Jeanie Bottle 717
Dec31
on December 31, 2022
at 12:00 am
and modified on December 29, 2022. at 11:18 pm
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
What… the heck?
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What… the heck?
Jean bought a house no more apartment roommates just those two. Now that is a great Idea. Upside no more hiding for Jean from everyone else basically.
“Bought?”
Well, presumably she (or Neil) now has the title to it by some means, whether the previous owner got compensated ir not. Hopefully Jeanie plans to magic it into usable condition rather than make Neil spend months restoring things the slow way.
The money chair must have gone back to its rightful owners…so Neil might not have the finances to restore. (I know people who’ve lost houses by overextending themselves that way.)
That is a “sold” sign in the picture. So some realtor is processing a title application for somebody…. lets hope it is in Niel’s name.
Hopefully, the IRS won’t get a tip about a cash purchase
hide out?
I honestly don’t remember them having roommates before this story line.
is that a dupicate of the house from i dream of jeanie series?
Actually, CD picked a real house in Cocoa Beach as a model. We were there, together, just a few weeks ago as part of the cruise we went on. One of the things he did was scout out what the “average” Cocoa Beach house looks like, so he could choose a good one to model this place on.
LOL. So the producers of the IDOJ show also scouted out “average” homes in Cocoa Beach before settling on one for the exterior shots in episodes. And the average home style hasn’t changed in 60 years.
Cocoa Beach is a boomtown. The population grew by 1000 percent between 1950 and 1960 due to the space race. Whole neighborhoods of cookie-cutter houses were thrown up all at once to accommodate all the growth.
ok Jeannie, START TALKING!!!!
Don’t worry, Jeanie. I’m *sure* the FBI won’t be interested in talking to the fourth (documented) person living at the house where $6.2 million and two reported-stolen vehicles were found… especially if that person abruptly moves to a new location the same afternoon that two of the residents were arrested.
Won’t the police have to get evidence at least to interrogate the other renters of the residence or to suspect them of being involved with the “stolen” properties at said residence. Plus, it’s going to be hard to connect together if at all how the cars, the bong artifact and the piles of money got there and if the stoners could’ve actually taken them.
Anyways, Neil and the barista guy probably would’ve had to find another place to stay while the residence is closed off for the lengthy investigation to come now.
The police need very little to question you. Being a roommate of a person who is (will be) accused of multiple felonies is plenty of reason to question. (Red Dudette might insist she is also a roommate, but quite clearly she is not the Red Dude who is on the lease.)
Neil could certainly refuse to answer questions other than his name and other identification… which will make the cops more suspicious (though suspicions aren’t evidence). But it’ll still get them looking into Neil, and there’s lots they can look up which is public or quasi-public info… including the mysterious destruction of his *previous* residence (in the Blue Djinn arc).
Somebody suggested that it was Neil’s apartment that got destroyed during the defeat of the Blue Djinn. It wasn’t, it was Jean’s apartment. Remember, she was evicted (page 569, panel 3).
One of the first thing Jean did with her genie powers was move her apartment into Neil’s apartment. Neil was quite disturbed by the apparent violation of the laws of physics.
Actually, she moved Neil’s into hers (Page 65-67).
If Jeanie removed Neil’s stuff, and changed the property records and addressee records (postal service, etc.), then the only evidence the police have of Neil’s living there would be the testimony of the roommates, who are already established in the cops’ minds as telling outrageous lies.
I definitely think there are multiple ways Neil could get into trouble with this. CD has done a very good job in this series of making Jeanie a character with a significantly different personality from Jeannie, yet one who is still as impulsive and able to cause trouble. Jeanie may have been able to go things that would put Neil in the clear (we know for a fact that she can do memory erasure), but it’s believable she didn’t think to do any or all of them.
It would be incredibly easy for Jeanie, if she has the forethought, to erase all records of Neil’s name on the apartment. Magically remove the ink on the paperwork, delete it from the digital records, etc. Of course, this is Jeanie we’re talking about. Neil would have to be aware of her deeds and mention the documents for her to realize she was forgetting the important details.
Had to move Nathan to a new place in a hurry before he got tied into those larceny charges for living in the same home. Most of his stuff is probably already poofed inside.
While I’ll admit that getting their own place would be better for them without the roommates, I can’t help thinking that this is going to lead into a bigger problem rather than a solution.
CALLED IT.
Yup! I knew in advance, but I couldn’t give it away by replying. 🙂
Even got the curved driveway that is so popular in mid-Florida. I think it’s to help deal with the extreme sogginess of the state. 🙂
How does that help? Honestly curious.
The main reason I’ve heard for a curved driveway (not FL specific) is so you don’t have a huge blank wall (garage door) facing the street. (I.e. “curb appeal.”)
So, instead of a garage door you have the entire blank side of the garage. Usually, the curved driveway doesn’t include a garage.
I’m thinking a straight drive might have too fast a drainage flow.
