Yesterday Hawk sold most of her comicbook collection. For years it has been occuping a few dozen long boxes in our "Hobbit Hole" behind the garage. We don't have an exact before picture of the collection, but here's a photo from when were were doing some cleaning in the Hobbit Hole a few years ago:


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New Zealand Travelog #43
Back home - Mon, 22 Apr 2024, 8amWe're back home from New Zealand now. ...Well, when "now" was Monday morning; it's taken me until Tuesday night to post this blog ( Read more... )

New Zealand Travelog #25
WLG Airport - Mon, 15 Apr 2024, 1pm

This morning we flew out from Queenstown. And wouldn't you know it, the skies were finally clear. The whole fucking week has been clouds and rain, and now I see this from the top of the stairs boarding the jet:


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Season 2 Episode 2 of Wheel of Time, "Strangers and Friends", continues with tracking multiple storylines where the main protagonists have been split up. That aspect of the story is in keeping with the books- the story often flips back and forth between multiple viewpoint characters in different places from chapter to chapter or even within a ( Read more... )

Here are a few more thoughts about S2E1 of the Wheel of Time series streaming on Amazon Prime. The episode is entitled "A Taste of Solitude", not " The Darkfriend Social" like you might have thought from my previous blog. That's just a fun sobriquet that a friend of mine created over 30 years ago that's since become common in the fandom! Following ( Read more... )

Just recently Hawk and I resumed watching the Wheel of Time TV series with season 2. Here are my thoughts as we watched S2E1, "A Taste of Solitude". Originally I started structuring this as Five Things but then realized it was getting way too long, with 4-5 paragraphs per Thing. Thus I'm splitting it up into a few pieces. The first one is the ( Read more... )

Recently Hawk and I started watching Season 2 of The Wheel of Time. It's streaming on Amazon Prime. As I write this we've watched the first two episodes already. I'm not going to write about them, though, but the series in general up to the start of S2 ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's just my newsfeed, but investment self-help author Robert Kiyosaki has been in the news a lot lately. It seems like every week recently I've seen another article or two about him. Kiyosaki is author of the classic financial literacy book, Rich Dad, Poor DadI picked up a copy of the book in the 2010s and devoured it. I kinda wish ( Read more... )

Lately you might have noticed me posting with the tag Bah Humbug. It's a tag I've been using for many years on my posts about the Christmas season ( Read more... )

First off, yes, I'm still writing about our trip to West Virginia and North Carolina from last month. Yes, it's over 3 weeks since we returned home and I still haven't cleared the backlog of journal entries from it. But now I'm almost done. One of these last few I'm going to switch into the present tense instead of tying it to a particular day or ( Read more... )