Waiting on the Thunderstorms

Since they've been forecast for Ottawa-Gatineau this morning...

Meanwhile, the writing workshop last night was fun and well-attended. We had a six-word story-writing challenge, poetry was also committed, and some long-form fiction too.

Still wrapping my brain around the news breaking last night about the Sony-Disney Spider-Man movie revenue-sharing spat.

Job search continues as well.

Despite the skies clearing...

...around the noon hour here in Ottawa-Gatineau, we're still under severe thunderstorm watch as of this blog entry's writing. Probably of precipitation is forecast at 70 %. So, there's that.

Lunch is done, of course, and I'm back at checking job boards, and looking at news service websites.

And I've got two more Garth Ennis things to avoid. Both Punisher-related, of course, one of which will return also to his version of Nick Fury Sr., so...additional motive to avoid. I get that Ennis has a fan base. I used to enjoy the DCU title Hitman, after all.

But him and Marvel...no. Doesn't work for me.

COMICS: Linking to Michael Doran's Op-Ed re: Disney-Sony-Spidey Mess

I find myself in agreement with this. Michael Doran explains it better than I would.

https://www.newsarama.com/46603-dear-disney-sony-kiss-make-up-over-spider-man-please.html

COMICS: Marvel's War Before the Modern Age... (SPOILERS)

...the one that almost all the Marvel characters who had military backstories not tied to World War II specifically, but to conflicts that happened afterwards? Korea? (Professor X, Juggernaut Marko) Vietnam? (Iron Man, War Machine, Punisher) Afghanistan? (Iron Man's first backstory retcon) Iraq?

All of them are now tied to something else: the Siancong War. Details with spoilers at the other end of the link.

Tedious Work That Needs Doing

Running through the job search boards and subscribed e-mail alerts every weekday. The weekends are for me, dammit, unless I see something that looks like a really good fit in there somewhere. If the Conservatives or Bernieristes get in, that may end up grabbed out of my hands and chucked to the curb, but unless they do? I'm sticking with what works to keep up my mind-health as a job-hunter.

Washing dishes.

Personal hygiene in general. Not subjecting any of you to the details. Not here.

Grocery runs. At least the local grocer is ten minutes away on foot. So is the local library branch. These are good things.

Subject to revision