Bits & Pieces
Jul. 6th, 2006 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tenaya1) Hex. Can I say I'm glad we're going straight into the 2nd series. Cassie gets on my nerves, but I adore Thelma. Thelma is the only reason I'm still watching. Oh, I tried to watch Whistler, but I couldn't take it. Maybe if I were a skier it would be more watchable? Is anyone finding it interesting?
2) I am looking forward to next week's SG1 and SGA. I know SG1 isn't the same show I feel for, but I like Daniel and Teal'c and Vala. I hope Mitchell's character settles down and reverts more to what he was in the first half of S9. I'm not spoiler free but I haven't paid much attention to them. I know what the writer's are capable of and have long ago adjusted my expectations. I think that's why I can take SGA as just entertainment because it's the same writers/producers for the most part and I'm better prepared to ignore the lost opportunities and such. I am hoping for a nice girly scream from Rodney when we see him in the Hive ship.
3)Tivo just dled it's content thingy and when they were going over TV Guide's hot picks, they listed SG1's premier for Friday (obviously a week early.) Cool.
4)They also had some autism PSAs. It said that 13 years ago, autism was diagnosised in 1:10,000. Now? It's 1:166. My god that's frightning!
5)I'm catching up on the Tivo backlog and am watching Space Race-The Untold Story from the NGC. Absolutely fascinating stuff. Scary stuff, too. Come July 20th, it will be 37 years since man first walked on the moon. I look at what they had and what they accomplished, and I look at what we have, and what we're not doing and I just shake my head. We're too wrapped up in politics to accomplish anything at the moment. Sliderulers vs microprossesors? We need a true leader again.
6)Which makes me think of the global warming stuff. I've still not seen An Inconvenient truth, but I understand one of the things they reccommend is changing your lightbulbs to the power efficient fluorescents. They do cost more but they last a LOT longer. During the California power shortage that started a few weeks after Bush was elected in 2000 and was orchastrated by and benefited the big power company middle men of Texas (until the scam ran out of gas and oh look! Enron folded just after the obscene pilliaging of California stopped! I wonder if there was any correlation? Could that be why the Feds refused to stop the extortion/thievery?) But I digress...anyway, we bought the bulbs back then and only now are some of them needing to be changed. It's a godsend for the ones that I needed to climb up on a ladder to change about every 5 months. ANYWAY, I was in Costco today and they had packs of 6 or 8 for under $10/pk. Bottomline is that they aren't that expensive anymore so go buy 'em! They're a little dim when you first turn them on but after about 30 secs they're up to speed.
7)Cats. Brindle still isn't feeling well so I get to take him back to the vets tomorrow. I'll see first hand how crabby the tabby can be. Reg is good though I think his teeth need attention. I also witnessed him having obstructive sleep apnea the other night! No little CPAP mask for him, though. Scooter seems quite frail but is comfortable; he still lets me play with his toes. *g*
8)Cutiepie was by last night with one baby. It could be I just didn't see the other or it was too skittish. The skunks are amusing, especially the Polite Skunk. Apparently the Polite skunk got through the hole in the screen door and was in the house. When discovered, it just waited to be let out again, but Scooter was offended and tried to bop him in the head. The skunk was concerned and gave a little stomp, enough to encourage Scooter to step back far enough that the skunk could walk out. If that's had been any other skunk, I'm thinking the house would still be smelling, but the Polite skunk is very 'tame.' I bet I could feed him by hand but I don't want him thinking people are that kind as they aren't.
9) Still reading the zines I bought at MWC.
10) Seems like there should be ten so I'll add that nothing caught fire during the 4th despite the yahoo who was setting off sky rockets about 200 feet from here and the very flamable hillside behind us. That is why I never go see fireworks on the 4th.
2) I am looking forward to next week's SG1 and SGA. I know SG1 isn't the same show I feel for, but I like Daniel and Teal'c and Vala. I hope Mitchell's character settles down and reverts more to what he was in the first half of S9. I'm not spoiler free but I haven't paid much attention to them. I know what the writer's are capable of and have long ago adjusted my expectations. I think that's why I can take SGA as just entertainment because it's the same writers/producers for the most part and I'm better prepared to ignore the lost opportunities and such. I am hoping for a nice girly scream from Rodney when we see him in the Hive ship.
3)Tivo just dled it's content thingy and when they were going over TV Guide's hot picks, they listed SG1's premier for Friday (obviously a week early.) Cool.
4)They also had some autism PSAs. It said that 13 years ago, autism was diagnosised in 1:10,000. Now? It's 1:166. My god that's frightning!
5)I'm catching up on the Tivo backlog and am watching Space Race-The Untold Story from the NGC. Absolutely fascinating stuff. Scary stuff, too. Come July 20th, it will be 37 years since man first walked on the moon. I look at what they had and what they accomplished, and I look at what we have, and what we're not doing and I just shake my head. We're too wrapped up in politics to accomplish anything at the moment. Sliderulers vs microprossesors? We need a true leader again.
6)Which makes me think of the global warming stuff. I've still not seen An Inconvenient truth, but I understand one of the things they reccommend is changing your lightbulbs to the power efficient fluorescents. They do cost more but they last a LOT longer. During the California power shortage that started a few weeks after Bush was elected in 2000 and was orchastrated by and benefited the big power company middle men of Texas (until the scam ran out of gas and oh look! Enron folded just after the obscene pilliaging of California stopped! I wonder if there was any correlation? Could that be why the Feds refused to stop the extortion/thievery?) But I digress...anyway, we bought the bulbs back then and only now are some of them needing to be changed. It's a godsend for the ones that I needed to climb up on a ladder to change about every 5 months. ANYWAY, I was in Costco today and they had packs of 6 or 8 for under $10/pk. Bottomline is that they aren't that expensive anymore so go buy 'em! They're a little dim when you first turn them on but after about 30 secs they're up to speed.
7)Cats. Brindle still isn't feeling well so I get to take him back to the vets tomorrow. I'll see first hand how crabby the tabby can be. Reg is good though I think his teeth need attention. I also witnessed him having obstructive sleep apnea the other night! No little CPAP mask for him, though. Scooter seems quite frail but is comfortable; he still lets me play with his toes. *g*
8)Cutiepie was by last night with one baby. It could be I just didn't see the other or it was too skittish. The skunks are amusing, especially the Polite Skunk. Apparently the Polite skunk got through the hole in the screen door and was in the house. When discovered, it just waited to be let out again, but Scooter was offended and tried to bop him in the head. The skunk was concerned and gave a little stomp, enough to encourage Scooter to step back far enough that the skunk could walk out. If that's had been any other skunk, I'm thinking the house would still be smelling, but the Polite skunk is very 'tame.' I bet I could feed him by hand but I don't want him thinking people are that kind as they aren't.
9) Still reading the zines I bought at MWC.
10) Seems like there should be ten so I'll add that nothing caught fire during the 4th despite the yahoo who was setting off sky rockets about 200 feet from here and the very flamable hillside behind us. That is why I never go see fireworks on the 4th.
