New Weird

[Dina]

Hello there!

Regen, conversely, our days are becoming warmer. But we are expecting some rain today and then perhaps we will have a few cold days. Also, September is normally a rainy month, so we are preparing.

I also thought JB would be writing CS next. I agree, if he is writing MM, that is better. I really love CS but DF is still my favourite.

I am so glad you are excited about learning something new for your work, Regen. I hope it is not too difficult to master.

I have a very rusty French now. I could read it very well but now I can't. I've forgotten too much.

Oh, I've watched a Star Trek" Strange New Worlds episode and it has an Easter Egg! You can see the TARDIS. So fun 

[Regenbogen]

Oh, I've watched a Star Trek" Strange New Worlds episode and it has an Easter Egg! You can see the TARDIS. So fun 

Cool! For me, it is behind a pay wall. I think I saw it on prime video, but they have so many new and old titles you either have to pay now or are only available if you also subscribe for x and y, like Paramount or all the others. I won't do that, even if I do want to see it. I already have a subscription for Disney+, Netflix and Amazon Prime and additional subscriptions from Amazon: like amazon kids, kindle unlimited, audible and I am feeling scammed because I already pay for them and they still want more money for some movies and series.

[Dina]

I have all of those too. Not the Amazon services but all the streaming you mentioned + Paramount (where I have Strange New Worlds) and HBOmax (which is part of my cable service package). I also pay a plus for having the right to watch some football (soccer) matches. So yes, it is a lot. But it is one of the things that make me happy, to have options to watch things I like.
Speaking of shows/movies, I went to the cinema! Which is a very strange event for me nowadays. But I have several free hours between medical appointments, so I went to watch Freakier Friday. I am not delighted with the acting, but it was a fun light comedy and I had a good time 

[Dina]

*turns on the lights and hopes that someone sees them and come to visit*

[Don]

*Notices the lights have been left on in the SHOV and shakes his head*

Electric bills are not going down, and are we still using halogen bulbs?

[Dina]

*makes a note to replace the bulbs for something more efficient*

*Realizes that she forgot Don's birthday*
*sighs*
Hi Don! When I posted the belated birthday thread for MSD and others I was ready for making your thread in a couple of days. And then, time decided to just run. I forgot many birthdays in the meantime. I am sorry.
I will make those thread later, because right now I have to run myself.

[Don]

Hi Dina!

I'm still alive and moving around.  No worries about forgetting a birthday post.  It is kind of you to remember.

How are you?

[Regenbogen]

I realise in horror that it has been more than a month that I posted here. I meant to write several times but then there was always something that came up. There is no excuse.

There are so many news, I am sure, I am forgetting a lot: my youngest cousin is pregnant, my other cousin will be marrying again. Her partner proposed to her on the beach in Denmark at sundown, the romantic.

Mini was sailing in the Netherlands with her class. It's her last year of school. Now she could either do an apprenticeship and start working or (which is what she decided) go to a following school which would qualify her for university. Of course it will be art related. And after finishing the school she can only study subjects related to that. For example graphic design or something with commercials and many more. It will involve some internships. I will contact someone I know who worked at a museum restaurating art. Maybe she has some advice.


Only 3 months now and then we will have the new book! I am so excited!

[Dina]

Regen, you are alive!
Congratulations about the family news, especially mini's internship. I am sure you will miss having her around all the time, but at least Denmark is not too far away from you.
Hello Don! I am so pleased you came back. I am doing well except for some health issues that are not terrible but not ideal. For example, I had a very high blood pressure, so we are trying a new drug and last Wednesday I did the horrible 24 hours pressure measuring thing. I hope it worked (I mean, it had correctly readings. I had some bad experiences about that). It was not so bad. Also, hubby and I are recovering from some cold and both of us still have an annoying random coughing.
I've been dictating some classes I don't usually do, so it iwas fun. And this week I have to evaluate some doctorate students (they have a plan, and they around half of it, so we have to evaluate if they are doing well, if we think they are going to finish in time or perhaps they should change some things, we do some suggestions, things like that.

