Category: Miscellaneous babble

The 2007 season officially ends in a few days, wrapping up another thankfully uneventful season for us.
Could have used the rain from a few tropical storms though.
The tally so far (May forecast in brackets):
Storms: 16
Named storms: 14 (13-17)
Hurricanes: 4 (7-10)

It took a little while longer than usual, but I finally got to pick up my new glasses today. It’s always nice to wear new glasses, because the old ones have usually accumulated a bunch of scratches over their two year lifetime.
The new ones are a little bigger than the old ones, which ends up making the lenses a little thicker and heavier, but restores some of my peripheral vision which is good. The weight will take a little getting used to, but I’ve worn worse.

Be The Pack Leader – Cesar Milan
How to Speak Dog – Stanley Coren
The Dog Whisperer – Paul Owens
Confessor – Terry Goodkind
Ended up going on a bit of a shopping spree today.

Just got back from watching the remastered version of The Menagerie episode of Star Trek. So. Very. Cool.
Even though I’ve seen it countless times already, it was great to see on the big screen, with the new CG effects and improved image quality. It was like watching it for the first time again. Following the show were some previews of the remastered second season. Cool looking stuff. The remastered season 1 DVD collection would be very cool to have in the collection, but it’s a little to spendy for the budget right now so it’ll have to wait.
Now if only the local network broadcasting the remastered series would show it at a decent time.
The crowd was pretty small, maybe a couple dozen people at the Mt. Pleasant theater. Either Trek fans here are very low profile, didn’t know about it or all went to a different theater.
In case anybody missed it tonight, there are supposed to be two more showings on Thursday.