justified

Did the normal Saturday stuff- grocery shopping, both workouts (I thought about skipping weight training but there really wasn't anything better to do). Then watched/slept through the Bronze Medal game (was hoping that Slovakia could play the Cinderella card, but it wasn't to be). Went to dinner and then to the play my brother was in. It was good and he did well as usual.

I've done a teeny bit of writing today, trying to finish one of my WIPs, but really don't know where I'm going with it (which may be why I'd tabled it in the first place.) I might spend a few minutes after I'm done here working on something.

Gold Medal game tomorrow. Dad has "Miracle" on in the other room. I love that movie and, of course, I'm of an age when I remember the game somewhat, but what I really remember was being in church that Sunday and just wanting to go home to watch the end of the Gold Medal game and being worried that Finland was going to win. I think they mentioned the score of the game during the closing announcements. We did get home in time to watch it though. It's funny because it'll be the other way around tomorrow- wondering if the game will be over in time to get to church.

And then the Jordan Binnington (goaltender for the Canadian MNT and my St Louis Blues) watch begins. If it's not a blowout, some team is going to want him for a rental because even though he's dead last in NHL goaltending this season, he manages to come up big in big games.

That's it for me. See you tomorrow. Off to write.

cmk418

Wrote a triple drabble today for

hardtime100.

We had game night at our apartment complex tonight. It was fun, but exhausting. We came home and watched the last episode of "Starfleet Academy." "Paradise" is starting next week and I'm looking forward to it. The first season was so good, but I don't know how they can follow it up.

Olympic semifinals today were kind of interesting. The Gold Medal game is on Sunday at 7am. Too early.

Here's the list of things I wrote for

halfamoon. All are fairly short.

for day 1 (The Innocent) - Disney (Sleeping Beauty and Mulan) featuring Aurora and Mulan
for day 2 (Guilty Pleasures) - Star Trek: Enterprise featuring T'Pol
for day 3 (The Caregiver) - Heated Rivalry featuring Svetlana Vetrova
for day 4 (Needs) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer featuring Faith Lehane and Joyce Summers
for day 5 (The Outlaw) - Firefly featuring Zoe Alleyne Washburne
for day 6 (Her Own Personal Code) - OZ (HBO) featuring Diane Wittlesey
for day 7 (The Lover) - Firefly featuring Kaylee Frye and Inara Serra
for day 8 (Pet Peeves) - OZ (HBO) featuring Gloria Nathan
for day 9 (The Scholar) - Resident Alien featuring Asta Twelvetrees
for day 10 (Acting the Fool) - Desert Hearts featuring Vivian Bell
for day 11 (The Explorer) - Game of Thrones featuring Arya Stark
for day 12 (Her Sanctuary) - Raiders of the Lost Ark featuring Marion Ravenwood
for day 13 (The Ruler) - Starfleet Academy featuring Chancellor Nahla Ake
for day 14 (Letting Go) - The Big Bang Theory featuring Penny

That's all I have for today. See you all tomorrow.

cmk418

Everything seemed to take longer than it should with my car today which was a lot of my doing. I had a 9am appointment at the car place which is literally next door. I dropped the car off on the way back from bloodwork at 8:15. They asked, "are you dropping it off?" I said "yes." Not realizing that "dropping it off" meant, "leaving it here so we can tend to everything but your car for the next goodness knows how long." I walked back over at 10, they still hadn't started on it. So aggravating. I didn't get to the DMV til 11:30 and at that point the line was going to take me past the opening faceoff for the Gold Medal game (priorities!) so I left. It moved much quicker when I got back later in the afternoon.

I think the PWHL has spoiled me a bit in that it's so nice to see the best hockey players in the world more than once every four year. Still the Olympics are special and both of the Medal games went to OT today. I was really happy to see Switzerland taking bronze and had mixed feelings about the Gold Medal game. The PWHL has affected me there too because the team that I despise the most there had six players on the USA team which made it a little hard to root for them. I was happy for Hilary Knight and am glad she got to go out on top.

Choir tonight was depressing as only four people showed up. We decided to abandon the idea of singing for this weekend and if we can't get enough people to commit to sing with us for Easter, we're probably just going to stop choir altogether.

I did get to see the moon on my way home. It's a crescent moon right now, only the crescent was rotated on the bottom so it reminded me of a lunar eclipse in a way. Very beautiful.

I finished "Bugonia". Odd film with very strong performances. So that's three of the Oscar nominees that I've seen and "One Battle After Another" is still leading the pack.

Wrote two drabbles today for

hardtime100. I'm going back through the list and writing on the prompts that I haven't gotten to yet.

