Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Day 327: While on our walk this morning, the goose just visible in the pond behind me was standing with another goose on the side of the path. As we walked past, it apparently decided I was a bit too close, and gave me a bit of a hiss as we walked by. Warning taken! These suckers get mean. We stayed well on the other side of the path as we walked back.
Day 326: Just a nice afternoon sitting in the spring sunshine and working on Norwescon bits (making sure the website schedule is up to date, getting as much music as possible on the laptop for the Thursday night dance, and preparing the social media posts that will get posted during the weekend).
Day 325: Just a day, so it’s a last-minute, “maybe if I play with filters it will be more interesting” shot for today.
Day 324: It’s a week before con, and I have only 10 messages in my con email inbox, half of which are song requests just waiting for me to have a chance to find the songs. I’m either doing things very right or very wrong.
Day 323: Got my “don’t forget you’re checking in for Norwescon in a week” email from the hotel today…not that I’d forgotten. It’s officially one week from con! (At least, it is if you’re one of the people who show up on Wednesday.)
Day 322: I hope everyone had a good first day of spring! The weather here was great (sunny and 60° F), so I got back out on the track for a lunchtime walk, which I hadn’t done in far too long.
Day 321: What was going to be just another “me on the couch” shot was infinitely improved by the sudden appearance of my wife’s foot by my head. I’ve been foot-o-bombed!
Day 320: Green shirt, green shoes (not visible), and I’m even reading Green Mars. I think I was appropriately presentable for the day.
Day 319: Started the day off with a really nice walk, and really enjoyed having a day that actually felt like spring. I’m definitely ready to move into warmer weather!
Day 318: It’s Abyss day! The Abyss has long been a favorite film of mine (particularly the special edition cut), but the best quality release it’s had for years was the 2000 DVD release, which was a non-anamorphic presentation. Even at the time that was a disappointment, but as the years passed, and there was no word of an anamorphic release, and then no word of a Blu-ray release, it got more disappointing. As recently as 2020, many people figured that was all we’d ever get. So it’s quite exciting to finally have it released and in my hands!
Amusingly, it’ll likely be next weekend before I actually watch it. My only 4K drive is attached to my computer, and I use it to rip movies, not watch them directly. So before I can watch it, I have to get it onto my media server, and my particular process is, admittedly, somewhat time-consuming (rip both versions of the film in both 4K and HD, plus all the special features in whatever quality they are, extract the subtitles from all of them, OCR and correct the subtitles, compress the .mkv files to .m4p, and move everything onto the media server). I’ve waited 24 years for a better release, I can wait another week.