Sunday 7, F-list Links, a whole new thought on the spoiler

Thoughts
I never thought I'd find something enlightening on fandom wank, of all places, but a comment from there has me ( seeing an entirely new angle on The Big Spoiler that utterly wipes out X vs Y dynamics )

I sincerely hope that Rusty pulls back from the racist undercurrents that have built up by the way storylines "just happen" to happen to minority characters, but as for anything else regarding companions? No worries, mate.


Links
The BBC has started its Doctor Who ADVENTure calendar. Today's treat is a story by Rupert Laight called "The Frozen." The Doctor and a new companion, Mai. (And this time, the formatting isn't munged by Firefox. Thank you, BBC!)

Anticraft: Knitting, Beading, and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister. Apparently contains chain mail instructions. For the really kinky crafter, Naughty Needles includes directions on how to knit a flogger.


Sunday 7
Cleared a corner of the basement. This involved:
1-2) Two bags of trash, mostly things like very old shoes worn while doing yard work and newsletters from the mid-80s.
3) Lab coat, too tight. Freecycled.
4) Baroque: When you are out of Monet T-shirt. Still in original wrapping (!) Freecycled.
5-8) Freecycled assorted mug racks, a brand new bath scrubbie, magnetic poetry, and a working watch with a broken band.

I have 1 large cabinet and 1 wall o' stuff to go through and that will be the last of the major clearing-out to do. I do not feel inspired to deal with either today.

I think, however, that I will have a less-intensive form of Sunday 7 going on in the next year, as a quick look at the top of the bookcase in the hall shows me:
- 2 bento boxes
- a book that needs to be returned to shawan_7
- a mailing receipt from Big Finish
- a salt shaker
- a key to an unknown lock
- 1 decorative pin and 2 safety pins
- two dead batteries (one fallen behind the shelf)
- a toy I don't recognize
- a quarter
- a bronze pendant from the rennfaire and its leather thong (untied)
- 1 piece hard candy
- small white silk rose
- and the mouse tongs and mouse jar.

And I had to make a conscious effort not to toss the pen down on it when I finished that list. So obviously there needs to be some sort of ongoing clearing project. I think next year it's going to be the weekly odd job and the weekly "this was cleaned" as opposed to actually getting rid of something every day, because there is little on that list I want to toss. I just need to put it where it belongs.

This part x-posted to homekeeping, the place where I learned about the Seven Items project in the first place.

Bento

Why, no, I'm not avoiding writing my ficathon entry, why do you ask?

I've been rearranging the bento boxes, and thought I ought to toss in my $.02 about the newest; when I was last at the big Target in Columbia, I succumbed to the Aladdin Lunch and Go Salad Set although I'm doubting it's going to see many greens. It's fairly well designed - a big tray for leafy stuff (it doesn't look like it would hold much, but leaves do crush) with a drip tray, a separate section for additions, and a dressing cup. By liquid volume, it holds a staggering 4+ cups: the dressing container takes 1/2 cup, the top tray a little over 1 cup, and the bottom tray (drip vent removed) a staggering 2.75 cups. They say it's dishwasher safe, and it is. They don't say it's microwave safe, but I just filled the bottom section with water and threw it in for a minute with no ill effects.

What I think it is going to be particularly good for is oddly-shaped food like the crescent roll roll-ups; I'm about to give one a maiden voyage tomorrow with rollups in the bottom tray (along with a piece of aluminum foil so I can heat them in the toaster oven), blackberries in the dressing cup, and... well, I wasn't sure what the other component was going to be yet anyway. Something else in the tray. I could imagine that the dressing cup is also going to be champion for holding things like pudding or applesauce. (Not soup. When I'm going to have a soup-based meal, I default back to the Tigers or the Mr. Bentos.)

At $12 it's a bit on the pricey side, but not as bad as buying bento boxes off ebay, and it seems like it's going to be very versatile. And it looks like it's going to be particularly sturdy.

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My review for "Lye in Wait" is up on Reviewing the Evidence.

And so far, Tin Man is no Tenth Kingdom.