Keep resisting, even if he keeps obsessing about his stupid birthday party and ruins the White House Lawn for the UFC fight. Keep fighting for love, joy, and justice.
On BlueSky, I got recommended a fantasy book with a trans Watson-equivalent character. Going to check it out. Also going to see the Sherlock Holmes Ghost Machine play at Stage West this week; this is the last of the David MacGregor trilogy that they've done the past 3 years.
Chronology of these short stories
Holmes sends Watson a telegram at about 10:45 AM to invite him to Boscombe Valley, if he has a couple of days to spare for the mystery. For once, Watson is hesitant to neglect work, and his wife has to convince him to go. She says that Anstruther would take his medical practice for him. It is unclear if Anstruther is the same as Jackson, who was the neighbour doctor in CROO. Leaving breakfast, Watson soon packs a bag and meets Holmes at the train station at 11:15 AM. Holmes is glad to see him, and he didn't already purchase both their tickets, so I guess he didn't assume Watson would come. At least he was aware that 30 minutes is not much notice, though it is more notice than he gives Watson in other cases. They ride the train together and discuss the case.
Well that stupid Graham Platner has a sexting scandal now, and people on Daily Kos are STILL defending him, saying his wife still supports him. Well, Ken Paxton's wife still supported him through his impeachment trial, but that doesn't mean he wasn't corrupt as hell, and she divorced him later. Fuck Platner. Maine, your Democratic primary is not until June 9th. You've had all this time to find a better candidate but you chose to ignore everyone else in favor of your Nazi liar. Stop behaving like a cult! And so many fuckers had the nerve to criticize Jasmine Crockett as being unelectable in Texas. Fuck you!!!
At least Senator Andy Kim has been continuing to fight the Delaney Hall detention center, and publicizing the protests and hunger strike there.
Meanwhile, the What's the Story, Wishbone? documentary has been out since May 27th, but I still can't find it on the DFW station. I keep searching KERA's schedule, but they're only showing the stupid pledge-drive shows. It's not even on PBS Passport. What's going on?
I moved my laptop to the dining room hoping to get more work done, but I'm still not using it much. Might move it back to the bedroom. I got the staples removed, but my hysterectomy scar still itches as it heals. I'm trying to walk more, and I guess I should start using my exercise bike again.
Have a good Memorial Day, such as it is, with the stupid warmongering liar ruining everything. It's still a holiday at least. I forgot to post, I did have my hysterectomy, and they removed my organs to do a biopsy on them. The pathologist initially says there's no cancer, but I have a followup appointment to confirm the results with my doctor.
Currently I have family staying with me during my recovery, and I let them do a lot of stuff as guests that I would normally be upset about. I think I'm being as easy going as possible, but they lecture me like, "You don't need to get upset, when things don't go your way." I'm just trying to use a stupid hand dryer which isn't working the first 3 times I try, and she acts like she's helping me, telling me how to use it. Uh, can I just say factually that it's not working at the moment? That there's a glitch, like often happens with machines? At home, when I throw away half an onion that she just left sitting on the counter all night--never wrapped or put away--and tons more onions available, I'm a food waster. In the car, I disagree with the wrong directions from the stupid Google Maps, and my sister tells me, "Calm down," but she's free to swear "Jesus Christ!" at other drivers.
We decide to have lunch at a restaurant. I say, "I don't care. Whatever's closest." She lists five or six restaurants, but I have already said, "I don't care." Then she says "Jason's Deli." So I say "Jason's Deli," but she says "I hate that place. I don't want to go there." Then why did you list it as an option? Then she asks me, "Anywhere else you want to go?" But I already told you, "I don't care." The one thing I did care about, you fucking didn't mean as a real option. Pick one then, and stop asking me, if you don't fucking care about my opinion. Ugh. Then she orders a meal to share and doesn't eat much or drink, despite ordering a refill. She's on her phone instead, and I think I have to eat everything. Ugh.
Chronology of extended visits
Similarly to SPEC, FIVE begins with Watson surveying his unpublished records. He says he has notes of Holmes's cases "between the years ’82 and ’90"; I can't figure out why he wouldn't include 1881. (FIVE was first published in November 1891.) But does that mean these are the "eight years" he was talking about in SPEC's introduction? No, 1882 to 1890, inclusive of both ends, is 9 years, not 8 years. Watson, how the heck do you read calendars? Thankfully, Watson then moves on to discussing the year 1887, listing many tantalizing titles and descriptions. He is also implying that this current case FIVE took place in that same year. But of course, nothing's that simple.
