Wandering through E-Space

D.W.Q.M.: Steven: "Well, what does that do?" the First Doctor: "That is the dematerializing control. And that over yonder is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner, those are the doors, that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry my dear boy. Now please, stop bothering me." I just got back from Minnesota a couple of hours ago. What's that I hear? Nothing. Silence, pure, blissful silence. All nice and quiet. The throbbing in my head has disappeared. ...so why am I suddenly feeling homesick? There is a tiny brown spot on my jeans where Mellon decided to rub her chocolate covered face earlier this afternoon. Awwww..... *sniff*

I absolutely LOVE this house!!!

D.W.Q.M.: "I had no problem with space stuff. I've seen things you wouldn't believe!" -Sarah Jane Smith (from the Tenth Doctor story, School Reunion ). I know it's supposed to be a kids show-but who cares? I think it's perfectly normal for adults to enjoy a kids show. ;) A sonic screwdriver disguised as lipstick? Oh, I so want one of those!!!!!! Sarah Jane rocks. :) (yay, sarah jane!) :-D

D.W.Q.M.: "We still have our homicidial computer to deal with." -the Sixth Doctor Okay, go figure-I decide that I might actually give beta a try. I had read reports that beta version blogs were slower to load, but SJA.tv loaded fine both at work and at home, so I thought I would be fine. However, when logging into blogger from home, my invitation is no longer there. Well, then!! Perhaps that is a sign. I've also noticed that there are more complaints about blogger beta from users publishing via their own ftp server then there were earlier. Right now, I'm leaning towards waiting until I absolutely have to switch, since they eventually want to switch everyone over. For now, I'm going to keep Wandering, the Idiot's Lantern , and Ro Knits on Blogger, and request an invite to the beta blogger for SJA.tv , and merge my accounts when I have to switch over the others. Silly Blogger, why do you have to make things so complicated?!?! :p I have other things I need to...

D.W.Q.M.: "You've done up the place. Don't like it."-the Second Doctor (from the Five Doctors) Hmm...well, I'm debating on switching my blogs over to Blogger Beta. One of the blogs I write for, Sarah-Jane.tv has already switched, and I can't access it until I either switch over completely to beta, or ask jackharkness to send me another invite so I can log in using my google account. I don't think I'll have a problem with my blogspot blogs-but I am worried about switching Wandering... over, since I publish that using an external ftp server. I've heard of people who haven't had a problem, and those who have. It looks like I'll eventually have to switch it all over, but until then, I have a few questions for the folks at Blogger. Go figure-this happens just as I'm about to go on vacation! If I do decide to switch over completely, I'll post a note using the old Blogger, along with an alternative blog just in case the transition doesn...

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) AstroAlert: A Solar Minimum Surprise - Major Solar Flares Okay, I thought about just summing this up, but I won't do it a bit of justice, so this is a copy of the email alert I got from Cary Oler at the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch : MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE ALERT The Sun has produced a solar minimum surprise! At 10:35 UTC on 5 December, a new solar region now beginning to rotate around the eastern solar limb produced a powerful class X9.0 solar flare. The region in question appears to be quite large and was relatively quiet until today's significant outburst. Such powerful outbursts are not uncommon for the solar minimum in which we currently reside. Indeed, it is known that large and pote...

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 hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! I'm sorry I missed a post last week-last weekend was rather crazy! ;) Series 2 (season 28) Fridays, 8pm EST on the SciFi Channel Current episode: 9. The Satan Pit , part 2 Previous episodes: 8. The Impossible Planet , part 1 7. The Idiot's Lantern 6. The Age of Steel , part 2 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 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, December 3rd: Invaders from Mars , part 3 Pr...

