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torachan1. I got a call from the vet this afternoon and Jasper has a clean bill of health. No crystals in his urine and kidney function is good, so she agreed that it's almost certainly just stress related and we'll continue to try and avoid any possible triggers for him.
2. I actually had a chance to bring up my work decision totally naturally with my former supervisor, as we were talking and he was wondering how much longer I was going to be on this project, so I was like, the thing is, after the project is over, I don't want to go back to being area manager, and explained my decision. He was bummed, but very supportive. I didn't talk to my current supervisor about it because frankly I don't really like him that much and it doesn't really concern him, since once the project is over I would not be in his department anymore anyway (though technically he is now sort of acting vice president so it all concerns him but still). Anyway, I continue to feel good about verbalizing it and making it more real, since having that to look forward to does help to reduce the current stress.
Also last week I felt really stressed and directionless about work, even though it was nice to work from home, but today I had several productive discussions with people and am generally feeling better about the project overall.
3. Yesterday Ollie found (and ate) two spiders! Lucky boy! One of them was under the shoe rack, apparently.
2. I actually had a chance to bring up my work decision totally naturally with my former supervisor, as we were talking and he was wondering how much longer I was going to be on this project, so I was like, the thing is, after the project is over, I don't want to go back to being area manager, and explained my decision. He was bummed, but very supportive. I didn't talk to my current supervisor about it because frankly I don't really like him that much and it doesn't really concern him, since once the project is over I would not be in his department anymore anyway (though technically he is now sort of acting vice president so it all concerns him but still). Anyway, I continue to feel good about verbalizing it and making it more real, since having that to look forward to does help to reduce the current stress.
Also last week I felt really stressed and directionless about work, even though it was nice to work from home, but today I had several productive discussions with people and am generally feeling better about the project overall.
3. Yesterday Ollie found (and ate) two spiders! Lucky boy! One of them was under the shoe rack, apparently.
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2026-05-05 08:48icon_uk in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Banksy admitted that a new work in London is indeed his. Not always a fan of his work, but this one "Blinded by the Flag" is pretty nifty, if not exactly subtle.
What I have to assume is the end of Season 1 of "Maul: Shadow Lord" happened, as there's a lot of setup for a Season 2. The mother, father and several uncles and aunts of a sabre duel happened, with six characters involved, which must have been quite the challenge for the animators speciailisng in spinning, flipping and hacking. Yet again, I find myself wishing they would be a little more specific about dates in these spin-offs as I was surprised that one character was apparently having their first meeting with... another significant character (as they had no idea who they were)
Finally caught up with "Project Hail Mary", loved it.
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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
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It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Banksy admitted that a new work in London is indeed his. Not always a fan of his work, but this one "Blinded by the Flag" is pretty nifty, if not exactly subtle.
What I have to assume is the end of Season 1 of "Maul: Shadow Lord" happened, as there's a lot of setup for a Season 2. The mother, father and several uncles and aunts of a sabre duel happened, with six characters involved, which must have been quite the challenge for the animators speciailisng in spinning, flipping and hacking. Yet again, I find myself wishing they would be a little more specific about dates in these spin-offs as I was surprised that one character was apparently having their first meeting with... another significant character (as they had no idea who they were)
Finally caught up with "Project Hail Mary", loved it.
Oh, and a note that parts of the UK have Local and General elections this week so we actively encourage you to exercise your vote and make sure you have your say in civil matters.
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2026-05-04 17:04torachan
torachan1. Yesterday I was feeling majorly stressed out by multiple things, but today I'm feeling much better.
2. One thing was this whole pee issue with Jasper. ( long )
3. I have also been majorly stressed about work recently. Well, it's actually been for several years, but I'm feeling it more and more, not necessarily because things are more stressful but just because of the buildup, and the whole world in general is adding so much stress as well. I'd been thinking more and more seriously about what I want to do when this project I'm working on ends. I don't think I want to go back to area manager as that is a pretty stressful position, especially now that the economy is not great and the stores are struggling. I would also like to be closer to home, so I've been thinking about stepping down to a department leader position at the store closest to me.
