January 15, 2026
Winter 2026
Looking at my selections on Anime Chart, I see five returning series and five new things.
Is there any chance I'm gonna keep up with that much?
Hell no!
Returning series:
Sousou no Frieren
Mato Seihei no Slave
Vigilante -Boku no Hero Academia ILLEGALS
Hime-sama "Goumon" no Jikan desu
GANGLION
New series:
Mayonaka Heart Tune
Fate/strange Fake
Toumei Otoko to Ningen Onna: Sonouchi Fuufu ni Naru Futari
Jingai Kyoushitsu no Ningengirai Kyoushi
Goumon Baito-kun no Nichijou
I'm almost unsure which category to put the new Fate in, since the first episode came out over two years ago, but then, I never got around to watching it, so I'll call it new.
I could explain my choices if anyone cares, and if anyone wants to see the promotional videos, translated titles, airdates and all kinds of other useful information, the link to Livechart.me is on the side. It really is an essential resource for keeping track of all the anime I'm saving for retirement, or losing in a hard drive crash before that happens....
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January 03, 2026
Scoob
That was the working title for my latest short story. I just finished it today, now I need to let it marinate for a little while before I do final edits and submit it.
Raconteur Press is doing another Mad Science anthology, and I'm hoping to get in again. (They average 100 submissions per book, when they only take ten!) I'd had this idea cooking in the back of my mind for a long time as a background story in Dr. Mauser. Literally background - it was going to be running on a TV tuned to the History Channel or something. It was the real story behind the Scooby Doo gang, as it would be in the Dr. Mauser universe. So you'd have interviews of the surviving cast, telling what really happened to them, which was entirely at odds with the cartoon made about them. Instead of real estate scammers, they ran afoul of a Dr. Moreau-like Mad I'd dubbed "el Monstroso". It did not go well for them.
But hey, it led to The Code to be modified to extend protections to Boy Detectives, Girl Sleuths, Meddling Kids and high school Clue Clubs.
I never did anything with that for years, but it was there. When the call for a second volume came out, I even asked the editor whether he'd prefer one idea I had, about an agent trying to track down stolen forbidden tech, or this, and he said this. So hopefully that gives me a leg up.
Of course, I had to file all the serial numbers off. The only thing left is each character's first initial. The dog is now a German Shepard, and the Mad was his creator. "El Monstroso" is known for building chimeras, and the dog was the first time he'd dabbled in human bits.
Oh, there were all kinds of things I wanted to fit in there as fun references, but didn't make it in. (Moreau being real, and H.G. Wells being paid by Justice to fictionalize the tale in order to give it deniability.) (A government scientist in the Florida Keys named Kenton Best.), but once I get a flow going, it's hard to crowbar things in, and it was already 7000 words (The allowed range being 5-8K).
Anyway, if rabid Scooby Doo fans find it, I'm going to get lynched.
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January 01, 2026
Made it
So, I turned the Big Six Oh. Maybe that explains why I can't think of anything really significant happening this year. Other than the Mad Science anthology coming out.
For a season where I thought I wasn't going to watch much of anything... how did I end up with 100 unwatched episodes in this season's folder (Well, part of it is I carry forward continuing seasons, and that's also where I add seasons of older shows that get recommended, but still, it's a lot.)
Oh, and of course totaling the car, and that whole episode is STILL dragging on because the lady hired a lawyer to sue my insurance company expecting a big payday. Boy is she in for a surprise when the lawyer sucks up half of the settlement and the medical bills he told her to rack up come out of her half.
Most of what I can think of is things I wanted to do that are unfinished. I need to get on that. Oh, and my livejournal Resolutions article, I need to do that. Also trying to do a story for the next Mad Science anthology, and my expectation that I could get a lot done during this break is turning out to be a joke.
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December 20, 2025
UPSsidaisy
A long time ago, 2014, I bought an APC ES 750 UPS. It served faithfully until the battery croaked. To my mind though, it ran out of juice too quickly. So rather than spend $$$ for an OEM battery, I hied myself to the Mart of Wals and bought a lawn tractor battery. I was able to wire it in externally, and I ran it for many years. I would keep Himawari running for a good 15 minutes with the monitor and cable modem (and network switch) fired up. Lately, I've been awakened, or come home, or just been sitting at the computer when it would suddenly shut off and start the continuous alarm. I assumed that since it wasn't running off the battery, that perhaps the battery was bad somehow, even though it seemed to be fully charged (like, perhaps it had cycled enough times that it had lost capacity). So I hied myself again to the Mart of Wals for another battery (They also stock the APC 450 unit, not gonna touch that).
This did not solve the issue. Although it did let me get rid of a dead automotive battery I'd been using as a doorstop for the screen door and recoup the $12 core charge. Now I have two perfectly serviceable 12 volt lawn tractor batteries.