D.W.Q.M.: "It was your instincts and intuition against my logic, and you succeeded." -the First Doctor, to Barbara I was reading an interesting post over at Torchwood.TV by Raxacoricofallapatorius, which got me thinking... ...would Torchwood make it over here in the U.S.? Where would it air? Actually, I had been thinking about that since I saw the first couple of episodes, Everything Changes and Day One . We had been warned about the swearing so much that I was expecting F-bombs to be dropped every other line. When it finally did happen, it was in such a setting that if this were a real life situation, yeah, I'd expect to hear F-bombs being dropped. Not family friendly, but not so outrageous that you're gonna say, 'Oh come, on! Enough already!!'. And then there was the talk about sex in episode two-actually, I didn't know what to expect, and I have to admit, I was taken slightly aback (me still being quite naive about watching such things), but again, ...

D.W.Q.M.: "You've redecorated!" -Sarah Jane Smith ...when my apartment has become a jungle of Christmas boxes, stuffed with decorations, just waiting to be let out! I think I've already knocked my ankles up at least 20 times...I'll be seeing bruising soon, I'm sure. Yesterday afternoon, my bed was loaded with boxes, and I was relaxing in the living room when I heard my cell phone go off in my bedroom. Making a mad dash, I discovered that the easiest path to my phone was across my bed-so I jumped across it, landing with a soft *thud*, amazed that I hadn't disturbed my boxes much...although a couple had fallen on top of me. *ow!* (the call was from my sister-she wanted to make sure I brought my Favre jersey with me to MN-the Packers are playing the Vikings on the 21st!) You know, it's really hard to get in the mood to decorate for Christmas when the weather is warm and sunny, the windows are open, and I can hear birds chirping outside. God forbid I ever...

D.W.Q.M.: "...why am I thinking of food?" -the Second Doctor Even though the day is almost over, and those of us who are crazy enough to get up and do some early doorbuster shopping tomorrow are probably in bed (well, except for me ;) ), I'd still like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Krismutt Pie

D.W.Q.M.: "Carrot juice, carrot juice..." -the Sixth Doctor I've been meaning to post my progress on our Look and Feel Fantastic Plan that Shar and I started in September, but I just haven't gotten around to it. I find it slightly amusing that the day I decide to update is right after our staff potluck luncheon. I've never felt so stuffed at work in my life! ;) So far it's working great! I've lost at least 10lbs since I've started-even my doctor congratulated me! :) He told me to keep up the good work, and I'll see him again sometime in March for a follow up to see how my chloresterol is (it's a little high right now.) Thankfully everything else is ok-I was mainly worried about my glucose levels-since diabetes does run in my family-but they are normal-yay! Shar and I have been trying to get more walks in at work-I think it's awesome that we are both doing this-we give each other moral support when someone brings in baked goods to share, ...

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?" I know, I know-I really need to update my blog more-I'm sorry! I've just been so busy-I'm lucky I get the weekly Doctor Who posts out!! ( author's note: this post can also be found at the Idiot's Lantern .) Series 2 (season 28) Fridays, 8pm EST on the SciFi Channel Current episode: 8. The Impossible Planet Previous episodes: 7. The Idiot's Lantern 6. The Age of Steel , part 2 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 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. Stones of Venice finished up last Sunday-this Sunday starts one o...

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?" ( authors 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: 7. The Idiot's Lantern Previous episodes: 6. The Age of Steel , part 2 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 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, November 12th: Stones of Venice , part 4 Previous: Sunday, November 5th: Stones of Venice , part 3 Sunday, October 29th: Stones of Venice , part 2 Sunday, October 22nd: Stones of Venice , part 1 Torchwood Sundays, 9pm, GMT on...

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: 6. The Age of Steel , part 2 Previous episodes: 5. Rise of the Cybermen , part 1 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, November 5th: Stones of Venice , part 3 Previous: Sunday, October 29th: Stones of Venice , part 2 Sunday, October 22nd: Stones of Venice , part 1 Torchwood Sundays, 9pm, GMT on BBC3 Current episode: 4. Cyberwoman Previous episodes: 3. Ghost Machine...

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...