Redwolf's Journal (continued)

This morning, I recall a fair bit of a dream. In it, I was some woman doing research for an article or book or some such, going to a mansion that belonged to some eccentric rich person. I was greeted by a pair of servants who seemed a bit distant or "off" in some way. This host tells me a story from his writing that I view sort of as a movie. In that tale, there are a pair of single mom friends doing things together. One has a single son. The other an infant child as well as two twin sons who are very quiet and a bit creepy. I feel like there may have been some more meat to the story in here, but the next thing I really remember about it, the group is planning to go on vacation. I see the twins pouring water from a pitcher into the single son's suitcase, filling it up slowly. And this moment fills me with a deep, intense sense of dread - so much so that I was shaken into a partly-awake state. Not enough to fully wake me, though, as the dream played on... The next "

A few random thoughts bouncing around my head... How the heck do you get politicians who focus on the job of governing? I get that the founding fathers of the USA laid a lot of governmental groundwork with the specific mindset of breaking up absolute power to avoid an effective monarchy. I'm not sure if it's really gotten worse over the decades or it's just perception (probably some of both), but it's not inaccurate to say these days most congressfolk and even first-term presidents spend more time working on image and messaging toward re-election than on actual governance. Why does this come up? Well, I watched a few minutes this morning of the hearings congresspersons called Mueller in for. Theoretically, he's there to answer questions about his investigation. While I only heard a short bit from two representatives, I can leave specifics out and still say it was apparent from the rambling statements and not giving him questions to actually answer that the slice

I mean, Spider-Man! (Far From Home) Homecoming is one of the (maybe even the only) MCU movies I haven't watched. I felt a bit over-saturated by previous Spider-Man stuff. Buuuut, coming off Endgame, it seemed like a good thing to get back into. And I'm not disappointed. Granted, I was hoping to see a little bit more of the fallout from the disappearance and reappearance of half the population, but there's some of that here. Along with action and the weight of dealing with expectations conflicting with simpler, youthful wants. I think I like how Mysterio was handled in general. There are some things that bother me about his setup, but not seriously enough to take me out of things. Overall, I enjoyed the movie and find it easy to recommend. There's a mid-scenes credit that drops a bomb of sorts that'll radically upend the status quo for Spider-Man's next appearance, whenever that is. The post-credits scene is slightly more cute than serious, but does cast an i

So, yeah, I finally finished a game I quit playing some year-and-a-half ago. I quit at the time because I got locked out of character story by starting a difficult fight with said character too far away to trigger dialog. Go figure. At least I managed to avoid it in this play-through. Heck, I only had to scrap a couple hours of play when I did something similar with another character unknowingly. ... I sense a theme. Hmm. Well, anyway, after such a stretch of time, I started over from scratch and probably sunk close to 80 hours into a complete game. There are some cool characters and some there's some interesting story. There's enough of the latter that I looked into older games, but found people saying this is really the first Divinity game to take the lore seriously and thus the previous games lack the continuity and world-building that I found appealing. So I probably won't go play previous installments. One of the most major good points is the combat system. It&