Well it's St. Patrick's Day, a day that I didn't celebrate today. As discussed in my weekend blog (that I got out today), I celebrated it on Friday and Sunday, and got a lot of it on Saturday. I even forgot to wear green, but I had done it so much over the weekend that I don't feel like I failed my Irish American heritage. Not too much done today, I cleaned up some more of the house, and got the blog out, and watched some movies while doing my Monday monkey work. One thing I did was some experimenting with leaving the roku set to a live streaming channel to see if it'll stay on with the TV turned off, and it will. This is a thing for my grandma since she doesn't know how to use the TV and all the workers at her assisted living will do is turn the TV on and off, not change the channels (I understand, they have more important things to do than pick out TV programming for a resident). She doesn't get cable in her room (at least without paying extra and she doesn't "like TV enough" to justify the cost), but she does get all the OTA channels in our market and we get a lot of channels, including Buzzer (an old gameshow channel), MeTV Toons (old cartoons), and PBS kids (a 24 hour educational kids show channel), and while those are good (we've been leaving it on the gameshow channel since we knew it would always be "wholesome fun" and not too confusing, and her favorite show was wheel of fortune), she REALLY likes Disney Junior. We have Disney Plus and it now has "live streaming channels" (not "Disney Junior proper" but it does have "Disney Playtime" which is a bunch of preschool shows), and after buying a new smart TV we have an extra 1080p roku that we could use for projects. Unfortunately disney plus doesn't work well on my 8 year old roku limited, but sling works on it and we get nick jr with our subscription, so we're going to try setting that up for her. Later.
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