Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

So here's my pitch, Rti 中央廣播電臺 and/or TaiwanPlus

I'm a gal from Texas. I know very very little Chinese. I can read some of it (enough to at least pick up a character here and there and deduce the rest), and I can speak very very bad and primitive Chinese (like "I don't speak Chinese" and "where are the [whatever]"). What I know of Taiwan comes from RTI, Taiwan+, my old pen pal from the 90s and the American Media (which that last one is fairly little).

Put me down in the middle of one of Taiwan's cities with a camera and/or audio person and a producer (to provide some safety, translation, and things to see), and we walk the streets of various cities in Taiwan, going from famous place to place, but also check out whatever is in between that catches our eye.

It's not an original idea, it's something that NHK does with their "Somewhere Street." The difference is, I have no idea what I'm doing, seeing or going. The surprise of what I'm seeing, learning, doing is genuine. Not to mention I don't know the culture, expectations or specifics. But I'm willing to learn, be educated, and in turn teaching and educating the listener/viewer.

I'm currently unemployed and could use some cash to keep the apartment in my name until the lease runs out, so you can have me for the whole summer if necessary. :)

Whaddaya say?

Watched a good deal of the new Urusei Yatsura series today with the girls. "My" Lum is the later 80s early 90s version of Lum with the fuller hair and more angular face.

But after watching the new series, I think the new lum is my fave Lum design. <3

How old was this chicken, KFC?

Oh no. Oh no no no.

Dinner with the fam.

The patient at the hospital recovering.

Me making tortilla masa by hand two years ago: "I don't know why people use dough mixers for this stuff. I prefer doing it by hand."

Me making tortilla masa by dough mixer right now: "Do you hear an abuelita crying off in the distance?"

I AM IN THIS EPISODE AND I DON'T LIKE IT

Tonight's TNG was Future Imperfect. I really LOVE the combadges used in the "Future" here. I wish they'd used them more.

Tonight's episode of Max Headroom is "Academy."

I find it funny that this episode starts with a set of hackers who hijack a television signal and take over Network 23's signal. Just like a certain TV personality who took over an episode of Dr Who in the 1980s....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V01Dv_TcxTI

Ice Cream and Cake. SO LAST CENTURY. Ice Cream and Cookies: That's where it's at.

THERE I DID IT I NAMED IT JENNFLIX

Huh. Somewhere Street (my fave travelougue) went to San Antonio. I wish I could find the episode anywhere.

And here's why I can't move back to Texas.

This bill would essentially end all government health care coverage for trans-surgeries and medical therapies FOR ALL AGES. But on top of that, it maked those surgeons and therapy providers liable for the patients welfare FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE.

The first is essentially a ban on any surgery not paid for out of pocket, focusing mostly on government money being spent on it. This would be Medicare or anyone in any Government Job. The second will cause doctors to stop offering any trans care at all.

And it's all wrapped up in a nice little "Hey, a Doctor said the surgeries are making him money hand over fist, and they don't care about the patients asking for this stuff as long as they get their money."

Which sadly is a mindset very common in Texas.

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB1029/id/2707852

So after the Fdisk->Format->Reinstall of Linux Mint, my copy for Gourmand/Gourmet Recipe Manager broke. It still opens, but I can't calculate nutritional info which I need for my diabetes. I'd also rather not switch over to Windows 11 just to calculate my nutritional information, so....

I want a Post Alley Pizza Coney Island Hot Dog slice right about now.

I like to visit the Centro Stontro Storico in the Municipinicipio.

So my pulmonologist cancelled on me for Friday, which means my day opened up. I still need to buy groceries for next week as well as a Sunday dinner for the girls.

Maybe I'll grab a ribeye, and grill it up for dinner tomorrow instead of the food I was gonna get in town....