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 Abyss, on 13 November 2024 - 02:52 PM, said:

Wow. For what is otherwise an exceptional tv show, S3 really fails to stick the landing.

Eps 7-8

Still a great show, i'll be there for S4, but this was a really weak end to a season that was shaping up to be so strong. It felt like the showrunners didn't know if they would get a S7, avoided committing, then rushed to cobble together the end of the season without any real plan beyond a vague sense of where they wanted to go next season.

Let's see, what is making me happy?

We bought a house. Finally after years of searching. It's outside the city (but not too far, about 40min), and is a fully detached house (which feels like a goddamn unicorn at this point in this market; most of the places we'd been looking at were townhomes or semi's) on a quiet street that backs onto a conservation area. When I walked down the street when we went to see it the first time, it felt like the kind of street I grew up on as a kid and I had a moment of "yeah, this is where we can raise our kids".

Funny process too. Guy wanted a price, we went in low...but we went in at the price another house up the street that as comparable sold for. Guy comes down a bit and we go up a bit....then he stopped and refused to budge. So we walked. Two weeks later he came back (I assume because our latest offer was still the best he'd gotten on a street where comparables were going for like 75k under what he wanted) and his agent asked if we would come up a bit more and he would come down and meet us....so we did and that was it.

So we take possession on Dec 5th, and the move date is the 9th.

Oh and it has a Narnia lantern. A black wrought iron old time lantern on the front walkway. AND IF YOU THINK I'M NOT GOING TO FIND A STATUE OF A FAUN TO PLACE BESIDE IT IN WINTER, THEN YOU ARE CRAZY! no go on naming the house "The Castle at The Lantern Waste"...but you take your wins when you get them.

Going to be weird to leave our condo in the city, I've been there for 15 years, and my wife for more than 20...but the city keeps pointing out reasons to leave (traffic is unmanageable and stressful, I saw not one but two fentanylheads pulling up their pants on my way to get groceries yesterday and another with a needle stuck out of his arm on a bench, everything is more expensive, the guy below us is a heavy smoker and it makes our condo stink if the windows are open, and there has been construction around us for about a decade or more)....so it should be good.

We are in packing mode and papers need signing mode, and lawyers and whatnot mode...so I'm not excited yet, it's like when you're going on vacation and you still have the early morning, the flight, and the bus ride and checking in to deal with, and you think "I'll be excited when I get there and I'm sat in the lounger by the pool", so I expect it's like that.

QuickTidal, on 18 November 2024 - 04:25 PM, said:

Just watched it last night with the ole lady. I loved it , but i can definitely see how it wont hold up as well on a re watch as the first 2.


And i'm all in on the Thunderbolts. Itll probably be underwhelming, but im excited.