Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

2023: You're laid off.
Jenn: Okay, not a problem. I'll get some creative work done while I wait on interviews.
2023: Like hell you will....

So I was actually kinda unhappy with the Hylian Tomato Pizza. It was great, don't get me wrong. But on reheating in the microwave, the cheese and dough just melted and turned to goop.

But I just reheated a slice in the oven. AND OH MY GOODNESS IT TURNED INTO EVEN MORE OF A PIZZA.

"Monsieur Neary? I envy you."

Not sure about those Special Edition versions though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlKvPpij-QQ

I don't remember if I saw Close Encounters at the theater (I would have been three) or if I saw it on TV later on, but this scene has been burned into my brain since the first time I saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZhWPrxeHwo

Jenn, you cook so much awesome food. Where'd you learn all that?

Spent the entire day cleaning house between ice pack applications. Ice packs work best at this point, even more than the pain killers.

The house is still not clean, but at least it no longer qualifies for superfund site status. One or two more loads of dishes, and we'll be all done. Then we can just be very judicious about what needs cleaning/washing and what can be disposable until this pinched nerve is worked on.

Trying to make Friays my Chore Day, but lemme tell you, my neck ain't havin' none of that....

I'm not someone who ships Zelda and Link, like, ever. I see their relationship as "Queen and Knight" or "Ruled and Ruler." There's a Fealty aspect I've always put to the Zelda games. I see Link with Malon in Ocarina, or Link and Mipha in Breath of the Wild.

But Tears of the Kingdom? I'm fairly sure they're a couple at this point, if only out of the circumstance of where and when they are at this point in that story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bfjukn4_zw (Warning, spoilers!)

#tearsofthekingdom

I am 15 minutes into Strange New Worlds, and I'm ready to rename this to The Commander Pelia Hour. Carol Kane is this show already playing a character type I've NEVER seen in Star Trek before: The michevious grandma.

Ah, summer. The season of "Yeah, I'd like to wear that cute summer outfit that girl is casually wearing, but I'd be laughed out of the county if I did."

Waiting on Strange New Worlds, Season 2. :)

Star Trek Before Bed:

It's nice to see the post ST:TMP era of Star Trek getting some love: https://trekmovie.com/2023/02/15/idw-launching-echoes-comic-miniseries-set-right-after-star-trek-the-motion-picture/

I've always had a headcanon about what happened after ST:TMP. When I was a kid, it was "another five year mission with Kirk!" and later, as a tween who was just finding out about Phase II, figured Phase II would happen post TMP.

As an adult, I noticed Kirk was an Admiral in The Wrath of Khan, so I'd assumed Kirk left the Enterprise after the V'Ger incident, and that's when Spock became Captain of the ship, and had his own five year mission.

I went with the last one for a long time as it made sense. In TWOK, it's mentioned the Enterprise is 20 years old and ready for retirement (my truck ran longer than that, Starfleet). That'd make sense if we had five years of Spock, five years of Kirk, five years of Pike and five years of April.

Eventually, as Trek shiften into a multiverse, I stopped trying to reconcile all the different stuff, and just shuffle them off into their own universes (TOS splits and goes directly to Wrath of Khan in my "Military" timeline, while TAS splits from TOS and TMP comes after TAS in what I call the "Roddenberry" timeline).

It's nice to see this area explored a bit, as it's a grey area that rarely got touched after TWOK.

I also have a head canon for the post TOS/pre TNG era, but that gets into a wierd area I like to say parallels the downfall of the Roman Empire...but they got better. :)