- continue reading rules for Box Seat Baseball
finish up Thanos figure repaintround of golf (table top) using John Price’s foursome- start reading rules for Batman Gotham City Chronicles
- a game of Memoir ’44
an hour of house clean up- continue with Ultraman on Netflix
To-Do List 4.20.2019
VUDU and Marvel
I’m a completest.
Every time VUDU has a Marvel movies sale, I try to pick one up that I don’t own in order to round out my collection.
Of course, this means I’m down to Iron Man 3 and Thor The Dark World since I bought everything else as they came out.
Today I decided on Iron Man 3. Next time will be Thor The Dark World.
I’m guessing their next Marvel sale will be in July, before Spider-Man Far From Home comes out.
Whatever It Takes
At WonderCon in 2008, while watching Jon Favreau’s first clip for Iron Man, I NEVER dreamed that I and many of my friends and family would be so invested, emotionally and otherwise, in what has become the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
And 11 years later, the end is near.
Because if we can’t protect the Earth, you can be damned well sure we’ll avenge it.
Return of the Fanboys
I was watching the closing ceremonies of Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019, and they showed the recap video.
Over Skype I told Nelson that I wanna go back.
He did too, and said that we should go if it came back to Anaheim or to Los Angeles.
After an interesting audience participation exercise involving a large replica of the data disc containing the Death Star plans and a large lightsaber, they revealed the next location:
Hope to see you there!
The End
I got a bit emotional when I first watched this trailer earlier today.
Because it IS the end.
Not the end of Star Wars.
It’s the end of a story that I had first been aware of when I was 10 years old, and I’ve followed for 42 years.
The end of the Saga.
The end of the Skywalker story.
The end of a huge chunk of my childhood, since Star Wars has been an integral part of my life since 1977.
At least this story has been.
I said earlier that I don’t like the title, but the more I think about it, the more I suspect that it isn’t what I think it means.
There will be plenty of fan theories, and some may even be right, but as I learned from The Last Jedi, whatever happens happens, and no amount of whining and complaining will change that.
We shall see, come December.
Hat Trick
With One Magic Word…
Ch-ch-changes
My urologist wants me to go on a low sodium diet.
Okay. I’ll go one better and just adjust my food intake in general.
I’ve started by cutting out fast food.
I’ve gone back to portion control, but not the point-counting from Weight Watchers, or WW as they now like to be called.
I’m going back to eating salads for lunch at least 3 times a week.
Cutting out donuts.
Cutting down on rice (again).
Back to a small amount of cottage cheese for breakfast, with perhaps a waffle. And smaller amounts of my usual cereal and milk.
Bananas are back.
I’m still eating pizza, just less of it.
Controlled snacking (i.e. none or the actual recommended serving size, like 3 Oreos or 5 tortilla chips).
We’ll see how this goes for the next few months.
Hey, most of this has worked before.
Now, Where Were We?
Recap of a week+ off from work.
3/4 – Start of a week off from work. Not much happened on Monday.
3/5 – Testing day for… reasons. Mostly an assessment of how I deal with computer support issues and stuff like that. Visited a comics/toys store on Geary, which I’d never been to before. Almost bought a really expensive Mazinger Z import from Japan, but talked myself out of it.