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Okay. Hear me out. I started watching this show and I was like "This is crass. And cheesy." But it was good enough to finish the first couple episodes.

And then I noticed that it's crass and cheesy but oh is it good too. It's a very smart show about very stupid people, performed by incredible actors.

The premise is familiar. Soldiers from the future enlist a 'normal' 20-something video-gamer from the suburbs to travel back in time and prevent the apocalypse.

What isn't so familiar is how much the show lets the characters grow and change. I am so weak for someone raised for war being told that they're made for something else, that they have value beyond their kill count. A hard-ass getting the first hug of their life. Another tossing aside the mission imperative at the first whiff of unconditional kindness.

There's a mistaken identity scene that stretches for like 15 minutes, and makes perfect sense for every single character involved (like--7 people, I think?) are all sure they know what's going on and every single one of them wrong).

Canon Queer characters. In a big way.

Canon Poly relationships.

Season 3 is on the surreal side, but it didn't lose me. The story all wraps in a very satisfying end.

I can't think of a scene where a woman's body being objectified is treated as anything other than creepy/annoying/unacceptable.

Bonus fun, picking out all the easter-egg references to all the other time-travel movies.

Drawbacks: it will make stupid shows about smart characters a lot less fun to watch. It deals so well with the paradox and futility of time travel. Also a drawback--there is almost no fic for it at all.

Content advisory that it really really lives up to the TV-MA rating. There is like a 15 second long shot of two men comparing their penises, completely on screen.

Has anybody else watched any of this? Thoughts? I'm doing a re-watch now, I'm on like episode 6 of season 1.

Wow that's a weird date to type in. It still feels like it would be more natural to put 2019 on stuff than 2022 or even 2021. It just looks wrong there on the screen.

Anyway, word count for today and yesterday is 193.

Neighbors are shooting fireworks again for the third night in a row. They stop around 10pm so it's not as bad as it could be. The first time they were doing that when we had the puppy, we gave him lots of treats and distractions and he's chill about it now.

I need to go to the hardware store tomorrow and get a new knob for the back-most door. The last one fell apart when I tried to tighten the screws that hold it in (there's still a locking door between us and the yard, just someone could get into the laundry-room/garage) and I don't want to leave for work on Monday with it like that.

Covid booster shot and flu vaccine scheduled for tomorrow at 4:30, about a 30 minute drive from here. I'll probably pick up this year's pair of boots from Academy Sports while I'm on that side of town.

Happy New Year, everybody!

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This is Buttons. He's almost 11 months old now. He's the bestest boy. He was a rescue; we got him in late May of 2021. Absolutely no idea what mix of breeds he is. He's got heavy pit legs, a long body but a very slim middle and a tail that swoops down and then hooks up like a whippet. He's a perfect size for our small house--he's about 22 lbs now, and hasn't changed much in the past couple of months, so we don't expect him to get much bigger.

From the first day we brought this baby home, he's been super protective. On the second day we had him, we were playing in the back yard with him when our neighbors went to leave for work, and he stopped playing, turned and sat between them and us and didn't move until after they were gone.

For the holidays, Child has asked if she can sleep on the pull-out couch with Buttons and I agreed. Normally, he sleeps in his kennel in an alcove in the hallway between my door and the bathroom, and when I get up in the middle of the night he doesn't make a peep. When he's sleeping with Child, apparently he's feeling like he has a job to do, because when I get up to pee he barks at me unless I call a stream of reassurances to him before I open the door.

We took him to the dog park for the first time yesterday, and he was so incredibly good. He's on the submissive side with other dogs, even smaller dogs. He made friends and played on the edge of the pond and got dunked by a huge german shepherd. And then he slept for the rest of the day.

 174 words, but I cut some so it was a little more than that. Working on the follow-up to Blight that explains how Jordie becomes an uncle to a baby in Dallas. Jamie doesn't really feel like a dad in the situation, but Jordie is over the moon to have a local baby Benn.

 So it's been a minute since I posted here.

I've since gotten divorced, moved with my kid (she's 12 now) to Florida, started working at a land survey company, bought a house and started a food forest/garden.

I'm between fandoms right now. Reading Teen Wolf and Stucky because those are the two with good rec/finder pages on tumblr. Playing around a little writing a short story set in Blight. 

