Year 2 - Day 121 - Doing Nothing...

Mother: What are you doing today?
Me: Nothing.

Which wasn't entirely true - I went to the fruit and vegetable store - after the storm. But other than that...I just laid about, surfed the net, and watched television.

Good news - they finally proscribed something to treat my Dad's UTI. This could mean - that some of the dementia may level off.



It was muggy outside and hot. Eighty-eight degrees with 80% humidity feels a bit like a steam bath. But I'm not sweating that much. And wasn't dripping wet. Methinks my body has finally entered menopause and is past perimenopausal hell storm? Fingers crossed. Also thunderstorms - but no headaches and no edginess. And no crying jags, wicked irritability, or hot flashes. Hmmm. Feeling grateful for that. It's the little things.

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Television

* Loki

I finished watching Loki series today - it's the first to get renewed for a second season. Honestly of the series that I've seen, it's the one I care the least about getting renewed. But I guess I can see why they renewed it first. It kind of ended on a cliff-hanger? While the others didn't? Also we got a bit more of the others?

Mother asked if she should try it. And I told her the same thing I'll tell all of you. It's a metaphysical philosophical mind puzzle by way of Marvel Comics - it's not the easiest thing in the world to follow. Particularly if you aren't familiar with the Marvel Universe or their take on time travel.

I already knew a great deal of the stuff that they relayed in the series - from reading X-men comics for the last forty-some years. The X-men delve into the whole multi-verse time travel mind-puzzle bit a lot more than the other series do, actually. Reading X-men can at times feel like reading speculative science fiction with pictures. Loki also reminded me a little of Noah Fawley (sp?) LEGION. Had that same sort of noirish mind-puzzle aspect to it. Which if you think about it is kind of necessary for trickster anti-hero like Loki.

Loki is by no means my favorite character in the MCU. I like him well enough, due to the actor. But the character - I often find annoying - he's whiny. He's less whiny here - mainly because he is too busy to whine.
Plus we have a great female anti-hero protagonist to follow - who kind of steals the series out from under Loki. It's kind of fun watching her steal it from him and Owen Wilson.

Loki sets the viewer up to expect one thing - and through a kind of sleight of hand delivers something else entirely. We're set up to believe Loki is the hero or protagonist of the series and in a way "Loki" is - just not the one we think. There's a lot of nice twists or set ups or tricks in store.
In fact the whole story is a bit of a trick - on both the characters and the viewer - with an end result that opens up the film verse in a nice way.

At the same time, it's also a satiric commentary on various governmental systems and hierarchies. And, shows how the attempt to create order is rather messy - and results in petty bureaucracies, meaningless justice systems and court systems that feel seemingly random and make no sense.

( spoilers )

There's a lightening storm happening outside my window, and Netflix has finally dropped Gunpowder Milkshake the all female action flick with Paul Giametti. I'm seeing less and less people with masks in the apartment building and outside now - in part because it's bloody hot.

I'm ignoring the news for the time being. I figure it can play itself out without my notice.