Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Was listening to Radio Habana Cuba while cleaning house today, and I stopped for a second when they announced they have a set of X-Men stamps. Then went into a deep dive of who and what the X-Men were.

Wasn't expecting that.

And the Games Database is complete. I have 1488 games, of which I've completed a paltry 106. I'm workgin on three games right now, and have officially abandonned one of them for being far too hard.

Wanna take a look?. Google makes the sheet look ugly, but it's far more readable in Libreoffice Calc on my end.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qkFBSWrdQ9vxgXUTV0CuHb5flNCDBpng_0k6M9I9GU4/edit?usp=sharing

Going through my old DOS/Windows archives, and forgot about this completely bonkers and massive tradrmark violation of a game: Rom Check Fail. Warning: staticky sound and random intervals (on purpose!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdcABPCjn0k

Last Night's Dr Who was "Father's Day."

I remember when I first saw this, it was the first of the New Who episodes I really felt I'd connected with, and I thought "Okay, this new show's gonna be alright."

On the re-watch the episode is actually incredibly powerful, and I might even put it above The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances as Eccleston's best. But really, it's not Eccleston that makes the show. It's the dynamic between Pete and Rose Tyler than sells it. And while Jackie is pretty unlikeable for most of the episode, when she comes around to Rose, it really does feel like an earned heartfelt moment.

A really REALLY good episode.

Since I was up this morning, I opened up the shortwave and checked to see what I was missing being a night owl. Apparently I was missing pretty much everything. Super clear signals, many overlapping each other, and several clear as a bell. I'm gonna have to see about setting up a time to record some of these while I'm asleep.

I got seven stations that were not just recognizable, but perfectly listenable like any local AM Station: Radio New Zealand (which comes in like gangbusters most anytime of day), KNLS out of Alaska, Voice of America out of the Phillipines, and China Radio International out of Jinhua and Shijiazhuang. Given that the only station I'd actually listen to was Radio New Zealand, it's not changed much, but my options are better.

My body WANTS to sleep from 8AM to 4PM. Even with the layoff, I'm trying to keep to 4AM-Noon. A wake up at 1PM? Close enough after the last 36 hours of sleep struggle.

Well seeing that my sleep schedule is completely trashed, I may as well watch the sunrise. Cause the McDonald's won't open for another fifteen minutes.

Gotta get those McGriddles when you're awake for them.

Burning off the last of the Threadgill's homemade dinner in one go.

A++ Would cook again.

I'm watching the pics and video from the Picard screenings few days ago, and I've got so so so many memories of the TMP Screening I went to last April.

While I woulda loved to be there, I think I'd have enjoyed the TMP viewing better. The TMP vieweing was much more personal an intimate. I got to mingle with the producers and creators and it was really a celebration of the creation of a movie with the creators of the movie, and I very much felt like a very-far-orbit member of the crew than a fan.

The Picard premiere from a fan perspective looked more like a real movie premiere, where the creators and the visitors were kind of seperated from each other. I'm not sure how much of that is true, since I'm only seeing a few videos and pics here and there. It was also FAR larger than the TMP premiere, so it may have had to be that way. But the fans were happy to see each other, too. I know I would had a blast meeting Sean Ferrick and Jessie Gender.

It would have been a blast to go see Picard as well. But the TMP premiere is something I'm gonna treasure for a long long LONG time.

::wakes up five hours later in my office chair::

@toonces - Okay, +100 for Toonces as the Driving Cat.

I'm back home. Now the real question. Sleep now and wake up super early in the morning. Or fight sleep and sleep super late.

Waiting an hour for a blood test. That means a fifteen hour fast I'm meaning to break with gusto.

I'm in in the Wellburton neighborhood of Bellevue. Do I get sushi or pho? Something else you'd recommend?

NOW I'm finally tired. That's great and all. But I gotta be up in three hours, so, I hope you enjoyed an extra hour or so of web browsing, body, cause you're gonna be a wreck when I wake up.