Letters to Myself

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Today's our eighteenth wedding anniversary, amazingly enough. I gave Lisa a card and chocolate and origami flowers (tulips, possibly) and the best gift of all, a nap. It's a good day. Hope yours is too.

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Actual context: the Hulk is saying this to a talking raccoon. Oh, early '80's.

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Hey, got a rejection: mumbly-joe something days from Abyss & Apex, sent to them some time in February. I think. So.

Vacation has been going well, in general. Actually answered a few work emails that needed answering. Subscribed to Marvel's Digital Comics program and read a few things, including Modok's 11. Just generally lazed about the house.

Well, okay, I did do one productive thing: moved several bookshelves about, moving them out of our bedroom into the hall and other rooms. One's now in my office, blocking the closet door. This might cause trouble in a few months, 'cuz that's where we keep the Christmas wrapping paper. I can hear the conversation already: "Sorry son, Christmas is cancelled this year! Yes, I'm afraid so. Don't cry. Why? Couldn't wrap your gifts, so I took 'em all back! Why are you crying? No, I can't go buy more paper, don't talk crazy! And stop crying!" Yeah, that won't go well. I'll probably have to move it; cheaper than a pony.

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Don't rub it in, dude.

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I actually lost count of how many geek hot buttons there are in that trailer. Nazis, samurai, dragons, zeppelins, explosions, cute girls in lingerie armed with machine guns, etc. The cumulative effect is pretty impressive.

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Today's the last day of exams. Tomorrow I'm on vacation for almost two and a half weeks. Whether this'll result in more posts here remains to be seen. I might go for more trivia and errata.

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But now, just for the movie. Three more weeks, plus babysitter availability.

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Just spent a half hour taking screen shots of the SHIELD helicarrier (thank you, YouTube), so's we can make a model version for The Boy and his Super Hero Squad out of a shoebox, plastic cups, and possibly toilet paper rolls.

It's true: being a Dad really is the best gig ever.

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Isiah Mustafa speaks about libraries:

I can't argue with a word he says. Also, I hope he does get the chance to play Luke Cage. Also also, this is a most excellent homage:

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