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December already?
Dec. 5th, 2022 10:35 amYes! The last half of the new season of JoJo's has started. What I like about JoJo's is that by this point if you (a) aren't steeped in the lore, and (b) haven't been prepared by your steeping in the lore for the tone of the series, you will be mightily confused. Let's just say that the first half of this batch has "rods" (the air-dwelling cryptids captured on camera but invisible to the naked eye), Wilson Bryan Key's "Subliminal Seduction" hypothesis, the Seven Dwarfs calling Mazinger Z a "show off," and a deep south lynching scene straight out of an EC comic. The series is definitely a vibe, as the kids say.
Spent Sunday under the sink trying to diagnose and fix a leak in the - let's keep this straight - the supply line to the hot water tap in the second sink in the bathroom. This is a leak we'd noticed in August, and right when I was going to tackle that job, the kitchen sink drain line got clogged and I spent the weekend bailing water and calling plumbers. I put a bucket under the bathroom sink and went on about my business, and the leak got leakier and leakier and Sunday I figured I'd tackle it.
So the first thing you do is turn the water off, and as it happens when you turn the water off it shuts off the water for the entire bathroom, not just that sink. So I did that - no toilets or showers for a bit, guys - and then I unscrewed the line from the wall, and then I had to uninstall the faucet to unscrew the line from it. So now I know how to install a Tebisa single-hole faucet. Anyway, because we live in a condo built in 2008, Tebisa is one of those brands that has non-standard parts. Some of the light fixtures were the same way, can't find parts for them. Neither the Home Hardware nor the Canadian Tire carries that particular kind of line. So, either I put an entire new faucet in, or I just put the old line back on, put the bucket back down, and spend the day driving between Rona and Home Depot and Lowe's.
I put the old line back on, tightened it back down, and so far the leakage has been minimal. I believe I can buy the correct line from Amazon and I might just do that in the new year. For now I think it will be OK. It's a good bucket under there.
Saturday was the Anime North staff brunch up at Dragon Pearl, a vast improvement over the former buffet place on Dixie that was host for the buffets for a few years. Got to catch up with a bunch of staff and talk about con gossip and plans for 2023, and the food is good too. Spent the rest of Saturday finishing up the Anime Hell New Year's Eve broadcast, which will be happening starting at 10pm Eastern time on Dec. 31 at my twitch channel which is twitch.tv/terebifunhouse.
Last week I had a doctor's appointment for my left shoulder, which hurts like a sonofabitch. Doc thinks it's tendonitis, and I am having an X-Ray Wednesday to see if anything's detectable in that fashion, and then I'm going to start begging for cortisone shots.
Last weekend's Saturday we went out walking in the woods in Hamilton, might be the last woods walking we have before things get wet and sloppy but not cold enough to freeze solid. Other than that things have been pretty standard - work is busy but not too busy, we're prepping for the Atlanta trip for Xmas. Put new headlights in the car, that was a thing I did.
I went into it fully expecting to ditch but it turns out Andor is great, just a big dose of unshaven brick dust-covered sweat, painfully white electric-floor prison corridors, frosty moorland campsites, and that concrete 1970s brutalist-meets-unisex design that evokes the original Star Wars, THX-1138, and what we'd like a Blake's 7 reboot to look like. No space wizards, no podracing, no winky nods reminding us of what it was like to play with action figures, just a Rebellion from the ground up.
The new season of Pop Team Epic is maybe not as mean spirited as the first season? Are they choosing nicer strips? The new season of Golden Kamuy is, I dunno, more of the same enough to make me sit there and say, come on, I don't need to see backstory of the weird blind guy with the leather ear enhancers, let's get on with it.
Have not seen any of the big nerd movies of the fall/winter season, and from what I can tell I'm not missing much. Still have not seen a new film in theaters since January of 2020.
Spent Sunday under the sink trying to diagnose and fix a leak in the - let's keep this straight - the supply line to the hot water tap in the second sink in the bathroom. This is a leak we'd noticed in August, and right when I was going to tackle that job, the kitchen sink drain line got clogged and I spent the weekend bailing water and calling plumbers. I put a bucket under the bathroom sink and went on about my business, and the leak got leakier and leakier and Sunday I figured I'd tackle it.
So the first thing you do is turn the water off, and as it happens when you turn the water off it shuts off the water for the entire bathroom, not just that sink. So I did that - no toilets or showers for a bit, guys - and then I unscrewed the line from the wall, and then I had to uninstall the faucet to unscrew the line from it. So now I know how to install a Tebisa single-hole faucet. Anyway, because we live in a condo built in 2008, Tebisa is one of those brands that has non-standard parts. Some of the light fixtures were the same way, can't find parts for them. Neither the Home Hardware nor the Canadian Tire carries that particular kind of line. So, either I put an entire new faucet in, or I just put the old line back on, put the bucket back down, and spend the day driving between Rona and Home Depot and Lowe's.
I put the old line back on, tightened it back down, and so far the leakage has been minimal. I believe I can buy the correct line from Amazon and I might just do that in the new year. For now I think it will be OK. It's a good bucket under there.
Saturday was the Anime North staff brunch up at Dragon Pearl, a vast improvement over the former buffet place on Dixie that was host for the buffets for a few years. Got to catch up with a bunch of staff and talk about con gossip and plans for 2023, and the food is good too. Spent the rest of Saturday finishing up the Anime Hell New Year's Eve broadcast, which will be happening starting at 10pm Eastern time on Dec. 31 at my twitch channel which is twitch.tv/terebifunhouse.
Last week I had a doctor's appointment for my left shoulder, which hurts like a sonofabitch. Doc thinks it's tendonitis, and I am having an X-Ray Wednesday to see if anything's detectable in that fashion, and then I'm going to start begging for cortisone shots.
Last weekend's Saturday we went out walking in the woods in Hamilton, might be the last woods walking we have before things get wet and sloppy but not cold enough to freeze solid. Other than that things have been pretty standard - work is busy but not too busy, we're prepping for the Atlanta trip for Xmas. Put new headlights in the car, that was a thing I did.
I went into it fully expecting to ditch but it turns out Andor is great, just a big dose of unshaven brick dust-covered sweat, painfully white electric-floor prison corridors, frosty moorland campsites, and that concrete 1970s brutalist-meets-unisex design that evokes the original Star Wars, THX-1138, and what we'd like a Blake's 7 reboot to look like. No space wizards, no podracing, no winky nods reminding us of what it was like to play with action figures, just a Rebellion from the ground up.
The new season of Pop Team Epic is maybe not as mean spirited as the first season? Are they choosing nicer strips? The new season of Golden Kamuy is, I dunno, more of the same enough to make me sit there and say, come on, I don't need to see backstory of the weird blind guy with the leather ear enhancers, let's get on with it.
Have not seen any of the big nerd movies of the fall/winter season, and from what I can tell I'm not missing much. Still have not seen a new film in theaters since January of 2020.
