Aka Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th June 2019
The temp job is going well, and I’ve been working more and more
on my own. The only downside to the job, aside from having loads of things to
remember, is that I’m not walking as much as I was, but I’m snacking less
during the working day and I have lost weight…
…on the comics front ’The Wild Storm’ #23 arrived and I picked
up my first pull list, just the one issue was in it, out of a total of five,
and one was on the shelf, but I only set it up last Thursday and I should get
the rest next week and the pull list should be up and running proper by the end
of the month (I think) and I got the latest 2000AD Partwork, featuring the A.B.C. Warriors, from WH Smiths:
…and I brought ‘Batman vs the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles’
DVD, which looks fun, but I feel so physically drained from working that I don’t
have enough energy to actively read or watch much, which is a shame…
…and I got the latest issue of Lego Star Wars, which
features a free AT-M6 minifigure:
…and I did the G2 Crosswords this week (as per usual):
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a great start,
the answers flowed like chocolate in Willy Wonka’s factory, as I only had to
cheat to a twelfth of the clues (two out of 24). And I learnt that the ‘precursor to the Euro’
was called the ‘Ecu’ and that the ‘madeira cake’ is a ‘rich sponge’ and not
Richard Branson like I first thought (boom! boom!)…
…Tuesday’s crossword went a little worse, I had to cheat on
a seventh of the clues (three out of 21), it wasn’t that the clues were
particularly hard, but did show up my lack of knowledge of art and geography,
otherwise I would have gotten ‘Art Nouveau’ from ‘French school of painting and
architecture of the 1880’s’ and ‘Liberia’ from ‘Africa’s oldest independent
country’, but I’m annoyed that I got the answer to ‘erroneous’ wrong, I went
for ‘wrong’ instead of ‘false’, doh!...
…Wednesday’s crossword went worse, but I did get an
Illuminati score (cheating on five out of 23 clues), I could get most of the
answers, but my little grey cells were too tired to get those last five
answers. But I did learn that ‘Tito’ was the ‘Yugoslav marshall, prime minister
and president, d. 1980’, that a ‘hyrdoplane’ is a ‘boat that lifts out of the
water at high speeds’ and that ‘Primrose’ is a ‘woodland plant with yellow
flowers in spring’…
…but the little grey cells were firing on all cylinders for
Thursday’s crossword, as I didn’t have to cheat on any of the 21 clues, the
answers were just spilling out of my brain, down my fingers and onto the page.
Plus, the grid gave out some nice aliases/nicknames/stage names/band names –
Mike Archive, Scrumpy Tout, Realm Victim, Sylph Acolyte and Zinc Forty-Two…
…Friday’s crossword goes a little worse, I guess the little
grey cells were a little burnt out from yesterday’s perfect score but did give
another Illuminati score (five out of 23). And I learnt that a ‘horse with
reddish-brown coat’ is a ‘roan’ and that an ‘oral examination’ is a ‘viva’, but
I should have gotten ‘slapdash’, ‘useful’ and ‘pestle’…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on an okayish note,
as I had to cheat on an eighth of the clues (three out of 23). I should have
gotten ‘cantankerous’ from ‘grouchy’ and known that ‘Bahrain’ is a ‘Gulf
sheikhdom’, but I did learn that ‘alliteration’ is a ‘poetic rhyming device
using words with the same initial letter’…
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