Postcard from the mid-Atlantic

[bironic]

I.

Quick reminder that bidding for the vid I'm offering for charity ends at midnight tonight, if you would like to make a pledge. Sorry/happy to report that the current bid is $110, in case that saves you a click.

I put in one bid, for a Remus/Sirius/someone fic from setissma, but thedeadparrot outbid me. :) That's only fair, since she'd been bidding before I stuck my nose in.

II.

I'm at my mom's for the week and she's doing well. Big relief. Last week was tough, being in another state and waiting for updates while trying to work. Now we are just lying around the house listening to music, watching TV and old movies, occasionally playing Scrabble* or this Star Trek trivia game** or yelling at a Banff National Park jigsaw puzzle whose pieces all look the same.

*Geekiest hand of the game

**We shuffled the trivia cards so the movies and series would all be mixed together, but then we realized we didn't know Voyager or Enterprise and by the end we just shamelessly cherry-picked TOS for her and DS9 for me, with occasional Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home thrown in.

III.

Persuant to the above:

TV: My mom and her bf are into reality TV, so I've been introduced to shows like Wicked Tuna, Living Alaska, and Alaskan Bush People, plus many reruns of Property Brothers, House Hunters, etc., and the usual Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Let's not talk about the news.

Movies: I brought down one of the DVDs from a grab bag jetpack_monkey put together, and we are two for two so far: Attack of the Crab Monsters, which featured the immortal line, "Once they were men. Now they are land crabs," and Not of This Earth, featuring space vampires and questionable transfusion practices. YouTube trailer for the double feature. Tonight we'll try the third, War of the Satellites. Maybe we'll even get to the .avi file of The Frozen Dead that's been on my computer for about three years since my coworker tried to get me to watch it.

Books: Binti was great. I haven't gotten more than a third into Akata Witch because of all the TV, but I look forward to finishing it. Then The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vols. 1-2, which was supposed to be for book club but just got outvoted by Paper Girls vols. 1-2, which I guess is next-next.

IV.

The neighbors' college-age son has gotten into Game of Thrones, grew his hair into several inches of curl, got himself a sword at a garage sale, and now does cosplay of Jon Snow in a fur-shouldered Night's Watch cloak. It's impressive!

V.

Okay, she's out of the shower, so that's all for now. Hope you're all hanging in there.

Comments

[isis]

Your geeky scrabble hand made me grin!

[bironic]

Further confirmation that I'm friending the right people on Dreamwidth. :D

[stardreamer]

I have always wanted to play Scrabble with a house rule that terms from SF/F universes would count. Unfortunately, "Klaatu" is still ineligible due to being a proper name.

Yay for GoT cosplay!

[bironic]

Yes, why not establish house rules as we please before we start? My mom got me a Star Trek Scrabble set a few years ago where you get bonus points for words like "Kirk" and "Klingon," so proper nouns don't have to be invalid... :)

[sasha_feather]

I watched some Alaskan Bush people when I was home. Couldn't stand how slow it is! It was kind of cute though.

I loved Unbeatable Squirrel girl.

[bironic]

Looking forward to trying it! It made, I think, elipie's list of best comics in 2016, which is another vote in its favor.

I guess ABP is just the right speed for those on Percocet, heh. I found the family dynamics and dialects interesting, along with the ideas they had for building up the technologies in their homestead.

[thedeadparrot]

Hahaha, sorry about that! But I really want my Tony/Rhodey/Pepper fic, so.

Also, despite being a morning person, I am sorely tempted to stay up until midnight just to make sure no one snipes any of my bids from under me. Hmpf.

[bironic]

Did you get it? (Too lazy to go look, heh.)

[thedeadparrot]

Alas, no. It was sniped out from under me at the last minute. *shakes fist at sky* But I do have a few other auctions that I did win that I'm excited about, so.

[bironic]

Oh, no! I'm sorry. That's cool about the others, though.

[roga]

I have not read all of Squirrel Girl but what I have read is adorable.

[bironic]

Excellent! I hope to read it this weekend; we'll see.

[mific]

Oh - I have Paper Girls and am up to date with them - great comics!

[bironic]

Oh, good to hear! I've requested them through the library, so they should come in within a week.