but the reason seems to have been Fillion's bad verbal behavior between takes, and Katic eventually refusing to put up with it. Having to choose between the two, the suits were always going to pick Fillion. But for the fans it was never going to be one or the other. Either both or none made the only sense. Given that the show went out when it wasn't stale, it was just as well.
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Interesting about Bones. It was my difficulty with the series - I felt the characters never really evolved, and the serial killer trope - I burned out on in the 20th Century and early 00s. Prime Suspect did it well, as did the Profiler, Medium, and the Mentalist. But mainly? I just didn't like Bones. Booth and everyone else was fine, but Bones irritated me.
Weirdly, I liked Castle better than Bones. But...got tired of the trope.
Fillion is doing very well with the Rookie, which apparently is more ensemble, and they don't appear to have issues on that set. So much of this is on the show-runner and who is running the set. But also personality conflicts between actors. I've been listening to the Mad Max Fury Road audio book - and Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron really clashed on that set. Also, Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepard clashed on Moonlighting - they were not speaking by the end of that series. Same with Remington Steele - Bronsan and Stephanie Zimbalist were barely talking and had clashed. On Bewitched - Dick York had injured his back, was on pain killers, and clashed with everyone. Agnes Moorehead hated him. So they replaced him with Dick Sargent. (It ended because it began to repeat storylines over and over again, and Sargent's character never evolved.)
It happens a lot apparently, more than I thought. There's a lot of down time on television and film sets, and a lot of redoing the same thing over and over again - and it tends to led to bad behavior.