Home Bound But Happy
► I was hoping maybe I could push myself today and that my stomach would be fine enough to go out this afternoon despite having eaten supper yesterday. Woke up with a bloated aching stomach. It was nothing severe, just mild cramping, but enough to be setting off my nerves. I guess I'll have to wait until Saturday after all.
Saturday means it will have been over a week and a half since I last went out. Tomorrow isn't a possibility as Dad and Dean are driving to Kingston to pick up Max and Abby (my nephew and niece) so Dean and I can babysit them this weekend. At this rate it might just be best to avoid going out at all and wait for next Tuesday for Dad and I to do the "get Derek out of the apartment for a little while" thing. I'll need to pick up some groceries by then anyway.
► Dean took last week and this week off from work using some of her vacation days. This morning she told me she called in and is going to use vacation days and take next week off. As I said to her, she's obviously (whether consciously or not) using up all her allotted miss days and vacation days so that she'll be forced to finally have to go back to work and burn through the rest of the year. That's what happened last year, so I know she can do it. It's just that this happened last July, so she's going to be forced with a longer stretch to go through.
The Bipolar Gal and the Agoraphobe. We make a great brother/sister team.
► Aside from the stuff above, today has been pretty good. My 6 mini movie posters arrived in the mail today, six business days after they shipped. The posters look really good, clear and colourful and on thick glossy card stock paper. Two of the posters are more obviously printed from scans of old full sized posters, however, because the images have visible fold lines. The Superman II poster is slightly worse of the two since it has faint ripples visible in the image, from the scanner light catching where the original source poster was wrinkled. Still, for $7 reproductions of a 30 year old poster it looks pretty good.
My plan was to pack the posters away since I mostly bought them to have, if I ever get my own place. But having now seen them, I'm eager to get frames and hang them up. I just don't happen to have any space for them in my bedroom. At least, not currently.
► The other good thing today was that I finally got to talk to my comic book artist friend SatyQ. After 2 months he was able to draw another of the sketches for me from our sketch deal. This time I asked him to draw Marvel Comics' Medusa. Fully bushed and bottomless of course. I've long made peace with my perversions.
Matt: It's gonna get ya
Derek: I'd let it
There's three sketches left to go. The next is a nude Batgirl, but the last 2 slots I haven't been able to decide between Red Sonja, Mera, Ms. Marvel and 4 of my own characters ( The Stunning Heracles, Wendy Wonder, The Scarlet Will, and Majesty).
► Cracked: 6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy - Thanks for reminding me of what I hated in Titanic, all the gratuitous references Rose makes to things she likely never would have heard of (Freud! Picasso!). A bad example of this is, every single Keira Knightley period movie suffers from her character being an aggressive, anachronistic modern woman with modern sensibilities shoehorned into past settings. It's as if she only knows how to play one character. Probably why I find her tiresome at times.
► Cracked: 6 Ad Campaigns That Prove Humanity Is Doomed - I'm suddenly depressed. And also a sudden itching to punch some kids and douchebags in the face.
► Cracked: The 6 Most Gratuitously Cleavaged Women on TV - Gratuitously? I would have said deliciously.
► Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbucks - Whoa... space/time didn't collapse?!
► Leather Stormtrooper Motorcycle Mask - I may not have a motorcycle, but I'd want this mask and helmet.
► Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says - No word on Donald Trump's reaction yet.
Quote of the Moment
Sean: If we pull this off, I'm gonna shit!
- The Monster Squad (1987)
Drinking: A&W root beer
Last Watched: Inside The Actors Studio (1994 - ; several episodes)
Saturday means it will have been over a week and a half since I last went out. Tomorrow isn't a possibility as Dad and Dean are driving to Kingston to pick up Max and Abby (my nephew and niece) so Dean and I can babysit them this weekend. At this rate it might just be best to avoid going out at all and wait for next Tuesday for Dad and I to do the "get Derek out of the apartment for a little while" thing. I'll need to pick up some groceries by then anyway.
► Dean took last week and this week off from work using some of her vacation days. This morning she told me she called in and is going to use vacation days and take next week off. As I said to her, she's obviously (whether consciously or not) using up all her allotted miss days and vacation days so that she'll be forced to finally have to go back to work and burn through the rest of the year. That's what happened last year, so I know she can do it. It's just that this happened last July, so she's going to be forced with a longer stretch to go through.
The Bipolar Gal and the Agoraphobe. We make a great brother/sister team.
► Aside from the stuff above, today has been pretty good. My 6 mini movie posters arrived in the mail today, six business days after they shipped. The posters look really good, clear and colourful and on thick glossy card stock paper. Two of the posters are more obviously printed from scans of old full sized posters, however, because the images have visible fold lines. The Superman II poster is slightly worse of the two since it has faint ripples visible in the image, from the scanner light catching where the original source poster was wrinkled. Still, for $7 reproductions of a 30 year old poster it looks pretty good.
My plan was to pack the posters away since I mostly bought them to have, if I ever get my own place. But having now seen them, I'm eager to get frames and hang them up. I just don't happen to have any space for them in my bedroom. At least, not currently.
► The other good thing today was that I finally got to talk to my comic book artist friend SatyQ. After 2 months he was able to draw another of the sketches for me from our sketch deal. This time I asked him to draw Marvel Comics' Medusa. Fully bushed and bottomless of course. I've long made peace with my perversions.
Matt: It's gonna get ya
Derek: I'd let it
There's three sketches left to go. The next is a nude Batgirl, but the last 2 slots I haven't been able to decide between Red Sonja, Mera, Ms. Marvel and 4 of my own characters ( The Stunning Heracles, Wendy Wonder, The Scarlet Will, and Majesty).
► Cracked: 6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy - Thanks for reminding me of what I hated in Titanic, all the gratuitous references Rose makes to things she likely never would have heard of (Freud! Picasso!). A bad example of this is, every single Keira Knightley period movie suffers from her character being an aggressive, anachronistic modern woman with modern sensibilities shoehorned into past settings. It's as if she only knows how to play one character. Probably why I find her tiresome at times.
► Cracked: 6 Ad Campaigns That Prove Humanity Is Doomed - I'm suddenly depressed. And also a sudden itching to punch some kids and douchebags in the face.
► Cracked: The 6 Most Gratuitously Cleavaged Women on TV - Gratuitously? I would have said deliciously.
► Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbucks - Whoa... space/time didn't collapse?!
► Leather Stormtrooper Motorcycle Mask - I may not have a motorcycle, but I'd want this mask and helmet.
► Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says - No word on Donald Trump's reaction yet.
Quote of the Moment
Sean: If we pull this off, I'm gonna shit!
- The Monster Squad (1987)
Drinking: A&W root beer
Last Watched: Inside The Actors Studio (1994 - ; several episodes)