Days 2134 - 2140

Aka Monday 21^st September - Sunday 27^th September 2020

Another quick one as I’m still catching up with this blog…no Long Walk’s this week, I just felt too tired, so decided to have a couple of lie-ins instead…but aside from that a pretty normal week, did work for seven and a bit hours and then relaxed, then went to sleep, then woke up and started all over again, with little interruptions to:

…pick up this week’s New Comic Book Day gems:

…and this month’s Mojo:

  

…the Orbital article was a bit short and the CD only had a couple of decent songs on it, and Queen aren’t my cup of tea, so in hindsight I probably should have left this issue on the shelf, as what I liked in it didn’t really justify the cover price…I also brought ‘Supernatural’ Season 14, ‘Gangs of London’ Season 1, the ‘Breaking the Beats’ compilation and ‘The Hives Live at Third Man Records’:

‘Supernatural’ Season 14 is a solid season of Supernatural, clearing up the plot threads from Season 13 and setting up Season 15. ‘Breaking the Beats’ is a solid collection of tunes, although I still don’t understand what a ‘broken beat’ record is, it just stands like house music to me. And The Hives live album is exactly what you’d think it would be like, high energy rock ‘n’ roll. And I haven't watched 'Gangs of London' yet, but have heard good thing about it.

…and I read a few comics:

‘Savage Dragon’ #248 – 251 – fun superhero stories with a little twist, that they take place in real time and all the past continuity is in play,

‘Firefly’ #18 – 20 – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again these are great ‘Firefly’ stories that feel like unaired stories from the TV show, and

‘Buffy’ #16 & #17, ‘Willow’ #2 & #3 and ‘Angel & Spike’ #12 & #13 – which a lot of Buffyverse stories, but they’re solid stories, but they are a little in the shadow of the “proper” Buffyverse. It’s a double-edged sword, if they stick to close to the original storylines, what’s the point of the new stories, but if they go to far away, they lose that Buffy-ness.

…and I did this week’s G2 Crosswords:

…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a fairly good start, we only had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 24). The little grey cells easily knocked most of the clues off six, with just a few misses. We really should have gotten ‘cocoon’ from ‘protective envelope’ and ‘ominous’ from ‘threatening’, but we did learn that ‘beriberi’ is a ‘disease caused by lack of vitamin B1’…

…Tuesday’s crossword dipped down a little, had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (three out of 23). Again, most of the clues were easily batted away, but with a few got to the stumps ☹ Like, we should have gotten ‘ironic’ from ‘dry – wit’, but we did learn that a ‘clear soup’ is a ‘consomme’…

…while Wednesday’s grid was a walk in the park, as we only had to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 25). Not sure why we didn’t get ‘forgo’ from ‘waive’, but we did learn that a ‘culvert’ is an ‘enclosed drain under road or railway track’…

…Thursday’s crossword went just as well, cheating on only a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24) and learning that the ‘side post of a doorway’ is called a ‘jamb’ and ‘quarto’ is a ‘book page size’…either the clues are getting easier or the little grey cells are getting better…

…Friday’s crossword took a bit of a dip, we had to cheat on a seventh of the clues (three out of 22). It did take longer to complete, but by taking our time we ended up doing pretty okay. We should have gotten ‘squire’ from ‘landed gent’, but we learnt that ‘Ami’ is a ‘French friend’ and that ‘tournedos’ is a cut of beef…

…and things kinda come crashing down with Saturday’s crossword as we had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (five out of 26). I think the little grey cells were a little tired and emotional from the night before and just weren’t up for batting. Like, for example we got stuck with ‘smart’, thinking of synonyms for ‘clever’, so we didn’t get ‘chic’, but we did learn that ‘beekeepers’ are also called ‘apiarists’…