Florida is flat. The only way I could see “drainage” being the reason, is the city wanted Oil/gas spilled on the driveway to flow onto the property, and not into the street.
Curb appeal is probably the answer- especially if there are regulations/ordinances preventing people from parking in their own driveways/street frontages (ala Beverly Hills)
Acting like a married couple 🙂
And, at least as far as Jeanie is concerned, a happily married couple. Jeanie wants to be happily married to her Master.
Jeanie is still in anime level of denial about her relationship with Neil. Or about being a woman for that matter.
Indeed yes. Moments like this sneak up on her when her genie nature, and her feminine nature, reveal themselves without her awareness. This is why Neil must accept his role as master, and reward her, even with a simple “Thank you!” so that her natural affection can grow. But Neil’s level of denial exceeds Jeanie’s. He’s faced with accepting, not only Jeanie’s affection for him, and her genie nature, but his responsibility for her. Which, I expect, is a frightening prospect. I know I’d be terrified.
Neil needs to come to grips with the fact that Jean is gone, and Jeanie is here. When he does that, he can take the next step.
Yup. I think Jeanie herself has long ago accepted that, or at least begun to, but Neil? *sigh* Classic engineer failure to understand people as opposed to things.
This arc is only a few days after the conclusion of the time travel arc, a few weeks at most. I don’t think Jeanie was ever even close to accepting being female until that night she spent with teen-Jean. So, either she’s still in denial or teen-Jean was a damn sight better than anyone suspects.
I’d probably be more disturbed by how adorable Jeanie is being about this….
i GET THE FEELING THAT SHE FOUND THETV SET FOR THE SHOW Happy new year.
Neil. Praise your genie. She wants and needs to please you. Feed her your best wishes. But praise her for this lovely try.
Look at Banner jeanie, Neil. That’s for you.
And moments after posting that, THIS came up in my morning news feed:
scitechdaily dot com slash scientists-reveal-two-simple-words-that-can-improve-your-relationship/
Those two words? “Thank you.”
When you look at Jeanie’s expression in panel 2, you can see that she’s excited about the gift she’s giving him. She expects him to be happy, after all she’s probably made another time-jump to grab that winning lottery ticket Rodge mentioned way back when to pay for the house.
If Neil doesn’t acknowledge her effort, he’s a bigger idiot than anyone expected.
Damn, that took a long time to find. The lottery ticket was mentioned on page 617. Over 1 million divided between 2 winners. More than enough for a run-down cozy next for two.
What are current real estate prices like In Cocoa Beach? Here in Silicon Valley, 3-bedroom houses are breaking a million and a half each, even for the ones an hour’s commute away from the main job sites.
According to the internet, the median value is $378k. Cocoa Beach has a median value of $500,000. However, those figures include the expensive shoreline condos.
Well this explains why her bottle poofed away when it did, Jeanie was grabbing all of their stuff at that time. I’ll bet she has basically removed all traces of Neil’s existence from within the stoners’ house.
Now the question is did she properly “pay” for this place? I see the “sold” sign.
Personally, I would much rather live in MY OWN run down house, than a nice apartment. I can fix things.
Or you can ask your magical genie partner to do some redecorating.
She’ll need to be careful with that… remodeling sometimes requires building permits and greasing the palm of local politicians. Just look how long Bill Maher has been raging about getting a permit for his shed.
True. Also imagine, the guy living with the stoners who have been arrested for theft, suddenly getting a new luxurious house he couldn’t previously afford, all for himself and his girlfriend.
That would attract A LOT of unwanted attention.
Not letting Jeanie poof basic living needs is going to be crucial; that would not only be lazy, but addictive, and I mean in the most destructive sense. As you suggest in your reply at 9:39. Jeanie’s impulsive and careless of consequences. That’s why she needs Neil’s plodding caution. More than half of an engineer’s job is recognizing and planning for consequences. He’s perfect for her.
While she shouldn’t be poofing up clothes and furniture for them, I think that she should poof things such as structural and plumbing repairs so that the house can meet safety codes.
Mmmm possibly. But those kinds of things would be natural opportunities for Neil to exercise his very real mechanical talents to contribute to their life together. Crucial that Neil doesn’t feel useless in comparison to Jeanie.
But figuring out those boundaries depends on both of them accepting their respective roles–male/female as well as genie/master.
“Now the question is did she properly “pay” for this place? I see the “sold” sign.”
Does Jean still have his job?
Jeannie could have poofed back in time, got a loan, and paid for it without magically making the money so it would all appear legitimate. All these things are done on-line now so no need for Jean to turn up.
It is “run down” so may not have been out of her price range.
So I presume Agent Anderson will be getting involved with the first 2 of the 3 guys?
At the very least, she’ll be talking to the red-shirt guy who got girl-ified. Pretty clear link there. But since the only name she has is “Natalie”. there’s not much she can go on.
Anything to avoid explaining what happened somewhere else.
she is really cute in panel 2
I am powerfully struck by the symbolism of Jeanie getting a house for Neil and her–and by the fact that it’s rundown. It needs work, in both masculine and feminine chores.
