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[azurelunatic]

Thursday was family games night, with pizza. sithjawa joined, as well as the partner's large array of siblings and their spouses/etc.

After games were done, my partner showed me Who Framed Roger Rabbit? out of the "You haven't seen that yet?" queue. And we watched more of The Orville, and I tested out my stand mixer by making some cookies.

Friday, in honor of the equinox, I baked a sweet cardamom loaf. Then we did a shopping run, and my partner made dinner.

These past two days have involved a lot of small gas-powered motors around. Partner has summoned a yard maintenance company to take care of some of the tree, bush, weed, and tenacious invasive morning glory things that the ex neglected in the interminable six months leading up to departure. It's been loud, but is so much better looking now. Though there are still some more things left for today, like the stack of lichen-covered branches in the driveway.

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[jesse_the_k]

Did you enjoy WFRR? In retrospect, the sexism is heavy in that one, but at the time I loved how it played with noir tropes.

Sweet cardamom loaf sounds delicious.

Small-engine noise is ubiquitous right now: in addition to the mowers/leaf blowers/hedge trimmers, we've got a concrete pump across the street as well as generators a-plenty on the local piping projects. It's like beating my head against a brick wall: feels great when it stops.

[azurelunatic]

It was a great watch-once movie for me. It's important, and a chunk of pop culture assumes I'm familiar with it, and the playing with noir and cartoon tropes is really fun.

There are also some bits that are nails on a chalkboard, not limited to the actual chalkboard squeaking...


The cardamom loaf is very lovely. I used this recipe: http://redstaryeast.com/cardamom-bread/

[quartzpebble]

Exciting! Yay equinox!

Also: fuck bindweed, kill it with fire.

[azurelunatic]

The fire hasn't yet been deployed.

Yet.

[wohali]

Is The Orville watchable? I can't get over it being MacFarlane; his other shows really rub me the wrong way.

[azurelunatic]

I haven't seen enough of his other stuff to know if it's typical. I find it immensely watchable in one episode at a time doses; there's just enough of a cringe factor that I doubt I could binge through it. A lot of the crew are losers, and the captain is a doof being held up by the competence of people around him, but it also seems like the text is aware of this and highlighting it rather than it needing to be inferred by people who have worked with that kind of charismatic jackass. Though it very much is being kind to the charismatic jackass, despite variously dragging him. As a parody of ST: TNG, this is a thing of beauty, and the trailers I've seen do it credit.

But if you're sick of charismatic jackasses, give this a hard pass.