Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M. Sgt. Benton: "What are we going to do now?" the Second Doctor: "Keep it confused, feed it with useless information. I wonder if I have a television set handy?" (author's note: this post can also be found at the Idiot's Lantern .) I've decided to change the title of these posts, because I'm not sure how much actual news I'll be able to write about from week to week-hope you all don't mind. :) Series 2 (season 28) in the USA: Fridays, 8pm EDT on the SciFi Channel note the new time!!! Current episodes: 1. The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) 2. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) Check out the episode pages for the new season-they have slideshows with images from the episodes. Pretty cool. :) Doctor Who on BBC7: Check out BBC7's Listen Again page to hear the 8th Doctor audios from Big Finish. Current epsiodes are available for one week after it originally airs. Sunday, September 24th: Swords of Orion , part 1 Sunday, October 1st: Swords of Or...

D.W.Q.M.: "One must always accept the unexpected." -the Fourth Doctor Oooh, I knew I should have posted about the Twins yesterday before they played. Once again, the Royals prevented us from tieing (or overtaking) the Tigers for first place in the division. Grrr... That's ok-miracles can still happen. After all, many thought the Twins were finished before the All-Star break. For those who doubted, I have this to say to you: HA! Last time the Twins were in town, I went to the one game that the Indians won in that series. Several Tribe fans started to make fun of me (and the handfull of other Twins fans in our section) and I stood up and bravely (or foolishly, depending on your point of view) shouted, "That's okay, 'cause come October, we'll still be playing." *heehee* It was a fun game though-pretty intense. I liked the fact that the other Twins fans around me were quite vocal-my cheering didn't echo quite so much. ;) When Joe Mauer first step...

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day , Arrr, har's t' lookin' good and feelin' fantastic, shiver me timbers! :)

D.W.Q.M.: "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice..." -the Sixth Doctor Okay! Labor Day has come and gone-it's the end of summer. Time to turn over a new leaf! Shar and I have decided to try to loose some weight together. (I for one, would be much happier if my jeans were a little 'not-so-tight') So we have a weekly weigh in-last Tuesday we both started at X. Unfortunately, due to carelessness and an evening of stadium food ( mmmm....garlic fries... ) I gained a little. Shar did great though-yay, Shar!! Anyhoo, the idea is, we'll keep track of what we eat, try to exercise more (which includes more lunchtime walks), and just basically give each other some moral support. Workplace weightloss programs seem to be the new thing-there's Weight Watchers at Work next door-it meets every Wednesday, and apparently there's a 'biggest loser' type contest going on here at work (although I'm not taking part in that.) I really need to start walking m...

It's hard to believe it's been 5 years. I try to keep this blog light-can't say I'm always 100% successful. Especially today as I write this, because there's nothing "light" about what happened. I was even debating about posting, because I'm not sure I have the strength, or the words, to acturately express how I feel. As I watched the memorial ceremonies, and personal accounts of what happened, my eyes welled up with tears, and my chest tightened, just like it had done 5 years ago as I watched the coverage all night for several nights because I couldn't sleep. I had to stop watching after about an hour (actually, I'm amazed I was able to last that long.) Then, those first few days five years ago, I saw something amazing-for once, there were no Democrats, no Republicans, no blacks, no whites, reds, yellows, no Jews, Muslims, Christians... It didn't matter if you were from this country or not-we were all one-pulling together to help and comfo...

D.W.Q.M.: Brigadier: " Do you know what you're doing?" the Third Doctor: "My dear chap, I can't wait to find out." Okay, so I didn't do very well with the August blog challenge this year-the last half of the month was kind of crazy, so I didn't post much-I'll do better next year! So I shouldn't have looked at the baseball scores yesterday-I had no idea that the Twins were only 4 games behind the Tigers-what happened to that 9 game lead Detroit had? Woo! Unfortunately the Twins lost to them last night (in the Metrodome!), so they are now 5 games behind. :( They are still ahead in the Wild Card race...by one half game (thanks to the Indians for beating the White Sox) Seriously, you can't discount the Tigers, the Twins, or the White Sox yet-it's going to be a loonnnngggg road to October. The Wild Card race is giving me some serious heart burn-one day they are half a game ahead of the White Sox, the next, they are half a game behind! Ah...

D.W.Q.M.: Cornish: "Control to capsule: do you have visual contact?" the Third Doctor: "Do you mean 'Can I see it'?" NASA has postponed Atlantis' launch again, due to the fuel tank sensor problem. Check out the latest news here. The launch has been rescheduled for 11:15am, EDT, tomorrow.