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Last night, around midnight, I went to take my usual nightly shower and discovered that there was no water! It had been working as recently as around 10 pm, so I did not know what had happened, but I poured out some water from one of my 2 remaining emergency gallons to brush my teeth and wash my face, and set up a handwashing bowl for the overnight, and went to bed.

When I got up this morning at 8:20 am, I discovered that there was still no water, but had received an email (timestamped 2 am, so someone had a worse night about it than I did *wry*) from the building management that the water was out due to a plumbing emergency and plumbers would be onsite today to fix it. So I once again used some of my emergency water to wash and brush.

Thankfully, I recently got a new Keurig, the kind where it has a reservoir for multiple cups instead of having to be filled each time I made a cup of coffee, and the reservoir was filled, and the ice trays were as well, so at least my coffee was not affected. Not knowing the ETA of the repairs, I also put in an Instacart order for 2 more gallon jugs of water to see me through the day if necessary. (Last time, I just ordered a couple of jugs a day each day [as well as one of those 24 bottle packs of bottled water], and there were also short periods where they put the water back on so I was able to fill pitchers and my bucket; that did not happen this time. To be honest, I thought that after that experience in 2023, they'd put in a system where they didn't have to turn the water off for everyone at the same time and could keep it on in the buildings where there wasn't a problem, but I guess not; for those of you who don't know, my apartment building is actually 3 buildings that are only connected on the basement and lobby level, not one big lonesome building.)

The jugs were delivered around 12 pm, and shortly thereafter, as I expected, the water came back on. (I was like, I know if I put an order in, the water will be back too late for me to cancel. I also know that that is magical thinking and nonsense, but...that's what happened today. *hands*)

Anyway! That was my anxiety-inducing overnight/morning.

Work was busy - the turnaround time between the Q3 board stuff (late September) and the Q4 board stuff (early December) is super short, and I am trying to get on top of it. I did watch the season finale of Ted Lasso, and ( spoilers )

Oh, I also watched the season finale of Lanterns, which I liked a lot! ( spoilers )

Now I have a new episode of Slow Horses to watch, so excuse me. *g*

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The book's had the two simultaneously existing from the start, but at a distance - the threats that " Sin Es Tro " and Hector Hammond represented were very separate.

Issue #17 put one in the former - issue #18's a bit of the pulp history of the world in which the latter thrives.

Issue #19's more of that history from a more grim angle.

( It's hitting the same notes as the Absolute Evil one-shot. )

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"The horror imagery is very patient in a way that I really admire, but then when it cuts loose, just some of the visuals that I see in manga comics are so over the top and upsetting in a way that really just serves horror comics so well. It's not like nobody's drawing gross shit in Western horror comics, but something about manga just really hits hard. I don't know. I just really admire it. So yeah, I'm just drawing on that for for influence. The visual style of Midnight Spider-Man is very East meets West." - Phillip Kennedy Johnson

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hannah

One of my clients does her work on a Mac. She's got it set up that I can do some work on another Mac in another room in her apartment, which is useful, but at the same time, it reinforces my bias against the system. I'm sure if I spent more than a few hours a couple times a week every few months - not a whole lot of time - working on one, I'd be able to arrange the display and interface to know where everything is and how to find what I'm looking for when I need it. As it stands, I'm constantly shuffling around to make sure I haven't lost track of anything. There's a lot of wondering, "Wait, where did I put that?"

The awareness there's a maximum amount of modifications I can do to what's essentially the boss' computer helps somewhat. It's not my computer; I'm there for work.

I overheard her talking to a tech support person today, and one thing she said was how by using chat clients, she didn't need to know how to program anymore. She has a long-running blog, and I stood there so she'd have someone to hold her accountable to uploading a new photo to her email account. It's less the accountability and more that she needed the time and effort to figure out how to do something so simple with a system she's used for over a decade.

I'll take the occasional effort, frustration, and irritation, and I'll be glad for it.

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

So we have a snap election in Spain, and widespread disruption of schools in France as they protest underfunding? Well, it makes a change to see reports on this instead of whatever is going on in the US from day to day.

For those wanting to ease into "the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" as Keats puts it, or "spooky season" as several online retailers seem to insist on calling it, PattyCake Productions, makers of fine Disney homages and tributes, has released a new track, "Home is Where the Haunt Is" an electro-swing earworm, and tribute to the Haunted Mansion, with VoicePlay's Geoff Castellucci on lead vocals, with his bass notes seemingly bypassing the ears and going straight to the spinal column.

The second season of the UK Celebrity edition of The Traitors (the only reality show I've watched in YEARS) has just started, with a remarkable line-up (ie I'd heard of more than 40% of them before), and Richard E Grant immediately cornering the market in attention grabbing eccentricity by the unusual route of, the admitting he was a Traitor to everyone in earshot the first time he was asked (as a joke) by another player. He could have played it off as a joke, but you could actually see the moment his brain seized up. His subsequent explanations were amusing, though hardly convincing, and the only reason not everyone is assuming he IS a Traitor is the fervent belief that no one could be THAT bad at it.

After it's multiple Emmy wins, I tried "Widow's Bay" and I'm just... not getting it. The production values are high and the acting seems fine, but the whole vibe is just... "Everyone on our quaint little town is quirky (or an asshole) and that means EVERYONE!" that I also got from "Gilmore Girls"and "Twin Peaks" (both shows I REALLY wanted to like more than I did) and this seems like those with a "supernatural" instead of "Coming of Age" or "David Lynch weird" theme. I think, sometimes you do need a regular character to bounce the oddities off of (See Joel in "Northern Exposure") and I've not found that in this. I can see the Mayor is supposed to be that, but he's not selling it to me. Oh well, my loss I'm sure.

