Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M.: "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish, sometimes." -the Fourth Doctor Part 2: Playing hookey. Some people take a day off work to go play golf. Me? I take a day off to go play mini-golf...in another city. ;) Hey, if you're taking the whole day off to play mini-golf, you have to travel at least 2 hours to get there...or be meeting someone who's traveling 2 hours to get there! Originally we were planning on traveling all the way to Kentucky for Bible Mini-golf, but we found out that they didn't open until 4 pm on Wenesdays, so we nixed that idea. Then, keeping with the mini-golf theme, Perseph and Jerm discovered Magic Mountain and their Magic Buffet in Columbus. (oh, yeah, there's minigolf too. LOL) Since my boss is pretty cool, I was able to request a vacation day the day before I actually took it, so I was in. Perseph got ahold of Karen (who lives in Columbus) and she was able to take a half a day off and join

D.W.Q.M.: "I sometimes think those mutated misfits will terrorize the universe for the rest of time." -the Fifth Doctor Upcoming episode: 6. Dalek I don't really have any news to report, although SciFiDaily has an interesting post about David Tennant wanting to be the first Time Lord to wear a kilt, and he wants to be able to use his Scottish accent to the fullest. Don't know if it's true or not, but it still makes an interesting read! :) Ahhh, the Daleks-my favorite Doctor Who villians! I want one of those little remote controlled talking daleks! So does Jerm-we could race them up and down the sidewalk. LOL. ;) I have to admit it-when I was young, these guys used to give me nightmares. I used to have dreams that Daleks and Cybermen were invading my neighborhood-sometimes at the same time! *shudder* If you think about it, though-they are only a danger to you if you're directly in their path-I mean, really-they move rather slow, and only have one eyepiece (w

D.W.Q.M.: "How about a trip in the TARDIS? I'm just off." -the Fourth Doctor Part 1: In Your Own Backyard Recently, Jerm and I just finished watching Full Circle with Michael Palin. As usual, when I watch travel shows, or hear about friends adventures abroad, I'd like to jump right up and start traveling. ...unfortunately, time and money are usually against me. Fortunately, thanks to Persephone (who will always be the queen of road trips, IMHO) and Jerm, I remembered that you don't always have to leave "your own back yard" to have an enjoyable trip! Yesterday, the three of us traveled to the very center of Ohio: Ok, so that's not really the exact center of Ohio-that's Magic Mountain in Columbus-the subject of part 2 of this story. ;) Instead of taking the usual I-71, Perseph and Jerm thought it would be fun if we took the backroads down (Route 3 going down...Routes 303 and 86 coming back up...?) Perseph was smart-she brought her journal so

D.W.Q.M.: "Why should I believe you? A rationalist existentialist priest, indeed!" -Miss Hawthorne (from the Third Doctor story, the Daemons ) Today, in Cleveland, it was freezing and Mother Nature dumped a ton of snow on northeastern Ohio. Today, in Minnesota, it was 60 degrees and sunny. That is SO...NOT...FAIR! :p Ok, I admit, winter is my favorite season, but that doesn't mean I dislike the other seasons-I'm quite fond of spring, and APRIL IS SPRING. *sigh* Yeah, being in Ohio has spoiled me-my tolerance for the cold in spring is starting to go down. ;) Speaking of Minnesota-I talked to my sister and Shanna yesterday-they are already planning the Fourth of July! Well, there are some advantages to that-last year we all went to my sister's for the Fourth. We drove down to Stillwater to watch the fireworks, and thought it would be neat to rent a boat and take it on the St. Croix River to watch the fireworks this year. Perhaps there will be enough time to m

D.W.Q.M.: "Do you mind not farting while I'm trying to save the world?" -the Ninth Doctor. hahahahahahah... Ok, most of this is really just old news...been around for a while (like a week or two), and I'm just now getting to writing about it... Upcoming episode 5. World War Three It's official! David Tennant will become the 10th Doctor for the second season of the new series. Billie Piper will return as Rose Tyler. For Harry Potter/non-Doctor Who fans, David Tennant will be Barty Crouch, Jr. in the 4th Harry Potter movie. It's been confirmed-starting this Sunday, BBC7 will be airing the six-part adventure, The Ghosts of N-Space . Yay! Again, I ask: "When is the new Doctor Who coming to the USA?" *sigh* I was reading about the new series dvds-they are not planning on releasing them in the US until the series is shown here. Unfortunately for us, that makes sense. :p I seriously need to get a dvd player that can play all regions. ;) LOL. T

D.W.Q.M.: the First Doctor: "Oh, we're travelers. That's my grandchild Susan, and that's Miss Wright, and that's Charlton." *chuckles* Ian: *sighs* "Chesterton, Ian Chesterton." (for Karen) I finally put them up! :) *heehee* Ok, I've been meaning to do this for a really (and I mean really ) long time. Pictures of my sister's kiddies!! :) Thanks to my sister's camera phone, I've been getting pictures that are more up to date. The first pic is of Boo and Mellon (that's the nickname they've given the little one-it's kinda cute, so I just may continue to use it. LOL) This was taken back in February: Smile! Here's a shot of the whole bunch, also taken in February: They look a little dishelved because Al took this picture as soon as they got up. Mellon had the right idea-she's still asleep! The last one was taken just last week: "Pooh is as big as me!" :) It's hard to believe Mellon is already 4 mo

