Over the past year or so I’ve been tuning into WYBE every Saturday night at 11pm to watch Dr. Who. I looked forward to this, since I had only seen bits and pieces of different seasons and this gave me the chance to see them all.
When I tuned in last night they had bad news for me. They had been running Dr. Who for 5 years (“Over 500 episodes!”) and were shelving it. Next week they’ll be playing another British SciFi show: Red Dwarf.
Now don’t get me wrong, I love Red Dwarf, but I’ve seen them, and I own all but seasons 3 and 4. They’re taking away The Doctor and replacing it with a show I’ve seen! Arg! Big meanies %(
Yesterday Michael spent the day doing taxes and other paperwork, so I did some reading. I finished M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action, and then discovered that there are 2 books between that one and the one I’m borrowing from some friends!
Anyway, I started reading Dragonflight, the first of the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy. My sister Heather was really into this series, and my friend
And I’m close to finishing Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love. It’s been very difficult to get through, I’ve been poking at it since August, and after page 200 I’ve just been dreadfully bored. The first parts really gave me things to think about, what if you could live 2000 years? How much differently would you view the world in that time? How wise would you really become? How would you handle the loss of people in your life dying because they don’t live as long as you? But then the book sorta degenerated into being all about Heinlein’s views toward sex and relationships. Sometimes plot would come back strong, but then another woman would enter the story and it’d be all about sex again. I don’t have a problem with books that talk about sex (as long as it doesn’t turn into a bad romance novel) but I KNOW what Heinlein’s views on sex are (open relationships are good, sex is fun and not shameful), and being beat over the head with them over and over again in a book like this just gets dull. I still like Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land was amazing, Friday was fun, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was just great scifi), hopefully the next book of his that I choose to pick up will be better.
I spent some time today going over my techie resume, which is separate from my normal resume these days. I hadn’t updated it in a while since I hadn’t been looking into web development positions lately, but it’s good to have it dusted off for the interview tomorrow (which I’m less nervous about now).
Tonight we’re going over to Michael’s mother’s place, she needs help with her computer and said she’d feed us, yay I don’t need to co
ok tonight!