I’ve said it before, but Neil has got to realize that his job is unnecessary now. He’s got a higher avocation.
Yeah, but not allowing an engineer to create would be a kind of living death. They need an outlet. (From personal experience!)
Quitting his job does not mean that he will not have an outlet for his creativity. He has a genie at his command, a resource of tremendous power. And his genie is impulsive, easily bored. He needs to come up with things to do that will interest and engage her.Finally, he may need to sacrifice what he thinks is his most important task.
Unnecessary?
Uh, maybe he has that job not because he has to, but because he wants to.
“Unnecessary”, at least in the sense he doesn’t need it to eat. But also as I’ve said, he now has options for his creative tendencies–and even as Jeanie has been rather “drafted” into her role as Genie, so has Neil been drafted as Master. He’s got responsibilities that he didn’t have before–managing Jeanie’s impulsive but powerful nature is more than a career, it’s an avocation. I have a feeling that, just off stage in the magical domain, there’s a huge pile of work Neil and Jeanie are supposed to be tackling–but without Neil’s active participation, Jeanie can’t do it alone. HE HAS NO IDEA what his options and potential are, because he can’t get his head out of his ass.
Plus, he’s got a sexy girlfriend begging for his attention and affection. Dorking dorkulus dork.
I think I get it, Jeannie went back in time and managed to get a house for her and Neil. this changes the future preventing the roommates from finding her bottle.
What happened to the side patreon button?
CD overhauled the sidebar the other day, but in the process he broke the Discord and Patreon links. He hasn’t found the time to fix those, yet.
Here are those URLs:
https://discord.gg/mVugNmKdvR
https://www.patreon.com/CDRudd
Until it’s fixed maybe you should add these links to the introduction.
Okay thank you for the info.
Now that we know Jeanie’s most recent acts of creation were really acts of teleportation, let’s hope she didn’t teleport anything from elsewhere to be able to acquire or furnish this house. I can’t be sure if she knew she was teleporting things or not (I’m guessing not, but I’ve been wrong about this comic before), but it’s safe to say she can both teleport and create things.
Either way could lead to trouble, but I’d guess teleporting something (or even electronically “teleporting” someone’s bank balance to Neil/herself) would be a bigger problem.
I’m guessing there’s lots of things Jeanie could teleport or otherwise acquire that wouldn’t involve outright theft. Whatever, I suspect even Jeanie has learned that attracting official attention is not good. However she did it, it was probably low key, like the house itself.
Jeanie has remained employed as a reviewer despite becoming a female genie. It is entirely possible that she used her own money as a down payment to purchase the house. It is also possible that the transaction could have been done weeks ago, too, given we know already that she has time traveled during this storyline.
As for the roommates, I don’t see the car theft charges sticking. Jeanie poofed the cars to the driveway but there is no sign they ever left the house to touch them (the newly female housemate would have driven to the coffee shop after being hung up on if she’d gone anywhere at all) or that Jeanie even gave them the keys. There’s a greater danger of charges for having the cash and bong in the house, though.
CD RUDD: This is the most positive turn of events you’ve put in this story since the beginning. Please don’t let Neil dork out.
A few more points:
The house being “rundown” not only gives Neil repair chores to do, but the relatively modest cost is less likely to attract official attention.
This house may not be exactly to your liking, Neil, but it’s better than what you shared with your former housemates, and it’s better than an apartment.
If Neil puts some handyman effort into this place–minor repairs, painting, etc., that will help make it HIS, not just Jeanie’s. And that would show Neil’s willingness to partner with his genie.
When Jean wished Natalie to be a debased sex slave, he had her create or buy an extravagant island villa, and Natalie was NOT impressed. Jeanie voluntarily gives her reluctant master this modest dwelling–and is excited to have done so.
Again: Neil, thank your genie, praise her, and take the opportunity to surprise her with an affectionate hug and kiss. No roaming hands with the hug, and no tongue with the kiss–maybe just a quick smooch on the cheek or forehead. She’ll signal if she wants more than that in a way even a dork like you couldn’t miss.
It’s really too bad you’re not on Discord.
I just logged jn to Discord to remind myself why I’m not. It’s chat-like, and for various reasons, I find chat difficult to keep up with. I prefer a BB-like post format.
/jeanie-bottle-716: “Stop acting like a mindless drone!” Looking back, Jeanie’s intent and wish for Neil could not be plainer. He’d better take her up on the offer.
or its back to the strip club for him LOL
And he’d actually deserve it for that. *grim frown*
In my mind, it’s almost as bad to be a neglectful master to a being who NEEDS to grant wishes, as to make careless, self serving ones. Maybe worse.
Jeanie poofed the bong, the cars, and the money to the apartment. She could just as easily poof them back. The owners of the stuff — and the cops — might be confused, but with no evidence that anything had been moved, what can they do?
Make their lives miserable by hounding them until they found some crime to pin on them?