Friday, February 1, 2008

I finished my latest Trek reading, which I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy...yet I did. The story got better as it went, which is a huge relief as there are a number of books in the series and I already own all of them! lol. This is why I've been reading so much lately. I have all these books that I've never read. I have all these movies on my shelf that I've never seen. Well I've done a pretty good job of knocking them down this week. Go me!

I'm contemplating reading a Dune or Star Wars book in between Trek installments, but I haven't decided if that's what I'll do yet. I mean...I already kind of miss the characters I was just reading about. I'm sure I'll decide one way or the other within the next day or two.

5 days until episode 4 of Torchwood, Season 2. A new 90 second trailer for Season 4 of Who will be in theaters in the UK starting today. Hopefully it will find it's way online soon, as I'm aching to see it! ;-0)

I work today. I need to burn some discs for DJ. I should do that now. I have to get my prilosec perscription filled after work. Beyond that...who knows?

   posted by Bald Jason at 06:44 AM
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I decided to soldier on with the Trek series I'm reading, but I did get the Dune & Wars books out that I'm considering reading soon, so that they're there if I need them. I started the 2nd S.C.E. story before I went to sleep this morning. I woke up a bit before my alarm went off, with some abdominal pain, but it passed quickly.

Just after that had passed, I continued the downloading of the HD Torchwood episodes, and began updating the book section of my website. Soon after that Mark came into my room. I'd assumed that he'd left for work this morning, but he hadn't. Then I assumed that he'd overslept, and I apologised for not waking him up, as I had (like I said) assumed that he was at work. But apparently there's a blizzard outside, and he had called work so that he wouldn't have to drive through it twice, and is just driving to work with me to save himself the trip. He wanted me to slow down my downloads as I was hogging the bandwidth, which means my downloads will take even longer now...

I do remember now, looking out the window this morning and being surprised that there was snow out there again. Ick. Not loving the snow out there. I did just get a voicemail from work though, saying if I donated $5.00 to this charity I could wear jeans and a red shirt today? Weird.

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   Saturday, February 2, 2008

I got to work on time yesterday. The day went by fast. I worked with Pat, Brad & Laura. Michael visited me. Rookie stopped by briefly. Later I worked with DJ & Bryan, but just for a short while. Michael picked me up from work and took me to meijer to refill my prilosec, then took me home. We had what would seem to be our first argument. I was exhausted and pissed off by what was said, and asked him to leave, but we hugged and said we might hang out later.

As soon as Michael left I got undressed, turned out the lights and went to sleep. I woke up around midnight. I ate. I read nearly all of the next Trek installment; I have 40 pages left I think. Then I decided to continue on with season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. I ended up watching 7 episodes! Many of them were truly intense, and it was quite a ride. I watched "Home, Part 1", "Home, Part 2", "Final Cut", "Flight of the Phoenix", the extended cut of "Pegasus", "Resurrection Ship, Part 1" & Resurrection Ship, Part 2". DJ will be pleased. ;-0)

Mark just got up and is taking a shower. He doesn't usually do that on Saturdays. I wonder if he's going somewhere?

I'm going to sleep. I'm tired. I'm starting to get a headache. And did I mention I'm tired?

   posted by Bald Jason at 09:18 AM
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I slept for just over 6 hours. I wore earplugs, and just blocked out the world. I dreamt of Battlestar Galactica. It was really nice. :-0)

As more and more 'gay' themed storylines pop up on Torchwood, and as more and more people watch it, there suddenly seem to be a lot more stupid people bitching about it. I've come to think of the last year or so as the golden era, when people either loved the show or didn't, and if they didn't, it wasn't because of the gay stuff, but because of what they viewed as shakey writing. But just about everywhere I go now there are threads about how gay the show is. Which it's not. All the characters are bisexual. And the only true relationships we've seen them in have been hetersexual, with a lesbian fling thrown in. All the sex we've seen on the show is hetero. We've seen some male/male kisses, but that's it. And that's pretty much all we've seen this season too, only now 2 of those guys are building some kind of relationship, and suddenly that's too much? Whatever. Pisses me off. But thankfully the show is unlikely to change it's tune while it continues to air. The ratings are out of this world, and there's already talk of a third season. ;-0)

4 days until new Torchwood. I know a bit about every episode that's airing this year, and so I'm excited about some episodes more than others, but I'm looking forward to all of them. This next episode ("Meat") is a big Rhys Williams episode, and I really like him, so I hope it's really good. The 5th episode of the season is called "Adam" and sounds amazing! The 6th episode features the return of Martha Jones to the New Whoniverse, where she sticks around for 3 episodes. Then in episode 9, which is something of a comedy, the storyline is about Gwen's wedding, which should be fun. Episode 10 is said to be very dark, as is episode 11. Episode 12 is the one I'm most excited about, and is rumored to explain how Toshiko, Owen & Ianto were recruted into Torchwood. We know how Gwen was brought in, so that won't be covered, and there should be quite a few cool surprises. And all that's known about the finale is that "old wounds are reopened, new wounds created and punishment is meted out". It's also almost certain to feature James Marsters as Captain John, and tie into his "finding Gray" comment from the premiere. And it may or may not have some lead-in to Jack's 4th Season Doctor Who appearance. Very cool.

It seems more and more likely that I'll attempt to read more of the Dune series this year. I'm just starting to get excited about it. I've only read the original trilogy (Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune), and there are now 11 other titles to read (with at least 3 more on the way), plus various other short stories, which I've looked over and while many people have a problem with Kevin J. Anderson & Brian Herbert's writing, I'm not one of them. I loved Dune. But I thought Dune Messiah felt rushed, and like it was only written for money - and that one was written by Frank Herbert himself. Children of Dune thankfully got the series back on track in my opinion, with the senior Herbert's classic, timeless style of writing. I don't expect that flavor from the new books, and from the reviews that I've read, the people that most have a problem with the new stuff is based on the difference in the style of the writing. So I'm thinking I'll at least try to read the first chronilogical trilogy in the series sometime this year, and then go from there.

I'm thirsty.

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