09.26.2010 - Terrence Marks:

I really need to update this more often.

Also, when I bring up a problem I need to mention when it gets fixed. The water outage two weeks ago? Fixed the same day it happened (after I had to go to work, but that's another story). It's been fine since and probably won't break again for a few more months.

Frankie, our new kitten? All parasites have been removed, internal and external. He's been subjected to a large amount of veterinary medicine all at once. Pretty much everything you're supposed to have done to a kitten got done to him in a span of about two weeks. All the boxes are checked off, and that's hard on a cat. That's what we spent the middle of the month doing - sitting up with him and watching him recover. He's doing alright now.

We call him Frankie for short. That was the deal. Isabel got to choose what we call him, I got to choose his name. Depending on how I'm feeling, his full name is usually "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" or "Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein".

Also, I finished watching Babylon 5 a few days ago. I never watched it when it originally aired, possibly because there was some misguided B5/Star Trek rivalry and I was on Team DS9. Or maybe because I didn't get the channel that it was on. It was a long time ago.

I highly recommend the show to anyone who likes science fiction, even a little bit. When the show really gets going (which is about season two through the middle of season four), it's amazing. The bad episodes (which there aren't too many of) all have very good parts to them. The good episodes have more happening in them than I thought was possible to fit into 45 minutes of television.

We get emails from people about how they spent weeks reading the entire archive of You Say it First and/or Namir Deiter (or, more rarely, Unlike Minerva and Spare Parts) and after going through all* of Babylon 5, I know how you feel.

*: I skipped the first half of season 5. If you skipped Picnic in the Park (or Todd's Review Site or pre-reboot Unlike Minerva...) when you read through You Say it First (or Spare Parts or Unlike Minerva) we're even.