All things considered, I really don’t have much to say about the selection of WVU’s new president other than between Michael Garrison‘s selection, and the selection of Bob Huggins as the new basketball coach, I think it’s pretty obvious what WVU’s priorities are.

Ready or not, my Grandmother is back, and it’s really for real now.

Her house is sold; there’s no going back.

It’s strange. The things that I expected to be difficult have been relatively painless, while the things I never considered have been the most frustrating. (Speaker phone conversations between individuals who are hard of hearing but don’t have hearing aids? Although I usually see the humor–or at least the potential for humor–you can only hear someone repeat a phone number so many times before you just have to leave the room.)

Life is a funny thing–how it’s the little stuff that get you. If we were just able to live–live without having to worry about the details–would things be easier? Or would we just invent new things to worry about and plague our days and still keep us from enjoying the little moments?

I think the answer to that question is that I shouldn’t even consider writing when I’m over tired and it’s past my bedtime. (Yes. I’m a morning person. Wanna make something of it?)

Me:”Hey, you dressed up for something or just need to do laundry?”
Him: “Laundry.”

I’m pretty sure it’s a good measure of what complete and total geeks Michael and I are that when watching TV shows on DVD, were are likely to call out things like, “Hey! It’s Admiral Leyton! or “Wasn’t she one of the Ziyals?

That said, we’re really enjoying Season One of Six Feet Under. Though I’m sorry that they don’t have more of the commercials that they had in the pilot. Those commercials were what made us decide to keep watching.

And Netflix is definitely one of the best inventions in the past decade, second only to the upside down ketchup bottle.

Thanks to Michael, at the top, right corner of the page you’ll now see random quotations. Unless of course your browser is too narrow, in which case the quotes will be between the header image and the first post. I’ll check some different computers and see how annoying that is.

And like the rest of this site, they are definitely random.

ADDENDUM the First:
Refresh (F5) will bring up a new quotation.

Okay, my day job is software support, so I know how difficult the job can be.

But.

Our DSL has been giving us problems. It’s intermittently up and down. Although this could be due to a problem in the line somewhere, chances are, the DSL modem is going bad.

But that didn’t seem to occur to any of the tech support people we spoke to this weekend. We received a variety of suggestions, none of which worked. At last, we received the helpful suggestion that we call back when the modem wasn’t functioning. (It wasn’t functioning during the first calls we made) . Of course by the time Michael called, the modem would start working again.

So, after multiple phone calls we still don’t have a stable DSL connection. Perhaps if we call during the week we’ll get someone actually capable of solving the problem.

And I get yet another reminder of why people hate dealing with tech support.

It’s 28 degrees and still snowing.

Just in case you were curious.

It’s still snowing.

Just so you know.

ersatz \AIR-sahts\ adjective
: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

The is one of those words I’ve never been able to pronounce, because thought I’ve read it multiple times, I don’t remember ever hearing it.

Yup.

It snowed.

Like this was a big surprise.

I’m a literature nerd.
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Space thriller Serenity has beaten Star Wars to the title of best sci-fi movie in an SFX magazine poll of 3,000 fans.

Here’s the top ten:
1. Serenity
2. Star Wars
3. Blade Runner
4. Planet of the Apes
5. The Matrix
6. Alien
7. Forbidden Planet
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
9. The Terminator
10. Back to the Future

“Well, my days of not takin’ you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”

72 degrees and mostly sunny right now, then snow on Thursday.

And the last thing I did on my vacation: We finished watching Farscape. In three days we watched the end of Season 3, all of Season 4, and The Peacekeeper Wars.

My brain hurts.

Actually, it was pretty good–even Farscape – The Peacekeeper Wars, which Daniel had said was horrific. Of course a good bit of The Peacekeeper Wars was completely ridiculous, (Have a baby and then get up and kick butt? Unlikely.) but mostly I found it a satisfactory conclusion, in that it tied up all the loose ends and left me with a feeling of closure.

For the series as a whole, I found it hit and miss. Some episodes just didn’t make a lot of sense or made me cringe, while others were absolutely fantastic (the episode where John kept seeing things as a cartoon–pure genius). And in the middle of the series, I didn’t much care for how John changed from a use your brains to solve problems to a kick ass and take names kinda guy who thought first with his gun. That, combined with the number of scantily clad women aboard Moya, made it feel at times like a geek’s fantasy world. But that eventually sorted itself out, so for the most part it was pretty satisfying.

What I found interesting was that even though I found many of the episodes only to be so-so and even at times maddening, as a whole, I thought Farscape was very good, primarily due to an excellent group of actors who had fantastic chemistry. I mean, the sexual tension between John and Arin was… whew! And the desire to know what happened to those characters that made the whole thing so compelling.

That and the fact that they weren’t afraid to kill people off.

Now we have to decide whether to start watching Battlestar Galactica – Season One while my grandmother is visiting my Aunt in Virginia, or wait and save it for later–probably to watch it in the basement. Despite the fact that she really enjoys science fiction, I don’t think I want to watch Battlestar Galactica with my grandmother for the same reason we didn’t watch Farscape with her–just a little too much sex. (Either for her to enjoy the show or for me to be comfortable watching the show with her.)

Then we figure out what we should watch my grandmother finishes watching Babylon 5. We’ve watched it before. She’s now in the middle of Season 3. We have The Wild Wild West, but we really need something geekier in the line-up.