So last Wednesday we had a massive wind storm that knocked out the power overnight. Around 2 AM the UPS screamed, so I staggered into the living room and found the power button and punched it, to silence the device.
And then my ideator ideated, and the idea involved inrush currents, so I decided to see what would happen if I slowly turned things back on. Hitting the power button on the old UPS set it going on Battery. Then I started Purah. When it seemed to be booting, I turned on the monitor. So far so good. Until it got to the point of changing the signal on the video card, which turned on the sound bar because of how it was connected to the monitor, which was a load I didn't anticipate. Instead of an alert, everything snapped off and there was a loud *POP* followed by a hiss, and a tiny thread of Magic Smoke snaked it way through a vent hole. I quickly unplugged things from the unit, unplugged it from the wall and detached the battery - the wires were rather warm.
Yeah, so what happened was that a battery and UPS configuration that could support my old PC, Himawari, and the old flatscreen, was not up to Purah's power requirements. The oversized battery could supply it, but the UPS couldn't handle the power. And that's the actual alarm mode it was showing all those times it shut down. It was overloaded.
When I got back from work that day, I did a post mortem on the unit. One very obviously popped electrolytic capacitor had given its life. But there was also marked corrosion clumped up around the base of a couple of FETs and their aluminum heat sink block right next to it. I'm not sure what, if anything, that contributed to the issue. I have pictures but that's a bit too much of a pain to put up here.
Since we have a dearth of computer stores like Fry's (RIP) in the nation's northern tech capitol, I consulted the River website, and looked at the largest capacity APC units that weren't intended for Data Centers with infinite budgets. There are three 1500VA units in the line, but other than "True Sine output" there's not a lot of difference between them, and considering everything these days has its own switching power supply that runs on anything you feed it, I went with the least expensive unit - which was still almost $200 for something I rarely depend THAT much on. But I also had $150 in gift card points and some more on my Chase card, so in the end I was out less than $50, and it got here in two days with Free shipping.
It's sitting beside the desk right now, happily saying it will run for 600 minutes with zero load on it. Eventually I'll have to shut down and reconnect things to it. The one downside compared to the other units is a lack of wall-wart spaced outlets, but I have a number of tiny 4-outlet power strips that can displace the wall warts for the router and cable modem. I will definitely move the sound bar off the battery back up circuit.
For the curious, here's an affiliate link to the unit I got.
For the curious, here's an affiliate link to the unit I got.
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November 02, 2025
Ganglion
Remember that one bit from Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department with the temp worker who keeps getting jobs as a part time Minion for various villains? What if you had a short format show dedicated to that idea, except the guy is not a temp, and you filled it with middle-aged ennui.
It's too short to tell if I like it yet. And while it's short format it doesn't seem to be episodic. What I've watched so far chains together.
Anyway, that's Ganglion.
Apparently the Manga is from 2007, so that's quite a long road from manga to anime.... Don't ask me why. But at least it's not an Isekai.
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October 18, 2025
Kimi to Koete Koi ni Naru
So that Mother's Basement channel did a fall season review, which didn't much change my plans to skip most of it. After all, I tried that "Gatcha" show and deleted it mid second episode. But the segment on Kimi to Koete Koi ni Naru, or "With You, Our Love Will Make It Through" piqued a small amount of interest. Not in the main characters, a big blue dog person and a high schooler who falls for him, but in another student and a catgirl who's a bit higher on the "Kemono Mix" scale than we usually get.
The bigotry angle is played a bit heavy-handedly, but there is also some humor. I figure I'll give it a try unless the melodrama gets too heavy.
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October 04, 2025
Grok Fail
I know there's some way to make Grok improve a generated image, but I don't know what it is. On the other hand, this result is so off base from what I described that I don't know if there's any point in trying to fix it.
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October 01, 2025
Fall Season fail
It will be a good time to catch up on my backlog....
Spy Family, even though I kinda bounced off of episode 17 (Bragging about getting a dog) is back.
And The Five Wedding Rings, which I totally didn't expect another season of, is back. It's got a cat-girl, IIRC, and an idiot MC.
On the other hand, there's another series that has a catgirl of a not very well designed sort, but I'm not going to follow it because the hero's cheat skill is... Gatcha.... Seriously?
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September 01, 2025
If shonen battlers were honest
If shonen battlers were honest:
"No one has ever beaten my Superpugilist Strike! It is undefeated!"
"You just said you've never met an opponent so tough that you've had to use it."
"That's why it's never been defeated."
"How do you even know it works?"
Narrator: It didn't work.
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whups...
Somehow I made it this far into the season without realizing I was missing My Dress-up Darling. This has been remedied.
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