Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M.: Ian: "Where's your spirit of adventure, hm?" the First Doctor: "It died a slow and painful death when those bats came out of the rafters." Happy Halloween, everybody! 2003 Jack-o-Lanterns: (I really need to upload our pumpkins from 2004& 2005!) No Jack-o-Lanterns this year-neither Perseph nor I had enough time to make one. It seems as though October just started, and now it's Halloween! Perhaps next October won't be as crazy. ;) We are planning on dressing up and giving out candy to the kiddies-there's going to be a bunch of us tonight. It'll be fun! Geeky Pumpkins: Dalek-o-Lantern Cylon-o-Lantern (old school Cylon) Be sure to check them out in action, too! To my neices Tia and Boo-hope you had fun in your Halloween parade at school! Alicat-you better take pictures!! ;) Have a safe Halloween!

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 .) Series 2 (season 28) Fridays, 8pm EDT on the SciFi Channel Current episode: 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 Previous episodes: 4. The Girl in the Fireplace 3. School Reunion 2. Tooth and Claw 1. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) 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. This week: Sunday, October 29th: Stones of Venice , part 2 Previous: Sunday, October 22nd: Stones of Venice , part 1 Torchwood Sundays, 9pm, GMT on BBC3 Current episode: 3. Ghost Machine Previous episodes: 2. Day One 1. Everything Changes Attention! If you've been planning on catching (or ...

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 .) Current episode: Fridays, 8pm EDT on the SciFi Channel 4. The Girl in the Fireplace Previous episodes: 3. School Reunion 2. Tooth and Claw 1. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) 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. This week: Sunday, October 22nd: Stones of Venice , part 1 Torchwood starts this Sunday, 9pm, GMT on BBC3. The episode guide is scheduled to be updated on the 23rd. Although there are links to the videos, I'm not sure if we have access to them. Last week there was a notice on the pages that due to copyright issues, they wouldn't be accessi...

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 .) Current episode: Fridays, 8pm EDT on the SciFi Channel 3. School Reunion Previous episodes: 2. Tooth and Claw 1. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) 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. This week: Sunday, October 15th: Swords of Orion , part 4 Previous: Sunday, October 8th: Swords of Orion , part 3 Sunday, October 1st: Swords of Orion , part 2 Sunday, September 24th: Swords of Orion , part 1 The last part of Swords of Orion airs this coming Sunday. Another 8th Doctor story will start the following Sunday. I don't remember the order they were going to ai...

D.W.Q.M.: Barbara: "Perhaps it's frozen." the First Doctor: "No, impossible... not in this temperature. Besides, it's too warm." It's snowing!!! It's so odd-just a few flurries here and there, then some sun, then a big burst of flurries. Rinse, repeat. Shar and I took a walk outside-boy, is it brisk! The weatherbug cannot be right-it says it's 40 degrees out! ;) At one point, it looked like a snow shower, instead of flurries-and with the sun shining, it looked pretty cool. It's like we're in a snowglobe that someone shook, and now the snows all settled. It isn't sticking to the ground, but it stuck to my glove. (I'm glad I took the time to get a warmer jacket out this morning!) Is this the lake effect we are supposed to be getting? It came alot earlier than predicted! SNOW!!! Woo!

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 .) Current episode: Fridays, 8pm EDT on the SciFi Channel 2. Tooth and Claw Previous episodes: 1. New Earth (9:30pm EDT) The Christmas Invasion (8:00pm EDT) 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. This week: Sunday, October 8th: Swords of Orion , part 3 Previous: Sunday, October 1st: Swords of Orion , part 2 Sunday, September 24th: Swords of Orion , part 1 Check out the video section on SciFi's Doctor Who website-they have about a 50 second preview of some outtake extras from the season 2 dvd release in January. The cyberman scene alone makes it worth the while. I was laughing so h...

D.W.Q.M.: "You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delight and satisfaction of the arts... the gentle art of fisticuffs." -the First Doctor OMG. Am I dreaming? Am I dreaming?!?!? The Twins won the Central Division!!!! The Twins won the Central Division!!!!!!!!!!! And Joe Mauer took home the batting title!!! Atta boy, Joe!!!! Don't mind me, I'm just in a happy daze right now. :) The Minnesota Twins: Central Division Champs, 2006. YAY!

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.

