Accomplishments

This is the first Saturday since the Crisis on Earth-Prime began where I feel that I actually accomplished stuff.

  • I cut my own hair.
  • I cleared out and recycled a lot of materials that had been sitting in my closet for about 30 years.
  • I reorganized and stored a bunch of board games sitting around the living room.
  • I organized my Battle Mechs into lances and printed up record sheets for them.
  • I made more Porto’s stuff in the air fryer.
  • I found a much more adorable Baby Yoda plush that the one waiting for me at the office.

And somewhere in between all this I watched The Andromeda Strain.

Overall I think this has been a rough time for everyone.  Like everyone I seem to have good days and bad days.  But I think I’ve learned how to mitigate the days.

And I saw something that was quoted by a couple of folks today:

You are not working from home. You are at home, in a crisis, trying to work.

Which is correct for me for 4 days out of the week.  That fifth day in the office is working at work in a crisis.  Which surprisingly is relaxing.  It’s as close to ‘normal’ that I think I’ll ever see in the near future, despite the lack of coworkers and traffic and places to eat for lunch.

Hang in there, everyone.  We’re in this together, for as long as it takes.

Randomness

I don’t recall if I ever read “Call of the Wild”.  And if I did, I can’t recall most of the plot.


At the moment, I’m about as enthusiastic about the announcement of the new Star Trek film as I was about the announcement of the first J.J. Abrams Star Trek film.

I blame Star Trek Beyond and Discovery.  Maybe Into Darkness as well.


Project: Blueberry Pie was a semi success.  The pie was okay, just more watery/runny than I was expecting.


The little voice in your head is wise.  Listen to it.


Come ON, you Spurs! #mourinho #really


The Saga ends in a month.  I’m ready and not ready for it to end.

Star Wars will live on.


Buh.

Growth

As much as I pan the Prequel Trilogy, the one thing that was good (for me) was Obi-Wan Kenobi, and by extension, Qui-Gon Jinn.  Those two were my favorite characters from those movies, period.  I’m looking forward to the Ewan McGregor ‘Kenobi’ series on Disney+.

“We’ll handle this.”

As a 10 year old, I seemed to identify more with Han Solo, and this went on throughout the Original Trilogy, from Episodes IV to VI.  I like to think that my personality during my teen and young adult years was influenced by Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and Mr. Spock.

But watching The Phantom Menace, I realized that at that point in my life I was identifying more with the Jedi, particularly Qui-Gon.  I wasn’t as reckless and cocky (heh) as I was when I was younger, I was growing more patient and understanding as my career as a sysadmin went on.

“ID-10-T error…”

As far as the Sequel Trilogy, I seem to have gone back to identifying with Solo, mainly because, like him, I’ve seen shit over the past 30+ years that’s changed my world view.  Seeing him admit that he had been wrong about the Force was oddly satisfying.

What brought this on?  Discussion with a co-worker when she brought her Batuu lightsaber around to my cubicle, and talking about the impact of a 42 year old movie on a person, or people like us.

Echo Auto

2 days in, and I find that it’s a bit distracting during a home-work commute of less than 20 minutes.

It is nice that while plugged in I can have it play local radio stations from I Heart Radio.  But it pauses when doing navigation, with vocal cues for turns and exits.

I can see it being more useful during longer trips.

We’ll see.

Blender Update

  • Rice milk: okay, but probably will not make again.  Too ‘goopy’.
  • Almond milk: best of the milk attempts.
  • Oat milk: literally tasted like drinking bread.
  • Milkshakes: of the 3 I’ve made, only 1 was decent enough to be called a milkshake; the others were basically chocolate milk.
  • Smoothies: probably the best thing that I’ve made with this thing.
  • Soup: very good soup (tomato).

Still need to attempt making ice cream.

Ace Blender

I ordered this thing last Thursday, and according to Walmart and FedEx, it would be delivered on Saturday.

Saturday arrived, and I stayed home and tracked it all day.  Still on schedule for delivery by end of the day.

But at 3:00pm, the status changed to ‘Pending delivery’ with no date given.

Arrgh.

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Shaving

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that using an electric razor is no faster than using a non-electric razor.

That said, the only thing I bought on Black Friday was a new electric razor to replace the one that appears to have died last week.

AM/FM

You know how I mentioned that my Grandpa would always have his little transistor radio with him whenever he was listening to a ball game?

It’s the reason that I carry one in my backpack, though I don’t use it as often as he would have.

It’s usually tuned to KNBR 680, too.