Relaxing day, date night

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More luck than skill there, but I'm not complaining!

Yesterday I made waffles for breakfast, for variety and to use up some old baking goods. We don't do it much. At 11 I went to a friend's house to help move some furniture. On the way home we stopped by a park the kid likes to kill some time and burn off some energy. 

Then home, for some laundry, lunch, and general clean-up. Around 1:30 T. took the kid to the birthday party of her friend across the street (the friend lives across the street, the party was across town at a karaoke bar - fancy for an 8-year-old). Meanwhile, I stayed home and relaxed. I hadn't slept well the night before so I was in bed almost the whole time. 

I got up around 4:15 and they got back around 4:30. Then we did a little more laundry and generally relaxed until dinner. I made carne asada, asparagus, and couscous: simple but big and easy.

At 6:30 we dropped the kid off at that friend's house for a sleepover. Woo hoo. Then T. and I took a bus to Eastern Market and saw Black Panther 2. That was fun. 

The movie was sad. I've read that early drafts of it were intended to dwell on "the blip", the consequences of Thanos' snap, but it got overtaken by reality, i.e. Chadwick Boseman's death. It was good, but I have to admit I had too much fun with Namor, the antagonist. 

He's a crazy character to see on the big screen. The comicbook medium is filled with crazy stuff, pulp pseudoscience and Golden Age characters who are basically cartoon characters and so on, and as a fan of the medium it's interesting to see how it gets adapted into modern movies. When there's something particularly crazy, they'll usually either tone it down and try to make it "realistic" and believable, like the X-Men's costumes, or adapt it fairly directly and treat it as a joke, like most of Aquaman. Namor is generally a crazy character. He's an imperious asshole and creepy sexist stalker but usually technically a hero! He's the king of Atlantis, which has just secretly always been there under the sea! He wears little more than a green Speedo! He has elfin pointed ears, and can fly because he has wings on his ankles! So you might have expected them to either make big changes or treat him as a joke, right? Wrong! They kept him essentially the same and then treated him dead seriously. And, IMO, it worked! 

They did make some changes. They toned down his stalkerish tendencies, but there's definitely still elements of it. And his attire wasn't just a green Speedo, and there's a logical reason for him dressing the way he does, but it still looks basically like his classic outfit. And his undersea nation hasn't always been there, which explains why it hasn't been discovered before now. But even so he's a lot more like his comic counterpart than most similar characters, and treated very seriously (cracks one joke, and characters express disbelief about the concept once or twice, but that's about it), and overall it works. One of the MCU's better antagonists. The top 5, in no particular order: Thanos, Zemo, Killmonger, Namor... Gorr had potential but didn't get much screen time, Loki was good but arguably not an antagonist after the Avengers movie, the Red Skull was good but one-dimensional... but they're all miles ahead of any others I can think of.

After that, a bar for cocktails and dessert. We tried a new place and it was nice. Haven't had a date like that in a while. Thought about even more, but (a) it was in the 30s, so not much fun walking around town, and (b) it was 11 and that's late for us even though I had had a nap. Maybe this summer...