Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

"Hey, Jenn, it's your neck pain. Have the doctors stopped looking for me? Oh? Good. PAIN."

Thoughts Before Bed

Once I finished Tears of the Kingdom, I started watching some of the Zelda YouTube videos out there.

I saw some of the ones who are trying to figure out where Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild fit in the Zelda timeline do some serious backflips and jumps to get it all to fit in, and it still really doesn't. And there are others who claim that Tears of the Kingdom is Ocarina of Time retold.

There was a theory I had before Nintendo put out the official Zelda timeline back in the Skyward Sword days, that I've decided to go back to: The Zelda Story is another world's version of our "Sumerian Flood Myth." The story that turned into Nuh, Noah, Gilgamesh and others.

Like the Sumerian Flood Myth, it's been told and retold by different cultures second/third/fourthhand, has morphed into different stories, affected by the cultures telling the story, traditions getting mixed in and confused and integrated....

All of them (minus the direct sequels) are telling the story of "The Hero Who Saves The Princess From The Demon King" in various ways. Imagine a seafaring civilization taking the story and turning it into "The Wind Waker" or a Forest civilization giving us "Ocarina of Time." Skyward Sword being told by a sky civilization.

Tears of the Kingdom is another legend and story of "The Hero Who Saves The Princess From The Demon King" that's changed a million times over the centuries...but has the core idea of the original story.

At least until Nintendo gives us final word from on high. :)

"Am I the only one who remembers that Grimace from McDonald's is a sentient milkshake? And that he was once 'The Evil Grimace?' And there was a whole McDonaldland with Mayor McCheese and The Professor and Captain Crook?"

"Jenn. We're old."

"I was there at the dawn of the third age of Mankind...."

6PM: Whew, that was an afternoon of chores. Now for the rest the my evening....
11PM: ::wakes up on the sofa:: "Huh, wha?"

Huh. I have a donut recipe. I should try that.

Trying to figure out if I want to try making this week's bread as Luby's yeast rolls, or something from my Hill Country German cookbook.

One of the recipes is for making castor oil gingerbread cookies to give to sick children (from 1916). XD

Truth time.

I'm six months into unemployment and things are looking real bad on that front. While I'm good to tread water until at least September, I'm not sure where to go from here at this point.

I wanted to concentrate on my writing and comicking but the pinched nerve has killed that for now.

Just not sure where to go from here.

I could never be an actress because I have zero control over my eyebrows.