Monday : 17 October 05
Y’know… I started out thinking that I was going to make a deep, introspective post. Then I decided against it. That’s not to say that the post isn’t forthcoming; it’s just not coming tonight. Stay tuned.

After arriving at home in the wee hours of the morning, I fired off an email to my team lead saying that I wouldn’t be at work today. Then I slept. Oh, did I sleep. I woke up sometime around 11:00 and decided that it was finally time to get out of bed.

I puttered around the house for a bit and then decided that I needed to introduce myself to hot water and soap. The meeting went well. I didn’t “do” anything for another couple of hours, but I felt better just knowing that I was clean.

Today’s highlights included:

  • A trip to Dr. Volt’s to pick up two weeks’ worth of four-color print goodness. (More on this later.)
  • A trip to REI to deliver ‘s Trader Joe shwag. Unfortunately, he wasn’t in. But, he swung by the house later and picked it up.
  • Looking for fabric for my cloak. (Still no go.)
  • Impromptu coffee with and .
  • Rearranging some furniture.
  • Monday Night Football.
  • Saving the world (for the first time in a week!).

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt
Three words (well, two and a number): Security Level 25.

Upon my return to Paragon City, I headed to Independence Port to take on some members of “The Family.” That’s right: Paragon City’s own Mafia. They’re tougher than I had anticipated. I wound up in the hospital – and in experience debt – twice. But, I did what I had to do and made the streets a little bit safer. I even took on a few members of the Freakshow and the Tsoo, for good measure.

Stray Toasters

  • I had an amusing epiphany yesterday, on the way to IKEA. We were driving along Harbor Boulevard and a saw a sign for “Orange County” something-or-other. It was then that I remembered that Indigo Bolt is part of a Supergroup called “Orange County Supers.” It made me chuckle.
  • I read DC Comics’ Infinite Crisis #1 this evening. Wow. I’m not sure if DC is leaning towards recreating a multiverse, but this looks like it’s going to be one Hell of a story. It took me until the next-to-last page to figure out who the four shadowy figures were. The #6 issues of The OMAC Project (article, with spoilers) and Rann-Thanagar War, both of which tie into and lead into Infinite Crisis, were very good stories. The DCU – or possibly the DC Multiverse – is about to become a very turbulent place. If you’re up for a spoiler-heavy read about Infinite Crisis, you can take a look at this article from Newsarama. (Sorry, Don.)
  • Model Railroad Slums
  • Gotta get back, back to the past… Samurai Jack!
  • According to Brainiac, an airliner’s “black box” flight recorder can withstand a point-blank explosion of napalm.
  • What would Jesus blog?
  • I think that I have found yet another thing (or five) to covet. That Darkseid figure looks really good. And, there are a few things from the Marvel line, too: Dark Phoenix Saga Colossus and Wolverine statues. AND… you can combine them into a “Fastball Special.”
  • 122 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP
  • I enjoy a good text message or ten, but… Damn!
  • Apparently, 05 November 05 is Dungeons and Dragons Day.
  • Techies: They’re everywhere
  • w00t! There will be a trailer for X-Men 3 before Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
  • Marvel’s The House of M #7… *jawdrop* It wasn’t Magneto, after all. I didn’t see this one coming, either.
  • : The cover of Catwoman #51.
  • : The cover of Legion of Super-Heroes #14.
  • From boingboing.net: Best mag covers of the past 40 years

And with that… goodnight.

Namaste.