The Residence

After weeks (maybe a month) of not watching it at all, Void and I finally finished The Residence, some Netflix show Void heard was bad. It ended up being better than I was expecting, but that's an incredibly low bar. It wasn't good, but it also wasn't the worst thing ever. As per usual, we talked a lot afterwards. I ended up staying up until around 3:40, so it's good it was a Sunday into Monday. Void shared a song that she said fit Teobaldo really well, and man, she's right. It's nigh perfect, and it made me want to relate him to Don Quixote, whom I never actually looked into before now (I just knew he was some famous fable, but knew nothing of his story, despite it potentialy being "the first modern novel").

November 12

I researched further on November 12th (hello from the future), and made a new "Inspiration" page for Teobaldo to keep my notes in one place. It's nice to finally think about characters again, if even just for a day or two. For the first time in literal years, I haven't really been thinking about my characters much. Instead, I go to bed mostly thinking about death and degeneration of me and the people around me. ...Definitely better to think about dumb character scenarios while trying to fall asleep. I miss it. It hasn't fully come back (I'd say it hasn't even come back for half my attempts), but it's come back a little, at least.

Midnight Power Outage: Over an hour

It was a very windy day, and the power went out around 9 PM for about three minutes. My dad had the worst timing and arrived home about a minute after the power went out, and thus, couldn't put his car in the garage. Then, maybe thirty minutes after he entered the house, it came back on.

Now it's slightly past midnight, and thet power went out again. It's probably been out for ten minutes already, but everyone else is asleep. The battery backups were beeping every few seconds, but now one is beeping nonstop. Beep beep beep beep beep beep. I do not know what I'm supposed to do. Normally, my family turns off the backups, but looking online (I still have internet due to the backup), it seems that's not advised? I don't know. I also worry that I'd hit the wrong button and mess everything up.

12:49: It stopped. ...And then beep beep beep beeped for two seconds, then stopped. I guess it's dying. And back, and gone. 12:50 now. I should brush my teeth, and MAYBE try to go to bed.

1:12 AM: I did brush my teeth, but then ventured downstairs to check on the cats, wondering how they were doing while being assailed by constant beeping from what I believe is three different sources in three different rooms. They were wandering around, but that might just be because they heard me come downstairs. I turned off the one computer, at least. As for the backups, I'll leave them on. Dad made a fire today, so I'll assume that'll be partially wasted without the fans to grow the flames, but I suppose it SHOULD be safe?

I went through 2-3 dead flashlights before I found one that worked, but it was nice and bright. I walked around the house, and just took in the atmosphere of darkness and BEEPING. I enjoy power outages, simply because it's a change of pace from the norm, similar to how I like being sick for the same reason (though nothing threatening, pleasee; a stomach flu will suffice). The consant beeping is back, and has been back for quite some time.

It's also funny that this is the day of the full moon (thank you for making me more aware of these, Pokemon Sleep), so looking outside, everything is perfectly visible, despite my hallway being nigh pitch-black. It's a super moon, at that (and the "Beaver Moon," also known as the "Deer Rutting Moon"). I wonder how the deer are doing. They tend to come to our house and drink out of the bird bath (and now a bucket of water we put out especially for them) most days, then also wander into neighbor's yards. I have yet to mention it, but it's been happening for weeks, if not months. A few months ago, they even chewed mom's Penn State flag, at least TWICE. Now I think my mom put out an "ugly" flag she doesn't care about. I forget what it is. Or maybe there's no flag.

Digimon Rewatch

As for another update, I watched the first season of Digimon (in Japanese) over the past two or so weeks, and started 02 about three days ago. I'm enjoying 02 more than I thought I would. As a kid, of course, I loved them all to bits, but I thought I'd be less impressed with 02 as an adult, but so far, I enjoy portion of it better than the original. The original probably has better character development, what with covering topics like divorce, being adopted, and familial obligations, and the whole "trapped in the Digital World thing is fun and compelling, but I'm really liking 02's mix between both worlds too. They're both good, for different reasons, and it's a nice change of pace. But the biggest thing for me is that I feel the emotional beats hit at least a little harder in 02 so far. While I think the actual problems were better in Adventure, I simply found the pacing off (too quick), while 02 seems to let things simmer at least a moment longer. Basically, I think the "direction" is better? And while it's not top tier writing (and I wish these kids weren't elementary schoolers), I like a fellow kid from nearby being the villain a lot, and then meeting in the human world (even if just once). It's nice. I wish they did more with that.

But who knows. Maybe post-Ken, I'll be less impresed. I remember liking Arukenimon and Merukimon a lot, but after that, I frankly don't remember much, except they went to a bunch of different cultures, which I found neat as a kid, but I can't say I remember anything being memorable plot beats except it being so different. And then I liked the weird sad guy at the end, but mostly because for some reason I memed on him with my cousins and/or friends. I don't even remember his name. Maybe it started with an o.

I'm liking I DON'T REMEMBER HER JAPANESE NAME, BUT IT WAS YOLEI IN ENGLISH a lot more than I thought I would. She might be my favorite of the new gang. Surprising. (Well, no, Ken is the best, but I think she's my favorite out of the Main 5. I think part of what turned me off of her originally was her design, which still isn't my favorite, but maybe even that is growing on me, for being different.)

Anyway, the power is still out...

...and I should go to bed. It's 1:35. I wonder if I'll be able to sleep without my noise machine, and also perhaps with the soft droning of beeps I might still be able to hear through my door. I will assume not, at least for quite some time, but I've been sleeping poorly and I'm very tired, so maybe a miracle will happen. Good job, backup, keeping the internet on for over an hour now. Laptop battery at 49%.

1:41: IT SHUT OFF AGAIN. Then on. Then off. I swear, it's multiple batteries, so why are they going off at the same time? And I still have internet, for now. Hm. (Though I will try to sleep any minute now, even though I WANT to know how long the power stays out.)

Update: Shortly after I tried to go to bed, my dad woke up (randomly) and noticed the power was out, and handled more of the beeping backups, along with hooking up some special fancy battery from the garage to the fire, to make the fans work. Huh. So I got back up and talked to him for maybe 20-30 minutes, then tried to go back to sleep. The power came back at 2:55, before I was able to fall asleep.

#NoNostalgiaCriticNovember

Starting last year, I reminisced about simpler, sillier times (where worrying about being cringey didn't matter), and thus decided to "partake" in a barely-existing-but-amusing (to me) thing called #NoNostalgiaCriticNovember, intentionally watching The Nostalgia Critic (whom I normally don't watch), to "fail" the challenge, then using him as an icon all month. I decided that I will make this a tradition for myself, so I perused his recent videos and decided to watch his Minecraft Movie review. He still has that annoying upward inflection to this day... I also watched his video on Chronic Fatigue (which he has, as of two years ago, post-Shingles), and that was enlightening (and he talked normally, which is way better).

The rest of my family (middle sister included) went to Harper's Ferry, Virginia today, on a day trip, but I'm in the office. I'll presume I'll be making my own dinner. Hmm, pierogies or one of those cheesy noodles...

Art Fight

Read-only mode should be removed soon, and I can finally update my profile. I don't have too much I want to do, but it'll be nice to finally be able to edit/comment again, after around two months of not being able to do anything. One friend lost a friend who had a drawn icon up on their page and everything, so it'll be great for them to finally be able to remove them.

But as of noon, it's still read-only. Art Fight runs two hours behind me, so maybe they'll stop it at 2 PM, just like the game itself starts and stops at that time. Probably.

...Or it'll be late, because Art Fight is very skilled at being tardy.