Home and Back Again, Digging in the Geekbox, The Good Old Hockey Game, etc
Busy weekend, as always. Cynra & I went down to K-Town for Easter. Pater & Mater went to the Orthodox Easter celebration, with a ceremony that lasted four hours and was followed by dinner. We joined Uday & Qusay for dinner along with Uday's GF and an old roommate's of Qusay's.
The game, as mentioned previously, was a good one, with the leafs going from winning to losing back to winning. Definitely not a goalie's game. Of course, since New York won yesterday, it turned out to be for naught. What a game the NY/NJ one was; NJ scored with .7 seconds left, only to lose in a shootout.
Didn't get to finish reading The Ultimate Mentalist yet, but it's good so far. A lot of use of transforms for mind control stuff. Man, I hate Aid, Transform and Drain with a passion. They just feel like cheating.
While down there, I picked up a box of comics. Nice selection; got an Alpha Flight one shot (the preflight checkup, as it were, larf larf), the Thing/Sasquatch MTIO (with the on going slow death of Bill Foster, LSH 300 (neat What If kinda issue with a bunch of artists) and a 100 page JLA issue, which has a JSA crossover, a JSA story, The Story of the Freedom Train and a dumb story where they fight a guy with a killer organ (a rather turgid piece, har har har). The crowning piece of the stuff was, of course, my Mighty Marvel Workout Book.
God. I thought I'd been hallucinating it, but no, it was real. A book with warm up exercises by the Human Torch, slimming exercised by the Invisible Girl (including a calorie guide), stretching exercises by Mr. Fantastic and butt toning exercises by The Thing. Okay, yeah, they aren't 100% logical. Thor does strength workouts (jump rope! Jump AGAIN, Mortal!) and at least twice the characters say "You'll never see Superman/A DC character doing this!" Which I guess is true, as I never have.
Got home in time to watch TAR last night. What a pisser. Uchenna and Joyce got royally messed up by their transfer, and ended up very VERY behind. The evil midget and her even MORE evil sister did not get eliminated.
They also did another clue in a haystack challenge, with 600 boxes of cookies, with one cookie containing a licorice centre that would get them the clue. Danny & Oswald nearly had a meltdown doing it.
I got both my choices wrong; I assumed Danielle's challenge issues forecast in the trailer would mean trouble for her n' Eric, but no luck. At this point, I'm cheering for cha cha cha and E&D by default.
The game, as mentioned previously, was a good one, with the leafs going from winning to losing back to winning. Definitely not a goalie's game. Of course, since New York won yesterday, it turned out to be for naught. What a game the NY/NJ one was; NJ scored with .7 seconds left, only to lose in a shootout.
Didn't get to finish reading The Ultimate Mentalist yet, but it's good so far. A lot of use of transforms for mind control stuff. Man, I hate Aid, Transform and Drain with a passion. They just feel like cheating.
While down there, I picked up a box of comics. Nice selection; got an Alpha Flight one shot (the preflight checkup, as it were, larf larf), the Thing/Sasquatch MTIO (with the on going slow death of Bill Foster, LSH 300 (neat What If kinda issue with a bunch of artists) and a 100 page JLA issue, which has a JSA crossover, a JSA story, The Story of the Freedom Train and a dumb story where they fight a guy with a killer organ (a rather turgid piece, har har har). The crowning piece of the stuff was, of course, my Mighty Marvel Workout Book.
God. I thought I'd been hallucinating it, but no, it was real. A book with warm up exercises by the Human Torch, slimming exercised by the Invisible Girl (including a calorie guide), stretching exercises by Mr. Fantastic and butt toning exercises by The Thing. Okay, yeah, they aren't 100% logical. Thor does strength workouts (jump rope! Jump AGAIN, Mortal!) and at least twice the characters say "You'll never see Superman/A DC character doing this!" Which I guess is true, as I never have.
Got home in time to watch TAR last night. What a pisser. Uchenna and Joyce got royally messed up by their transfer, and ended up very VERY behind. The evil midget and her even MORE evil sister did not get eliminated.
They also did another clue in a haystack challenge, with 600 boxes of cookies, with one cookie containing a licorice centre that would get them the clue. Danny & Oswald nearly had a meltdown doing it.
I got both my choices wrong; I assumed Danielle's challenge issues forecast in the trailer would mean trouble for her n' Eric, but no luck. At this point, I'm cheering for cha cha cha and E&D by default.