Day 705

Aka Saturday 5^th January 2019

Back to my morning exercise walk (I walked a total of 9.87km (or 6.13miles) in 1hour 56minutes and 5seconds, which took 12,789 steps and burnt 1,100 calories), during which I did some prep work for my interview about the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust job - running through possible questions and answers, thinking of new examples to use in the interview and what questions to ask them) and weights…

…I then accepted interview for the Food Standards Agency job and did a bit of initial prep for it and then started work on two new job applications…

…I also read some comics:

‘Savage Dragon’ #241: which was slightly confusing as I couldn’t remember all of the past events that were referred to (I later realised that although I’d brought the previous issue, I hadn’t read it yet!!!), but it’s a good issue which deals with some tough issues around relationships and how society judges men and women in regards to sex/sexuality. All alongside the usual Savage Dragon jokes and super-heroics. 8/10. (Creative team: Erik Larsen, with Nikos Koutsis and Mike Toris on colours and Ferran Delgado on letters)

‘Giant Days’ #46: focuses on Susan as she puts on her hard-boiled private dick persona and deduces who is stealing from the comic shop. The team maintain the excellence of the previous issues and somehow manage to pack in jokes, emotions and a done-in-one-issue storyline. With a nice artistic touch of Susan’s detective scenes being set out in black and white, either as a tribute to Film Noir in general or maybe to Frank Miller’s ‘Sin City’ series or both. 10/10. (Creative team: John Allison, writer, Max Sarin, artist, Jeremy Lawson, colours, and Jim Campbell, letters)

‘Rick and Morty’ #45: is a nice almost Rick and Morty-less story about what happened to Morty’s family after Rick Cronenberged the world and they left for another dimension. And the public domain story climaxes in typical Rick and Morty messy fashion. 7/10. (Creative team: Writers - Kyle Starks and Tini Howard, artists - Marc Ellerby and Jarrett Williams, colours -Sarah Stern and letters - Crank!)

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

… which pulls it out of the hat and reverses the dip as I only needed to cheat on a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24), would have been a clean sweep if I’d gotten ‘conscientious’ from ‘painstaking’ and if I’d known that a ‘coho’ is a ‘small north Pacific salmon’, but you live and learn.