Weekend natterings and the return of the Tick.

[yendi]

Spent most of the weekend off the net, not always a bad thing.

Since we celebrated Father's Day when Elayna was still in town, yesterday was mostly uneventful on that front, other than a call from my daughter and the surprise that she'd hidden an extra Father's Day card under her keyboard for me before leaving town. Yeah, my kid rules. :-)

Played lots of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. I go back to it every year or two. Still so damned good (really -- I'd rather see action RPGs just try to improve on the few flaws in this formula than start from scratch). Got my sword-and-shield Barb to Lower Kurast.

After two weeks of waiting for a library recall notice to go through, I finally got my hands on the two most recent Kinsey Millhone books, and gobbled down Q is for Quarry, which was the best in a while (and, although I picked up a lot of the important early details, the first one that kept me in the dark about the murderer in a long time).

I also burned through about fifteen magazines that had piled up. And ate yummy food.

Oh, and the best news of all: So, after matociquala made a comment in her LJ involving the word "Denouement," I felt compelled to quote from the "Heroes" episode of The Tick. This led me to check the Tivo listings to see if it was on anywhere, and lo and behold, Toon Disney is running it every night at 11! I can get my spoony goodness again! And so can all of you!

Finally, anyone know of a good Mac client that handles tag support? I love my iJournal, but I also love tags, and hate editing more than I have to.

Comments

[brujah.livejournal.com]

If you ever play on battle.net, dabees, indyellen, and I are over on East sometimes. :P I believe all of us use our LJ handles as account names over there.

[stripedsocks.livejournal.com]

I use XJournal and love it and he updated the program with tag support the day LJ announced they'd started supporting them.

[eyewrist.livejournal.com]

diablo 2!

I love that game.. it's definatley a classic.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

::hits TiVo online site to schedule The Tick::

:)

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

You're a good daddy. :)

[philrancid.livejournal.com]

(cries)

DAaaaamn youuuuu CAaaaaablllle!

The first few seasons of The Tick were the mostest awesomest ever. And also one of the last things I ever watched with any regularity on television.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

In more Tick-related news, I heard somewhere (don't recall where) that Ben Edlund is taking a break from television work to return to New England and produce a new Tick comic book miniseries.

[ian-gunn.livejournal.com]

I happen to catch "Heroes" yesterday morning with my daughter. Not a bad start to Father's day. I still have not seen all of the episodes, I'll eventually fix that. My favorite line from the animated Tick "It's a Yule Tide!". A whole episode to set up that pun. You gotta respect that.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

He is. EJ's really lucky. :)

[ckd]

Seconded. XJournal is great.

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Tick goodness! I don't know if we get Toon Disney to be honest with you but I'm going to check as soon as I get home!!

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

*SPOON!* :)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

The Tick is on Toon Disney?!?!

C'mon little wooden boy, it's time to go on TV patrol!

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Thirded

[yendi]

I've never done Battle.net -- my airport connection isn't too stable. Once the Boston move happens, if I'm not on wireless, I might try it out. All my character names are variations on "Yendi." :-)

[yendi]

I'm just amazed that it wasn't publicized more.

[yendi]

Hunh. Honestly, I wasn't overwhelmed by his later comic work. Personally, I'd rather see more TV stuff - he wrote some great stuff for Mutant Enemy.

[yendi]

It's a channel I never bothered watching before. They also show reruns of the pre-Evolution X-Men toon (which is often pretty dreadful).

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'll come back to comics with a fresh perspective.

[scathedobsidian.livejournal.com]

We should play some D2 sometime.

[nomadmwe.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate the jungle? I hate it only slightly less with a barb or sorc. Slightly.

I should reinstall that sometime...

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

*shudder* - though you know, I'd probably still watch some episodes...not sure why, but I would.