aka Blog v4.0
I didn’t post here in all of April?
Anyways, a random post of my top five movie franchises, or portions thereof:
Honorable mention: Star Trek (II, III, IV), The Man With No Name, Dexter Riley, Lord of the Rings.
I think I teared up about half a dozen times, I was so happy with this film. I clapped. I silently cheered in the early morning as I watched this on HBOMax.
They did something that the other two Godzilla films didn’t do, and that was show, not tell. There was exposition, but a lot of stuff that they could have had in long, wordy scenes, they didn’t. Hell, there was a line that more or less jokingly addressed that.
The monsters fought. That’s all I ask for. They fought. And they fought well.
The people scenes were less than before, probably why the movie came in at a tad under 2 hours in length.
None of the humans were in the movie long enough to be annoying, even the ones who would have been under other circumstances.
Every character had an appropriate resolution by the end of the film. Heh.
The movie is definitely in my top 10 Godzilla films, maybe even my top 5.
It ranks just below Kong: Skull Island in my Monarch/Monsterverse list.
A couple of years ago, a close friend of mine suggested that I need to go on my Hero’s Journey.
Basically he meant that need to go through some quest, if you will, that can help me find or refocus my purpose, since I’ve definitely have lost my way, so to speak, in many aspects of my life.
I’ve been told by a couple of friends that one way that helps them focus is journaling, which I’ve looked at, but seemed like something that was a bit too much or not enough, depending on what I was trying to accomplish.
Which is my basic problem. What the hell am I doing?
And then I came across a product called The Hero’s Journal. A method to help me tell a better life story.
So I’m going to try an experiment with this product, setting up a quest and going through the 90 days (pages) of this journal to see if my goal can be achieved.
Simple goal, really, to see if I can lose the weight I’ve gained during the pandemic, if not more.
I’ve done weight loss before, but it was all gained back over the years, and then some, thanks to working from home/sheltering in place.
So part of the quest will be finding solutions and sticking with it over the 90 days.
I think writing this down will give me a better handle of what I’ve been doing (or failing to do) over the past year or so.
We’ll see what happens.
And then I found a box of slides.
I didn’t organize them too well, I’m afraid.
Found some negatives in a kitchen cabinet that my Dad used for miscellaneous storage of stuff, most of which I tossed or put in recycling.
But hey, more old photos!
Why did it take me so long to look up how to armor a bear and finally discovering ‘barding’?
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My list of goals while playing role-playing games should include “Do Something Awesome”.
In our last session, we were fighting some big creatures, and my character’s turn came along, and another player said something like, “C’mon Chris, do something awesome!”
A few die rolls later and I brought down one of the creatures to a sliver of health on his hit points bar. Another character finished off the creature.
So yeah, paladin smites are awesome.
When they hit.
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Otter race?!?!?
My sister Jen found a yellow fishnet bag with some old letters, a 50+ year-old Chinese Restaurant menu from Minnesota, and a set of negatives.
So I set up my little all-purpose media scanner thing and made pictures out of the negatives.
Behold!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these pictures, in any form.
Oh, and here’s that Chinese Restaurant Menu:
Chapter 9: OH SHIT A KRAYT DRAGON
Chapter 10: HEY THAT’S APPA
Chapter 11: HOLY CRAP BO-KATAN
Chapter 12: ARE THOSE SNOKE CLONES?
Chapter 13: OMG AHSOKA
Chapter 14: BOBA FUCKING FETT IS BACK
Chapter 15: That poor Shoretrooper
Chapter 16: IS THAT REALLY HIM IT CAN’T BE NO WAY WAIT MAYBE IT IS HIM HOLY SHIT IT IS AND THERE’S R2
I got a bug up my butt to create a new Star Trek role playing campaign that takes place concurrently with Lower Decks.
Circa 2380, Outpost Delta Tioga is located on the Romulan Neutral Zone. It is the former site of Science Station Delta-05, which was destroyed by the Borg in 2364.
ODT is now a Federation Listening Post, but is still listed as a science station in Federation records.
The station is home port for the California-class USS Colma NCC-94014.
Occasionally personnel from ODT are assigned to the Colma for intelligence gathering missions along the Romulan Border.
The Romulans have long suspected the true nature of the outpost, but have so far turned a blind eye regarding ODT.
Until now.
