sunday indulgences

[synchronicity2]

What have you done this week to be awesome, Milliways?
Be it RL, RP, or fandom related, share it!
Did you have a great thread or write an awesome fic? Did you bake a cake/cookies/muffins?
Did you build a snowman who can breathe fire? WITHOUT MELTING?

Alternatively, if you care about football, which team are you pulling for today?
Or are you just in it for the commercials?

Share, chat, enjoy.
(Or just stare at the gif and try to wrap your head around it.)

Comments

[sdelmonte]

I am a big football fan, but this matchup doesn't engage me that much. And as it happens, a friend decided to have a gaming party since most of our circle are more interested in gaming than watching games. But I will probably watch the end of the game. And I am sort of pulling for the Ravens. (The good news is that pitchers and catchers report in two weeks. Football still ranks behind baseball for me.)

And I have no interest at all in the ads this year. Most of the ads the last few years have been disappointing at bad, insulting at worse. I will wait till everyone else tells me what was actually good. And probably still say meh.

Meanwhile, in the bar...finished slowtimes wit Miss Kate Barlow!!

Cyborg and Kate during the snowball fight.

Kate and Jim Kirk go riding.

And new to the Bar this week: Knox and Lois chat once more.

[gavin62truck]

As per Kirk and Kate's conversation, I feel as if there should be a sitcom called Meet the Not!Boyfriend.

[gorgonfondness]

I'm gonna take a moment to pimp my sister instead. She made dinner all by herself for the first time Friday night and did a great job! \o/ She said it was fun and she can't wait to do more cooking this week.

[bjornwilde]

I live in the territory of the 49s but I'm not much into football.

This week has been nutty for me. I've road 26 miles total for the week, processed and proofed over 20 manuals, cooked dinner 4 out fo the five nights (instead of frozen dinners) and adapted two cockatiels.

In RPG land, I just kept threads alive though it occurs to me now I forgot about my Andrea threads, dang it.

[alexiscartwheel]

That gif is breaking my brain. Stahp.

I haven't done much of anything RP-wise this week because I've just been too darn exhausted. (lunamystic gets all good friend awards for letting me literally pass out on her couch from teh tired.) Thank you to everyone I'm threading with for playing along with my eternal slowness :)

I did a bunch of stuff at work, mostly not that exciting. On the fun side, I discovered I still have an encyclopedic knowledge of the movie Top Gun. Also Hawkeye #7 hit stores and we discovered that Clint Barton is still great at boats, plus making it more awesome, Fraction is donating everything he makes from this issue to the Red Cross for Sandy relief.

[ikissdhimbck]

I adore Mary, and have no problem with eternal slowness. It's a delight getting to thread with you. ^__^

[newredshoes]

Co-signing this!

[alexiscartwheel]

Awww, thanks guys! :D

And assuming tomorrow goes as planned, I'll be tagging up tomorrow night!

[gone_byebye]

I got a new winter hat which is actually capable of standing up to Boston's winter temperatures. Sporting goods/military surplus supply companies rock. Also my bottle of AnyGlove arrived, and it's worked pretty well to convert my Thinsulate gloves to conductive ones for use with touchscreen devices, although my heavier gloves still need a little adjustment. So there's that.

I made people in both the Boston office and the New York one very happy by producing beef jerky for both places. My spice recipe seems to be working out quite well, I just need to remember to use top round or eye round instead of brisket. Next stop: ask the landlord about charcoal grills so I can look into smoking my own pork shoulder to make bacon from scratch. I realize it's a lot of work, but I want the right to say I know how to do it.

I got a Capital Wasteland OOM written that's going to lead eventually into a grand melee at Evergreen Mills, too, if people are interested...

Oh, and I'm almost certain that I'm going to be apping a crack character this month. Depends on if I can get my hands on a copy of Santo y Blue Demon Contra los Monstruos. Because the Bar always needs more luchadores.

[bjornwilde]

I'd be interested! I've been thinking of bringing Ult. Ben back so he might be an option or I have Andrea Nash though I should get her through the first book, so her were-nature isn't being inhibited by external means first; just in case 3" claws can be of service.