That's it for now. See you all tomorrow.

cmk418

Wow, the hockey was good today. And men were involved, go figure. The main event is tomorrow at noon. If I'm still in the DMV at that point, heads are going to roll.

I wrote my little moment from "The Godfather" today. It's here.

Went to Ash Wednesday service at church today. It was nice but longer than I'd have liked.

Not much else to tell. I am not looking forward to the blood test tomorrow. It's a necessary evil.

That's all for now. See you all tomorrow.

halfshellvenus

I've mentioned HalfshellHusband's book collection before, and how the sheer quantity of books daunts me (in terms of storage or future moving). Well, last week he got to thinking about what might happen if we had to someday move to be closer to the kids, or what I would have to deal with if he passed away. My father, for example, had hundreds of leather-bound classics that my sister is now struggling to find homes for. So, HSH suddenly decided to go through all his books and purge the paperbacks that are easily available on Kindle and any books he honestly will never read again. That means about 50-70 books are on their way to Goodwill or the library!

We had already cleared everything out of the two 6 1/2 foot bookcases we just sold (picked up today), and almost everything we have left fits in the built-in double-bookcase in the sunroom, with a little room left over for our DVDs. That just leaves the CD collection, and he found places for those. This is in addition to the two 6-foot bookcases in the garage that we need to sell. This is a much more manageable number of books! I feel like I can breathe now. Although I bought a replacement bookshelf from Home Depot back in the Fall (with the intent of getting a twin that now seems to be unavailable). I don't think I even need it, and it's never been opened. Wonder if I can return it (months later)?

In TV news, we finished S2 of The Night Manager. What a shocker of an ending! Overall, I was most intrigued by Teddy's character this season, who was cool, volatile, lethal, and vulnerable all at once. Very complex, with a great performance by Diego Calva. It haunts me even now. Not sure when S3 is coming out, but at least it won't be 10 more years...

We are also in the middle of watching Amazon's Heads of State, after resisting for months because it just looked too stupid. It is MUCH better than we expected, when all we really expected was mindless fun. I had thought John Cena was horribly miscast, but he's making it work. Who knew?

cmk418

Hockey wound up predictably though Switzerland did put a little excitement into their game. So USA-Canada in the final and Sweden-Switzerland going for bronze.

Robert Duvall died. His role in "The Godfather" is iconic. I remember at one point that I was going to write something about that look that Tom gives Michael when Michael breaks out his plan to kill Solozzo. Searched my files and didn't find anything, so I guess I'll have to put it out there in the world later on.

Took a day off from the remaining fest work I have to do. I watched parts of movies instead- finished up "Sinners" which you have to watch through the first part of the credits or it won't be as fulfilling and started on "Bogonia" which looks like it could be either hilarious or horrible.

Everytime I'm scanning the movie list on Peacock, I get the incredible urge to watch "Bros" again. Pretty soon that's going to start challenging "Brown Sugar" for Most Watched Movie on a streaming platform.

That's all I've got for now. Going to try to go to bed at a decent hour. See you tomorrow.
-C

cmk418

It's a little late but Happy Valentine's Day to all.

Spent the morning with the usual Saturday routine- grocery shopping with dad, yoga, weight training- and then helped clean the house because we're having the family over tomorrow.

Drove out in the rain to see my nephew's basketball game. He's a little rough around the edges, but he got 3 points and his team won so I considered it a success. From there we went to dinner at Bob Evans, so no worries about needing reservations or terribly long lines and it still was pretty good food.

I had to make an emergency run out to Wal-Mart to get an electric mixer. Our old one burned up (it was about 20 years old, so it happens).

I posted my final two fics for HalfaMoon. I'll post my list here and also some recs from the fest as well.

That's all I've got for the moment. See you tomorrow.

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halfshellvenus

Apparently, I caught a bad night of Olympic Ice Dancing earlier this week. Someone explained that there is a Rhythm Dance segment, which was 90's themed and drove most of the frenetic gesticulating that was jarring to watch. The final program was more like what I was expecting— more couples-style dancing than parallel dancing, and a bigger romantic element. I loved the music Zingas and Kolesnik skated to, as well as their choreography. The Canadian team did a wonderful job, though, and beat them out for the bronze medal. As for Chock and Bates vs. the French team, I preferred the French performance. It combined grace, power, and skill really well. Also, Chock kind of rubs me the wrong way (she comes off as brittle, somehow, making her performance less appealing).

