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I saw they released more video of Jason Momoa as Lobo the other day. Happily, he really does look like he'll be perfect in that role. Sadly, he's saddled with an appearance in upcoming travesty Supergirl. Still, if that (probably) craptastic abomination does at least has the potential to give us a solo Lobo movie, it could have at least served a worthy purpose.
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And, yes. I am judging the Supergirl movie before I even see it. My justifications are numerous: (a) It's was developed by James Gunn as part of his Gunn Cinematic Universe (GCU), (b) It's based off a story by that a-hole of a hack "writer" Tom King, and he's involved in the film itself, (c) from all appearances of the trailer, it's just going to be Gunn attempt at a Guardians of the Galaxy style movie, which seems to be the only type of movie he's actually good at.
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I still recall probably the worst winter of my life. That was back in 2010/2011. The wife was pregnant with the boy, so we didn't travel for Christmas. Starting early December 2010, it snowed EVERY week, all the way into mid-January. And several of those snows were a foot or more. By the time it was all said and done, I had two massive piles of shoveled snow out front: one burying my front lawn, the other directly in front of the house on the street.
And since the wife was pregnant, she's couldn't help with shoveling. So it was always just me. Very exhausting.
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The second worst winter was probably my first real experience with snow. It was a President's Day snow storm in maybe 2002? I was living in an apartment at the time, and my then girlfriend stayed over. She was trapped by the snow, which wasn't really too bad....:)
Anyway, when it stopped, I had to walk a mile or so to the grocery store and buy a shovel. Then I spent most of the day digging out first her car, then my own. For good measure, I also helped a few other people shovel. It was an exhausting day.
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Anyway...it's cold. Real cold (for this area). And cloudy. It rained most of the night. At some point the rain turned to sleet, but never to snow. For now the rain has stopped, and according to the current information from weather app, it'll stay stopped until Friday.
We're still due for really cold temperatures though. It'll warm up in the middle of the week, but only during the day. Between now and next Tuesday, it's looking like we'll have low temps below freezing every day but one.
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Speaking of annoying...
I hopped on the treadmill last night, and went to turn the TV on to maybe stream a short show while I was walking. Turns out, the children broke the TV remote at some point, and never bothered to tell me. Needless to say, I was angry.
So now I've got to buy a new remote. We could probably order one off Amazon. It'd save me having to go to a Best Buy or something.
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I saw that a Bel Air mega-mansion is back on the market for a mere $99.9 million. That's apparently down from the original asking price of $139 million.
Must be nice to have that kind of FU money. You can afford all kinds of things the "little people" can't. Probably why so many wealthy people don't mind government regulations that drive up prices for the rest of us.
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There was an editorial I saw about young men being isolated, having no close friends, with marked increases in low self-esteem and suicide rates. Being the father of a teenage boy, and someone who himself has no close friends, that kind of thing worries me and makes me a bit sad.
Personally, I believe there are two big contributors to this situation: (1) The preponderance of social media and online gaming reducing face-to-face interactions, and (b) the concerted effort by certain elements in our society to vilify men and label even the most positive aspects of traditional masculinity as "toxic" (a word that, depending on the context, makes me more likely to discount anything else the person using it has to say).
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Huzzah! I applied to some jobs this morning!
I had been perusing LinkedIn yesterday evening, and found two jobs that looked interesting. To apply to each one required access to the computer so I could upload my resume. At the time, I didn't want to kick the boy off the computer, so I saved them and made a mental note to apply later.
Today was later enough, and thankfully I remembered I had saved them. Good old man brain.
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At dinner we watched an episode from The New Batman Adventures, which was pretty much a new title and animation style slapped on Batman the Animated Series. The episode in question is one of my favorites - Legends of the Dark Knight.
The episode emulates a story by Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams, where kids tell stories of Batman from their perspective. The first story is emulates Dick Sprang’s art style and the story style from the 50s and 60s. The second story combines two scenes from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, and has Michael Ironside voice Batman.
Great episode.
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I'm also unhappy because the school district once again jumped at an opportunity to take a day off. They made the call on Friday to be closed Monday, because the weather was going to be icy.
It was, in fact, decidedly NOT icy.
"But Zombie", you being your excuse, "they didn't know it would be NOT icy, they had to make the call when they could." And I would more sensibly reply, "Then why are they waiting until today, Monday, to make a call about classes on Tuesday?"
It's because they new they could get away with a free day off today, but that it would be harder to excuse when they had lots of other, actually hard-working people going to work on Monday.
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And I'm not sure if the garbage men are coming today. The HOA sent out a notice a few days ago saying it was dependent on the weather, and that further announcements would be forthcoming. Being an HOA, they of course did not send out further announcements.
Because HOA should really stand for Home Owners A-holes.
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I was contemplating the (seemingly) random multitude of internet ads this morning. Mostly, I find them annoying. Occasionally, however, I have made use of them to get gifts for my wife. So they can be useful.
I've also found a (probably obvious) way around the ads that start off many YouTube videos. I just exit and restart the video over and over until the ad goes away. Sometimes it only takes one shot, at max it took 4 tries. Still, it works.
Now if only I could figure out a way around the ads that interrupt videos....