Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 2 14 26 Word Search

 Sir Chompers was a huge alligator being fed by a barkeep, FYI.  Nice scene.

 

 

Mary's Recipes Week 13

 

When you move back up north and miss your cactus friends, what to do?

Most of the recipes in Mary's box look so good!  This week, only the Swedish Meatballs are something I would eat.  I appreciate the small amount of Allspice used, that stuff can be so overpowering. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DOA On TV: Tiny Tidbits: The Rookie, Doc, Best Medicine, Will Trent, The Pitt, Starfleet Academy

 

The Rookie Burn 4 Love

The Rookie, formerly one of the many Tuesday night shows has moved to Monday nights.  I watch it on Wednesdays though, with the usual Tuesday lineup.

This week featured sweet Valentine's moments, a curse which shouldn't have worked but seemed to be quite devastating, and a romantic pair who were causing small Swan Lake themed fires.  As if that weren't a busy enough episode, the ending was positively explosive.

Doc Trust

Poker, transplants and Sonya & TJ snooping into their boss Joan's personal business, more memories from the past for Amy, and the truly awful return of Dr Miller as part of a settlement with the hospital.  Everyone knows that he tried to hide his actions that led to the death of a patient, how's that going to go?

Best Medicine  Eyewitness Blues

Port Wenn's annual Blueberry festival is covered for a tiny audience by Elaine, with poor Doctor Best wielding a camera for her.  It puts him right into the thick of things, though, after he refused to be a judge in the blueberry pie baking contest.  The resident's are out for blueberry glory and are unusually ruthless as they compete.  Though I claim I could drop this show at any time, when I'm doing my Tuesday night show watch, I watch Doc first, then Best Medicine second every single time.

Will Trent     You're Not That Person Anymore

Part two of a set wherein poor Faith finally finds a really great guy who she thinks she might love, though they haven't known each other long.  Unfortunately for her, Malcolm is part of a gang that has been robbing banks while in costumes.

Angie is the one who isn't that person anymore.  She's about to have a baby and a good life she doesn't think she deserves.  Luckily Will, who has known her forever, convinces her she deserves all the good things.  Spoiler alert, Angie plans a surprise wedding ceremony in the place where she and Seth met, officiated by her longtime friend Franklin, with no one other than a bicyclist who happened by as their witness.  (sniff) It was so lovely.

The Pitt 12 pm

High noon on the Fourth of July and nothing is slowing down.  The episode focuses quite a bit on the nursing staff, and the many roles they play.  The alcoholic patient Louie, who has been an ER visitor for a long time and is known by everyone, didn't make it.  Everyone is affected, and there's a scene where head nurse Dana shows a new nurse how to clean and prepare a body for possible viewing by friends or relatives that is so touching.

Santos gets busted by a surgeon from upstairs after two AI related charting errors are caught and questioned.  I'm glad nobody died.

Starfleet Academy   Come, Let's Away

Excellent episode.  The cadets are on a training mission at a space graveyard.  They have one hour to bring a damaged ship called the Miyazaki online.  Cadets are in sets, some are on the bridge, some go to the ship.  65% is the best anyone has done over the years trying to complete the task.

Almost immediately, a hostile group of aliens called The Furies surrounds the ship and the Athena, boards the Miyazaki and takes the cadets and their mentor captive.  They're savage and are cannibals. While the mentor sacrifices himself, the cadets make their way to the bridge and try to defend it hoping the Athena will rescue them. Sam is able to interface with the ship and bring it more fully online.  They use a comic to show the confused ship computer what happened to her crew, very cool.

Back on the Athena, the Betazoid Tarima, who can reach Caleb telepathically, helps the cadets prepare to be rescued once they get the singularity online.  

With information from the villainous Nus Braka, she's able to be on the ship in real time and, having pulled out her ability dampener, she destroys the furies.

I don't like ongoing seemingly all powerful villains, and I don't like Braka.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles: A Word Search for 2 14 26

 This puzzle is from a new book I've read recently called Pendergast The Beginning.  I love a good origin story.  This book had so many great words!  The answer key appears February 21st at 7 am.

 

 

Happy Valentines Day!

 Here’s my small collection of Valentines themed decor. The holiday maintains a simple charm. Treat yourself to chocolate and place a few seed orders. There ya go.

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the Valentine's Crossword

 Wasn't that sweet?  It's a nice hot pizza for Mr DOA and myself today, ordered from our favorite local pizzeria.  Yum!

