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So, I was pulling into my usual really good parking space in the almost empty parking lot at 7:25, rather pleased that despite spending some time writing this morning I'd managed to get a little ahead of my usual schedule. I reach over to grab my lunch and take it in...and realize my lunch is still at home (I had several things to bring out to the car this morning, and forgot one).

Fine, traffic is light and it's not a day I have to be at work at 7:30 (which was the case last time I forgot my lunch), so I turn around and go home for it. I made it back to the parking lot at 7:40 and slid back into my really good parking space. I grabbed my lunch and headed in.

Then I noticed I'd forgotten my phone too. Sigh. While I probably could still have gotten it and returned before the lot filled up, enough's enough. (And odds are I'd be getting pestered by robocalls all day anyway.) I'll grab it after I vote this afternoon.

Last week, the foam covers on the headphones I wear with my iPod started to fray, so I looked to see if I could find replacements. But not only does no one sell just the foam covers around here, it turned out to be an oddball size that I couldn't cannibalize dollar store headphones for (and I tried that). I finally broke down and bought a new pair, even though the actual working bits of the old pair are still fine.

Unfortunately, I find earbuds very uncomfortable. Even the good ones become an irritant after twenty minutes or so, and the cheap ones hurt immediately. Non-standard ears, I suppose. And while $50 silicone uber-buds might do the trick, I'm reluctant to drop that much money just on the hope. But I also prefer the convenience of headphones that don't have a band between them, which drops me into a very narrow product range: over-ear clip-on headphones. Target has two brands, some Walmarts have a single brand, K-Mart none (and I didn't get around to checking Best Buy).

Eventually, I might end up having to order headphones from online specialty shops, the way things are trending. Unless some health scare erupts over earbuds and clip-overs regain popularity.

Edouard the Catman is a descendant of Dr. Moreau's creations in a world where Victorian mad scientists were just a little more sensible and rather than immediately self-destructing they managed to secure England's superiority well into the 20th Century. Uplifted animals were the new slave race, and Edouard was part of the slave resistance. But then the world was destroyed in 1989 by an experiment with interdimensional engines, and Ed got hurled into the ASH universe. (The original Champions version was a direct ripoff of Oedi from the Dreadstar comic, in addition to tweaking the name I've changed the cat breed.)
( Meer. )

Academy of Super-Heroes #109 - The Office Part 3: TGIF - With one of their own lost to the bureaucracy of the Office, ASH must regroup and figure out how to rescue him before he's lost forever!

Why characters transform from robot to something else. A companion piece to The Three R's of Transformation, which looked at how.

( No books of note. Includes review of Tower Prep. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Ah mean, if ye were any FURTHER in the closet, ye'd have been in bloody Narnia." - Rahne, X-Factor #210

Yes, others have turned one of the Power Rangers RPM wheel-formers into a transforming Scrounge, but here's a pure altmode that's comic-accurate and can be held by Darkmount!
( There's no other like it! )

Coherent Super Stories #24 - "Rebirth Part 4" featuring Warendja: Part of the 1988 relaunch of Coherent Comics, will the animal totem powers of Warendja be enough to let him save "Babs" from a dark mage? Written for High Concept Challenge #14.

War for Cybertron Megatron is recommended, Darkmount is strongly recommended (although he has a nagging problem I intend to correct).