( also long )
So just making that decision, even if it doesn't change anything right now, has made me less stressed out.
4. Molly was writhing around with that toy just moments before I took the pic.
2. One thing was this whole pee issue with Jasper. ( long )
3. I have also been majorly stressed about work recently. Well, it's actually been for several years, but I'm feeling it more and more, not necessarily because things are more stressful but just because of the buildup, and the whole world in general is adding so much stress as well. I'd been thinking more and more seriously about what I want to do when this project I'm working on ends. I don't think I want to go back to area manager as that is a pretty stressful position, especially now that the economy is not great and the stores are struggling. I would also like to be closer to home, so I've been thinking about stepping down to a department leader position at the store closest to me.
( also long )
So just making that decision, even if it doesn't change anything right now, has made me less stressed out.
4. Molly was writhing around with that toy just moments before I took the pic.
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2026-05-04 13:45torachan
torachanUSJ has a 1.5 day pass, which seemed like the right fit for us. Honestly, I think the single day would have been fine, too, but this let us have the first afternoon to sort of scope out the park and get the lay of the land so we could navigate better on the next day. If we go again, I'd just do the single day, since we're now familiar with the layout.
( Exploring the park )
( Exploring the park )
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2026-05-03 14:57tcampbell1000 in scans_daily
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Fans always wondered what would happen if the “bwa-ha-ha” Justice League added Superman to the roster. Would he be a powerhouse straight man, letting the team reach new heights of comedy AND action? Would he get to relax and loosen up a bit?
Or would he glare his disapproval at everyone for eight issues and then die of embarrassment? ( Remember how he almost killed the League for REVIVING HIM FROM DEATH in the movies? Here, he's maybe 20% less unfriendly. )
2026-05-03 20:33torachan
torachan1. The weather recently has been nice and overcast. It's been very nice for taking walks and not getting overheated.
2. Tuxie's a sweetie guy.
2. Tuxie's a sweetie guy.
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2026-05-03 20:28shakalooloo in scans_daily
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In an almost direct follow-up to issue 11, we return to the story of Thor and Sif liberating Asgard from Loki, with METAL AF art by Bleeding Hearts' Stipan Morian.
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2026-05-02 16:51tcampbell1000 in scans_daily
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Warning for some modest body-shaming, mostly in the form of competitive dieting, and PTSD-related depression.
Before we get into the final Giffen-DeMatteis story of their original run, I wanted to insert our next-to-last Justice League Quarterly tale, John Ostrander and Barry Horne’s “Blue Beetle: Fighting Trim” from #6. It doesn’t quite fit into the timeline, but this is the spot it comes closest to fitting. And it resolves an important question about Blue Beetle’s history: how did he lose the weight that plagued him for the last year or so of Giffen-DeMatteis comics? ( Talk Booster into scoring him some 25th-century Ozempic? )
2026-05-02 19:45torachan
torachan1. We went down to the bike shop today and bought ebikes! We both got the Velotric Discover 3 in green (Carla's is a large and mine's a regular, so still easy to tell apart despite the same color). It's a fairly small shop, so they had to order them, but we should be able to pick them up by the end of next week.
2. Across the street from the bike shop is a pizza place that looked enticing, so we went over there for lunch after. We got three slices to share, but their slices are huge and cut up into three pieces each, so we had some to take home.
One was acorn squash, one was potato, sage, and truffle, and the last was proscuitto, pineapple, and jalapeño. All three were delicious, but the potato might be my favorite. I wish more places had potato pizza around here.
