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fajrdrakoShopping at CostCo: I got a blender. An Osterizer, munch nicer than the one it's replacing, which I got many, many years ago.
Dinner at Al's Steakhouse, after we learned there wasa 45 minute wait for a table at The Works. I had trout. We celebrated
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maaboroshi's birthday, and toasted J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday.Came home and watched the last episode we hadn't seen of Battlestar Galactica, the one featuring Col. Tigh's wife. Felt congested after supper, and was wheezing as we watched TV. Annoying. Very annoying.
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Date: 2005-01-04 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 12:34 pm (UTC)Here's hoping the focus switches back to Apollo (and Starbuck) a bit more in the last four episodes!
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Date: 2005-01-04 12:39 pm (UTC)If your episode has downloaded already, you might know now! I have to wait at least a few days.... Well, maybe till Wednesday. Tomorrow. That isn't so bad.
Yes, more Apollo please, before we forget what he looks like.
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Date: 2005-01-04 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 01:41 pm (UTC)Could THoG be about Starbuck, maybe, something to do with Leoben's ramblings in Flesh and Blood about God and patterns and his "prophecy" that she'll find Kobol... ::she says hopefully::
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Date: 2005-01-04 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 06:31 pm (UTC)I'd like to see more about Starbuck, especially with regard to her past and the odd hints in Flesh and Blood.
Did you ever read the E.C. Tubb novels about Earl Dumarest? The plot of BSG keeps making me think of them.
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Date: 2005-01-04 07:20 pm (UTC)I've never heard of E C Tubb or Earl Dumarest. Are they good? I just did a quick Google, which turned up the fact that the Dumarest books also have a quest to find Earth. Which has somehow been lost. Dear me. How careless. Even I've never lost a whole planet.
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Date: 2005-01-04 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 07:50 pm (UTC)Personally, I loved the Earl Dumarest novels and read them with joy and dleight when they were coming out. (Or second editions, maybe. They predated my science fiction reading but I don't know by how much.) The sexy tough hero (whom I always imagined as looking like a youngish Clint Eastwood) was a child on a post-holocaust Earth, which he escaped by stowing away on a merchant starship. Instead of throwing him overboard, the Captain taught him all he knew. Dumarest wandered from world to world as a pilot, gladiator, mercenary, doing whatever he could to stay alive - and then decided he wanted to return to Earth, but after numerous voyages in cyrogenic storage, so much time has passed that the location of Earth is lost and it's considered a legend of a sort of lost paradise and the home of mankind. Sound familiar? The series ended (and I believe the author died) before Dumarest ever found his way home, but the adventures were fun.
Losing a planet is a fine art.
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Date: 2005-01-04 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-04 09:38 pm (UTC)According to this site (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/5792/tubb2.html), he's still alive and the last book of the series has just been published.
Losing a planet is a fine art.
And one which is often practised in science fiction circles.
Current status: 24.7%. Wheee!
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Date: 2005-01-04 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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