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DST and Stuff

We go through this every GDMF year, yet for some reason, even though we ‘gain’ an hour of sleep, I always struggle for consciousness on the Monday after the end of Daylight Savings Time.

*continue drinking afternoon coffee*

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My co-worker dropped off an NFL Gameday Magazine that another co-worker picked up from the last Broncos-Raiders game, with Case Keenum on the cover.

I may not be able to say it in person, but thank you, Michael Q.

#fuckcancer

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I’m still trying to figure out what to watch during my elliptical sessions in the morning, once I finish off The Expanse Season 3.  I’m narrowing it down to the new Jack Ryan series or maybe a rewatch of Babylon 5.

In related news, I’m almost finished with last season’s DC Legends of Tomorrow.  It’s the one DC CW show that does not irritate me, which is sad.  I may give Black Lightning a shot.

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If you haven’t done so yet, don’t forget to VOTE tomorrow.  Please.

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It feels strange that for the first time in 3 years, I didn’t have to buy Star Wars movie tickets for me and my friends and family.

Meanwhile, SW Resistance has yet to really get interesting.

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Going back to The Expanse, I don’t know which faction or side (Earth, Mars, Belters, OPA) I’d want to be on, truth be told.  They’re all fucked up in one way or another.

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TV 2018-19 Update

Except for Doctor Who, I’m not planning on watching anything now.

As much as I liked The Gifted last season, I missed the premiere and the episodes for this season.

I did watch the premiere of Supergirl, but I have no plans to watch that regularly, though I’ll more than likely watch the Elseworlds crossover episodes on the CW.

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Turn and Burn

I managed to snag one of these Loot Crate exclusives off eBay: a replica of the Rocinante from The Expanse, the latest TV series that I’m playing catch-up on.

I must like this series or something.

I saw a bunch of 3D-printed minis from the series on Shapeways, including the Donnager, Tycho Station, and the Canterbury.

I also found this handy size comparison graphic from this site.

I recommend the series if you haven’t watched it.  Seasons 1 & 2 are available on Amazon Prime, while season 3 is the one you have to pay for, for now.  Season 4 is currently under production for release next year.

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By Your Command

In 2015, Universal remastered the original Battlestar Galactica series from 1978.

Three years later, for the 40th anniversary, I finally picked up the Definitive Collection, which has both the 1978 series and Galactica 1980, along with the original theatrical release.

The difference between the two editions is that the Definitive Collection has both series in widescreen and fullscreen, while the Remastered Collection only has the widescreen presentations.

That’s why I waited until the price dropped considerably before picking up the Definitive Collection.

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Star Wars Resistance

3 episodes watched.

It’s different from the previous two Dave Filoni series, and not just in the animation style.

It feels… meh, but maybe because Clone Wars grew to be better, while Rebels was good from the start, and I’m now expecting that right out of the gate.

I’ll give it a few more episodes.

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Who are you?

“Oh, yes, I’m glad you asked that again.  Bit of adrenaline, dash of outrage, and a hint of panic knitted my brain back together.  I know EXACTLY who I am.”

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The Dark Side

Well, maybe not so dark.

There are some things related to Star Wars that I do not like.  Toxic fanboyism aside, I’m referring to merchandising.

Sure, I’m a sucker for anything Boba Fett/Millennium Falcon/Porg related, but the latest thing that annoys me is Fantasy Flight Games’ X-Wing Miniatures game, which recently went to version 2.0.

As part of this new version, players are expected to buy conversion kits for their existing miniatures to make them ‘2.0 compatible’.  The problem is that each of the 3 conversion kits are $50 (retail) and cover a broad range of ships within each faction (Rebel, Imperial, Mercs).

Fair enough, but for the most part, the kits either have too few or too many of ships I own, or are mostly for ships that I don’t own.  I hope they come out with individual ship conversion kits, but I’m not holding my breath.

This is the main reason I’m not getting into their Armada (capital ships) game, which I fully expect to to undergo the same 2.0 revamp.

I have a different strategy with their other miniatures offerings, however.

I’ve gotten back into playing Imperial Assault, and collecting the miniatures/expansions for this game, to prevent myself from getting into their other miniatures battle game, Legion.

I feel that skirmish level games are what my friends and I are more interested in playing anyways.

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TV 2018-19

This season’s viewing schedule:

Tuesday:
The Gifted (FOX)

Mid-season replacement shows, time/day TBD:

The Orville
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I’m more than half a season behind on all the CW DC shows, and frankly I was getting tired of all of them, so they’re totally off my viewing schedule.  I may end up binge watching them, or switching to them as my morning exercise show.  We’ll see.

None of the new shows interest me.  Though I may end up checking a few of them out over the next week or so.

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Post-Stone Post

Friday afternoon.

I still didn’t feel 100% this morning, so I stayed home.

I managed to shower at my usual time.  The new scale still says I’ve lost about 8 pounds since the stone appeared.  Surprisingly I can see and feel a difference in my face and my clothes.

I made breakfast, eggs, which I hadn’t had in about a week.  Most of this week was 3am-4am wake up calls to urinate and rehydrate and falling back to sleep until about 7am-8am.  Though I did manage to have oatmeal on Wednesday.

I decided to do what I meant to do last weekend, and went out to get a haircut.  On reflection this should have been done Thursday afternoon, since I was in the area, dropping off the stone to my doctor’s office.

On the way home I stopped by Best Buy, since there was an email from after 11pm last night, telling me that Spider-Man for PS4 was available.  I was asleep at the time.

Once home I popped in the Spider-Man disk, and marveled (heh) at the speed which the game was downloading, minutes instead of HOURS.

I began to watch Iron Fist season 2, which seems better than I was expecting it to be.  I then jumped back to the PS4 and entered the download code for the pre-order bonus stuff, including Peter’s Infinity War suit.

I then started to play Spider-Man.  It’s fun, but I only got [redacted] before I stopped, though I wasn’t feeling anything wrong with my hands.  The PS4 controller just seems more comfortable in my hands than the XBox controller.  We’ll see if this changes as I try to play the game further.

I went back to Iron Fist.  The first episode was good, and I’m currently in the second.  I don’t think I’m going to binge this over the weekend, since there’s other stuff I need to do.

I made the congratulatory frozen pizza that I bought earlier this week, to be eaten post-stone.

I think I’m going to finish this IF episode and either take a nap or do some miniatures painting.

And that elliptical looks like it’s been waiting for me to get back on it.

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The Death of Superman

If you’ve read DC Comics in the past 26 years, you’re aware of the Death of Superman storyline.

It’s a classic.  One of my favorite stories to pick up and read over again.

It was one of the few times that I cried over a comic book story.

Yeah, they killed Superman.  But you knew he’d be back.  It just took over a year for him to return in the comics.

This year, DC/WB Animation came out with an adaptation of this story, and it’s far better than I expected.

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