Took the whole brood to see Solo today; I am quite appalled at all the negative critical response surrounding it.
In all honesty, while not the tragic delight Rogue One turned out to be, I rate it a solid #5 behind Rogue One and the original trilogy. My only concern is that they may try to continue the whitewashing/retcon of Solo that Lucas started with the re-releases of the originals; make him a straight hero instead of the original rogue beloved by 3 generations. They had one scene... a conversation... that pretty effectively hung a lantern on it if they ARE foreshadowing that character development.
Oh, and wasted the day Friday trying to go buy some dueling lightsabers for my son and myself (UltraSabers.com is actually located less than half an hour away), only to find myself broke down with a dead fuel pump in the Houston hot & humid 20 miles from home for an hour and a half. With my daughter in the car. Thank Ifni for USAA and roadside assistance.
New fuel pump is on the way. Amazon Prime saves the day again; it'll be to my door faster than my local parts house could have it (Tuesday - woulda been tomorrow but for Memorial Day Holiday), and for a third the price.
Also rebuilt my Horror Fraught MIG welder over the weekend; the stinger got run over on the ground by the cart one time too many and broke the gas valve inside. Bought
a complete 14AK series gun and lead for $32 delivered on fleaBay; while not the kit I WANTED that would have upgraded to a solenoid gas valve and longer lead, it also didn't cost $70 plus solenoid valve plus another $40 for the euro-connector base I WANTED to go with.
All in all, quite an upgrade anyways. The original stinger was a snap-together resin affair with the cheapest possible everything including a plastic liner, plastic gas valve I'd already Polish-engineered back together once and a cheesy switch made of plastic bits and stamped zinc-plated steel. The new one is made of glass-filled nylon, screws together and has a real steel liner, brass gas valve and a proper freaking micro-switch. Oh, and it has a hook to hang it on the side of the cart; something I've been meaning to do but could never be arsed.
Now it's fixed, I can use it to make a proper rip fence for my huge-arse table-saw; got me some old bed frames to cut up for angle iron.
So now I'm driving the wife's old Saturn until I get the hoopty Franken-Cruiser back to life; good thing I spent last week getting the brakes sorted with pads, rotors & shoes.
That concludes another installment of "What the TinkerDwagon's been doing in the Texas Suck",
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Oh, and my Keto diet is going gangbusters as well. Averaging 20 grams/day without suffering too much at all; sometimes even have enough left over for a little morsel of dark chocolate as a bedtime treat.