And now there's controversy about the French winning gold, and none of it seems to have anything to do with the actual performances. \o? Both routines seemed flawless, and the artistry is always subjective, so who knows? I would think the lifts and balanced poses (which were very creative in all the routines) would be the hardest to judge, in terms of technical difficulty. Maybe they're just new to me, and there are some established criteria for them? At least we're not in the days of throwing out the Russian judge's scores...

Speaking of dance, we are going to the ballet this weekend! There is a performance of Sleeping Beauty, and the music is too good to pass up. I would have liked to have seen whatever the Dracula ballet was over Halloween weekend in the Fall, but we had to go out of town. I'm hoping this will be good. About 10-12 years ago, we went to an all-Stravinsky program for my birthday, which had the Firebird Suite and The Rite Of Spring. We really enjoyed it! Normally, there is The Nutcracker at Christmas, and then a couple of gala events that are more pop culture, and the galas have never appealed to us. This should be more our style.

On the subject of dreams again, I dreamed last night that we were in a wreck and the insurance company totaled our 4Runner. Boy, would that ever be depressing! I mourned the loss of my first car (an '85 Toyota Tercel), but that was mainly for sentimental reasons. Our 4Runner is 30 years old now, and we still love it. Plus, I really prefer having levers and buttons on the dashboard, and that's almost gone in newer cars. The Prius we lost to the garage fire had its touchscreen die about 7 or 8 years in, and that really reduced the A/C and music functionality. I don't want to go through that again.

Here's hoping the 4Runner will still be with us for a long time to come...

alchemise

Apparently the theme of this Seasons of Drabbles' round for me was the women of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and I absolutely love it.

First up, I received delightful rareship porn. :D

Triquetra (300 words) by embraidery
Fandom: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Amanda Brotzman/Litzibitz Trost, Bigby Badoo/Amanda Brotzman, Bigby Badoo/Amanda Brotzman/Litzibitz Trost
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Throuples | Triad Relationships, Polyamory, Cunnilingus, Strap-Ons
Summary: Amanda and her girlfriends.

I wrote a double drabble of Farah character study.

Dream Job (200 words) by alchemise
Fandom: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
Characters: Farah Black
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Character Study
Summary: When she was young, Farah wanted to be a cop.

( fic behind the cut! )

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halfshellvenus

I watched Another Country again last night, for the first time in about 40 years. Rupert Everett was as gorgeous as ever! Though Colin Firth didn't look like much at that age (despite already having that voice), and Cary Elwes was... really blond. \o? I didn't feel the pangs I used to get when the movie first come out, but it was enjoyable. I also spent far too much time scouring the various crowd scenes trying to spot other actors who later made it big, but found nothing other than the three above.

We've been watching S2 of Night Manager, which improved as soon as Tom Hiddleston shed the fake glasses and began his Con Of Charm. Speaking of voices—his is so silky! I also loved the sexy-dancing with Camilla Morrone and Diego Calva. And the appearance of ( Spoilers ) One more episode to go.

And on another hunky note, Brilliant Minds is currently all about the transformation of Dr. Josh for me. I actually checked IMDB.com early this season to see if the part had been recast, but no. Teddy Sears was an okay-looking guy before, but letting his hair go gray and changing the style turned him into a hottie! I've seen photos of other roles, and this is really the best he's ever looked. I'm not rooting for him to get back together with Wolf, though—I'd like to think Dr. Josh has more sense. Wolf is... work. A lot of work. And I'm not loving the flamboyant nurse they introduced this season. The show has a main character who is gay—was there a complaint about it lacking gay stereotypes? And the new asshole resident is similarly unwelcome...

I'm in the last episode of Orphan Black, and they seem to have wound up the series nicely. I'll miss it and all the sestras, though. I've enjoyed the journey with them all. Five seasons was really helpful for all of the garage-biking I've done since November, too. Now what? I have some potential action/thriller shows in my Netflix list, but most are just 1 or 2 seasons. And I'll be in there most of this week—yesterday was too windy to bike outdoors, and today starts three days of rain. :(

If it weren't for the ads, I would probably watch some of the Winter Olympics in the garage. I caught a little of it late last night. I missed Men's Figure Skating already (as I always seem to), and it looks like Ice Dancing has become Rhythm Skating, which... *sigh*. It seems to mostly now be loud music and gangsta-style dancing. What a change from the romance of Torvill and Dean! Last night also featured a couple of new-to-me sports: free-style skiing (which contains elements of snowboarding) and ski-sprinting. That last one... wow. I've never seen someone try to ski uphill before, and there was a lot of that. Overall, those women were strong. It was quite a workout.

All right, back to work. Carry on! :D

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