Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I'm happy to say that starting on Sunday, my acid reflux began to improve ;-0) This is very good. I have no clue what set it off before, but I'm glad it's over now. Nothing has really changed in my schedule or diet. That was just weird. But I worked without incident on Sunday & Tuesday; or at least nothing beyond mild discomfort, which is a huge step up from where I was.

My new edition of DS9 Season 3 arrived on Monday, and I finished off the season, just hours before Jeremy finished watching Season 2; he's really enjoying the show now, which is great for me, as it gives him even more in common with my best friends (Mark, Mollie, Carrie, Karen & Adam all love DS9). I spoke to him on the phone for awhile on Monday night, and we set up a time that he could come visit me Tuesday morning before I went to work.

Tuesday I drove Mark to work so I could have the car, and spend more time with Jeremy. It was great to see him! We cuddled and talked about stuff in our lives. We had 1 unfortunate incident that I'm not going to go into detail about, which kind of soured some of the visit, but we sprang back from that pretty quickly, and he returned DS9 seasons 1 & 2, and I gave him Season 3, and the first disc of Season 4. I'm excited to see what he thinks of the series as it progresses and gets even more in depth in it's storytelling. The first 3 seasons of DS9 are really establishing stuff, and while I love all 3 of those seasons, it seems that Season 4 is where the show started kicking ass every week. And Season 5 improves on that, by taking the many ongoing plotlines, and combining them in ways I never expected. I'm really happy to be rewatching the series.

I worked with DJ, Pat, Nate, Jeff & Bill on Tuesday, with Bryan dropping in for movies to watch on his vaction time. It was all good, except for this wacky girl who claimed she'd known me for years... I went on my break to escape her though, and I was fine after that. I was tired, but fine. I went to CompUSA after work to exchance a cd projects folder that I'd bought last week. The new one I got still isn't what I expected, but it's far better than the previous one, and I'm going to keep this one for something else. I picked up Mark, and we got groceries, and came home, where I soon went to sleep.

I woke up a few hours later, and chatted online for awhile. I started feeling like I might be coming down with a cold. My throat hurt a tiny bit. I chatted online for awhile, but went back to bed, so I could get fresh doughnuts this morning from Benny's, which were fantastic, as usual. I've been home for awhile now, and I'm pretty sure that I do have a cold. damn it. I took some cold medicine...but maybe this will pass in a few days, and it will just have been allergies; that's happened to me more than once, and I have been sneezing lately. We'll see.

So...I've seen some of the new updated versions of Classic Trek, and for the most part, I really enjoy them more than I ever have before. The new transfers are stunning, with vibrant colors, and many details that I've never noticed before brought to light! The new special effects they've added have mostly been used sparingly, like a seasoning; a little goes a long way, and they seem to get that. The most impressive thing I've seen so far, has been a cgi matte panting in "The Devil In The Dark", which replaces a really lame one from the classic episode with a more realistic version, with animated elements, including workers and smoke that issued from pipes...which was a vast improvement over the original. Very cool. I don't feel cheated that I have the classic versions, and I'll be first in line for the new ones once they're released, probably 2 years from now.

Hollywood should be getting their copies of "X-Men 3: The Last Stand" today, and Mark will rent it on his way home from work; I guess living with me has a few perks after all. Mark still hasn't seen the movie, but he rewatched the first 2 movies this week in preperation of this one; I think he'll enjoy it. I've tried to set it up for him, by explaining that it's not exactl like the comic, but true to the movie universe that they've created...and also that it's the final 3rd of a trilogy (at least for now). I look forward to the "Wolverine" & "Magneto" movies, and I welome a 4th X-Men movie, should they make one, I have a feeling if such a film should arise, that it will go in a new direction, and be a springboard for new stories, while X3 was very much about closure on storylines that were mainly introduced in the first film - which is probably why I enjoyed it so much. This trilogy of X-Men movies can stand together, while new films can form a new series of X-Men adventures. And I would love to see spin-off for all the major characters, especially Rogue, who has yet to really come into her own as a hero, in my opinion. ;-0)

Anyways, my head is aching. I've got a cold. I might as well accept it. I'm going to read, or sleep, or something.

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