It was very very much A Weekend and I am starting the week the week fairly exhausted so that's great. But:

Watched Captain Marvel on Thursday evening and enjoyed it - was a fun movie, above average in my own personal MCU ranking but not way up top. When I got home I was like, that was nice, but I remember Brie Larson can really really really pack ( Read more... )

...a collection of photos from China, without explanations because if I try to write those I will probably never get to the point of posting at all /o\

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I am back! Had a wonderful trip this year. The best thing about it, honestly, was hanging out with my family; it was our first joint family vacation since 2002, all five of us together, and it was especially great to have baby sis join us from her current hometown of Brussels. But uh, the ski was great too :-) With occasionally challenging weather ( Read more... )

I watched Jupiter Ascending this evening. My responses are as follow ( Read more... )

This weekend - today too, actually, but man, this weekend - had possibly the perfectest winter weather to ever perfect. Beautiful day, optimal temperature, sunlight, clear skies. Theoretically I'm upset that this is winter because we could certainly use the rain, from agriculture to wildlife to, you know, drinking and showers, those are important ( Read more... )

Yes, it is time to admit it. I have not actually been posting December entries at 11:59PM each night, but have, in fact, been backdating entries posted a full 30-60 minutes later. Or in today's case, 6AM. Let's face it, there's virtually no way for me to actually manage posting coherent things by midnight, so I'm just going to post whenever I post ( Read more... )

Happy December!
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Hello! I hope you are all having a glorious Sunday/Labor Day weekend.

To start off your week (or interrupt your weekend, whatever):

1. Courtesy of
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Bunch of photos from February and March below the cuts ( Read more... )

Things are quiet now; it's amazing how quickly you can shift between modes, normal vs national emergency. This entire week feels like it took dragged on forever, yesterday morning feels like a year ago, and at the same time I feel like I barely blinked and now it's over ( Read more... )