Weekend in review

[annathepiper]

Friday: As I have posted earlier, got that needed dose of Battlestar Galactica, some Mike's Hard Berry (courtesy of spazzkat), and the company of mamishka, who brought me a bunch of books. (Thanks, Meems and Paul, for making Friday night good!) Aside from that, I blew most of Friday night updating newmoon and door, though I wound up having to rope solarbird in to finish up the updates on newmoon since sendmail got all wonky. By the time we were done with that, it was pretty late--so we didn't bother to try to tackle lodestone.

Saturday: I seem to be in the habit of this morning walking thing now, because I actually voluntarily got up and did one on Saturday morning; if this keeps up, I might turn into a morning person. (I know, I'm scared too.) Aside from that, this was the Day of Getting Random Chores done; I spent most of the morning doing the updates on lodestone and then paying bills. Paul and Dara took off for most of the afternoon to go play croquet with jessicac, Meems, llachglin, and others. While they were gone, I scampered off to the nearby Shoreline post office to mail the bills I'd paid since I missed our neighborhood mail pickup, and then spent most of the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the upstairs bathroom. I also amused myself re-reading Skin, an old X-Files novel I'd forgotten I owned; it was one of the ones Meems brought back to me Friday night. For what it is--i.e., a media adaptation novel--it's not bad. It had the right X-Files-y mix of the paranormal and governmental/corporate conspiracy, the interplay between Mulder and Scully was true to character, and unlike the author of some of the earlier X-Files novels, the author of this one didn't make the jarring mistake of referring to our heroes as "Fox" and "Dana". The prose was not noteworthy in any way, aside from a comforting lack of typos. Still, though, a nice fluffy read.

Saturday evening went to the highly enjoyable pastime of watching Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet, which Dara found after judicious searching on Bittorrent--currently the only way we have to get in the States since it hasn't made it over here from the UK yet. Short form: two thumbs up on that. If you're a fan of the original Captain Scarlet, this will be great fun for you. If you're not a fan of the original, it should still be also be fun! The two most amusing comments about the episode came out of Paul, who qualifies in the "not an active fan of the original" category, so there you go. (These were "Meanwhile, on a nearby Halo level" as we see Scarlet in the British countryside, and "Spectrum is GAY!" when Scarlet deploys a rainbow-colored parachute. Snicker.)

Sunday: Quiet, mostly. I spent quite a bit of time poking around Wikipedia and even succumbed to fixing their pages on GBS and Alan Doyle, as I posted about yesterday. A lot of what I did on the site, though, was simply reading all the cool things they had about recent astronomical discoveries; I had had no idea, for example, that Jupiter is now up to 63 known moons. Dara and I walked down to Lake Forest Park for what's becoming our summer weekend habit of visiting the Farmer's Market for shave ice and fresh raspberries; risu walked down part of the way with us, and it was a pleasant walk indeed even if a trifle hot. Dara and I both got rather pink from the sun. Later on I read one of the two books Mimi loaned me: Suzanne Enoch's Flirting With Danger. Fluffy romantic suspense, lady thief meets dashing billionaire when she tries to steal a valuable artifact from him and winds up having to save his life instead. Ms. Enoch says in her author notes at the end that Remington Steele was one of the influences on this story, and it really did rather show. Hee. I was very charmed. On top of engaging characters and lighthearted prose, there wasn't a single typo anywhere in the book, which is always worth extra points with me these days. Dara made sun tea, we watched Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers, and eventually I got around to doing some writing.

Days till my thyroid surgery: 22
Days without a rejection letter from Luna: 67
Days without a rejection letter from Nadia Cornier: 49
Saturday miles: 1.1
Sunday miles: 2.0
Monday morning miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 272.65
Miles to Rivendell: 185.35

Comments

[kent.livejournal.com]

As you may know, I'm not a fan (although I might rent the DVDs and give it a try before the movie comes out), but in light of your struggles to procure a copy of the Serenity comic, I thought you might enjoy this blog post (http://fanboyrampage.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_fanboyrampage_archive.html#112293100797387249).

[annathepiper]

Oh man oh man! That's... amazing. *chortle* Thanks for sharing the link!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Dude, we must have a mental wave length set up, because when I got home from work, I had tuned in to watch Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, though I was too tired to watch it immediately so I recorded it to watch at a later date.

[annathepiper]

Clearly, we were both tapping into the Family Brain Cell. ;)