Home alone, Still resting from painting--I note that, for some strange reason, I have a hiatus in August-September and in January-February--and so I gave in to my nephew Raymond's urging me to begin watching The Sandman. I hope I like it. I sometimes find Neil Gaiman's hodgepodge of assorted archetypes from here and there and from very diverse sources disjointed, derivative, and discomfiting.