I’ve been reading about CPUs trying to wind down, ALUs and operands and status and registers, stacks, busses, all that fun stuff, and it’s really interesting.

I understand how computers work on an electrical level and on major pieces of hardware like you buy from Newegg, but nothing in between. All the programming I’ve ever done was BASIC, HTML, and TI83. I’ve thought of dabbling but I’m plenty busy right now. I’m good at math (not as good as verbal), I just hate it. I took a college-level course senior year for the credit so I’d never have to study math again.

Er, I’m correct that this is your field, right?

As for the soaps –

My mom watched them when I was little (she doesn’t know I watch them) so the theme music and the names of Victor Newman and Ridge Forrester and Brooke Logan were in my ears sometime before I was seven (all are still prominent characters), since in first grade at least I was out in the early weekday afternoons. Wait, there’s summer in there, too.

I mean, how fucking banging is this theme music?

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And this is iconic. Everyone knows it:

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Anyway, why do people watch wrestling besides the matches? My dad’s been reading Prince Valiant since he was a kid. It’s just a serial, and an incredibly well-run machine to keep you hooked. There are multiple storylines that split, come together, and are resolved, never at the same time. All the storylines and characters never all appear/are featured in the same episode. You also spend a lot of time with the characters, who come, go, and die (rarely with a body) regularly. You get to know and love them, and there are literally dozens of them. There are “steamy” scenes that are embarrassing even just with me and my dog but they’re infrequent. There’s a lot of “men” and a surprising amount of business-titan stuff.

As for how I got into them: unemployment, then DVR. You need structure in your day and something to follow from day to day to keep sane and happy, and the soaps are roughly halfway through my then-4am-to-8pm waking hours. Now I get home around 10:35, walk the dog, smoke, watch The Young and the Restless, smoke, watch The Bold and the Beautiful with something to eat, sleep.

There are lots of commercials for Medicare Advantage plans and incontinence and feminine care products.