I did Found a couple of stashes of short lived old shows to pass the time from around the turn of the century, and gosh, some of those haven't aged well! :) "Jake 2.0", a perfectly decent attempt from 2003 at a low budget sci-fi superpowers show, marred by, amongst other things, Christopher Gorham's distractingly bad haircut (No, seriously, it IS that bad), and the ACHINGLY hip "Level 9" from 2000 where overly trendy nerds work for a government agency with super-duper (ie terrifyingly intrusive) tech for observation (spying), utterly unconvincing keyboard skills, and so much jargon flying around that they actually have a character called "Jargon".

Also 2002's "Glory Days", a VERY short lived series from Kevin Williamson who wanted to make something akin to "Dawson's Creek", but for older viewers, but was then asked to make it a mystery series, and honestly, it plays out like live action Scooby Doo as seemingly supernatural events are always explained as being faked via means which seem less plausible than supernatural activity would have been.

So, since I've not asked a question in a while; What's your favourite "It's awful but I love it" old show? :)

Late addition: The BBC has released it's first image from the upcoming pre-school show: "Doctor Who: TARDIS Crew". Get ready for a slew of fanboys who are decades older than the target audience wanting to play "Affronted Bingo" over this. Bonus points for them using "DEI" as an expletive!

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So, we have reached the end of Lanterns season 1....

( In Stewarts eyes, in Jordan's butt. Spoilers lie, beneath this cut )

hannah

Biking three miles in just under a half-hour would feel more impressive if I hadn't been on flat ground the whole time. I had to get from 31st street back to my neighborhood, and it was too nice a day to want to take the subway back. I grabbed a bike and didn't bother going over to the Hudson, staying on the urban avenues the whole way uptown, and it wasn't as scenic, but it got me back a bit faster.

I'd been downtown to get fingerprints taken for part of the screening for a post office job. As it'll involve driving, I don't think I have much chance of getting it, even with a refresher course. But I'm enjoying riding it out as far as it'll take me.

I started a new project tonight, and managed the usual thousand words. I don't like most of them, but they're there, and I'm going to keep going with them until I figure out what I'm trying to do. You know, the usual.

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This NFL season has been pretty wild in terms of teams that were expected to dominate and haven't, and teams that were expected to suck and haven't, and so there are only 3 of us still alive in the family survivor pool: my sister, me, and some guy who knows my niece's father-in-law. When I was unsure if the Vikings were going to win for me today, I told my sister, you have to win so some rando doesn't take it all! But we all survived another week. If someone wins soon, though, we'll probably be able to run another full round, weirdly enough.

I also enjoyed the Rangers winning earlier this evening. Igor even got an assist to add to his scoring total. Apparently the crowd at MSG kept shouting at him to shoot. <333

Today, Baby Miss L dressed up as a witch while reading How to Catch a Witch, and then apparently wanted to go out and actually catch a witch. Her catchphrase is, "OK, let's do it." 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 Luckily, my niece distracted her with a plastic cauldron and some "potion ingredients" - a plastic lizard, a plastic bone, some green liquid...I hope there was glitter, but I couldn't tell from just the photo. I'm hoping to get to see her sometime soon, even before the triple whammy of Thanksgiving, her birthday, and Christmas. Schedules are being checked, anyway. *crosses fingers*

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hannah

I got dressed up to see Digger again today. It wasn't much, but I had fun with it. Afterwards, when it was drizzling just enough I was glad for the very wide brim, I turned a corner and walked right into an open-air street festival - mostly secondhand vendors, a couple local politicians and schools, a few independent businesses, the usual - and could walk the six blocks quite pleasantly.

I'm aware these events happen a fair bit, and it still tickles me every time I happen to run into one of them. I thought about buying a fancy jacket, then decided that between the implied price tag of similar coats on the rack and the available closet space in my apartment, I should let someone else take it home. What I did buy was a burrito bowl at a local vegan place and a cup of coffee at a fancy place on the same block, and took deep pleasure in using cash and exact change to get the final 7 cents, twice.

At the far end of the fair, someone was giving out Starbucks drinks, and even though they were free, I didn't break the picket line.

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'The cues are all there in the story. And there's a whole subtext to my book that I've been warned directly, "Do not directly tell people what it is."' - Alex Ross

'In some ways, there's overtones that are very peaked, and that's one of the reasons I was warned, "Don't go into all this. Don't explain to people what you were thinking because then you're going to piss off somebody," and eventually there are enough things in here to get one cancelled over.' - Alex Ross

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Today, someone told me I'd been described to them as a "smartass."

I immediately said, "It beats a hardass."

It was said at a remembrance service, not a memorial, for my aunt's husband. We weren't quite close enough for me to comfortably call him uncle, though that's what he was to me. Some people came from other parts New Jersey, my family came from New York City, a few from Ohio and Texas. We chatted, we talked, we shared good memories of him. I'm glad I went and had a chance to say hello to many of these people, some for the first time in a long time and some just for the first time. The location wasn't the best and the food was merely okay, but as always for these things, you go for the company.

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"That's what character is. It's in the trying."*

I don't know who needs to read this...

Our juncos have returned!

Absolute Green Lantern #19 this week is the cosmic and the mundane together.

Midnight Spider-Man #1

Digital workday.

These old blue eyes

Alpha Flight #84

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LAST CALL for beta update and inbox page

Lanterns Season 1 - Discussion thread

Monday night.

What If...? Secret Wars

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Resurrections - The Return of the Priest

Fantastic Four (2025) #17 (legacy #743)

reverses field and accelerates

Birds come back.

Marvel Dimensions

Queen in Black: Thor #1 - "The Two Thors"

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