Which century?

[susandennis]

I've never been a history buff. I think I still have some issues left over from school. But I'm totally sucked into Colonial House which ran recently on our public television station. I've got all 8 hours of it on Tivo. I started watching it last night and now I'm half way done.

I think I'm sucked in because of the people on it. I watched most of the one they did on the 1920's but I never liked the people. I couldn't even get into the frontier one at all. But, I'm totally hook on one.

So while deeply enmeshed in the year 1628, I get the familiar WAV announcing new mail and I look up to see Comcast has finally seen the error of their ways and gotten Mom back on line. She says 24 hours without internet access is her limit. "I kept calling Comcast until I got someone I could understand. She said they were having trouble in my area."

She doesn't quite get that the emails she sends when she's not connected just sit in her outbox, so when she comes back online, I'm good for a about 3 "I think there's something wrong, could you check my computer?" followed by about 2 "I've rebooted and it's still not right" and then, depending on how long (today was 4) she's down, a series of "I'm still not fixed".

When I lived in the land of frequent electrical storms and electrical service interruptions, I used to make sure that at least one light was on when I went to sleep so it would wake me up and I could make sure the alarm was set.

Mom's many emails ensure that I know exactly when she gets back online.

Now I think I'll go back to 1628 for a while...

Comments

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

I loved Frontier House. Colonial House I didn't like quite as much, not because of the people, but because they had too many rules that I felt conflicted with my desires to live during that time period in a way the would feel integral. Frontier House had some dependence upon neighbors but, the colonial, imperialist way of doing things grates me the wrong way. I understand that being part of the project means that a person is supposed to abide by the laws of 1628, even though some (Voorhies) claimed going to church service would compromise her 20th century beliefs. Why did she want to participate if she wasn't going to live according to the laws of the time? However, I think it would be an awesome experience for anyone willing to participate because personal experience is the best teacher. Too bad many of the participants didn't seem to have enough background into what life was like in 1628. I was up until 3am a couple days ago viewing one episode I missed. It was a great series.

[susandennis]

I'm now done and it was good. I must set the record straight, however... The wrap ups included Seattle in 4 inches of snow. Wrong-o. Those people's vacation house is in a suburb 45 minutes from (and about 1,000 feet above) Seattle. I'd kill for snow like that!

Colonial House

[mr-lunch.livejournal.com]

I didn't like Colonial House that much. It was too cheesey for me at times. Especially the part about the Indians.

It just isn't as good as the first series, IMHO. ;)

Re: Colonial House

[susandennis]

I must admit that I hit the FF button during the Indian stuff.