We’ve been trying Disney+ this week. Since we get the first year free anyway, with our Verizon Unlimited wireless plan, we have a heck of a trial period. So far it’s pretty glitchy. In the articles I’ve read online, Disney prepped for this release quite a bit, but they were still overwhelmed by the response and their systems couldn’t handle it. Once we were able to get in, the interface and selection looked pretty nice for starters. The interface looks very “Hulu-like”, so depending on how you like Hulu’s interface, that might be a good thing or a bad thing. I’m kinda neutral. I’ve never liked Hulu’s “overline” selection style interface, but I didn’t see that particular feature in Disney+, so I found it ok and familiar in features. If they integrate Disney+ into Hulu, since Disney owns Hulu anyway, that would be even better, as long as I don’t have to change Disney+ plans to get it in Hulu. I did see a Hulu/Disney+ bundle, but so far I don’t see Disney+ IN Hulu as an add-on in Hulu. Hulu has a lot of add-on features available though, so I wouldn’t put it past them.

I just got the e-mail today that Hulu Live TV is going up $10 in December. Right now it’s $5 cheaper than YouTube TV (which is my favorite) and has fewer channels. They offer add-on channel packs though, which would make it cost more than YouTube TV for about the same list of channels. So now their BASE channel list will cost $5 MORE than YouTube TV and have less channels. Such a deal. NOT. But knowing that Hulu is owned by Disney makes me wonder. Maybe their needed upgrades to get Disney+ up and running right is going to cost a pretty penny, and since they couldn’t bump up the cheap price of Disney+ so early in the game ($6.99/month or $69.99/year, or FREE for a year for millions of people already on a Verizon Unlimited plan) so they decided to find another way to raise the money. Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I think that’s a bad move. I found their TV streaming to be much less reliable and of lower quality than YouTube TV when I tested it out recently. I’m sticking with YouTube TV for my TV services and Hulu for their non-TV streaming services, whose price hasn’t changed. Yet.

In other news, we’re just getting back to normal at home after some remodeling and maintenance we needed to get done with the house. Some things are still a mess, so we’re slowly getting everything back in place and back to normal. This took place over the past several months.

Sandy retired from her Society’s Assets job recently. Her health issues, mainly due to the auto accident she had last November–about a year ago, are slowly getting worse, unfortunately. She’s often in a lot of pain and has gone through a lot of different attempts at treatment, but little has worked. She had back and disc issues prior to the accident, so it seems the accident has made this much worse.

The puppies have their first birthday next week–November 19th. They’ll be a year old–or 7 in dog years. They’re growing up so fast! Good thing they’re Chihuahuas…they stay perpetual puppies. They just THINK they’re much bigger.

Work, for me, is going ok. The hospital is doing well, though they have outsourced several departments to an outside company. I.T. isn’t one of them though. At least not yet.

Kevin and I went to see Terminator Dark Fate last weekend. We realy enjoyed it. It was interesting how James Cameron came back as a producer and made it a direct sequel to Terminator 2. Since he did 1 and 2, I guess it made sense to make this one the third. It sure might make it pretty confusing for those who want to watch the films in proper order. Is it 1, 2, Dark Fate, then 3, Salvation, and Genisys? Or do you watch them in order of release? They say Dark Fate comes after T2, and the story picks up right there. The movie even starts with a bizarre opening that seemed to have been filmed immediately following T2–the two main characters played by Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger looked exactly as they had in T2–they didn’t look aged at all. Of course, CGI these days is pretty amazing. I’m sure we’ll find out how they did that soon enough. Nothing is kept secret nowadays.