My weekend. I actually got lots of useful little projects done like pruning the wardrobe, replacing the broken handle hardware on my dresser, and doing a good deep cleaning of the fish tank.

The big donation bag of clothes got me thinking of downsizing in other ways, so I spent some time looking up potential values for a couple of musical instruments I’m looking at unloading (likely in a three-for-one exchange for this), so now my internet everywhere is loaded with ads and ebay auctions for guitars. It’s actually kind of oppressive.

That said, If anybody’s looking for a mid-90s Kramer Strat, a very nice E335 clone, or an 80s Ibanez bass, let me know, I’ll make you a deal.

I also watched 20 minutes of Atlantic Rim, the Asylum-produced mockbuster mimicing one of my actual favorite recent movies, only to find it so painful and disjointed that I couldn’t finish it. I normally go all-in on these bad movies, but for some reason (sub-porn star acting, awful editing, long digressions into non-plot relevant directions, David Chokachi…) this one was a bridge to far.

Maybe I was primed for it, having watched Suicide Squad on free tickets to a half-full theater on Friday. I will say this one was the best of the new DCU movies (characters were allowed to smile, for example), with lots of great individual pieces that, likely due to studio interference that will likely become Hollywood legend, totally didn’t gel into a cohesive whole. The cast was mostly great, the little hero cameos felt more natural than the entirety of MoS or BvS, though the rest? Meh. We still enjoyed ourselves, except for the idiots on their phones or thinking they were sneaking their vapes into the auditorium without being noticed.

Also less than optimal was the big storm that came through and cancelled the Spamalot! performance on Saturday night. We were hoping it’d clear, but it was not to be.

The coming week should be mostly quiet, nothing out of the ordinary other than my body shop appointment; I’m finally getting the hood fixed starting Wednesday, which means I’ll have some kind of rental for a couple of days (hope it’s better than my last one). Otherwise, I’m going to oversee some testing at work, keep an eye on where the local band project is level-setting, start working on getting up to speed for the Humdingers’ Dragon*Con sets, and hopefully watch some more Mr. Robot, which just showed up on Amazon, and was the best thing I watched all weekend.