Another Weekend in the Books
So I had this awesomely huge to-do list for the weekend, and was all gung-ho about getting through it. Saturday morning, I woke up, attacked it and lasted until about 1pm before I decided that I was done. I did manage to get in a good ride, hit up Target for some necessities, and wash both the WRX and the Fit.
I did read a few hundred more pages of Stephenson's Anathem. Like everything he wrote after Cryptonomicon, it's kind of slow going. It's not that it's boring, it's that it's dense with ideas. And that slows me down a bit. There's the paperback edition of another book (not by Mr. Stephenson) I've been wanting to read and that's coming out tomorrow, so I'll be hitting up B&N and shoving it to the top of the to-read list.
In addition to my reading, I also watched the entire first season of Big Bang Theory, which I scored at Target for $16 on DVD. (Awesome show. Something you should really be watching, particularly if you're a geek.)
Dinked around with the money a bit -- planning and thinking work.
Had a great talk with Kate. Aired out some of the emotional difficulties surrounding her long business trip, and as a result, I think we're on the same sheet of music, and stronger for it. Have I mentioned that I love that woman? Yeah, well, I do.
So I've gone and done it again -- another post laden with trivia about how I spent my weekend, and how I'm goofy-in-love with my fianceé. I've got some more interesting/substantive stuff forthcoming, I swear.
A Quick List of Things
- I've joined the growing family of HDTV owners. I don't think I can ever watch a standard-def TV again, but at the same time, I have some serious complaints about some of the experience. Like cabling. That'll all be detailed at DLOH in a post I'm writing.
- Having a TV again has cut into my productivity a bit.
- Went to the gym tonight, though, and that was cool.
- Been interviewing like mad. Something'll turn up.
- More later.
TV and Sci-Fi
So a friend, via IM, asked me if I could re-write a show, similar to what Ron Moore has done so brilliantly with Battlestar Galactica, what would I do? And it hit me. The idea was fully-formed in my head, it could be brilliantly done, and with a pre-defined story arc that would make for some intense, awesome viewing.
I'm going to write this treatment tonight, so once I'm a published author and someone asks if I have an idea for a TV series, my response can be an emphatic "yes," followed up by an email with the treatment. Because, oh hell yes, this could be some serious fun.
Generally, my relationship to broadcast sci-fi has been tenuous.
Hrmm…
...so an item of note: old TVs can catch fire spontaneously, even when powered-off and such. For once, I am grateful to be unemployed, as I was actually home when the debacle occurred. Fortunately, I unplugged the beast before it got too out-of-hand, and was pretty able to keep it from spreading beyond the innards of the TV.
This is frustrating, but at the same time, it's a good thing -- it's one less distraction from the job hunt. And I'd planned on buying a new set after getting back to work. So I should be good.
Beyond that, not a lot to report. Writing is going well. Job hunt hasn't been too bad. Worried that I might be coming down with pneumonia, though. That would be sucktastic.
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