 

 

 

Mary's Recipes Week 12

 

This week the cards move from the last frostings into main dishes.  The Golden Mac N' Meat almost sounds good.  The Frosting Starter is interesting. It's ready to be colored, but also can be added to to make other frosting flavors.

 

 

From The Archives: Folks From the People I Can't Identify Folder

 Last post of the day!  Wasn't this fun?  See you in February 2027 for the 19th Anniversary edition, wherein I'll plan ahead and have 19 posts crammed into the day somehow.  Otherwise, back to the usual posts.

Here are photos I've scanned and I have been unable to identify the folks pictured. I noticed though that while I was looking through these tonight, there are some pictures of people I can identify who can now go in their own folders. None of these are those!

 

From The Archives: DOA Minifigs

 From back in the day when I created numerous "minifig" versions of DOA.  They are unofficially Lego mes.   Tell no one.

 

 

DOA In The Garden A Pink Flowers Collage

 

That's it. This winter needs to go away so I can find flowers like the ones below for my garden.  I'd like one of each of these.  These were all in my garden, but none are still around.  The thrill of the hunt!

 

 

DOA On TV: The Pitt 11 am, Fallout: The Strip, Veronica Mars Pilot

 

The Pitt 11 am

An action packed hour as always!  So much has happened already, and it's still in the morning hours of July 4th, which is known to be a busy terrible day in Emergency Rooms.

 A few things stick out from the episode.  One is Santos, desperately trying to keep up with her charting under threat by incoming Dr Al-Hashimi of getting a repeat second year if she doesn't improve.  I struggle to like Santos.  She's so cruel to everyone, even as she is a skilled physician in the making.  Here, though, I hear her say that she usually stays "a couple of hours" after her shift to do her charting, and I know the shift is 15 hours.  That's incredible.  I'm wondering if under pressure Santos will use Al-Hashimi's AI to do her charting in desperation, and something bad happens because it wasn't caught and corrected by an experienced human.  Such as Santos herself.

There's a prisoner under guard and handcuffed to his gurney, full of terrible injuries, and the staff doesn't know how to be able to help him as they would anyone.  The hospital which has been shut down without a known reason must usually have cases of prisoners.  What else might the day hold?

Ogilvie has taken Whitaker's place this season in getting sprayed with grotesque fluids and substances, it seems.  Oof.

 

Fallout The Strip  Ep 8 Season 2

I wish this weren't the last episode.  There should be at least ten episodes each season.  Wrapping things up!

Lucy is betrayed by her father who can't have her messing up his experiments.  He and a goon plan to forcibly insert a miniaturized control device in her neck.  Lucky for her the Ghoul is on the same floor passing by and he shoots the goon, then plugs her father in a cheek (lower level), letting Lucy decide his fate. 

 

Her plan is to find out what he's really up to, then she's going to activate the device she has placed in his neck.   Before she can do that, he pulls out a controller of his own and hits the red button, changing his own behavior and activating an army of his R and D subjects for an unknown centuries ago planned purpose.

Maximus, fresh from fighting enough Deathclaws to damage his NCR armor, was rescued at the last by the NCR.  We don't see how many troups they have, as they come around a corner. I fear they’re a tiny rag tag band, and the Legion is marching on Vegas with a new Caesar and they look like a huge force.

Maximus steps out onto Lucy's scene just at the right moment, and it's the best scene of the show where they meet and they hug the one person each of them knows is a good person. After all they’ve seen and done.

The Ghoul finds his family's cryo chambers but of course they aren't there.  There's a postcard for Colorado in Barb's vault though saying Colorado was a good idea.  We get a sneak look in the past as Coop is arrested by the UnAmericans committee posse. He takes the shot so Barb and Janey can be safe.  We know now Barb was a pawn of both Vault Tec and the Enclave, so she wasn't the monster Coop thought she was. (Sniff)    He's off to the mountains to find her with Dogmeat by his side.

Norm!  I hoped Ma June would step in and save him, but Bud's Buds, those empty little vessels, release the Radroaches from an elevator shaft, accidentally,  and only Norm and Claudia survive the munching.

In a Post Credits scene, a bloody Quintus vows he's now Quintus the Destroyer. He has the plans brought to him to build a super giant robot.  Yup.

  

Filming for season three is supposed to begin this summer.

 

Veronica Mars Pilot

 

Newly on Netflix is Veronica Mars, a much vaunted teen mystery TV show.   After seeing Kristin Bell on The Good Place (a show I liked, but her character was a scrounge), I just didn't know if I could watch her in another show.