3. A couple months ago I saw a post about how Microsoft was going to be raising the price of the Office 365 subscription due to all their unnecessary AI stuff, but that the non-subscription version of Office was on sale. Since I don't need more than the basics, the non-subscription version really is fine and I'm not sure why I didn't get that to begin with. So I bought it and then as it got closer to my renewal time, I went to cancel the subscription only to find I couldn't. I purchased this over ten years ago and did the subscription through the Excel app itself, which apparently charged me through Best Buy, but didn't actually set me up a Best Buy account or anything. I've been paying for it every year through auto-renew, but have no access to any subscriptions on Best Buy, and according to Microsoft, since it was purchased through them, that's the only way to manage my subscription. Best Buy chat and phone customer service was unable to help with this weird issue, and just suggested I cancel the credit card so that the next auto-renew bounces. So yesterday I reported my card lost and now I have the annoyance of having to redo the card info on any sites I was using it on, but at least I won't have this stupid subscription anymore.
4. Speaking of subscriptions, I finally bit the bullet and cancelled Netflix. We really never use it but I keep thinking about some Netflix shows like Disenchantment that I want to watch again, but they raised their prices again and I really don't want to pay $20 a month just because at some point I might want to rewatch one or two shows. So it's done. If we want to rewatch something, we can torrent it.
5. I put our old bikes up on Nextdoor last week and got a flurry of scammy responses about Carla's bike but no real takers (and none at all for mine), so I put them both up on Craigslist today and mine sold right away. I paid like $400 for it originally but it's been 12 years so even though it's in great shape, I just listed it for $100.
6. One of the Little Libraries we passed on our walk tonight had some puzzles in it so I brought two of them home with me. Not so exciting that I would have bought them on my own, but for free puzzles, they seemed nice enough.
7. It's hard to see, but Chloe's got a little blep going on.
2. Across the street from the bike shop is a pizza place that looked enticing, so we went over there for lunch after. We got three slices to share, but their slices are huge and cut up into three pieces each, so we had some to take home.
One was acorn squash, one was potato, sage, and truffle, and the last was proscuitto, pineapple, and jalapeño. All three were delicious, but the potato might be my favorite. I wish more places had potato pizza around here.
3. A couple months ago I saw a post about how Microsoft was going to be raising the price of the Office 365 subscription due to all their unnecessary AI stuff, but that the non-subscription version of Office was on sale. Since I don't need more than the basics, the non-subscription version really is fine and I'm not sure why I didn't get that to begin with. So I bought it and then as it got closer to my renewal time, I went to cancel the subscription only to find I couldn't. I purchased this over ten years ago and did the subscription through the Excel app itself, which apparently charged me through Best Buy, but didn't actually set me up a Best Buy account or anything. I've been paying for it every year through auto-renew, but have no access to any subscriptions on Best Buy, and according to Microsoft, since it was purchased through them, that's the only way to manage my subscription. Best Buy chat and phone customer service was unable to help with this weird issue, and just suggested I cancel the credit card so that the next auto-renew bounces. So yesterday I reported my card lost and now I have the annoyance of having to redo the card info on any sites I was using it on, but at least I won't have this stupid subscription anymore.
4. Speaking of subscriptions, I finally bit the bullet and cancelled Netflix. We really never use it but I keep thinking about some Netflix shows like Disenchantment that I want to watch again, but they raised their prices again and I really don't want to pay $20 a month just because at some point I might want to rewatch one or two shows. So it's done. If we want to rewatch something, we can torrent it.
5. I put our old bikes up on Nextdoor last week and got a flurry of scammy responses about Carla's bike but no real takers (and none at all for mine), so I put them both up on Craigslist today and mine sold right away. I paid like $400 for it originally but it's been 12 years so even though it's in great shape, I just listed it for $100.
6. One of the Little Libraries we passed on our walk tonight had some puzzles in it so I brought two of them home with me. Not so exciting that I would have bought them on my own, but for free puzzles, they seemed nice enough.