Who all is still around? What are y'all up to these days?

 I just posted a lot of Losers WIPAmnesty stuff over on LJ. DW is not cooperating with fic posting, so it's over there. If you like commenting here, that's fine too.

OMG dw is pissing me off with the cuts that don't cut and the paragraph breaks that don't break. Anyway, here's the link to the tumblr post for ch 2: http://ladyjanelly.tumblr.com/post/96719466503/note-17-is-the-age-of-consent-in-texas-and

So I’ve been going to the gym with my hubby MWF, doing weight-training and a little cardio and balance work on the Bosu. Now I’m sometimes hitting it on Tues/Thurs while he’s teaching Kung Fu classes and my daughter wants to go to the gym play-care and visit with her friends. My go-to Tues/Thurs workout is the rowing machine for cardio, the foam-roller to keep my muscles working right, stretching and balance work.

It’s been a pretty consistent two months. I’m liking what I’m seeing in the mirror, but nothing at all is happening on the scale. I may have gained two lbs, despite not changing my eating at all.

I had a thought this morning, imagining what I’ll look like if my weight keeps not-changing and my bench/squat/curl max keep going up. And I think I like the idea. I’ve never really encouraged my body to muscle up like it wants to. The little bit of water aerobics and a few scattered semesters of weight training both made noticeable differences. I’m curious how extreme the shoulder/waist/hip ratio will go (I have a lot of hips and the shoulders bulk fast). I’m about at my all-time heaviest weight (5’3” and 177 lbs) but I think I could be happy with that, thrilled even, if I can get it shaped like I want.

I think I’m going to keep general strength, cardio fitness, balance training, and flexibility as my goals, and totally remove weight-loss from my plan for now. I’m not going to eat more, but not less either. Up the protein intake and drop the carbs down a little bit. I’m thinking about this almost as a body modification project (albeit one that’ll require constant maintenance to keep it looking like I want).

I’m really glad I took some ‘before’ pictures before starting this, because it’ll be interesting to see how far I can take it.

Ugh. It was a great day, but I feel like my eyeballs are like over-cooked eggs and my brain is oozing out my ears.

I do freelance AutoCAD for a living (along with being the stay-at-home-parent) and I got a great new client in the air-conditioning field, but the work is a little more involved than other clients I worked with, so there was a ton to learn. I worked from their office today, which is like--less conducive to brain-breaks than I'm used to. But. I went from having no clue at all, to being able to ask the right questions, to being able to mark up the blueprint as he told me the changes he needed at the end. Hopefully job-after-next, I'll be able to have a sit-down meeting and be able to get everything I need to know to do the whole job.

I feel I left money on the table when talking salary, but he said "If you're happy to work for that, I'm happy to pay you" which was really cool. He was recommended to me by a good mutual friend, so I have no worries about not getting paid when the job is done, and he is in dire need of having a lot of work done, so this looks to be a regular gig.

It was really great to have a day where I didn't have to think of anything but the work in front of me. Cleansing. For me, CAD work is like getting paid for doing puzzles. I wish there was like a "Draft this in the fewest clicks possible" puzzle book. I'd do that recreationally.

Okay, the house has been broken into 3 times that we know of. Once, they stole a window-unit airconditioner and the workers' ladders. The second time they stole $800 worth of doors. There's nothing in there worth taking right now, but the workers nailed the gate shut so they'd stay out. They kicked through the paneling in the garage (it's unfinished on the inside) and got into the yard and then pried the wood that was nailed over the door off.

Apparently, nobody writes insurance policies that will cover theft or vandalism for a house in rebuild. The builder is not responsible. I'm pricing guard-dog rentals tomorrow. Has anybody ever used this kind of service?? They're insured for $2million but I think that's just if the dog damages things or someone sues for getting bit.

If we put the electrical wiring in and it gets stolen, or the parts of teh central AC that are outside, we will have to take out a loan to cover the loss. If we have to do that twice, we'd be better off to have sold the house as-is and bought a move-in ready place.

We have to tell the apartment complex 60 days in advance before we move out. We can't move forward until we know if it's secure.

I am so fucking stressed. I just want to curl up and write porn all day.