So this week brings us back to the collection of characters I was working on back in November last year... the subclasses from the new book that came out and that I got for Christmas. And yes, I don't much care about bards, but I do like experimenting with building a lovely lady now and then.
She did get a last minute update because we got some new instruments during December, just not from the Advent Calendar. And she needs to be a little bit fancier.
Anyway...
Let's start at the beginning. Still sick. Annoyingly sick. Blocked sinus and hacking cough but otherwise fine sick. The muscles in the back of my neck hurt because I keep coughing sick. Finally went and got the Good Drugs from the chemist sick.
We'll circle back around to that later.
You know when you are sick though, and things that you know how to do just become more complicated than they should be... and that you get fixated on the wrong things. So I was attempting to make Baked Ziti this week... a pasta dish, because it's just easier to be able to serve it hot or cold and it being essentially fine. And the recipe was fine... but suddenly I just forgot what "making a meat sauce" means. And I also used more pasta than the recipe... so the whole thing was a little dry, a little under salted and spiced enough that I could actually taste it fully. So not all bad.
I will definitely return to that as an idea... just use my actual brain.
This weeks' Mini Media Reviews...
I accidentally managed to watch the first season of two TV shows where the library does have the second (or third) seasons. Which is a shame because I very much enjoyed the first seasons.
Firstly, Legion... or X-Men Lite. Like, it's a show about mutants from Marvel and it's definitely going to head in that direction. What I find the most fascinating is that it's a show about a man who can, essentially, reinvent reality, and the entire show might actually be happening inside his head. Now remember that this is me making assumptions based on the first season only, I haven't looked anything up.
But the show doesn't actually have a time frame. A character mentions the 60's... he's been gone for 20-something years IIRC, so that should make it the 80's. But somebody mentions email. Which, could point us to very late 1980's, because that's when email started to become commercially available. But there's a scene where there's an iMac G4 in the background, and that came out in 2002. But people dress anywhere from the 1950's through to the 1970's and 80's.
I had just assumed early on that it was set in the 70's. After the end of the first season I am thoroughly confused. And also sad that the library doesn't have the other two seasons.
Then I followed that up with Gentleman Jack. A show directly suggested to me by the Instagram algorithm. Because little clips would occasionally show up. And it's very, very good. Based on the diary of the "first modern lesbian", Anne Lister. And Suranne Jones is outstanding as the title character.
I rounded out the week with 30 Days of Night. Because somebody somewhere recently recommended it... and I have no memory of where or who. But it turns out to be a very, very good vampire movie. Definitely doing it's own thing, and very much rocking an early 2000's visual style, but the first 20 or so minutes before the vampires really show up are something of a masterclass on telling the audience just how screwed these people are about to be.
It's also definitely pulling some elements from the Dracula story, with a Renfield character and the vampires showing up by ship. But just a gentle head nod in that direction.
Also, mid 2000's Josh Hartnett. Always a good time.
I'm still working on the crochet poncho... did I already say I was working on a crochet poncho? I'm working on a crochet poncho. Mostly to give my hands something to do while watching TV.
But it will be good to have something I can just throw over whatever I'm wearing when it's cold.
Also I would like it to be cold again please.
I continued on with Assassins Creed Mirage. I still don't love it. For a number of reasons. Not least of all because like the third major mission is too damn hard to find your way into. So I ignored it for a really long time and went around visiting everywhere on the map and just doing whatever I felt like doing instead. And eventually came back and fumbled my way through the mission enough to continue the story. I'm not sure I'm going to bother finishing it, because I really don't care that much. But if nobody else wants it from the library and I can keep it for another couple of weeks, I might.
There still wasn't any Friday Night D&D.
Anyway...
Look, I know it’s going to be a hot day today, I know it’s going to be a public holiday on Monday. However, dearest Unwashed Masses, that does not mean you all need to crowd the supermarket and act like you lost your damn minds. Please also remember that I will cut a bitch, especially when I've been sick for three weeks.
I did, however, discover that the chemist sells over the counter Ventolin. So I got some lovely Sudafed and a lovely inhaler. Good to know for later.
And because it's hot today, I sent Ma home relatively early.
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