7. It's hard to see, but Chloe's got a little blep going on.
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2026-05-03 03:12manual in dreamwidthlayouts
manual in dreamwidthlayoutsTitle: Nadine v.2
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2026-05-02 14:12umadoshi
umadoshiReading: For non-fiction, I'm still steadily picking away at Braiding Sweetgrass; I think I've crossed the halfway point!
I finished Gareth Hanrahan's The Gutter Prayer, which has fascinating worldbuilding, and I enjoyed the characters. Neither library to which I have access has the sequel (I think it's a trilogy?) in ebook, so we'll see if/when I cave and buy it. For a second book, there's probably not much future in just leaving it on my wishlist indefinitely and hoping for it to go on sale, although one never knows.
Then I read T. Kingfisher's Wolf Worm via the library (I'm trying this novel approach of using the library more again if they have a book and the ebook cost is too upsetting), which was distressing in very T. Kingfisher ways (another case of interesting worldbuilding + EW EW EW), followed by Common Goal, the fourth Game Changers book. (I did give in and just buy the ebook set of books 4-6.)
In other book not-really-news, I decided to just go ahead and get the new Murderbot in hard copy, given the price of the ebook (esp. since I think it's a novella this time? And hopefully it being just novella-length will increase my odds of still getting it read fairly promptly despite being a hard copy).
Watching: Last nightscruloose and I made it to ep. 8 of Justice in the Dark, AKA the last ep. that was released in China and the last one I'd seen previously. Onward!
(I'm mostly coping with the name changes, but apparently I do better at keeping the different names straight in my head when it's different consonants than vowels. I mentally autocorrect the show's "Pei Su" to "Fei Du" and carry on, but when I don't actually have one version in front of me, I keep stumbling a bit over Luo Wenzhou [novel]/Luo Weizhao [drama].)
Listening: This week I listened to not one but two (new!) albums for the first time--Tori Amos' Time of Dragons, as mentioned yesterday, and Metric's Romanticize The Dive. I haven't done a proper lyrics-focused listen to the latter, but I imagine I will at some point. My initial feeling is basically "Yep, that's a Metric album, and I like Metric, so that works." (Fantasies is the only one I'm hugely attached to individually [and I'm not terribly familiar with their catalogue before that], but that's mainly because I used it pretty heavily when writing Newsflesh fic.)
I finished Gareth Hanrahan's The Gutter Prayer, which has fascinating worldbuilding, and I enjoyed the characters. Neither library to which I have access has the sequel (I think it's a trilogy?) in ebook, so we'll see if/when I cave and buy it. For a second book, there's probably not much future in just leaving it on my wishlist indefinitely and hoping for it to go on sale, although one never knows.
Then I read T. Kingfisher's Wolf Worm via the library (I'm trying this novel approach of using the library more again if they have a book and the ebook cost is too upsetting), which was distressing in very T. Kingfisher ways (another case of interesting worldbuilding + EW EW EW), followed by Common Goal, the fourth Game Changers book. (I did give in and just buy the ebook set of books 4-6.)
In other book not-really-news, I decided to just go ahead and get the new Murderbot in hard copy, given the price of the ebook (esp. since I think it's a novella this time? And hopefully it being just novella-length will increase my odds of still getting it read fairly promptly despite being a hard copy).
Watching: Last night
scruloose and I made it to ep. 8 of Justice in the Dark, AKA the last ep. that was released in China and the last one I'd seen previously. Onward!(I'm mostly coping with the name changes, but apparently I do better at keeping the different names straight in my head when it's different consonants than vowels. I mentally autocorrect the show's "Pei Su" to "Fei Du" and carry on, but when I don't actually have one version in front of me, I keep stumbling a bit over Luo Wenzhou [novel]/Luo Weizhao [drama].)
