Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

What do you have in less than a 15-minute walk from where you live?

❌ Work
✅ Clinic
✅ School
✅* Supermarket
✅* Pharmacy
✅ Library
✅ Park
✅ Bar
✅ Corner Store
✅ Gym/Sports Center
❌ Cinema

A few weeks ago, my online riffing group, Drive In Saturday, screened the anime Dragon Half, AND THAT CLOSING CREDIT MUSIC HAS BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD EVER SINCE.

And then I looked at the translated lyrics AND NOW THOSE ARE STUCK IN MY HEAD AS WELL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YLRnq4BjO8

Tonight's TNG was "The Wounded."

I love Rosalind Chao's Keiko O'Brien. She's such a sharper more intense character than the easy going and laid back O'Brien, and the dynamic really works for them as a happily, if occasionally antagonistic married couple.

I'm actually one degree of separation from her in real life. She was on the set of The Big Brawl, which my dad was the camera truck driver for the shoot. Which technically makes me one degree of separation from Jackie Chan now that I think about it. He said she was actually really nice and sweet, but wasn't on the shoot for very long.

Also in this episode, I noticed The Two Datas sitting together! Sitting at one of the forward stations is Guy Vardaman (bottom left), who often doubled for Brent Spiner as Data, as well as was in the background quite a bit. AND was also the inspiration for Guy Fleegman in Galaxy Quest, the character who wasn't important enough for a name.

No more doctor's appointments, some better financial news, house is decluttered, dishes are wahing and laundry is waiting for tomorrow.

First time in about two weeks I feel I can relax.

Watching Muppets Take Manhattan when I came across this fine actress. I forgot Gates McFadden did a lot of choreography work with them. Dancing Doctor indeed. :)

First day of the year with all the windows open!

So, all these Doctor's appointments? Other than The Big One, they could all have been EMails or TeleHelp.

...oh boy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

Five Doctors Appointments Down, one to go. Three to schedule, but that's now officially on hold until ::waves at everything::

Something Leonard Nimoy was very particular about was how his Vulcan ears were portrayed. Specifically that they had a gentle front point on the tips. But another thing about his ears were that they were glued back along his head.

When he first got fitted for the ears for The Motion Picture, Fred Phillips forgot he had to pin his ears back and, as described in the Making Of book, he looked like a "gremlin." Easily fixed though.

But that's something I'm noticing with the new new Trek series Vulcans. They don't pin their ears back. And everytime I see that, I think about that gremlin line in the book. :)

Four medical appointments down, one to go, three to try and schedule before March (doubtful).

I got my official diagnosis of delayed sleep phase disorder. Which doesn't mean much, but at least I finally have it now.

AVOID THE SPOILERS FOR THIS WEEK'S PICARD.

Trust me.

I'm currently working encoding episodes of Buck Rogers and found one with Jamie Lee Curtis in it! And it's one I distinctly remember from my childhood, too. We all get our start somewhere....

This Week's Meals (2/2): Cause it's not Jell-o.

I never understood why my surround system kept showing "dUd." I finally dug through the manual, and it's supposed to be "DVD."

This Week's Meals (1/2): Doctor's Orders.

I never want plain Jell-o again. Except for those thicc parts along the sides. Those can stay.

So I went back to Kura on Friday and picked up the Texas Roll to try it out. It's...more Austin than Texas:

"Spicy tuna, avocado and cream cheese wrapped in Kura specialty sushi rice and dried seaweed with tuna drizzled in spicy mayo and yuzu cream sauce topped with fried onion and sesame."

Oh, another note: Those of you who have been waiting for my Oregon Trail roadtrip since 2019? Dead until these anti-trans laws go away. Every states outside of Oregon has had terrible anti-trans laws enacted since the planning, and, well, it's just not safe. :/

Comics (yes, comics) and game streams news:

Game Streams:

As you may have notice game streams have stopped. This is due to a worsening chronic cough I've developed over the last few years (you can actually hear it starting as far back as the Play All The Zeldas Quest II streams). I did one a few weeks ago and while the cough wasn't bad, it was worsened through the stream.

So, what I plan to do is instead of doing a stream a week, I'm going to do a one-off game every month. Mainly to guage how my cough is doing (it's getting better, but not going away, something my doctors are looking into). Once I'm able to do a stream without coughing too badly through it, I'll reinstate the once-a-week streams and get back to finishing up Skyward Sword, then Mario VS Donkey Kong and move on from there.

The first one-off stream should be April 7. I might do a April Fools day special like I did a few years ago (where I played every Zork game for seven hours straight), but again, I don't think my cough will let that happen.

Comics News:

The comics have been dormant for years. Two reasons: (1) Life has sucked for a while now and (2) ever since I beacem diabetic, my eyesight took a big hit, making it hard to stare at computer screens.

I'm INCREDIBLY near sighted, meaning that without glasses, for things to not be blurred they have to be just a few inched from my face. Since I became diabetic, I've required bifocals that, when I look at my tablets, require me to tilt my head back to see clearly, and that was painful and achey on my neck (you might remember pics of my old drawing setup where the tablet was almost flat under my TV...this was why I did that). Both those helped kinda stall the comics.

I recently had an eye exam, and my optometrist mentioned that my eyesight hadn't gotten worse on any big way, and if I'd like, I could keep using my old glasses. But my insurance would be willing to pay for new glasses when I wanted them. I told her my troubles and she suggested a set of glasses specifically for computer use, where the bifocals separate much higher up and it's been a godsend.

I worked on some art a few weeks ago, and it was a great success (the drawing sucked, but I'm WAY out of practice), so I'm hoping to get back to comics again. Maybe not weekly, but at least one a month. ::fingers crossed::

And that's The State of the Comics/Streams! Stuff is FINALLY coming!