Revelations week
Call Of The Night 2, episode 8
There, all caught up. Still funny that they’re better at animating normal human life in the flashbacks than they are at the main storyline. The burning question now is, is Our Hot Vampire-Killing Detective Gal still gay?
Kaiju No. 8 2, episode 6
Too much slapstick, a decent amount of lore, and Our Determined Sidekick is joining the big leagues.
Verdict: the “turf war” and “ain’t these captains eccentric” bits could have been excised and replaced with pretty much anything, but could have been actually good if they’d given Our Mighty Tsuntail something to do. There’s a whole chunk of the cast that I just have no interest in.
High Seas Isekai
Reborn In A Fantasy Hornblower Knockoff As The Admiral Of A Pirate Armada, My Monster-Girl-Harem Ship Captains Help Me Rule The Seas.
aka: “Fleet Don’t Fail Me Now!”
(pic by ChatGPT, first try; Grok not only failed to produce output in book-cover format, it just surrounded Some Sailor Guy with dragons, even after repeated attempts to get any women into the cover)
Too many terabytes…
I got an alert on my NAS that the second volume was filling up. Logging in, I found weekly backups of the first volume going back to 2019. I think I can cut that down a bit…
(the second volume is in an expansion cabinet, so it’s a completely separate RAID array; eventually I’ll need to expand the disks, but the fact that it managed to hold over five years of compressed weekly backups suggests I can hold off for a while longer)
There Will Be (New) Doors
There are two known leaks in the house (I don’t count the small amount that rarely comes in through the side door into the garage). For the first, the old glassblock window in the basement was replaced and a lot of new thirsty plants placed in the yard, so even when the ground was saturated, no water came in. The second, which has happened maybe 4 times in 3 years, is the small bedroom I use for crafting, which has a giant half-round window above the openable windows, and if very strong rain is accompanied by very strong wind from the North, it comes in through the frame below the half-round. Not a lot, just enough to soak up in a bath towel, but fixing it is unlikely to be a simple caulk job, and windows ain’t cheap.
Two weeks ago, there was a major thunderstorm late at night. It didn’t come in through the crafting-room window. It didn’t come in through the basement window. It announced the discovery of a new leak by coming in through the back door and going straight down the wall into the basement. Which admittedly is better than flooding the family room.
I never liked the back door. The space is sized for a typical sliding glass door, but instead they put in a regular door and a fixed panel, both with single-pane glass and no UV protection. And now that I know the weather seals are completely shot, it has to go.
The front door looks very good apart from the exterior paint job, but it’s shifted a lot in the frame, enough to cause a draft of cold air in the winter (and even some powdery snow). And as I mentioned, the garage side door also lets in a bit of rain.
The Back-Door Adventure (coughcough) pushed me over the edge, and I called up a local vendor to get a quote to replace all three. I picked them based on the repair/upgrade work they’d done on my garage door, and the guy they sent out knew his stuff and took plenty of notes and pictures. The quote I got back was… “not cheap”, mostly because of the front door with its sidelites and transom. But it’s cheaper than water damage, and he threw in an attempt to patch the crafting-room window leak as well.
They’re also adding storm doors for the front and garage, so that I can let more air in when the weather’s decent (amazing front to back airflow, but there are no window screens). It looks like the manufacturer has an option for openable sidelites with screens, which isn’t part of the current quote.
Anyway, if they do a good job, then once my budget recovers I’ll have them start quoting replacement windows and blinds. I think I’ve mentioned that the previous owners never opened the windows in 20+ years, so they never installed screens, and most of the frames have shifted enough to make them hard to crank open.
(good knockers are an essential part of the front-door experience…)
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