\o/ weekend

[eruthros]

The good:
I spent Friday night decompressing from fail in what turns out to be a really great way: livrelibre came over, we had alcohol and dinner and talked vehemently about intersectionality and anti-oppression work and all the recent fails, and then we stopped talking about them and played Lego Star Wars. Here is the thing about Lego Star Wars: it doesn't matter if you get killed, because you just reconstitute out of legos, and the basic goal of nearly every level is to smash, lightsaber, shoot, or slap basically all of the set decoration. We spent two hours going "oh, man, I'm going to get those fences! take THAT, fences! and the planter over there! and then I'm going to punch down this wall." It was very soothing in a simulated-destruction kind of way. I destroyed many decorative sconces.

And then Saturday I suddenly decided that I wanted a bison burger (idek), so livrelibre and I went out and talked about anti-oppression and meta and porn and tv and computers in public spaces, instead. (The conversation about computers was partly prompted by hearing other people arguing heatedly about macs versus pcs and going, huh, we could try having an intense conversation about other kinds of fandoms for a change. We didn't manage to be very vehement, though.)

And I decided to try going to the Sunday farmer's market instead of the Saturday one -- the Saturday one is (almost) year-round and is bigger, so some farmers can't get stalls there. And it was awesome, I want to go to the Sunday market every week. I think that the Sunday market shopping population is maybe 10% of the Saturday one, which meant that I didn't have to tuck my cane away because people walked into it, and I didn't have to push to get to the front of stalls, and I could buy prepared food without standing in hideous lines. And I discovered several new farmers, including people who do locally produced raw soft cheese. I saw a new cheese stall and went over to check it out, and then was so startled that before I even said hello I said "... it's soft!" I think the cheesemaker thought it was a complaint, because she explained that it was only semi-soft in other weather. And it was tasty, and I brought it home, and I am so excited about it because I'd thought we only had cheddar-like and gouda-like and blue cheese here. Plus I bought sugar snap peas (and then ate all of them with lunch) and black cap wild raspberries and many cherries for thingswithwings to turn into tarts when she gets back to the US, and warm-from-the-oven sourdough multigrain bread, and sprouted lentils and chickpeas, and shelling peas. There are noms in my future.

Less good:
I didn't get to some graphics stuff that I meant to do this weekend.

Let me just say, cab drivers, I am sometimes willing to spend $5 to get a lift home from the farmer's market when my feet hurt and it's hot out and I'm concerned about the cheese. But I am not willing to spend $5 and have to endure a conversation with you about why I'm wearing a brace, what the brace is for, how long I have to wear it, does it have anything to do with the cane, gosh pity pity, tell me more details. No. Just: no. I tried terse and uninformative, then I tried I-don't-want-to-talk-about-it, and the cab driver was still like "oh, but come on, it's got to be a great story." Fuck off, dude.

For reasons I don't understand, I watched Babylon 5 today instead of the Doctor Who season finale. *shrugs*

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[wychwood]

For reasons I don't understand, I watched Babylon 5 today instead of the Doctor Who season finale.

Because B5 is the awesomest! Clearly. Which episodes did you go for?

Also, I am totally jealous of your farmers' market. And Lego Star Wars! That sounds so fun.

[eruthros]

I have been slowly doing a rewatch! So I watched "Chrysalis" and "Points of Departure."

I have to say, I vastly improved the rewatch experience this time by watching only the B plots of some first season episodes. I love the Ivanova B-plot in "TKO," but hate the alien-fighting A plot; and I enjoy the Ivanova B-plot in "Believers," but find the A-plot just ridiculously irritating.

[wychwood]

Ivanova makes everything better. Trufax.

I actually like TKO for the Garibaldi-and-Walker bits, and the Mutai is pretty cool *g*, but it's a fairly ridiculous episode and the fighting stuff leaves me pretty much cold. So, yeah, I endorse your strategy for re-watching. The thing with B5 in general, though, is that if you try and skip the "stupid" things first time around you miss too much set-up for later on - I never understand the people who miss out S1 (although hey! I love Sinclair! So I am biased anyway). Even, like, Infection which is basically ridiculous (David McCallum!) and more like a forgettable TNG episode than one generally expects from B5 has that great bit at the end where Garibaldi calls him on his self-sacrificing stunts.

IN CONCLUSION: B5 = LOVE

[eruthros]

Yes! That's exactly the problem -- I'm always telling people that watching season one makes a big difference in how great the later episodes seem, because it sets them all up in a really lovely way. But I find that on a rewatch my patience lasts longer if I, say, watch "Infection" but skip the looonnng fight scene :)

[toft]

Cab driver: jeez, how fucking rude.

Food and livrelibre: \o/

[livrelibre]

It was indeed awesome times and great conversation:) \0/ Also I think Lego Star Wars has replaced Centipede as my favorite video game because I cannot slap anything to pieces in Centipede as well as blow things up. As for Mac vs. PC, I cannot get worked up but other technology (and society) topics can make me froth.

Mmm, farmer's market goodies and boo invasive cab drivers!