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This morning, I had my first physical in...a while. So that was fun. Also, ( girly TMI. )

Now the physical is over, I've had a flu shot, and am sporting a pink camo bandaid. Hurrah.

In other news, I am making tea eggs. Because one of the foods I don't particularly care for and always wish that I did is hardboiled eggs. (Well, and bananas. Foods that come in their own natural packaging.) But I came across this recipe and thought, "Those are pretty and contain a lot of flavors that I like. Perhaps those flavors will make the egg taste acceptable." So, I am conducting a tea egg experiment. They're supposed to steep for several hours, so I won't be able to try them till dinner time, but the steeping liquid smells nice, so I am hopeful. Wish me luck.

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Tea egg verdict: Well, they are very pretty. The recipe works as it is probably supposed to. Alas, they are not for me. The egg white is okay, but the yolk (which is the part I like the least in a hardboiled egg) is inedible. (Quite literally - I couldn't make myself swallow the bite I took of the egg. Which is my usual reaction to hardboiled eggs, to be fair.) Ah, well.

If you are the kind of person who likes hardboiled eggs, though, you should totally try this. The eggs are really pretty.

I will make macaroni-from-a-box to eat instead. I have the evening to myself and, since I have been feeling frazzled of late, I have given myself permission not to work on Christmas knitting. So I am reading Silver Age Flash comics*. Here are things that are wonderful about Silver Age Flash comics:

- The sheer number of ridiculous alien invasions. Seriously, it's like every other month.

- Tiny!Wally. Oh Wally, I love you and your wholly absurd origin story. Does it ever get awkward that people like Captain Cold and the Weather Wizard have literally known you since you were 10? Is that why they came to your girlfriend's funeral that one time?

- PUPPET FLASH. Okay, that issue wasn't actually that great (I maintain that nothing starring Abra Kadabra can really be that great and so far, I have seen no evidence to the contrary), but the existence of Puppet Flash is a joy forever.

- One time, Captain Boomerang invented a time travel boomerang that he used to rob museums (as you do) but, turned out the boomerangs were passing through another dimension and the aliens from that dimension thought they were spy probes and so invaded our dimension in retaliation. I do not in any way believe that Captain Boomerang could build a time travel device but I totally believe that he accidentally caused an alien invasion.

- Relatedly, the number of villains who end up building fantastic supervillain tech while in prison. Captain Boomerang, the Mirror Master, Captain Cold ("Well, I'm in jail. Guess I'll study thermodynamics."), this one guy who invented a machine that allowed him to watch tv and control the people on it if it was a live broadcast - you'd think that the Central City Penitentiary would look out for that kind of thing. I mean, what kind of prison are they running?

- The Top. The Top is ridiculous. I mean, the vast majority of Flash villains are ridiculous, but The Top. He commits crimes with spinning tops! What the hell? (In later comics, they gave him mind control powers. This did not actually make any sense and did not make the Top any cooler.)

- Ralph Dibny! Every time Ralph shows up, it makes me happy.

- Gorilla City is pretty terrible but the fact that one of the Flash's recurring villains is an evil gorilla with mind control powers fills me with joy.

- COSMIC TREADMILL. The Cosmic Treadmill never stops being hilarious. I love it.

- In the future, everyone will have a atomic pistols. Did you know?

- There was seriously an issue where the villains were sentient evil clouds. Tell me that's not amazing.


Annnd, I am going to stop there or else this list will go on for an embarrassingly long time. And I need that time to read comics. 8)





*My comics reading for the past couple months has been pretty much dominated by the Flash. Specifically Wally West. The trajectory went New 52 Flash** -> all the Flash comics the library owned (not many) -> all the Wally West. (Well, not all. I cannot do early Wally West comics. I made a valiant effort and skipped ahead to the 90's and Mark Waid.) I have now stalled out somewhere around issue #203 because the art has become wholly dire. Everyone is hideous and it makes me sad. But I will have to go back at some point, because the storyline is really interesting. Just, y'know, ugly. In the meantime, I am reading ridiculous things from the '60s.

**Which, now that I know more about the Flash than I did when I read the New 52 stuff the first time, is really confusing, reboot-wise. I just, okay, so there is no Wally and Barry's never met Jay but Keystone still exists on Barry's earth and Bart is around somewhere but isn't from the future or related to Barry (I guess, I've only encountered reboot!Bart in a trade I read part of in a bookstore)? And we've gone back to the first Mirror Master (I miss McCulloch, you guys) and Glider is back from the dead/possibly was never dead in the first place (and I am in no way complaining about that because Glider is awesome, though I do miss the skates a little) but we aren't back to the first Trickster? What is going on?