TV and movies: I watched Wednesday, i liked it. This season more than the first one, I believe. I also watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which was a hit of miss with some good episodes and some terrible ones. I also watched two super heroes movies to comment here. Thunderbolts (Marvel) and Superman (DC). Thunderbolts was ok. No pretensions, not big deal. Superman was...pleasant to watch but too many things had no sense, and I was not delighted with some casting (but I am ok with Superman and Lois). Also, there is Krypto!
Last, I watched two more serious/darker shows. The girlfriend, which was very disturbing but interesting and well done and We were liars, which was mesmerizing. I liked it.

And yay!  the book is coming! I heard JB was in a conventions these last days.

[Dina]

Today is Mother's Day in my country, so congratulations for all the mothers that are forumites and for the mothers of the forumites 

[Regenbogen]

Today is Mother's Day in my country, so congratulations for all the mothers that are forumites and for the mothers of the forumites 

thank you 

It's Friday and I bought some fish at the market. Everything looked so tasty so that when I got home, I made myself a lot of fish and algae salad with fresh bread. Well, yeah, now I'm stuffed.

And wow, there suddenly are so many new books out, that I must admit, I'm a bit overwhelmed. First I've read the new one by Jim's son, now I am reading Stone & Sky, the new Rivers of London novel. Then there is already a new short story collection by Patricia Briggs featuring Asil the werewolf trying to get a date.
In November, there will be the third novel of An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka, and there is already the next Fairytale book on my kindle, you know, the one with the descendants of fairytale "heroes" and the prophesy that the Dark Prince will return. Well, the Prince did return and now everything looks kind of apocalyptic. It's in German and is called Ever&After by Stella Tack. This is the third book and it is called Die letzte Stunde (the last hour).

Parallel I have relistened to Brief Cases and Side Jobs. Currently I am trying out the new Graphic Audio of Storm Front. I like it.

And maybe, if there is still time, I will register or reread Peace Talks and Battle Ground before Twelve Months.

Then I found out that there will be a new book from Drew Hayes of Fred the Vampire Accountant. Cool.

So I would say that for now I am unlikely to run out of books soon.

Edit: typos, I really need some better glasses. I am getting old.

[Dina]

Hi Regen!! So good to see you here.
Glad you enjoyed your food. I am (allegedly) allergic to fish, but I had a chicken with salad yesterday that was delicious too.
I hope you enjoy your plethora of books. I bought the Thursday Murder Club but I barely began reading it. I've been super busy. And I am also in the mood for playing some computer game. Did you ever played some of the Phoenix Wright games? The one I am playing not it is inspired but those,  with the same game mechanics, but it is not part of the saga. I think I will begin a new case today.

Also, today we have elections. Not to president but to parliament representatives. Time will tell what happens...I don't think any party will have much difference above the other. I will tell you later.

[Regenbogen]

Hi, weird!

@Dina, I've read about those elections in the news.

Today, our new bed frames will arrive. And next week our new mattresses.
The old frames are broken in part and are now beyond repair. Maybe we can use the wood for building something else. And my mother wanted to gift the mattresses to us. There's a try-out period of 100 days, which is great and that's why we ordered them online.

Yesterday, my husband and I started watching a new German series. It's called "Kohlrabenschwarz", which can be roughly translated to "pitch black".
It's some sort of mystery-horror-detective story. I like it. There are 6 episodes which can currently be streamed for free on the website of one of the big TV programs of Germany. But the free version is of limited time. It's on Paramount.

My husband knows one of the actors who played a small role as the father of one of the victims in the first episode. They know each other from his time acting in a small independent film, where the actor played a psychologist and my husband played a grumpy racist man.
It was about one or two years ago. My husband was asked if he could imagine acting in this film, because he knew the producer through his hobby theatre acting and as a young adult the producer made some films in each of which my husband played a role.

It was fascinating to see him in a "real film", something professional. We watched the premiere at a small cinema in our city and the writer and director asked him if he would like to continue working with her, when he had time. And she asked me if I would like to play a role, too, which I declined.  I am no actor. If she wants me to sing though, I will do it, as long as no one sees me, lol.

This is the series we started watching yesterday:
https://youtu.be/nJQhGEfZX-w?si=gA7EGFW40ZX98Dw3
Sorry, there is only German so far, but I think the video shows the atmosphere very well.
There is humour in it, too. At the end of the trailer he asks the woman if he should take her home and she answers: No thanks, I came with the broom.