[ikissdhimbck]

Definitely still interested in Evergreen Mills, god willing and the creek don't rise. I'll be reading along.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Oh, God. El Santo.... That would be awesome.

(My love of masked wrestlers is strange and confusing, especially for my SO and even to myself.)

too lazy to log out of pups journals

[boston_bruiser]

I am also up for Evergreen Mills!

[not_my_sandbox]

Eh, I spent the week learning to herd bytes from physical memory to the registers of a powerpc chip and back again in increasingly tedious ways. So, I wasn't planning on RPing any time soon, but Cam just had to tempt a headvoice to come out to play.

Damn apocalyptic literature.

[agoodmusekickin]

Highlight of my weekend came Friday Night where I single-handedly ran a workshop for 10 kids. Two of the kids, I was told mere minutes before going to to face my class, were severely special needs. So I quickly ran back to the store room and picked up another, far more tactile, activity.

Not only were the kids engaged, but at one point one of the grown-ups came over and complimented me on being really great with the kids.
To say I was chuffed would be a great big giant understatement.

In addition to that my Friday included getting to play with Call Ducks, meeting an adorable froshie from my alma mater with a geeky passion for science who the followed me around like a Call Duck, and then going out clubbing for the first time in quite literally years.

Today we're having people over for the Stupor Bowl and I'm very much looking forward to deep frying some Mac and Cheese.
NOM NOM NOM.

[bcgphoenix]

Hilariously, while I am Maryland born and bred, my dad's from San Francisco. FAMILY RIVALRY, ACTIVATE. >:D (I gotta root for the Ravens, man. No question. Normally I'm just in it for the commercials, but it's the Ravens.)

In the land of "holy shit I'm actually threading," meanwhile, Bolin is chatting with Thor and going a bit goggle-eyed over Mjolnir. Ten to one odds he gets Thor a thermos of noodles before this thread's out.

[genarti]

You have no idea how much I squeaked with glee when I saw Bolin's tag. *laughing still*

(I think Bolin is winning for most distraction with least effort, so far! In part because Thor has Bolin mentally categorized as "outgoing young warrior who hasn't seen battle," which is a category he knows REALLY WELL how to interact with without having to pull up small talk manners or anything. LET'S TALK WEAPONS AND POWERS, COOL.)

[mnt_mike]

Aaaand now my Monday has been made.
Thank you Bolin and Thor!

[silveraspen]

Let's see:

* Finished a (very slow) slowtime;
* Finalized (I hope) my data collection instrument and submitted full amendment to IRB for approval;
* (In the process, continued my run of working with their staff to help diagnose various IT issues with the site - suffice to say they are actually replacing the entire thing from scratch in the next 2 months);
* Signed up for an endurance athletics event, more details of which will be coming soon. :)

Now I am making tea and working on translation, online formatting, and database-building for said data collection instrument, after which I have to write up comments to a grant proposal revision and to a draft manuscript.

Happy February?

[aberration]

Bing can possibly refute me on this, but I think, possibly, we've finished a thread where Asami and Bumi talk about everything ever?

Fun story: on two different occasions I was looking through that post to tag back and thought "wow there's a long thread I wonder who - oh." Yep.


And as per: Super Bowl, I do like football, and have a decent amount of affection for both teams playing (as opposed to dislike or being an outright fan), so I'm pretty happy with the match up, as I can enjoy the game regardless of who wins. But my plans amount to maybe getting delivery or takeout. Exciting!

[themysciran_diana]

Yay delivery! That is totally my plan for the day.

[mnt_mike]

We have?!
WE HAVE!

(It's on my To Do List today to email you and ask if we were wrapping...or not.

<.<
>.>
He just won't stop talking...)

Thank you for thread! As always <3

[gavin62truck]

I drew this. So I cheated by using the poster image from this movie, but hey, I was in a hurry, because Tommy was going to kill me (Kate might approve, on the other hand). I'm working on a version with cleaner lines, but I couldn't wait to share the cuteness.

[herr_bookman]

Oh, that is super cute. Great job!

[gavin62truck]

Thank you! I don't usually do fan art, but when I do, it's ridiculous.

[ikissdhimbck]

Kate has absolutely no qualms with being modeled after Jane Fonda.

