Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I've been on Mastodon a little over two years, but I've never done an Introduction, so in keeping with the tone of driveinsaturday.org, an intro:

#didntsayitwasmine #introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxDQ1g964U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4b9QoEXHDg

Thoughts Before Bed

Had I not found work by December 10, I would have moved in with Crystal and Lissa. If I hadn't found work by February, I was going to start selling stuff. If I hadn't found work by the time I sold everything but essentials and creatures comforts, I was likely going to go full "live with just a backpack full of survivables."

After a lifetime of being unemployed more than employed (my ten years at Nintendo was a fluke, and not my usual job experience) I seriously considered just going bare minimum to get through the day.

Glad I didn't, but I'm not throwing that playbook away. Just in case.

If someone could please tell my lungs and sinuses that I'm not sick anymore, or knows a good power washer who could clean all that out, I'd really appreciate it.

Thoughts Before Bed

Every done something accidentally that at the time seemed like a harmless mistake but then steam rolled into something very disturbing?

And why did it have to happen in the one hour before bed? The dreams I'll be having....

I was talking about this on my social media today, and it really got me thinking. Why did we get into comics?

The previous post talked about the day Superman died, when I so happened to be working at a comic book shop. The amount of people who were there because "this will pay for my kid's college tuition" (not joking on that one) really bothered me. Not because "hey, you're not REAL comic readers" but because they didn't understand the economics on how comics values work.

But beyond that...why do we care about that at all? I purged a lot of my comics in the mid 90s when I left the comics/fandom world, but still kept a bunch. A few are rare, but beat-up. Why? I read them. Every so often, I pull out a 30 year old comic and read it. I have them cause I enjoy them. Not because they're locked in a plastic graded carton to gain value over time.

I remember reading somewhere that Matt Wagner loved it when he'd see some of his old comics fans would ask him to get signed, and they were just well worn, folded, wrinkled. Cause it meant they were being read and loved. My collection would never past muster in grading, but I don't care, cause I love the ones I got.

Same with toys: I may keep the boxes my toys, but that's just cause those boxes are BUILT to protect the toys when they're shipped. Unless I'm moving somewhere, those toys are taken out, displayed and occasionally played with. :)

Anyone else who updated to Windows 11 24H2 having their scanners disconnect and reconnect repreatedly?

While I'm 99% Linux in the house, I do use Windows for VR and after the update the scanner is going nuts.

I worked at a comic shop during the Death of Superman. I remember handing these out like candy that day and we "sold out" pretty quickly (in fact, we held back some for kids getting out of school).

Something that made me sad were people showing up and saying "We're gonna finance our kids college with this!" They weren't comic book fans, just people who got whipped into the hype, or speculators trying to make an easy buck and didn't realize that the reason comics get expensive is their rarity AND demand.

Demand was there, sure. But DC printed so many of thiese things they were never going to be expensive. It's been 32 years, so I hope those kids got to go to college regardless.

Merry Crisis

Jenn Sickwatch 2K24: It's all over but the coughing!

Unpopular Opinion:

I prefer the Shock Treatment soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack.