Weekend Update

Spent most of it cleaning the basement, more thuroughly than it has been in, frankly, years. Ended up filling both of our trashcans and running a trunkload of stuff (on top of the run I made last weekend) to the thrift store in Laurel. I also spent the afternoon on Saturday putting up new curtain rods in Tom's room, and installing smoke detectors on all levels. Need to straigthen up the dining room still and steam clean the rugs, but other than that we're about ready for our home safety inspection.

BTW to my body: I realize you're stressing about this as much has I am, but waking up at 2:30 am and not letting me go back to sleep is right out.


Also, I finished Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman.

Forgive me, O Lord, for thinking Mr. Gaiman was a mere purveyor of Goth Angst, for I only looked upon the covers of Sandman and did not truely understand. For what should have been an utterly stupid premise (Marvel's iconic Silver Age heroes set in 1602 Elizabethan England) turned out to be utterly compelling. Mostly because Gaiman plays the premise completely straight (aside from indulging in a running gag about Peter P's near misses with spiders.) I mean, there's something scary about this world's Doctor Strange meeting The Watcher (who is also the mainline MU's Watcher, and don't ask how) and seeing the poor man be utterly baffled as Uatu attempts to explain the theories of casuality and dimensional theory to him.

"Please, what you are saying, they're just words. I don't understand."

And that's after he had to have defeated the Dread Domannu.