The Eureka re-watch

I need a break from watching Flashpoint while I"m on the computer, so I switched to Eureka. 

Eight episodes in so far.  I forot that Beverly (Debra Farantino) was a snake from the beginning.  And, it's filmed in Canada - one Flashpoint actor (David Paetku) just popped up in Episode 8.  Plus, Artie from Warehouse was in an episode, and who knows who else will turn up.

Reading List 2018 updated

Presenting, the reading list for 2018.  A work in progress. . .

I'm attempting the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, so it should be a fun ride.

1. A Bollywood Affair, by Sonali Dev
2. knitting book (find picture)
3. model railroad book
4. Aunty Lee's Delights
5. Maigret - Pietr the Latvian (1/10/18)
6. Street Magic - Tamora Pierce (1/21/18)
7. The Dark is Rising (1/30/18)
8. Ranma 1/2, books 1 & 2 (1/31/18)
9.  Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (2/2/18)
10.  Pegasus in Flight, by Anne McCaffrey (2/3/18)
11. The Sword of Summer, by Rick Riordan - Magnus Chase series #1 (2/3/18)
12. Slightly Chipped, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
13. My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell (2/5/18)
14. Firefly: Those Left Behind (graphic novel) (2/6/18)
15. Firefly: Better Days graphic novel #2
16. Tempests & Slaughter, by Tamora Pierce (2/9/18)
17. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much (2/14/18)
18. Hail to the Chin, by Bruce Campbell (2/19)
19. The Revolution was Televised, by Alan Sepinwall (2/21/18)
20. Squire, by Tamora Pierce
21. Page, by Tamora Pierce
22. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith (e-book) 
23. Excuse Me, but I was Next. . . : how to handle the top 100 manners dilemmas, by Peggy Post
24. Who Knew? 10,001 Easy Solutions to Everyday Problems (lots of bogus ideas)
25. Crazy like a Fox, by Rita Mae Brown 
26. The War that Saved My Life
27. Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (3/9/18)
28. Slayers & Vampires: the Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel, by Edward Gross (3/9/18)
29. Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier (3/10/18) 
30. Murder on the Orient Express (3/13/18) 
31. New Minimalism (3/15/18)
32.  The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (3/15/18)
33. The War I Finally Won
34. The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover, by Susan Wittig Albert (3/21/18) 
35. Life Below Stairs: true lives of Edwardian Servants (3/25/18)
36. Confessions of a Shopaholic
37.  
38. Queen Anne's Lace, by Susan Wittig Albert (4/5/18)
39. Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover (4/9/18)
40. Warmly Inscribed: the New England forger and Other Book Tales, by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (4/9/18) 
41.  
42. The Life I've Picked, by John McEuen (4/10/18)
43. Best Food Writing 2011 (4/23/18)
44. Death of a Gossip, by M. C. Beaton (4/15/18)
45. The Missing Kennedy, by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff (5/3/18)
46. Soviet Daughter, a Graphic Revolution - by Julia Alekseyeva (5/3/18)
47. Chicken with Plums, by Marjane Satrapi (5/3/18)
48. Embroideries, by Marjane Satrapi (5/8/18)
49. Emperor Mage, by Tamora Pierce (5/8/18) 
50. What do You Care What Other People Think, by Richard Feynman (5/14/18)
51. I am Not a Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer (5/15/18)
52. Arctic Adventure, by Dana Meachem Rau (5/15/18)
53. Great, by Glen Gretzky and Lauri HOlomis (5/15/18)
54.  Chu's Day, by Neil Gaiman (5/15/18)
55. Blueberry Girl, by Neil Gaiman (5/15/18)
56. The Day the Crayons Came Home (5/15/18)
57. The Princess Diarist, by Carrie Fisher (5/19/18)
58. Death Need Not Be Fatal, by Malachy McCourt (5/23/18)
59.  
60. Hannah's Mill, by Rhoda Wooldridge (5/26/18)
61. Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America (5/2x/18)
62. News of the World (5/29/18)
63. The Invitation-Only Zone (5/29/18) - about North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.  Interesting, but I wish there were more details and follow-up.
64.  The Help (6/2/18)
65.  
66. Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese (6/4/18) Heard about on the CBC Q podcast
67. Death of a Cad, by M.C. Beaton  (6/5/18) 
68. Jason Priestly: A Memoir (6/6/18) - Interesting, fluffy, he doesn't seem to be the airhead I expected. 
69. Ready Player One (6/9/18)
70. Death of an Outsider (6/9/18)
71.  

Infinity Wars speculation

Warning: Spoilers ahead










Thor got a new eye!!


So, deaths.