D.W.Q.M.: the Second Doctor: "If only I could find my recorder, I could play you a little something to pass the time." the Brigadier: "We should be thankful for small mercies." Ahh, here we are, half way through the Feast of the Assumption. Two days behind us, two days ahead. It's been a rough week-(not even Feast related). But hopefully things will start to calm down soon. The Feast has been fun, though-the weather has been great-not too warm in the evenings. Tonight there is a 50 percent chance that we may be rained out, so we'll see. Hopefully the weather will be nice when we do the procession tomorrow morning. The first night we were at the home of one of the shut-ins, playing some music for her, when, right in the middle of Tik Tok Polka a lady in the house next door slammed her window shut. Half the band nearly lost it while playing. LOL. Oh, well-at least the woman who we were playing for enjoyed the music. ;) Suprisingly, after two nights of the Fe...

D.W.Q.M.: Duke Juliano: "There's this man in Florence claims that by arranging ground glasses in a certain order, it's possible to see the moon and stars as large as your hand." Marco: "Is that a good thing?" (from the Fourth Doctor story, the Masque of Madragora ) I've decided that if I don't get to the night sky posts until the middle of the month, I'll still write about events that happened in the past. Today's astronomy post is brought to you by Sky and Telescope. Sky Events August 2nd: Jupiter reaches quadrature (90 degrees east of the Sun) August 7th-10th: Mercury is 2 degrees below Venus near the eastern horizon at the first hint of dawn twilight. August 9th: Full Moon August 10th: Neptune in opposition. August 11th-12th: This morning and tomorrow, Venus forms a nearly straight line with Castor and Pollux. August 12th: Perseids peak, but the moon interferes (see below). August 16th: From now until the end of the month-10:30pm-1...

D.W.Q.M.: "Eureka!" -the Third Doctor Apparently, the same thing made me and Michael happy today. It's finally official!!! Both the BBC and the SciFi Channel have confirmed that series 2 of Doctor Who will air on the SciFi Channel starting at the end of September! YAY! New Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica on the same night?! I'm in scifi heaven. Perseph and Foofy-better make room on the couch! I'm comin' over!!!! (oh, and the Twins won again last night! They won the series against the Tigers! Woo-Hoo!) *Romana does the happy dance all the way home.*

D.W.Q.M.: "You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delight and satisfaction of the arts... the gentle art of fisticuffs." -the First Doctor Things that make me happy: Good sports days- Twins: 4 Tigers: 2 Yeah, baby!! The Twins are currently in Detroit-playing the best team in the league. I have to admit-the Tigers are kicking some major butt this year. So at the start of this series, all I asked was that the Twins don't get swept-let them win just one game and I'll be happy. Last night I got my wish! It's so hard being a Twins fan here in Cleveland-the only time I get to see them play is if they are playing the Indians or the White Sox (thanks to WGN.) So last night I spent the evening surfing through all the channels that show scores-and when I saw the Twins score, I couldn't help it, I shouted "YEAH!" and jumped off the couch. ;) So I got my wish, and I'm quite happy. Of course, if they win again tonight-...

D.W.Q.M.: "There's no point in being grownup if you can't be childish, sometimes." -the Fourth Doctor Oooh! Two days in a row! No matter how hard I try to change (well, I don't really try that hard)-I will ALWAYS be a kid at heart. ;) Today Sharon and I were reminscing about Sesame Street, and I found this-my favorite Sesame Street sketch/song EVER! "MUSIC!" Ahh, that never grows old! I still get a silly grin after watching it. ;) I had a vinyl LP of Sesame Street with this song on it-it was my first record-and I just love this song! Of course, on the record, it ends with Harry telling Cookie that he does know about up and down. And Cookie replies, "Well, of course I do!" So Harry asked why he was looking up in the sky for his cookie, and Cookie says, "Because I dropped it and then a birdie came and grabbed it!" (or something along those lines.) I remember seeing it on tv while I was in college-I was flipping through the channels, ...

D.W.Q.M.: "How about a trip in the TARDIS? I'm just off." -the Fourth Doctor Hmm...well, it looks like this is going to be a weekly entry, rather than a daily-or maybe every other day... :) Happiness is... Road trips! Friday Perseph , Jerm and I went to Orville to visit Smuckers, and explore the area. Smuckers was fun-I love the big Doughboy they have in the middle of the store. Krismutt came too-and I hope I have time to update his page soon(I haven't updated it in ages!). The ladies and Smuckers loved him-I was taking a picture of him writing on a chalkboard table, when they came up and said, 'Oh, how cute! I wish my dog behaved that well.' LOL. We also got some cute shots of him hanging around town. :) Of course, when you're in Amish country, you have to stop for some cheese-I bought some yummy smoked Gouda, and some Norwegian Jalsberg-YUM! :-D We also stopped in a store called World Crafts-they had some really cool stuff. All of the items in the sto...