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A relatively quiet day. Well, aside from the couple of hours of fireworks which Lucy at first seemed to deal well with, before she became increasingly freaked out over the course of the evening.
I mostly read. I'm working on SPQR V by John Maddox Roberts and Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, the fifth of the New Adventure of Doctor Who novels (the first original novels ever for the series, back after the series was cancelled, published through the 1990s). Also, some comics. I'm onto the third volume of my reread of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers (inspired by Final Crisis finally making it to TPB) and a first read of Darwyn Cooke's Kryptonite (also from the library).
It's all good stuff. Well, to varying degrees of good. The biggest problem with SPQR V is the faint whiff of Lysol that lies over its pages. That's the sort of problem that sometimes appears in library books, though smelling of Lysol is a first. The Doctor Who book is very slow. Great ideas, but poor pacing. Cooke's book does not smell of Lysol at all, but it's certainly trade-paperback-as-beautiful-artifact (meaning that all of the credits pages and such are done up like in-world stuff).
Kimberly & I did head out of the house a bit today. She took us out to lunch at Top Dog, which was delicious. We ate it on campus, at a secluded picnic table just below Stephens Hall. Very nice, all around.
We were considering going up to the mythical waterfall walk in the afternoon and we were considering going down to Berkeley Marina in the evening (for party & fireworks), but Kimberly was feeling ill much of the day, and I opted not to head out and do either on my own.
Maybe tomorrow. Well, not the fireworks at the Marina.
Also watched some Doctor Who on Netflix. I've been on a bit of a Doctor Who kick the last couple of months. It was my first fandom in the 1980s, and I've been slowly rediscovering the joy of it in recent years.
So I finished up The Three Doctors which I'd started yesterday. A fun story with great interactions between Troughton and Pertwee and also some fun Gallifrey history.
I found it very interesting, when reading about the episode, to learn that the reason that the Doctor was stranded on Earth during the early Pertwee era was that the show's budget was cut back. With ratings up by the time of The Three Doctors, they removed the limitation.
I also started Tomb of the Cybermen, mainly because it met the two criteria that I had: it was a Troughton story and it was available through Netflix-online-viewing. It's a pretty unfamiliar story. If I'd seen it before (and I had seen everything that was available/still-around by the mid 1980s or so) I don't remember it. It's a good story, with three characters (Troughton's Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria) who I've seen very little of. I love the comedic touches that Jamie and the Second Doctor offer to the show. I'm particularly amused by the fact that Jamie is a bit of a coward if this story is any indication.
[Edit: Apparently Tomb of the Cybermen was recovered from Hong Kong in 1992, which explains why it looks unfamiliar to me.]
I've been interesting in Troughton because I expect to read some of the Past Doctor Adventures (a later original novel series) about his Doctor soon.
I mostly read. I'm working on SPQR V by John Maddox Roberts and Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, the fifth of the New Adventure of Doctor Who novels (the first original novels ever for the series, back after the series was cancelled, published through the 1990s). Also, some comics. I'm onto the third volume of my reread of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers (inspired by Final Crisis finally making it to TPB) and a first read of Darwyn Cooke's Kryptonite (also from the library).
It's all good stuff. Well, to varying degrees of good. The biggest problem with SPQR V is the faint whiff of Lysol that lies over its pages. That's the sort of problem that sometimes appears in library books, though smelling of Lysol is a first. The Doctor Who book is very slow. Great ideas, but poor pacing. Cooke's book does not smell of Lysol at all, but it's certainly trade-paperback-as-beautiful-artifact (meaning that all of the credits pages and such are done up like in-world stuff).
Kimberly & I did head out of the house a bit today. She took us out to lunch at Top Dog, which was delicious. We ate it on campus, at a secluded picnic table just below Stephens Hall. Very nice, all around.
We were considering going up to the mythical waterfall walk in the afternoon and we were considering going down to Berkeley Marina in the evening (for party & fireworks), but Kimberly was feeling ill much of the day, and I opted not to head out and do either on my own.
Maybe tomorrow. Well, not the fireworks at the Marina.
Also watched some Doctor Who on Netflix. I've been on a bit of a Doctor Who kick the last couple of months. It was my first fandom in the 1980s, and I've been slowly rediscovering the joy of it in recent years.
So I finished up The Three Doctors which I'd started yesterday. A fun story with great interactions between Troughton and Pertwee and also some fun Gallifrey history.
I found it very interesting, when reading about the episode, to learn that the reason that the Doctor was stranded on Earth during the early Pertwee era was that the show's budget was cut back. With ratings up by the time of The Three Doctors, they removed the limitation.
I also started Tomb of the Cybermen, mainly because it met the two criteria that I had: it was a Troughton story and it was available through Netflix-online-viewing. It's a pretty unfamiliar story. If I'd seen it before (and I had seen everything that was available/still-around by the mid 1980s or so) I don't remember it. It's a good story, with three characters (Troughton's Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria) who I've seen very little of. I love the comedic touches that Jamie and the Second Doctor offer to the show. I'm particularly amused by the fact that Jamie is a bit of a coward if this story is any indication.
[Edit: Apparently Tomb of the Cybermen was recovered from Hong Kong in 1992, which explains why it looks unfamiliar to me.]
I've been interesting in Troughton because I expect to read some of the Past Doctor Adventures (a later original novel series) about his Doctor soon.