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I saw Thor tonight, and it was hilarious! And generally good, though I feel like they underused Bruce and introduced some things that will probably never come up again, because that's how it goes in Marvel: only the team movies have real consequences.

I also did a bunch of dishes.

I cleaned the 3Dprinter at work, which was an interesting adventure in taking things apart. It still isn't working, though. It was close... I was running it's test print, and it seemed to be going okay... But literally the minute I looked away from it,it failed. Of course


I did a bunch of other things, though, so hey.

Making a cake tomorrow, after baby bedtime, for a birthday on Thursday. Chocolate almond and cherry with boiled icing, I'm thinking...

I managed not to have cake for breakfast - I made myself a fried egg sandwich. I did have cake for lunch.

I helped make carnitas for dinner - they turned out pretty good but not as goos as last time, I think.

I went to the knitting store and I think that's really all I accomplished today. I watched some more Rebels this evening, and then I went to go see Logan. I enjoyed it quite a lot, but then I liked the other two Wolverine movies so maybe my judgement should be taken into account if you are considering my opinion. If you like seeing people get stabbed through the face (I do!), this is a great movie! I was told the ending was surprising, but in fact I thought it was pretty well telegraphed. The child actors were all pretty much excellent. I liked the other characters. I hadn't actually payed to much attention to the trailers, except to know that there was a little girl (She was awesome). Patrick Stewart took me by surprise! And he swears a lot! Overall, it had good tension, though it was fairly predictable, and I enjoyed it.

I should be in bed. I'm pretending I posted this on Saturday.

I finished my gloves! All the ends are woven, and I made the caps for the fingers. I have also started my shawl, which is my next big non-portable project. It has 14 charts with tiny print and my eyes are already rebelling. I'm using the pinky/orange handspun I got for Christmas 2015, at last for art of it, I want the colours to be sunset/sunrise-y, s I have a purple to join on the end of this if I run out.

This was also a good media day! I finished watching Voltron (pls squee/flail with me in the comments!), and went to see Hidden Figures this afternoon, which was very good.

I also went out for dinner, after some running (well, driving) around trying to find a place that didn't have an almost 30 min wait. This is what happens when you go out on a Saturday without making reservations. Do I think we could have been seated and eating at our first choice if we'd just stuck it out there instead of trying to find somewhere else? Probably, yes. Though the place we wound up at was a very nice little diner. I would go there again, but it was definitely not what we'd initially had in mind. I'm still stuffed.

Now I should really go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a strange day.

...although I am probably the last person to have seen the movie.

( Black Widow-y thoughts under here! )

So I backed the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter yesterday because.... Reading Rainbow, fuck yeah!

So I have been getting the backer updates (only 2 so far) which have mostly been sort of excited flaily disbelief. I think LeVar Burton almost cried in the first little video.

I think the second one (both were written by the RR CEO) could have used a second pair of eyes though... It seems to be missing a word:

"My wife, Jane, heads up Customer Service for Reading Rainbow, and wants you to know that our email problems should be fixed by tomorrow. She won't let me come until I tell you that, because she feels horrible that we haven't been able to respond to more of you."

...

Best thing - from HopefulNebula on #Yuletide: i didn't think they'd be reading lysistrata!

(The missing word is clearly 'home' >.>)

In other news, I went and say Days of Future Past! \o/ It was fun!

There was an ad at the beginning from a bunch of male Hollywood actors talking about THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSENT! \o/ And men being responsible! It was a don't be a rapist video and it was lovely! \o/ It warmed my heart, it did :)

Then there was the trailer for the fake cops movie, which was utterly disgusting. Two bro cop-impersonators whose faces light up at the thought of 'intervening' in a domestic violence instance involving three young women? Disgusting. But oh ho, the tables are *hilariously* turned on our hapless wanna be white knights because two of them aren't even pretty - they are large and angry and violent, ha ha ha *puke*. Disgusting! /o\

But the movie was fun!

And now I need to go to bed. G'night!

Work:
-backup the CRL-data computers
-fnish token
-finish trunk
-clean glass
-start swords and bone in catalyst (heat gun for glass later)

Non-work
-GET PRESCRIPTION FILLED
-pack like a maniac
-craft like a maniac
-see if you can finind someone to drive you to Houston instead of taking the shuttle?
-Key to shelby!
-Tidy and/or clean -_-

yikes! Gonna be a long day/night methinks :3 but soooo worth it :D

PS: Thor was awesome and I now want to lick him @_@

Okay I don't have any specific good news really - I'm leaving to go see Julie in less than a week though! Hooray! I think I am juuuuust about as ready as I can be for Underworld - there are a few things I need to finish/pick up still, but nothing the weekend can't resolve. I do need ti fins someone who can check in on Maze while I'm away though, or take him in if they are willing.

As for god news... Not a real god, I'm afraid, but I did get to play Scion twice this week, which is always fun, even if we continue to suffer from Chupacabrus interruptus :V I am less sure if/when I'll get to run my storyline at this point, but it will keep, and really it is because I am going to be off doing awesome things, so I really can't complain :V I have had some cool character/story thoughts also that are keeping me content :D Also there were tiny kittens! And I cuddled them mightily! And it as awesome :D <3


Ohgodswhywouldyoudothattome - Hazel and Jodie sort of tricked me into watching The Human Centipede last night. It is a horrible film. It is a horror film, so that is apt. It is the first i have seen in a loooong damn time that was actually disturbing. when I say it is bad, I don't mean, like Pumaman bad, or battlefield earth bad, I mean more like Cannibal Holocaust bad. It is right royally fucked up and probably not fit for human consumption. Sure, there are mockable parts earlier on, but it is not that kind of film. And, dear gods, they're making a sequel. I actually had dreams about this film last night, as I was foolish enough to watch it before bed, but my subsoncious apparently felt the need to do some damage control, and they were somehow not actually nightmares, and my brain gave me more opportunities for escape. Also, a weiner-dog centipede, which was, really kind of just sad and hilarious.

Good news - heard back from my accomodations in HI, and all is well on that end - hooray! Now I just need to get my permit :x

Time to go make lunch :D

I just saw it, It is really hard to talk about without giving away spoilers, but it is amazing. The story is complex and engrossing, the acting excellent, the cinematography and direction are superb. It succeeded in doing something I always liked in Unbreakable, which is that the movie seamlessly tells you what cues to be watching for to interpret what is going on, and these things are evident in the direction. I guess they sort of do it in The Matrix, but with much less subtlety and class.

It is brain melting in a very good way, and it had better win some damned awards.

This looks amazing!





(stolen from anna_bird