Listening: This week I listened to not one but two (new!) albums for the first time--Tori Amos' Time of Dragons, as mentioned yesterday, and Metric's Romanticize The Dive. I haven't done a proper lyrics-focused listen to the latter, but I imagine I will at some point. My initial feeling is basically "Yep, that's a Metric album, and I like Metric, so that works." (Fantasies is the only one I'm hugely attached to individually [and I'm not terribly familiar with their catalogue before that], but that's mainly because I used it pretty heavily when writing Newsflesh fic.)
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2026-05-01 19:56torachan
torachan1. It's the weekend! I have been feeling very stressed about work lately and now I have two days where I don't have to think about it. Yay!
2. Last year Carla got a Franz Ferdinand CD box set that came with a reusable cloth shopping bag and it has short handles and also a long strap so it can be worn crossbody and it has become my favorite shopping bag because it's so comfortable! Shoulder straps always fall off my shoulder or are just uncomfortable but this is like wearing nothing at all (queue sexy Flanders meme).
Anyway, it was in the wash yesterday when I wanted to use it (cat pee again...our fault for leaving a pile of shopping bags out on an area where he'd peed before, even if it had been cleaned with enzyme cleaner) so I went looking online for any similar crossbody shopping bags so I could have a backup in the future and while the pickings were very slim, I did find one that looked about right and it arrived today and is perfect! It's this bag, specifically in the blue cat print, if it doesn't go directly to that one. It's a smallish size, which is what I want, and folds down super small and doesn't have a bunch of extra pockets or anything. I just want a small, simple bag with a crossbody strap, but apparently no one else does because this is like the only one I found that was just right (the others were all too large or too complicated or both).
3. I love Gemma's curly tail so much.
2. Last year Carla got a Franz Ferdinand CD box set that came with a reusable cloth shopping bag and it has short handles and also a long strap so it can be worn crossbody and it has become my favorite shopping bag because it's so comfortable! Shoulder straps always fall off my shoulder or are just uncomfortable but this is like wearing nothing at all (queue sexy Flanders meme).
Anyway, it was in the wash yesterday when I wanted to use it (cat pee again...our fault for leaving a pile of shopping bags out on an area where he'd peed before, even if it had been cleaned with enzyme cleaner) so I went looking online for any similar crossbody shopping bags so I could have a backup in the future and while the pickings were very slim, I did find one that looked about right and it arrived today and is perfect! It's this bag, specifically in the blue cat print, if it doesn't go directly to that one. It's a smallish size, which is what I want, and folds down super small and doesn't have a bunch of extra pockets or anything. I just want a small, simple bag with a crossbody strap, but apparently no one else does because this is like the only one I found that was just right (the others were all too large or too complicated or both).
3. I love Gemma's curly tail so much.
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2026-05-01 17:29torachan
torachanRecently Finished
My Life in Propaganda
Memoir about growing up in communist Poland + the author's thoughts on propaganda in general. This was less interesting than I thought it would be, though I found the parts about how communism worked in Poland in particular to be very interesting and I wish there had been more of that.
Who Is Vera Kelly?
This is told in two timelines, the past when the MC is a teenager and the present when she's a spy in Argentina in the 60s. The first half or so of this was honestly so boring. I did enjoy it more in the second half, but it was really dragging and it didn't help that I was reading this on the Libby app and having connectivity issues while traveling (idk why it won't let me download the file to my phone). It seems like the second book might be more interesting, so I am going to check it out.
Killers of a Certain Age
Four middle aged women are retired assassins who now find themselves targeted by the organization they used to work with. This was a lot of fun. Definitely looking forward to the second book.
Ghost Roast
YA graphic novel about a girl whose dad is a ghost buster type and she herself (unbeknownst to him) can see and even speak with ghosts. This was cute but her friends were pretty awful and I kept expecting that they would either change and apologize for their behavior or she would realize they were awful and dump them, but neither of those happened.
