Wednesday With Movie

I finished the night with a movie at 7 with medium no-butter salted popcorn. Sinners is set in the 1920s-30s in the American Old South, with African Americans setting up their own dance hall in an old mill. The story initially moved slowly as the brothers collected band members, purchased the mill, and hired the locals for help. The viewer learns that the community was steeped in violence from the repression, but also that the folks love (and hate) fiercely. It is an R-rated film, primarily for violence.

In the movie, everything was going well, despite the hint at the film’s start that some evil would rise. The music is terrific blues. We see vampires. Yes, an Irish lead vampire. The music grows, and more story-building items are completed (love and dance scenes are incredible). At one moment, a macabre dance mixed with Irish River dancing made me laugh despite the horror.

But I have limited the spoilers. Sinners (2025) is recommended if you don’t mind vampires mixed in a fantasy of the 1920s-30s American Old South. The music and dances are fantastical.

Air VW the Gray had me home by 10:30, and I was soon reading. I moved from Elric to Tom Mead’s book, the second in a series about a retired magician in the late 1930s who occasionally helps the police with impossible murders. Despite his age, his mind is still sharp, and his dexterity is excellent. I read until I started to fall asleep, and soon turned off the light and slept. I woke twice to prove hydration.

Returning to the day’s start, I rose with nothing on my calendar and wrote the blog all morning. I also arranged for a statue of Alan Turing to be printed on the printer. This is a few inches with the full-sized one in the UK. The print file is not protected, but I do not know about the statue’s image, Turing sitting on a bench holding an apple, being in the public domain. But as my print is for personal use, I should be in line with acceptable use.

I set it to have massive supports, and I would later have to free the print (though I did that after the movie–it flows better here for storytelling) from this mass. Not an easy task. I have learned to wash the model before removing the supports. I also wore eye protection as the glasses are bifocals that help me, and the bits of the supports flew everywhere. But, I washed them, which seemed to harden them and made them easier to remove. The model broke on a thin part of a bench leg. I used jeweler’s cement to repair the leg, and another piece I broke when I pushed the model to learn its limits after curing–now brittle but hard, sort of stone-like. I then used sharp, pointed tweezers to remove the bit still stuck here and there. The print was then cured and left to dry overnight.

That evening, I ordered another tank for the resin model washing station, as I need to have two: one for alcohol and one for water. There are two types of resin, and water can be used to clean one. I also ordered a gallon of 99% alcohol.

Returning to the morning, I wrote the blog and published it. As I said, I returned to Tom Mead’s books and read them on my Kindle. I only buy physical books on history and science. I headed to Cornelius Pass Roadhouse for a sandwich with soup and a few beers. This, too, is a McMenamins, but today I had a Purple Haze to drink.

I pulled the models off the printer, the Effil Tower and the Carter figure, cleaned them, and removed the supports. I noticed, after I crushed them, that the Effil tower had the finest guard rails. I did not know we could print that small. Excellent! I cured them in my new cure station. Next, I painted the tower black and Carter white. I then went over Carter again and removed any leftover marks on the Dungeons and Dragons-sized (28mm or 1/56 scale) figure. I will paint it soon.

I watched more cable and made dinner. I found some salmon patties, microwaved some potatoes, cooked asparagus in a fry pan with butter and some sea salt, and fried the patties in butter and a tiny hint of salt. It was excellent.

The day was a blur of writing, 3D printing, and an excellent Blues and vampire movie. Thanks for reading the messy and late blog.