Incremental improvements and one really cool show

So today I got a keyboard tray, figured out where a mailbox near my workplace is, and found a place at the mall's food court that serves actual vegetables. Bit by bit the uncomfortable becomes the familiar. Now if L.L. Bean would just ship the new zippered cardigan I ordered so I could stop freezing to death all day. Sigh. I may love my new job, but drat these pudgy men who like to keep offices cold. I fear I shall never be free of them.

Now for what I really wanted to post about last night: we went to see The Lion King musical at the freshly renovated Opera House in Boston. Oh my. That show deserves to be the legend it is. I've never ever seen puppetry like that, or used to such good effect, or, or or... ! It was basically too cool for me to describe. Any show that has people dressed as grass, and has a giant elephant puppet so big it has an adult in each leg, and that's so mechanically interesting with all the contraptions attached to the actors, is my kind of show. And I still can't believe the effect they achieved with the stampeding wildebeests--I'd never have thought they could do that on stage in any reasonable way. Edit: they also took a few liberties with the plot that made a lot of sense, like having Scar take a creepy interest in Nala. Viola, it gave her an actual reason to leave and show up where Simba was! Making Rafiki into a woman was a good call too. I'd love to see it again, but alas, the tickets were not cheap. It'll have to wait a while.

P.S. The comic is not done, due to lousy time management over the weekend. Damn you, G.R.R.M, damn yoooooouuu! It is inked and scanned now, though.

Kawaii...!!

Hmm, perhaps I never mentioned that we have a skunk in our neighborhood. Well, we do. She lives under the porch next door and has been quite a fine neighbor... and if she's been noisy once or twice, well, that's still a lot less often than the renters on the other side of us. Anyway, I was headed out for a 9 PM weightlifting session, and she crossed the road right in front of me with her three little skunklets in tow! Oh my god, they were teh cuteness. I want to pet one. But it seems I'll just have to adore their little stripes from afar. I hope I get another glimpse of them before they grow up too much.