Firefly, square one, alien

by Duf Anything and Everything

I got turned on to an old sci-fi series called Firefly by Scott Johnson from The Instance podcast. He said it is one of his favorite shows ever.  I saw they had the series available for streaming on Netflix so I checked it out.  So far I like Scott’s taste in shows.

The show aired back in 2002, I had never heard of it.  There are some familiar faces in it though.  Ron Glass of Barney Miller fame is in the show, he plays a preacher.  That is the only actor I know by name however there is also the guy that appeared in many X-Files episodes, the chick that played the terminator in Sarah Connor Chronicles and the chick that plays the head V bad woman in the current iteration of V.

If you are looking for something good on Netflix and like shows like V, BSG, etc give Firefly a shot.  I think you will like it.

Blizzard just released a huge patch this week.  It is the pre-cursor to the next big WoW expansion named Cataclysm which is due out in early December.  Well this patch contains many of the sweeping changes that are being implemented in the expansion.  These changes mean that I have to set up and relearn how to play my various characters again.  In addition to the class specific changes there are a ton of changes on how things work in general.  There will be a long adjustment period made even longer by the the reduced amount of time I spend in the game nowadays.

If you would have told me a year ago that Alison would be waking up at 4:45 am on a weekday so she could go meet up with a group from the club to do a 6am training run I would have called you crazy.  Well that is exactly what she did this morning.  Actually it is the second time she has pulled herself out of bed before the crack of dawn to go run.

If that isn’t weird enough, Ali just bought a wet suit so she can swim in COLD WATER.  This from the girl that considered any pool temps under 85 degrees as unswimmable.  I may be witness to a real life alien abduction.

To say she has dove head first into this triathlon thing would be a big understatement.

I feel like I should have something special or inspiring to say about the rescue of the Chilean miners but I just don’t. Sorry.