Shiny Misfits
Middle grade graphic novel about a girl with cerebral palsy who loves to dance and is obsessed with going viral and becoming famous. The premise sounded cute but the pacing was all over the place and the dialogue was always trying to be quippy and just came off as obnoxious. Everything was just dialed up to 11 and it was kind of exhausing to read. The random talking (in rhymes, no less) cat also came off as another element that was supposed to be wacky and random but just fell flat for me. I was expecting to love this but was just disappointed. Very cute art, though.
Goodbye, Dolly!
I'm just going to c&p the blurb here: "When celebrity clone sheep Dolly dies, her adult Nepo Lambs come together for the first time to forge an identity as second-generation clones, confront their upbringing, and process their grief around their famous, trailblazing mother. Unreliably narrated by the ghost of Dolly in a mixed media style, GOODBYE, DOLLY! explores the connection, disconnection, hijinks, and despair of six siblings trying to put together the pieces of their broken family and forge a path to their wooly future."
I found this in a Little Library down the street from me and thought it could be interesting. Got home and found multiple copies of it, along with some other works by the author, in my Little Library, so I assume the author is local and trying to promote her stuff. I had to create the entry on goodreads and I feel bad that the first review it now has on there is two stars, but this was just too weird for me lol.
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos vol. 3
My Life in Propaganda
Memoir about growing up in communist Poland + the author's thoughts on propaganda in general. This was less interesting than I thought it would be, though I found the parts about how communism worked in Poland in particular to be very interesting and I wish there had been more of that.
Who Is Vera Kelly?
This is told in two timelines, the past when the MC is a teenager and the present when she's a spy in Argentina in the 60s. The first half or so of this was honestly so boring. I did enjoy it more in the second half, but it was really dragging and it didn't help that I was reading this on the Libby app and having connectivity issues while traveling (idk why it won't let me download the file to my phone). It seems like the second book might be more interesting, so I am going to check it out.
Killers of a Certain Age
Four middle aged women are retired assassins who now find themselves targeted by the organization they used to work with. This was a lot of fun. Definitely looking forward to the second book.
Ghost Roast
YA graphic novel about a girl whose dad is a ghost buster type and she herself (unbeknownst to him) can see and even speak with ghosts. This was cute but her friends were pretty awful and I kept expecting that they would either change and apologize for their behavior or she would realize they were awful and dump them, but neither of those happened.
Shiny Misfits
Middle grade graphic novel about a girl with cerebral palsy who loves to dance and is obsessed with going viral and becoming famous. The premise sounded cute but the pacing was all over the place and the dialogue was always trying to be quippy and just came off as obnoxious. Everything was just dialed up to 11 and it was kind of exhausing to read. The random talking (in rhymes, no less) cat also came off as another element that was supposed to be wacky and random but just fell flat for me. I was expecting to love this but was just disappointed. Very cute art, though.
Goodbye, Dolly!
I'm just going to c&p the blurb here: "When celebrity clone sheep Dolly dies, her adult Nepo Lambs come together for the first time to forge an identity as second-generation clones, confront their upbringing, and process their grief around their famous, trailblazing mother. Unreliably narrated by the ghost of Dolly in a mixed media style, GOODBYE, DOLLY! explores the connection, disconnection, hijinks, and despair of six siblings trying to put together the pieces of their broken family and forge a path to their wooly future."
I found this in a Little Library down the street from me and thought it could be interesting. Got home and found multiple copies of it, along with some other works by the author, in my Little Library, so I assume the author is local and trying to promote her stuff. I had to create the entry on goodreads and I feel bad that the first review it now has on there is two stars, but this was just too weird for me lol.
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos vol. 3
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2026-05-01 07:58tcampbell1000 in scans_daily
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JLA Giffen-DeMatteis-Sears, JLE Giffen-Jones-Robertson.
It’s time to face off against Dreamslayer, the wroth foe with a face like a Rothko. Except just now, he’s borrowed Max Lord’s handsome mug and an entire population of islanders. ( He could do even more damage with Max’s body in a single afternoon if he understood finance. )