Ha!  She's excellent as it turns out. Smart, snarky, trod on badly by life so far but not giving in or up.  My kind of girl.  

She's the daughter of the town's Private Detective.  He used to be the sheriff, and she used to run with the cool crowd.  Then her best friend was murdered, her dad went after the wrong guy, her mom turned into a drunk who left town, she was roofied at a party then raped.

 She's got plenty of reason to be angry.  Even so, when a new guy is taped to a pole and pilloried, she cuts him down and reluctantly becomes his protector.

She involves herself in a case of her father's checking out a philandering spouse, doing surveillance as the man meets someone at a motel, taking photographs which she feels is her specialty. 

The show is only three seasons, with maybe a fourth? There was some moving around of the show while it was being broadcast, so how much there is on Netflix remains to by seen by me.   I like the show, the mystery elements, and the main character.

The Five Best Movies Ever Made (Or So I Once Thought)

 

More nostalgia!  At one time or another, I thought the following movies were the best movie ever made.  It's an odd list, and not in any particular order.  All still stand up for me as fine films, but I wouldn't consider any the best ever made anymore, nor could I say what such a film might be.

 The Wizard of Oz

You can't watch the black and white version of The Wizard of Oz in it's once a year TV presentation all through your childhood, and not have it live in your heart and mind.  I didn't see the film in color until the 1980s.  It was enhanced greatly, of course, but the basic story and characters were and are captivating.

 

Star Wars (A New Hope) 

I knew nothing of this movie until some college friends were talking about it.  Going to the theater, I was blown away like everyone was.  I'd been reading and watching science fiction films for years, even the most creaky monstrous bug movie, just to get that sense of wonder when presented with what could be.  Films and TV never matched what I read in books, but Star Wars did.  Finally someone got science fiction right, I thought.

 

Titanic

Titanic was romance, adventure, suspense, historical fiction, and great music all in one spectacular movie.  I love that people are still weighing and measuring that there was room for Jack on that bit of door frame, and that he could have lived.

 

Fellowship of the Ring

There was plenty of time to get excited about The Fellowship of the Ring, as a trailer promoting the movie and it's sequels was shown in theaters well in advance of release.   The theatrical version of the film, rather than the extended version released on DVD later, presented Tolkien's world and his brave heroes in the most epic yet charming way possible.

 

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

I've always loved ghost stories, and this witty, romantic, heartbreaking film is one I always think of when I'd like something comforting to watch.

 

The Five Favorite Board Games of My Youth

 I think we should start up our game days with the kids again (my son and his wife).  We have snacks and whoever hosts picks the game.  ^-^      We sort of got into a Trivial Pursuit groove though, so we might just fall back into that.  I have always loved board games, and on the rare occasions my parents got us a new one, we played it to death.

I also had a best friend who lived next door and we played card games and board games all summer.

There's something about a good board game that reminds me of a play-with minimum furnishings, somehow your mind fills in a whole world in a play, and that can happen as you move around the board in a game where a world is presented.

These are the games that formed me as a gamer.

 Clue

The mansion was fascinating, the characters intriguing.   I always leaned towards Miss Scarlet's guilt.  This game is as fun today as it was when I was young.

 

Easy Money

I don't know if it was cheaper than Monopoly or what, but we had Easy Money at our house.  It didn't seem to take as long as Monopoly did to play, and this game is where I came to love play money.  No good in the real world, but there was just something satisfying about accumulating it.

 

Sorry 

We played and played this, yelling Soooorrreeeee obnoxiously at every opportunity.  We have a copy on our shelves today for game nights.

 

Candyland

I spent a ridiculous amount of time looking for just the right picture of the Candyland game board.  Candyland was so appealing to me, and I wanted to visit it as if it were a real place so bad.   I'd just open up the board and trace the roadway, imagining what I'd eat at every stop.

 

 

My last game is The Barbie Game.  My neighbor owned the game, and we played every day all one summer.  My only regret is how often I seemed to get Poindexter as my prom date.  It made me so mad when I got him.

  

The Right Tool For The Right Job

 

For the first time perhaps, I’m trying to take proper care of my houseplants.  I’m a big fan of tools, so I remembered that I had seen some little tools for houseplants. 

As happens, while looking for such tools I found a nice pink tool set that will also be useful while I work with my seedlings.  It has a little spray bottle, which was the tipping point for purchasing the set.