Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Unpopular Trek Opinion:

So, the Section 31 movie is coming out. I love love LOVE Michelle Yeoh, both as Mirror Universe Georgiou and Prime Universe Georgiou...but I've never ever liked the idea of Section 31.

While the idea of a "We do the dirty things that keep the happy things safe" makes sense, it's always felt like such a "Not Federation" idea all the way back to their debut in DS9. Also, for the secret organization they were protrayed as in DS9 and Enterprise, they've sure broadcasted their existence loudly in the new era series.

I'm kind of glad this is going to be a movie, because I genuinely debated wether I'd watch a Section 31 TV Series. I'm more likely to watch a one-off movie.

So, a few days ago, on my "carb cheat day" I was craving some spaghetti, and I had some, but no sauce. To-go pasta is just too expensive, and if I wasn't going to pay for spaghetti, I was kinda wondering if I could skip buying the sauce.

I have some tomato puree and tomato sauce and tomato paste. I cook pretty good now, why not make a spaghetti sauce from scratch.

HOLY COW THAT WAS SO SO SO EASY. On top of that, I find spaghetti sauce usually far too sweet and salt it up, I could salt it as I made it, and it was perfect.

No measurements cause I was just kinda making it to taste, but all I did was take the tomato puree, but it on medium high heat, add some oregano, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder and salt and pepper. I let it reduce for a bit while I was making the spaghetti.

At the end, I took the spaghetti, put it directly in the sauce and let it sit a few minutes, before dumping into a plate. Perfect, and burned off some leftover ingredients that I rarely use to begin with.

It's snowing again....

Some of the last things I ordered before the layoff are starting to trickle in. Ironically, as a reward for deciding to stick with Tableau and continue my lease.

THAT WENT WELL.

Movie Hot Rod finally came in. I normally don't buy doubles of toys, but the current "Transformers Retro" line is reissuing some of the toys I didn't have in 84-86, and some I did, but in the animation colors.

What's funny is, I didn't like putting all the stickers on the toys back in the 80s, because I wanted them to look more like the animation models as it is, so I began picking up the reissues.

When I get back to cooking all fancy again, I plan to make Lasagna da Fornel. Sweet dessert lasagna:

https://www.italymagazine.com/recipe/fruit-and-nut-christmas-eve-lasagna-lasagne-da-fornel

"He slimed me. I feel so funky."

So, I'll finally burn through the struan bread loaf Thursday, and will need to make a new loaf of bread. Should I...

(1) Remake the struan loaf and this time do it without fridging the dough so it'll rise correctly?

(2) Just work on something new and make Japanese Milk Bread?

Either way, it'll last me two weeks, so I need to figure out what to make....

Tonight's Movie of the Week was the 2016 Ghostbusters. I don't care what anyone says, I loved that movie. 90% because of Kate McKinnon.

First the Wii Shop Channel, then the Wii U and 3DS eShops, and now a more personal end of an era...

The day I was asked to stay on past my first Christmas Peak in 2009-2010, I torpedoed my bank account and picked up a Wii and Nintendo DSi to have the systems on hand for support. One of the games I picked up was Picross 3D (I've loved Picross since Mario's Picross on the Game Boy).

It's a very involved game, very intense, and while I love Picross it took a while to plough through this game. Tonight, FOURTEEN YEARS LATER, I finished the first game I ever bought at the "Nintendo Fun 'n' Games" company store back in the day. :)

(After typing all this - boy does this sound like hack spam 😆 )

It's funny. Because of some incredible and easy advice from a friend of mine years ago my credit score is phenomenal. So I keep getting tons and tons AND TONS of credit card applications.

Same advice says "Don't, Jenn." But I'll admit, I seriously considered applying for them after my layoff just for the cushion. But I didn't.

A certain puppy does NOT like the hours I keep.

Oh hey...I'm out of Max Headroom episodes. What should I put on to replace it on my Saturday Sci Fi Theater...oh no...oh no no no.

::dives in::

Tonight's TNG is "Galaxy's Child."

Suddenly all these bridge shots mean something more this week....

Also, watching this post transition, Geordi really REALLY comes across as a creeper in dealing with Leah Brahms. It really comes across that he did more with that personnel file in the episodes between Booby Trap and this. I'm surprised they got married.

Funny how that shift in perspective changes things.