Kevin's Watch

So it goes. Anyway, weird story time. The Santeria place is appropriately dark and smoky and generally uninviting - I don't think I've ever seen a customer inside, and I have no idea how they stay in business. One day I walked by and there was a construction crew tearing the place apart. This went on for a couple of weeks - it looked like they dug under the floor and basically gutted the whole structure - nothing left.

Then one day the store was back, looking exactly like it had before. Like it had been there for years. Same old, weathered sign out front, same creepy dark everything.

I have no explanation. It's just weird.

Sorus wrote:So it goes. Anyway, weird story time. The Santeria place is appropriately dark and smoky and generally uninviting - I don't think I've ever seen a customer inside, and I have no idea how they stay in business. One day I walked by and there was a construction crew tearing the place apart. This went on for a couple of weeks - it looked like they dug under the floor and basically gutted the whole structure - nothing left.

Then one day the store was back, looking exactly like it had before. Like it had been there for years. Same old, weathered sign out front, same creepy dark everything.

I have no explanation. It's just weird.

Wow, if you have no explanation, Sorus, being an eyewitness and all, than I surely don't. Maybe they're just fast at rebuilding flooring?

Anyway, it sounds like a good start for a Stephen King short story.

I'm no Stephen King, but I could probably throw something together.


Unscrupulous landlord intends to raze the building and put up condos. The proprietor puts a curse on the landlord, who laughs it off, but then things start to go wrong...

The construction crew comes in every morning to find their previous work has been undone. Like the building is healing itself. Machinery stops working or causes various graphically gory accidents.

Eventually they refuse to work, and in the finale we have the shop fully restored and the evil landlord committed to a maximum security mental hospital.


Think it'll be a bestseller? I can even throw in a based on a true story.

Sorus wrote:I'm no Stephen King, but I could probably throw something together.


Unscrupulous landlord intends to raze the building and put up condos. The proprietor puts a curse on the landlord, who laughs it off, but then things start to go wrong...

The construction crew comes in every morning to find their previous work has been undone. Like the building is healing itself. Machinery stops working or causes various graphically gory accidents.

Eventually they refuse to work, and in the finale we have the shop fully restored and the evil landlord committed to a maximum security mental hospital.


Think it'll be a bestseller? I can even throw in a based on a true story.

FABULOUS!! I'D BUY IT!!!!

Yesterday, I had to spend an hour clearing out a blockage in the sewer drain in my yard because whoever built this extension and installed the toilet seriously cut corners. So that was pleasant.

Today, I spent a significant chunk of my time working on this, which is a very rudimentary and unfinished character sheet for a potential RPG. Most of the several hours I spent on it were just thinking about or googling tools or systems rather than making the actual thing. I have no idea if an actual game will happen but figuring out how it would work was very engaging.

Sorus wrote:I have no explanation. It's just weird.

It was obviously one of those Wandering Shops.

It left for the construction, then came back when it was done.

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I said I spent a significant chunk of yesterday working on those character sheets, but that's nothing to how long I spent today working on this.

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I really hope it isn't a complete mess.

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Sorus wrote:I have no explanation. It's just weird.

It was obviously one of those Wandering Shops.

It left for the construction, then came back when it was done.

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That... totally makes sense. Well, I'm glad there was a logical explanation.

Well, an explanation anyway...

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At least it's Friday...

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TGIF?

All the days blur together round here. At least tonight is something different; I'm going to see Les Miserables. Bought the ticket back in January and finding I'm less enthusiastic now than I was then, plus wondering why I paid #40+ for one theatre ticket (I've since been to two other musicals for <#20 each). I'll still enjoy it, though.

Friday the 13th AND a full moon. I'm surprised I haven't been hit by a meteor. Which would be better than a couple of Friday the 13ths I've lived through. My one superstition. Two out of three of the worst days of my life happened on Friday the 13th. Granted both of those were back in the 90s, but still.

So, uh, someone fell off the stage during Les Mis. Right as the show came back after intermission, when the cast came on pushing a cart around, one of them slid right off the edge into the orchestra pit. There was safety netting so hopefully not too badly hurt (we were not told), but it was a long fall. The show was stopped for about 15-20 mins.

Apart from that, the show was really great. Do not regret buying the ticket at all.

I love musicals, and I live in a city with really good theatre, but I rarely go.

Eh, I can take 'em or leave 'em. Don't think I've ever gone to one spontaneously, but would go along if the family was going etc.

Monday. Meh.

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Trying to remember all the ones I've seen.

Wicked (London, 2013)
Avenue Q (Edinburgh Fringe, 2013)
Book of Mormon (London, 2014)
Wicked (Tour, 2015)
Les Miserables (London, 2016)
Into the Woods (Edinburgh Fringe, 2017)
Spamalot (Tour, 2017)
Matilda (Tour, 2018)
Fun Home (London, 2018)
Hamilton (London, 2018)
Wicked (Tour, 2018)
The King & I (Tour, 2019)
Kinky Boots (Tour, 2019)
Les Miserables (Tour, 2019)

Think that's all of them. The worst musical I've seen is Spamalot, though I also didn't like Into the Woods much and the 2018 production of Wicked despite being the exact same show just didn't work for me at all.

Sheesh, better than 2 a year.

Uh, musicals...

Seen Phantom, My Fair Lady, Gigi, uh, must be a couple others I can't recall off hand. Also tend to mix them up in my head with the ballets, not sure why...music probably...

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Can't remember the last time I was at a musical. It's easier for me to remember the last time I went to an opera, instead (Verdi's Rigoletto, back in 2010).

Avatar wrote:Sheesh, better than 2 a year.

I live in Sunderland which gets all the tours, and tickets to the Sunderland Empire can be pretty cheap, so I started doing that more recently.

Sounds good.

Well, Tuesday, here we go...

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