D.W.Q.M.: Barbara Wright: "What's that awful noise?" the First Docotor: "I beg your pardon... 'Awful noise'? A good way to talk about my singing!" Barbara: "No, Doctor, not that awful noise -- the other one!" The other day I was thinking, 'Gee, we don't go out to clubs any more...' Last night I figured out why. My friend Alicia and I went to the Red Parrot Cafe in Lorrain to celebrate her birthday, and to listen to the local band Bullshot . Her boss, Andy, is the lead singer of this band. The Red Parrot is a small bar wedged in between two other building on what appeared to be one of downtown Lorrain's main street. It took us a while to get there, ( where the heck is Kansas? ), but we only had to turn around once. After circling around a couple of times, we finally found a parking space and headed towards the Red Parrot. As we approached we could see the clouds of ciggarette (we hoped) smoke and the thundering pounding of wh

D.W.Q.M.: "So you are my replacements? A dandy and a clown!" -the First Doctor Episodes on BBC1: 1. Rose 2. The End of the World 3. The Unquiet Dead Upcoming 4. Aliens of London While reading Outpost Gallifrey , I noticed that they mentioned that BBC7 will be airing the radio program The Ghosts of N-Space starting Sunday April 24th. Unfortunately I was only able to find the programming schedule up to the 19th, but I hope it's true! ( Ghosts of N-Space is a sequel to Paradise of Death with the Third Doctor, the Brigadier, and Sarah Jane Smith.) The third episode of Doctor Who beat Prince Charles' wedding in ratings. LOL. It turns out that Russel T. Davies knew all along that Christopher Eccelston was only going to be the Doctor for one series. (ah-ha!) He said that they had his (Eccleston's) departure all planned, but it wasn't supposed to come out until the end of the series. (Bad BBC!) It'll be interesting to see how the series plays out. Sp

D.W.Q.M.: "Pity about the scarf-Madame Nostradamus made it for me...witty little knitter..." -the Fourth Doctor Ahhh...our system at work is acting up (again) so while I wait for them to fix the problem (they claim it'll be about 5 minutes after everyone is logged off), I thought I'd do a knitting post. prayer shawl, about one fifth of the way done. Ta-daa! I finally posted a work in progress-yes, it took me 4 projects to do it, but I finally managed to post something that I'm knitting. :) It's a prayer shawl that I'm making using the leftover yarn from my first project (my Doctor Who scarf) This was taken just before I switched over to the third color. (colors I'm using: Red Heart Dark Plum, Burgandy, and Linen) I'll talk more about the prayer shawl when it's completed. (I'm almost halfway there). Saturday, my friend Kim and I got together for our first knitting/crocheting day. Of course, this time we didn't actually get much d

Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005 photo taken by T. VonBargen-Washington, D.C.; 1979 "I am happy, and you should be as well. Let us pray together with joy." -John Paul II (author note: due to the power outage we experienced Saturday night, I decided to wait and post this today.)

D.W.Q.M.: " "We live in an imperfect universe." -the Fourth Doctor Ahhh...I love it when I can use excuses like being without power for over 24 hrs as a reason for not getting this post up. ;) Today's astronomy post is brought to you by Sky and Telescope . Past events: April 2nd -Jupiter comes into oppostion-it is the closest to the Earth it'll get for the entire year. Interestingly enough, 11 days after, it will be at aphelion, so the planet will be about the farthest, dimmest, and smallest it can be at any opposition!!! April 3rd -Daylight savings! By now, I hope all of you have set your clocks one hour ahead. :) Europe's daylight savings occured last week. ------------------- Partial Solar Eclipse (S&T, April 2005, pg. 73) April 8th there will be a partial solar eclipse for the south eastern United States. The 'northern limit' includes south eastern Arizona, most of New Mexico, the southern half of Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana,

D.W.Q.M.: the Third Doctor: "...I have an oil lamp here..." Sarah Jane Smith: "Don't tell me-you are going to rub it and produce a genie." Third Doctor: "On the contrary, Sarah, I'm going to light it and illuminate us." Sarah Jane: "Ahh...horray for old fashion oil." The electricity is finally back on!!! Oh, for those of you who don't know, thanks to all the wind and wet snow we had on April 2nd, I had been without electricity, heat, or hot water since Saturday night. Even though the heat is gas heat, apparently the methods used to get the heat from the central unit to each of the individual apartments are not. Thank god for running cold water and gas stoves. The Doctor called me around 11 am and informed me that they had finally switched us back on. *whew! Perseph and I had just finished up an afternoon of dealing with crazy drivers, cranky cashiers, strong winds, wet snow, rude parking lot people (hey, the lady who parked next t