~still squeaking with the cuteness~

[gavin62truck]

Useless fact: Anthony Perkins and Denis Leary are pretty much the same height!

[ikissdhimbck]

Counter useless fact: Patricia Arquette is almost the same height as Callie Thorne. ^__^

(Sadly, she and Jane Fonda are about 7 inches apart.)

[bjornwilde]

That is a great drawing!

[gavin62truck]

Thanks!

(I may have over-accentuated how adorable they are, but I'm biased and I don't care, ahaha.)

that gif is hypnotically beautiful

[genarti]

I have actually RPed! And more than that, I've finally (FINALLY) gotten Thor through canon, and brought him back into the bar, which I've been wanting and intending to do for embarrassingly long.

So he had another round of OOMs detailing the end of Thor's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Day, and then he returned to Milliways. He's currently threading with *deep breath* Wonder Woman, Ellen Park, Bolin, the Fool, Noriko Ashida, Katya, Garyn Balvadares, and Aphrodite (plus a note from Darcy Lewis), and I am loving all of them. Man I love playing this big lug.

In non-Thor-related news, Clare hanging out in the Actual Cannibal hunt thread, where she's meeting Andrew Wells, although neither of them is currently cannibal-hunting. And Clare and Ambriel's earnest discussion of Milliways as a place of recreational learning (and evil-stalking) is continuing in slowtime.

Oh, and re: Super Bowl, I don't really have any stake in football... uh, anything. I was thinking of going to agoodmusekicking's party, which is always great fun, but it's snowing and I was up until *mumble* o'clock with Thor threads last night, and so I am being a loser instead and curling up in my apartment with tea and dal to thoroughly ignore the game. May anyone who cares about it have fun!

Re: that gif is hypnotically beautiful

[onceaviking]

And at some point this guy really should meet said big lug.

Re: that gif is hypnotically beautiful

[genarti]

Eeheehee. They really should meet, yes!

Thor is no longer in plot limbo, so he'll be in again, don't worry. We can both keep an eye out!

Re: that gif is hypnotically beautiful

[mnt_mike]

OH I SEE HOW IT IS!

FINE! WHATEVER! MORE MAC AND CHEESE FOR ME!

;P

Re: that gif is hypnotically beautiful

[mjolnir_retriever]

SEE, REALLY I WAS NOT BEING A LOSER, I WAS JUST KINDLY LEAVING YOU EXTRA MAC AND CHEESE!!

*generous*

*and stuff*

[1nv1nc1ble]

Mark has returned to the Bar, in a hail of teen angst and just a smidgen of PTSD. I am currently getting buried under a steady snowstorm, which is new to me, since Winter only lasts three days or so in Texas (and is apparently a Thing here in West Virginia). Not particularly interested in the high holiday of the Great God Football, so I'll probably either watch something on the TVR (I'm behind on my "Walking Dead" watching, plus I have "Whitechapel" and "Ripper Street" accumulating) or play video games.

[ceitfianna]

This week has been long, snowy and tiring for me as its also been steadily snowing and cold. I've been fighting off being sick and have done a lot of RP as its a good distraction from just wanting to fall over and sleep. Though I've done a lot of sleeping too.

To start with I tagged Will out and he met Kate Percy and spoke with Doc.

Charles had an EP, met Katya in the hunt post. They're getting along better than I expected. He also talked weird food with Ellen.

William ended up in the hunt with Katya too, met Andrea Nash, talked with Regulus about family and arguments. I love how William keeps making friends of wizards.

Sameth talked with Mal about magic writing.

Moist is giving an unhelpful introduction to Church.

[boston_bruiser]

For my part, I just finished Spec Ops: The Line (highly recommend, btw - it might look like a generic military cover-based shooter at first, but the story is what sets it apart by far), and am starting out on Halo 4. I just got to...Infinity on Heroic.

[jjprobert]

I have done some RP stuff, mostly on older threads (for a range of values of old)

These include: Alfred meeting Tumnus, getting a little annoyed at Poins, as mentioned above, meeting Invincible and doing his best to help a boy work through his issues about his father.

And, in a super ancient slowtime that is now wrapped, Jack West gets some help to get out of his predicament.

Edit: I also did a sting in the tail from the Thor movie.