As a retail worker, I always brace myself for “Black Friday” week, but forget that the week immediately after is JUST AS BAD. (Let Bad = requiring complex, time-sensitive multi-tasking, coping with the first round of crazed customers, and coworkers who are just stressed out. All of this on a food hangover from the week before.)
So in lieu of a real post, have three things.
- I have finally watched Vast of Night and found it excellent. I think the reviews which say the story isn’t anything wildly original, but the storytelling is exceptional have it right. Great characters; great dialogue; and although I am a plebeian when it comes to caring about film direction, even I can say oh, now that’s neat!
- Got the Patreon up and running, even if I haven’t really started advertising it. That’s been eating my brain for a while. As a Gen-Xer, I want to know when did all these computer systems STOP HAVING INSTRUCTION MANUALS. I am very tired of just hurling myself at a system and hoping to learn it by pushing a lot of buttons and seeing what happens. Pushing mysterious buttons is not an ideal way to learn something, especially when it comes to troubleshooting. Ugh, I feel old.
- Started holiday baking with peppermint snowballs. Not a fan. The cookies are tasty, but they were so sticky as I rolled them in powdered sugar (twice!) that they are going on the list of “never again” cookies. I don’t like sticky fingers. I would rather go back to my old favorite of Marcel Desaulniers’ White Chocolate Peppermint cookies.
lane robins 