Consortium of Seven: Year 4

  Wow.     Four years ?      Doesn't feel like it, but I suppose it never does.      I meant to do something more with it, but my time-management skills are often crap, and there seemed to always be something hanging over me, stressing me out, at any given time. Me "just" waiting for that thing to be "over", and then, surely, time would be mine and energy would return. Dream on.       Part of me thought this might be something I'd be carrying with me through the planned transition in my personal life sometime in 2026, but nothing lasts forever.     When Garbo told me about the Consortium of Seven project back in 2019, inviting me to be take one of the seven days after someone (I'm not sure that I ever knew who), originally in the mix to handle tv and film, had to bow out, I was interested. In large part I found it attractive because back closer to the start of this century one of my main on...

        Very busy on the work front for me, so I cut out an in-progress section so this could go live Friday morning. If I get back to it as planned Friday evening I'll finish that and add it in --  and maybe one or two other timely things I've momentarily forgotten about -- adding it in Blue text so they'll be easier to find if you've already been through this once.       Before getting to the themed bulk of this week's piece, I want to follow up one of last week's tips: The second season of Reservation Dogs (on Hulu) wrapped this week, and remains both funny and touching. While I like aspects of most of the characters, I emerge from the second season with Cheese (more formally Chester, played by Lane Factor) as my favorite character. At first they played him in a more forced way, with a formulaic introduction in which he identifies himself, including his pronouns, which seemed a little programmed. While part of the core gro...