bookless

I have been to the post office three times today.

According to Canada Post my copy of the very nice Subterranean Press edition of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms arrived on Saturday. This is mildly nerve-wracking as I realised after it shipped that I had put the wrong PO box on the shipping address. It's only mildly nerve-wracking because on Friday I mentioned this to a postal worker there, who made a note and took it to the back room.

I stopped by this morning on the way home. There was a package notice in my mailbox but it turned out to be for the package I picked up on Friday. There was a whole mess of people in line at nine in the morning so I figured I'd try again at lunchtime.

Which I did, because I needed to drop off my package for the BoardGameGeek Secret Santa (which I did for a few years in DC and then stopped due to lifestress, but it /did/ result in my getting involved with my DC gaming group). Still no package notice but the (different) postal worker said she was aware of the note and the packages for today hadn't been processed yet.

No package notice at 4:45 today either. Grr.

(I am waiting to put in my preorder of The Broken Kingdoms until I have Hundred Thou in my hands, partly so I can confirm that yes this is something I want and partly to make sure I get the same number of the numbered edition, because that is the kind of brain I have. Preorders close in a week, so I guess if I don't have it by then I'll just order and hope that a) Subterranean can figure out which number it's supposed to be and b) Hundred Thou turns up eventually.)

This has been a very very bad brain day for a variety of reasons. Stress over my book that was SUPPOSED to be here now DAMMIT except for how I SCREWED IT UP has not helped matters.

Legends S1-2

Greg Berlanti et al, Legends of Tomorrow (S1-S2)

I got interested in Legends of Tomorrow when I saw the first trailer. (Contains no spoilers; in fact, contains very little footage from the actual series. Apparently it was shot entirely as a promo reel during an existing Flash shoot.) I was mostly interested because I'd just finished watching Alias and enjoying the heck out of Victor Garber's Jack Bristow, and because I'd heard that DC's TV shows were pretty good. Then life happened and I never actually watched the show.

But it kept getting more seasons, and it kept looking like goofy time-travel fun. And there's a plague on so I figured, what the hey.

I've now blasted through the first two seasons in, mm, about a month? Sounds about right, I picked it up right after Kipo's mildly disappointing third and final season. (Kipo S3, incidentally, is still worth watching, and still relentlessly upbeat which is a Good Thing these days. But the third season shifted from "Kipo and company explore this awesome world" to "Kipo vs the Big Bad," which doesn't fit nearly so well with the emotional tone they're trying to hit.)

( Spoilers )