Autumn

The Pillar of Autumn was (will be?) a UNSC Navy Cruiser under the command of Captain Jacob Keyes that, following the battle for Reach, discovered Installation 04. She landed there, the Marines fought the Covenant and the Flood, and Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 detonated the Autumn's fusion reactors and destroyed the installation. Hooray!

Crap, I did it again. I really must stop thinking of nothing but Halo.

The "Autumn" that I meant to refer to is the season, and the fact that it feels like it's approaching, as the mornings have been rather cool these last few days. Afternoon-time is still kinda hot (and apparently we have 90s in the forecast), but fall is almost here, which makes me happy.

I failed to mention the other day that I finally got around to reading issue 600 of "Amazing Spider-Man," which came out in July. Yes, I'm that far behind. But the book was spectacular, and it's incredible to think that it has been in production as one long, continuous saga of one character for 47 years! A couple of years ago, after Marvel made some rather...drastic decisions regarding the past and future of the Spider-Man character, I was upset and swore I would stop reading it. I stuck with it, however, and finally had to admit that the new direction turned out to be rather good, and some amazing stories have been created since then. I still don't agree with the means by which Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada brought the changes about, but the results have been exceptionally better than anyone expected. Which is why I'm going to reserve judgement on the Disney sell-out until I see what comes of it.

I actually had to work today, which felt really strange on a Friday, but no complaints. Happy, happy paycheck for me. I had to reset the scrapbooking aisle today, which consists of what seems like thousands upon thousands of packs of stickers. And by reset, I mean COMPLETELY reset, as in it looks nothing like it used to; but I managed it in about seven hours, well short of the given eleven hours, so it wasn't really a problem.

Gotta go work on some non-Halo stuff.