I'm still here.

New icon snagged from brokenelevator. There are a few other new ones I've snagged in the past week or so... you'll see them eventually. :)

It's been a while since I posted here last, so I just thought I'd let people know that I'm still alive. (I'm still posting on the TT lists, and TrekBBS, so there are likely very few of you who were worried about that. :) ) Blame it on the Firefly DVDs I've finally gotten around to starting to watch. I just watched "War Stories" tonight. I was supposed to be seeing Serenity tonight with Scott - or so I thought, from what he said Friday night - but he never called after his German class.

(With regard to "War Stories," I was trying to place the actor who played Niska, and it turned out he'd been on The Practice, The X-Files and DS9, as well as other shows I used to watch like L.A. Law, on which he played a recurring role as a judge. Thank the gods for IMDb.)

The Gaylaxicon meeting on Saturday went better than the past couple - more folks showed up, though there were still a couple of people who didn't make it who haven't been attending regularly whom I need to talk to (don't worry, thespian, I'm not looking at you - I'm well aware of your more than legitimate reason for not being there). A few decisions were made, some things which need to be clarified were identified, and overall progress appears to be being made, albeit slowly.

I just got off the phone with cuteteenboy - if anyone was trying to reach him by email and wasn't getting through, the problem has been fixed and you should be able to get through now.

This has been all over my friendslist already, but for the two or three of you who care and didn't already know: Doctor Who S1 is being released on DVD in Canada in February 2006!.

Bowling tomorrow night, and my elbow is still sore. I wonder if I'm getting a repetitive stress injury from being on the computer eight to ten hours a day.

Good night at the bowling alley.

I got home about an hour ago from bowling, where I had a decent night despite the nagging arm pain: 177, 149, and 198. It's a little annoying coming that close to 200 and missing, especially when all I needed was 9 pins on my last ball, but I'm not complaining. It was my highest series of the season so far, beating last week by one pin.

Randy was back tonight, though he's still a little sore from his mishap of a couple of weeks ago. And wonder of wonders, Mario and I both had decent nights at the same time, though we only took two out of four points as the other team bowled way over their heads in the first game and also took total points as a result.

In the "it's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it" department... I was talking to one of our opponents, John MacEachern, about DVDs and television in general. It seems we watch a lot of the same shows: I mentioned that I'd been watching Firefly on DVD recently, and that I was going to be seeing Serenity with Scott, and he said, "Firefly - that's Joss Whedon, right?" Suitably impressed by his knowledge (since most casual, non-fannish TV viewers probably don't pay a lot of attention to the names of producers and other creative types), I managed to determine that he's a Buffy fan as well. So I gave him a TT20 business card (he almost orgasmed when I told him that Amber Benson was one of our guests), and I also wrote the URL for the Gaylaxicon website on the back. He looked at it, and said "Gaylaxicon? I know Gaylaxicon - I was at the one in Washington in 1999 with my ex." I asked who his ex was - it's Drew Post, who runs the Gaylactic Jeopardy game at Gaylaxicons (and will be doing it next year here in Toronto). It seems John also knows Colin, who helps Drew out with the game.

I managed to get home in time to watch the last couple of innings of the Houston/St. Louis baseball game. I was glad to see that Houston didn't choke again, though they're going to have their hands full with Chicago. The White Sox's starting pitching was nothing short of amazing in the ALCS, and while Houston has its own good pitching, I think Chicago may have the better offense. That being said, I predict Chicago in six low-scoring games.

Space has started showing Galactica 1980. Good God, bring back the baseball game...