A red letter day
Jul. 24th, 2004 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithOne for the calendar...
For the first time since we moved into this house, I was able to pull a vehicle into the garage. Harrison the Ford truck is now safely ensconced. With a little more rearranging and use of hooks and shelving, Kuro the Forester should fit as well. That will be nice come winter. No more having to shovel snow off the vehicle in the morning. I'll even be able to hook up a battery warmer if the temps drop low enough.
Sawed two 12-foot wire shelves into 6-foot lengths, which will be easier to handle and stabilize. Put up some racks/hooks to hold garden tools. Broke up two garbage cans-worth of branches into shorter lengths in the hope that the yard waste guys will take them on Monday. If they don't, they'll have to sit there until the chipper truck comes through, and that could take weeks.
All in all, I spent five hours in said garage and the darned thing is, it doesn't look like I did that much. Isn't that always the way.
Still plowing through DVDs, watching all in all Too Much Buffy. I know, can there possibly be such a thing as Too Much Buffy? I'm sure this is a subject that is open to much debate.
One thing that happens when you watch great swodges of a series over the course of a week is that certain things start popping out at you.
1. Spike's crypt has no plumbing, does it? Do vamps ever shower? If so, what does Spike do, set off the cemetery sprinkler system at midnight?
2. Does Buffy drive?
3. Do the average citizens of Sunny D know they're located at the opening to a
Hellmouth? Everyone seems remarkably oblivious, even though there's enough of a market out there to support a magic shop. Don't any of the community centers offer self-defense classes that cover vampire attacks and such? Couldn't the police use a class in Demon Recognition 101? Do these people take any steps at all to protect themselves?
4. With that in mind, why isn't Buffy on the city payroll? Why aren't the Watchers helping ensure she receives a steady income for doing what she was born to do. Between patrolling, working, and life in general this woman gets no sleep. No wonder Slayers cave by 25.
Yeah, I know--thinking too much.
For the first time since we moved into this house, I was able to pull a vehicle into the garage. Harrison the Ford truck is now safely ensconced. With a little more rearranging and use of hooks and shelving, Kuro the Forester should fit as well. That will be nice come winter. No more having to shovel snow off the vehicle in the morning. I'll even be able to hook up a battery warmer if the temps drop low enough.
Sawed two 12-foot wire shelves into 6-foot lengths, which will be easier to handle and stabilize. Put up some racks/hooks to hold garden tools. Broke up two garbage cans-worth of branches into shorter lengths in the hope that the yard waste guys will take them on Monday. If they don't, they'll have to sit there until the chipper truck comes through, and that could take weeks.
All in all, I spent five hours in said garage and the darned thing is, it doesn't look like I did that much. Isn't that always the way.
Still plowing through DVDs, watching all in all Too Much Buffy. I know, can there possibly be such a thing as Too Much Buffy? I'm sure this is a subject that is open to much debate.
One thing that happens when you watch great swodges of a series over the course of a week is that certain things start popping out at you.
1. Spike's crypt has no plumbing, does it? Do vamps ever shower? If so, what does Spike do, set off the cemetery sprinkler system at midnight?
2. Does Buffy drive?
3. Do the average citizens of Sunny D know they're located at the opening to a
Hellmouth? Everyone seems remarkably oblivious, even though there's enough of a market out there to support a magic shop. Don't any of the community centers offer self-defense classes that cover vampire attacks and such? Couldn't the police use a class in Demon Recognition 101? Do these people take any steps at all to protect themselves?
4. With that in mind, why isn't Buffy on the city payroll? Why aren't the Watchers helping ensure she receives a steady income for doing what she was born to do. Between patrolling, working, and life in general this woman gets no sleep. No wonder Slayers cave by 25.
Yeah, I know--thinking too much.
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Re: Starting in the middle...
Date: 2004-07-27 09:23 am (UTC)Don't read any further if you haven't watched Season 6 and don't want even semi-spoilers...
Granted, I haven't seen the entire series, but I have watched Season 6 and angsty me confesses that I liked it for the reasons your friends bailed. Buffy never asked to be a Slayer. Dawn never asked to be born. They both paid in ways they should never have had to for burdens they didn't ask for, and they went a little wiggy. I'd have gone a lot wiggy, and taken half of Sunnydale with me in the bargain.
I think that comparing Willow's magic management problems to those of an addict dealing with their addiction was sound, and well done.
Yes, it was grim. But these are 20-somethings dealing with world-altering powers and a teen dealing with the facts she didn't want to face. To treat these matters in a more lighthearted fashion would have cheapened them, imho. But I've never been a fan of escapism.
Re: Starting in the middle...
Date: 2004-07-27 09:04 pm (UTC)Re: Starting in the middle...
Date: 2004-07-28 09:52 am (UTC)