Non-Thanos-dust deaths:

• Loki
• Heimdall
• Gamorra
• Vision

Thanos-dust deaths

• T'Challa
• Groot
• Star-lord
• Drax
• Spiderman
• Doctor Strange
• Falcon 
• Bucky
• Nick Fury
• Nick's sidekick
• and more
•  

Still alive:

• Thor
• Rocket
• Stark
• Captain America
• Okoye
•  Bruce Banner
• Rhodey
• Natasha?
• 
  

Now, I figured if anyone died permanently, Captain America and Stark were good candidates, since their contracts are up.   I also figured ahead of time, simce the Time Stone was mentioned in comments, that there's a good chance that someone will get the Time Stone and hit the rewind button, but that some people may still end up dead.  Eithter the non-dust deaths, or people who are resurrected and then die again, or people who are alive now but won't be later.  See Cap/Stark reasoning above.  Non-dust deaths are more likely to be permanent (sad face - Loki is a villain, but he's a good foil)

Idris Elba is on the poster, despite being killed tout suite.  Ditto for Loki. 

Groot-the-teenager is both funny and scary, since I have a tweenager of my own.  Also, Grootish is taught on Asgard?

Peter Parker's dusting was the hardest - flashbacks to Tenth Doctor's regeneration.

Perma-death possibilities:

• Loki
• Heimdall
• Cap
• Stark

Have to be resurrected, because they have sequels coming:

• Peter Parker
• T'Challa
• Guardians?  

Asparagus

I am tired of asparagus.  Unfortunately, it seems to be the one vegetable my mother-in-law will cook without either smothering it with cheese, or serving it swimming in butter.  I will rant now about how she will always have something gluten-free for one grandkid, the tea is always decaf because of one person, but even though I'm lactose-intolerant and on the low-fat gallbladder-hates-me diet, my veg choices are asparagus or sometimes strawberries.  Or cold salad.  Warm veg is for everyone else - either mac n cheese, broccolli-cheese-rice casserole, or scalloped/cheesey potatoes.  Peas, swimming in butter.  Green beans, ditto, plus added ham stock for super-saltiness.  Mashed potatos, de-freaking-licious.  Because of butter, and milk. 

Even if she asks what I want, there's nothing I can come up with that anyone else will eat (roast parsnips!) or that she will cook without butter (peas!). 

End rant.

Updates

It's 11:30 Friday night.  Haven't touched this computer since about this time Tuesday.  The Boy has been on spring break and took over the PC.  No big deal, no important emails, and facebook is still there.

Just started Season 2 of Psych.

I think both my yellow roses are dead. :(  Red ones are sprouting leaves.  yellow ones still just sticks, no green under-layer either.

TV watching

Working through Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman on Amazon Prime, since I was getting a little tired (shock!) of re-watching Flashpoint.  I'm just starting Season 6, and remembering a lot of things I forgot.  Like how much of an ass some of the townspeople were (Jake, Hank, even Loren at times, but most especially Preston the Jerk Banker).  How sad it was when Dorothy had to burn the book she wrote about Cloud Dancing, to keep the soldiers from getting it.  (I wonder if she kept the first draft?)  I'd forgotten that Myra left Horace, and that he attempted suicide.  That Mr. Rogers had a guest role as a preacher. 

Read Harder challenge - January update

After one month, I've completed 8 of the items for the Read Harder challenge.  So far, most of my books have fulfilled more than one item.

1. A Bollywood Affair - for #5 (a book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries).  I'm not a big romance fan, but this one was pretty good.  Fairly quick read, sort of a beach book.  Also, lots of descriptions of food.
2. RanMa 1/2 - for #4 (a comic written and illustrated by the same person), #15 (a one-sitting book), #16 (first book in a new-to-you YA or Middle grade series), and #18 (comic not published by Marvel, DC, or Image).  I actually read the first two books in the series.  My first manga, this one is about Ranma, a boy who fell into a cursed pool while training with his father.  Now, when he's splashed with cold water, he turns into a girl.  His father, who fell into a different cursed pool (it was the Area of 1,000 pools, and apparently they were all cursed), now turns into a panda when he gets splashed.  A splash of the other temperature water turns them back to their original form, so it's all good.
3. Firefly: Those Left Behind - #15 (a one-sitting book), and #18 (comic not published by Marvel, DC, or Image).  The first in the Firefly graphic novel series.  I've had it for years, but never read it yet.  And I still miss Firefly.
4. Magnus Chase: The Sword of Summer - #16 (first book in a new-to-you YA or Middle grade series).  First book in Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase series.  This time, instead of descending from Greek gods as in Percy Jackson, Magnus is the son of the Norse god Frey.  But his cousin Annabel is the daughter of a Greek god, so I guess the pantheons intermingle.
5. Pietr the Latvian  - #19 (a book of genre fiction in translation). The first of the Maigret novels, translated from French.  This was a fairly recent translation, so I wonder how an older translation done closer to the original date would be different.
6. Aunty Lee's Delights - #21 (mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author).  First in another series, this one set in Singapore, where an older-but-not-elderly widow cooks food, owns a restaurant, and solves crimes accidentally.