Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Monthly Update - October 2015

RESOLUTIONS

1. Stay on budget. I've bought 10 of my 12 seasons (Angie Tribeca, Better Call Saul, Full Frontal Seasons 1-2, Supergirl, Last Panthers, Preacher, Night Manager, Mr. Robot, You're The Worst) which puts me right at the budget for the year. Overwatch put out a free Halloween mode, and that's been keeping me plenty busy in videogame land. Although I'm already eyeing some stuff for next year.

2. New recipes. I started finding more new stuff at the end of the year, although more misses than hits. Found a simpler beef stew recipe that's not as good as the one I got from my mom, but is considerably easier for busier nights. Tried out a chicken, potato and spinach bake with garlic parmesan cream sauce which needs work, and a cheesy green chile rice that was the blandest white people recipe I think I've ever eaten. And found a recipe for chicken, asparagus and mushroom stir fry that's definitely going into the regular rotation. Made a White Chicken Chili in the Instant Pot that I really liked. Got a few more to try out as well, before the year is out.

POP CULTURE GOALS:

1. Read 15 Books (5)
  • Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
2. Read 100 Graphic Novels (67)
  1. Wonder Woman One True Amazon HC
  2. Hawkeye Vol 3 HC
  3. Batman Long Halloween
  4. Harrow County Vol 1 TP
  5. Bandette Vol 3 HC
3. Catch up on TV/Movie DVDs and Blurays
  • None
    4. Play 15 New Boardgames (28)
    • Pandemic Reign of Cthulhu
    • Fluffy Bunny Tea Party
    • Carcassonne
    • Dead of Winter
    • Pandemic Legacy
    • Dead of Winter The Long Night
    5. Go to 5 Comic Book Conventions
    • Dallas Comic Con (February)
    • STAPLE! (March)
    • C2E2 (March)
    • Heroes Con (June)
    My Picks of the Week For This Month:
    1. Black #1
    2. Champions #1
    3. Kill or Be Killed #3
    4. Fix #6
    5. Captain America Sam Wilson #14
    6. Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #1
    7. The Skeptics #1
    8. Ms. Marvel #12
        Other Comics I Read This Month (528+49=577):
        • Agents of SHIELD #10
        • All-New All-Different Avengers #15
        • All-New Wolverine #13
        • Amazing Spider-Man #19-20
        • Astonishing Ant-Man #13
        • Astro City #40
        • Birthright #20
        • Black #1
        • Black Hammer #4
        • Black Widow #7
        • Cage #1
        • Captain America Sam Wilson #14
        • Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #1
        • Champions #1
        • Chew #59
        • Civil War II #6
        • Civil War Ulysses #3
        • Clone Conspiracy #1
        • Daredevil #12
        • Darth Vader #25
        • Deadman Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #1
        • Descender #16
        • Doctor Strange #12-13
        • Doctor Strange Sorcerers Supreme #1
        • Doom Patrol #2
        • Eclipse #2
        • Faith #4
        • Fix #6
        • Glitterbomb #2
        • Great Lakes Adventures #1
        • Hadrian's Wall #2
        • Jessica Jones #1
        • Kill or Be Killed #3
        • Lake of Fire #3
        • Lazarus #25
        • Lost Boys #1
        • Moon Knight #7
        • Moonshine #1
        • New Super Man #4
        • Night's Dominion #2
        • Nighthawk #6
        • Power Man and Iron Fist #9
        • Reborn #1
        • Saga #39
        • Serenity No Power in the Verse #1
        • Spider-Woman #12
        • Star Wars Han Solo #4
        • The Skeptics #1
        • Warhammer 40000 Tide of Iron #1
        TV I Watched This Month:
        • American Housewife "Pilot"
        • Arrow "Legacy" "Value"
        • Atlanta "Nobody Beats The Biebs" "Value" "B.A.N." "The Club"
        • Better Things "Woman is the Something of the Something" "Future Fever" "Alarms"
        • Black Mirror "Nosedive" "Playtest" "Shut Up and Dance" "San Junipero" "Men Against Fire" "Hated in the Nation"
        • Brooklyn Nine-Nine "Coral Palms Part 2" "Coral Palms Part 3" "The Night Shift" "Halloween IV"
        • Chance "The Summer of Love"
        • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend "Where is Josh's Friend?"
        • DC's Legends of Tomorrow "Out of Time"
        • Designated Survivor "The First Day"
        • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency "Horizons"
        • Divorce "Pilot"
        • The Flash "Flashpoint" "Paradox" "Magenta" "New Rogues"
        • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee "Rigged!" "Second Presidential Debate Special" "United Nations"
        • The Good Place "Tahani Al Jamil" "Jason Mendoza" "Category 55 Emergency Doomsday" "What We Owe to Each Other" "The Eternal Shriek" "Most Improved Player"
        • Insecure "Messy as Fuck"
        • Last Week Tonight With John Oliver "Police Accountability" "Guantanamo" "Third Parties" "Opioids"
        • Lethal Weapon "Surf N Turf" "Best Buds" "There Goes The Neighborhood" "Spilt Milk"
        • Luke Cage "Season One"
        • Milo Murphy's Law "Going the Extra Milo/The Undergrounders" "Rooting for the Enemy/Sunny Side Up"
        • Pitch "Interim" "Beanball" "The Break"
        • The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXVII"
        • Speechless "B-O-N-Bonfire"
        • Star Wars Rebels "The Holocrons of Fate"
        • Supergirl "The Adventures of Supergirl" "Last Children of Krypton" "Welcome to Earth"
        • This is Us "Kyle"
        • Timeless "Pilot" "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" "Atomic City" "Party at Castle Varlar" "The Alamo" 
        • Westworld "The Original" "Chestnut" "The Stray" "Dissonance Theory" "Contrapasso"
        • You're the Worst  "The Last Sunday Funday" "The Only Thing That Helps" "Genetically Inferior Beta Males" "The Seventh Layer"
        Top Ten Shows This Month:
        1. You're the Worst
        2. Westworld
        3. Atlanta
        4. The Good Place
        5. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
        6. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
        7. Better Things
        8. Supergirl
        9. Pitch
        10. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
        Movies I Watched This Month:
        • None
        Places I Ate This Month (228 + 26 = 254):
        • 24 Diner
        • Big Daddy Burger Bar
        • Chuy's
        • Culver's
        • Deckhand Oyster Bar (x2)
        • Firehouse Subs (x2)
        • Fuddrucker's (x2)
        • Greenhouse Craft Food
        • Hoover's
        • Jack Allen's Kitchen
        • Juarez Bakery
        • Michi Ramen
        • Mod Pizza
        • Olive Garden
        • Opal Divine's
        • Outback Steakhouse (x2)
        • Popeye's
        • Sonic
        • Vera Cruz Tacos (x2)
        • Wendy's
        • Wingstop