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March 2022 update
Mar. 4th, 2022 07:16 pmSo what have I been up to for the past month?
Dave-watchers may remember way back in December of 2017 I got sent down to Alpharetta GA to get trained on an HP Indigo press my job was buying. So I did that for two weeks. Then I flew back to Toronto and then Shain and I turned right around and drove down to Atlanta for Christmas, it was kind of a busy month there. And then after Xmas I came back to Toronto and didn't really work on the HP at all for various reasons. Well, four years later, my work says, hey, we need Dave to get back up to speed on the HP. So for the past month I've been over on the other side of the digital room getting my HP learning curve flattened out. I have cleared a lot of jams, changed a lot of blankets, and had some long service calls, but I feel pretty competent with the thing now.
Let's combine this new HP stuff with how work's gotten busier. The short hours I spent most of 2020-21 on are now over, I'm back to regular working hours. So I've been fully employed for the first time since a long time, and that's taken some adjusting of alarm clocks and what-not.
We spent Valentines at Storm Crow Manor, a nerd-gamer-fan theme restaurant with good food and novelty drinks. It was our first time visiting, and the next time friends come to town they are ALL getting dragged there 'cause it's kinda cool.
We got a new kitten, his name is Muskie, as in Ed Muskie, to go along with our other cat's name, which is Mewbert Mumphrey. Muskie is about five months, fluffier than Mewbert, a little more outgoing. After some initial hissing and swats, Muskie is now following Mewbert around the place and they're more or less coexisting. Still some play-fighting from time to time.
The latest Stupid Comics is all about how if you join the Army Reserve, they don't want to hear how you don't want to fight. https://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics753.html
The latest Let's Anime is a column from 1999 by Walter Amos that was supposed to see print in a Star Blazers 20th Anniversary fanzine, but for various reasons didn't see the light of day until now. https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2022/02/star-blazers-and-start-of-fannish.html
Anime North is coming back in July, I'm going to be doing panels and generally revelling in the return of home-town anime cons, and there will be a streaming online thing in May as well. https://www.animenorth.com/event/
I'm planning on doing another streaming Anime Hell sometime soon, it'll be a Dubs Time Forgot presentation of, well, Dubs Time Forgot. So stay tuned.
We saw Dune! I liked it, the film took time to explain things in ways the 1984 film did not, and definitely foregrounds the Lawrence Of Arabia THESE ARE ARABS stuff and the MAYBE MESSIAHS DON'T WORK OUT, GUYS stuff. We saw Nightmare Alley and it's terrific, just put Toni Collette in every movie to whisper "don't do the spook show" over in the corner. We watched The Peacemaker and I was surprised at how much I liked it, not really a DC guy, but this show delivered in ways the Marvel TV shows have not, period, full stop. Funny, gratuitous, violent, lots of attitude, but with a big sloppy heart. I really want to go to a movie theater again. Maybe soon.
Dave-watchers may remember way back in December of 2017 I got sent down to Alpharetta GA to get trained on an HP Indigo press my job was buying. So I did that for two weeks. Then I flew back to Toronto and then Shain and I turned right around and drove down to Atlanta for Christmas, it was kind of a busy month there. And then after Xmas I came back to Toronto and didn't really work on the HP at all for various reasons. Well, four years later, my work says, hey, we need Dave to get back up to speed on the HP. So for the past month I've been over on the other side of the digital room getting my HP learning curve flattened out. I have cleared a lot of jams, changed a lot of blankets, and had some long service calls, but I feel pretty competent with the thing now.
Let's combine this new HP stuff with how work's gotten busier. The short hours I spent most of 2020-21 on are now over, I'm back to regular working hours. So I've been fully employed for the first time since a long time, and that's taken some adjusting of alarm clocks and what-not.
We spent Valentines at Storm Crow Manor, a nerd-gamer-fan theme restaurant with good food and novelty drinks. It was our first time visiting, and the next time friends come to town they are ALL getting dragged there 'cause it's kinda cool.
We got a new kitten, his name is Muskie, as in Ed Muskie, to go along with our other cat's name, which is Mewbert Mumphrey. Muskie is about five months, fluffier than Mewbert, a little more outgoing. After some initial hissing and swats, Muskie is now following Mewbert around the place and they're more or less coexisting. Still some play-fighting from time to time.
The latest Stupid Comics is all about how if you join the Army Reserve, they don't want to hear how you don't want to fight. https://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics753.html
The latest Let's Anime is a column from 1999 by Walter Amos that was supposed to see print in a Star Blazers 20th Anniversary fanzine, but for various reasons didn't see the light of day until now. https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2022/02/star-blazers-and-start-of-fannish.html
Anime North is coming back in July, I'm going to be doing panels and generally revelling in the return of home-town anime cons, and there will be a streaming online thing in May as well. https://www.animenorth.com/event/
I'm planning on doing another streaming Anime Hell sometime soon, it'll be a Dubs Time Forgot presentation of, well, Dubs Time Forgot. So stay tuned.
We saw Dune! I liked it, the film took time to explain things in ways the 1984 film did not, and definitely foregrounds the Lawrence Of Arabia THESE ARE ARABS stuff and the MAYBE MESSIAHS DON'T WORK OUT, GUYS stuff. We saw Nightmare Alley and it's terrific, just put Toni Collette in every movie to whisper "don't do the spook show" over in the corner. We watched The Peacemaker and I was surprised at how much I liked it, not really a DC guy, but this show delivered in ways the Marvel TV shows have not, period, full stop. Funny, gratuitous, violent, lots of attitude, but with a big sloppy heart. I really want to go to a movie theater again. Maybe soon.
