you can take the guy out of the chair, but you can't take the chair out of the guy
i have this week off work (yay!) and i wanted to spend it sleeping late, cross stitching, and working on my holiday project for writing group (a mashup of role playing games/gaming communities and king arthur legends) (plus lesbians) (so the knights of the round table are now a gaming group with merlin as the gm). instead i got out of bed before eight this am because there's a leak in the basement that the landlady thought was coming from her apartment, but it turns was coming from mine. the plumbers showed up at eight to turn off the water, cut a hole in her wall (i could hear them), and then come upstairs to cut a hole in my wall. fortunately it's a hall wall. (my bedroom was a possibility.) but did i mention they turned the water off? and then took out the toilet? because they did. so i went to starbucks to a. get a pumpkin spice latte, b. get a cranberry bliss bar, and most importantly c. pee. and then because the city is running free covid testing clinics and my cousin j's wife - my sister and i are going to their house for new year's eve - would like us to get tested just to be safe, i stood on line for an hour to stick a q-tip up my nose. which, ew. but it's done. and will hopefully be negative. the woman and her kid standing behind me brought their dog, who was super cute and pretty well behaved. he's only six months old but they call him their grumpy old man because that's what he looks like. he looked like a terrier of some stripe, and sometimes they do look like cranky little old guys.
i also stuck my head in cvs (for home testing kits, no dice, which is why i went to the city clinic) and best buy (for a mini freezer, also no dice), went to the grocery store for chicken and asparagus, went to whole foods for the taco chips i like (they were OUT), and came home. the plumbers turned the water back on before they left. they're coming back tomorrow to turn it off again, fix whatever the problem is in the basement, and clean up my bathroom. i might see the new matrix and go shirt shopping since i won't be able to pee in my own house for a whole day. again.
i did nothing yesterday except go to the grocery store. and for christmas my sister and i saw spider-man: no way home which i enjoyed a lot even tho it was legitimately tragic in places. i was spoiled for a comparatively small thing but it was a thing i liked so i didn't mind. i highly recommed it, altho maybe bring a kleenex or two because like i said, tragic. but very good! and zendaya is taller than tom holland and the movie does not in any way try to hide that. it's great. and i still love ned.
i was really thrown by the cgi to make alfred molina look younger. it wasn't quite uncanny valley - not like the technologically impressive but psychologically freaky flashback with a college age robert downey, jr, in cacw - but it was obvious enough to make me go "...wait, he's not that young, is he? does he really have that much hair?"
for previews we got battinson the batman (i'm mostly really curious), morbius (will probably take a pass because i don't like jared leto), uncharted (plus for tom holland and minus for mark wahlberg), and an apocalyptic movie about the moon or something ("the trailer was the whole movie," my sister said). and a heist movie with jake gyllenhaal that we came in in the middle of.
chinese food afterwards was yummy. i do love a good buffet. they had shrimp. :D
speaking of the mcu, i finished hawkeye and ended up liking it a lot. i felt cheated by the way jack apparently wasn't involved in any of the nefarious shit the show set him up for. they pounded that in pretty hard, that he was shady as hell and guilty of everything, and suddenly he's, like, swashbuckling and impressing the larpers and really just a dilettante with no higher motive than to avoid as much work as possible. and was clint desperate to get the watch because it was a memento of laura's time in shield, because they didn't want anyone to know that she'd been in shield, or because it had some kind of special technological function or something? either that was a dangling thread no one tied up, or it was explained and i didn't catch it.
i loved yelena, but i knew i would. also i kind of hope maya didn't actually kill kingpin, because he was such a great villain in daredevil, and i hate to think we'll never see him again. but also also, i get why her storyline ended that way. oh, did kazi set up her dad to be killed because he wanted to take dad's place in the organization, or did the order come from the fat man kingpin? and if it did come from kingpin, why? was that another explanation i missed?
this is the cross stitch:
it's for my sister. the purple things will someday be flowers.
habitat for humanity 3d printed its first house, for a woman and her son in virginia. how cool is that? so cool. it went up in twleve hours instead of four weeks, and the homeowner even got her own 3d printer so she can reprint stuff if it breaks.
i also stuck my head in cvs (for home testing kits, no dice, which is why i went to the city clinic) and best buy (for a mini freezer, also no dice), went to the grocery store for chicken and asparagus, went to whole foods for the taco chips i like (they were OUT), and came home. the plumbers turned the water back on before they left. they're coming back tomorrow to turn it off again, fix whatever the problem is in the basement, and clean up my bathroom. i might see the new matrix and go shirt shopping since i won't be able to pee in my own house for a whole day. again.
i did nothing yesterday except go to the grocery store. and for christmas my sister and i saw spider-man: no way home which i enjoyed a lot even tho it was legitimately tragic in places. i was spoiled for a comparatively small thing but it was a thing i liked so i didn't mind. i highly recommed it, altho maybe bring a kleenex or two because like i said, tragic. but very good! and zendaya is taller than tom holland and the movie does not in any way try to hide that. it's great. and i still love ned.
i was really thrown by the cgi to make alfred molina look younger. it wasn't quite uncanny valley - not like the technologically impressive but psychologically freaky flashback with a college age robert downey, jr, in cacw - but it was obvious enough to make me go "...wait, he's not that young, is he? does he really have that much hair?"
for previews we got battinson the batman (i'm mostly really curious), morbius (will probably take a pass because i don't like jared leto), uncharted (plus for tom holland and minus for mark wahlberg), and an apocalyptic movie about the moon or something ("the trailer was the whole movie," my sister said). and a heist movie with jake gyllenhaal that we came in in the middle of.
chinese food afterwards was yummy. i do love a good buffet. they had shrimp. :D
speaking of the mcu, i finished hawkeye and ended up liking it a lot. i felt cheated by the way jack apparently wasn't involved in any of the nefarious shit the show set him up for. they pounded that in pretty hard, that he was shady as hell and guilty of everything, and suddenly he's, like, swashbuckling and impressing the larpers and really just a dilettante with no higher motive than to avoid as much work as possible. and was clint desperate to get the watch because it was a memento of laura's time in shield, because they didn't want anyone to know that she'd been in shield, or because it had some kind of special technological function or something? either that was a dangling thread no one tied up, or it was explained and i didn't catch it.
i loved yelena, but i knew i would. also i kind of hope maya didn't actually kill kingpin, because he was such a great villain in daredevil, and i hate to think we'll never see him again. but also also, i get why her storyline ended that way. oh, did kazi set up her dad to be killed because he wanted to take dad's place in the organization, or did the order come from the fat man kingpin? and if it did come from kingpin, why? was that another explanation i missed?
this is the cross stitch:
it's for my sister. the purple things will someday be flowers.
habitat for humanity 3d printed its first house, for a woman and her son in virginia. how cool is that? so cool. it went up in twleve hours instead of four weeks, and the homeowner even got her own 3d printer so she can reprint stuff if it breaks.