![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
A co-worker today asked me what I did last night and all I could come up with was watching TV. So, a post not about TV (mostly).
-Yesterday was the annual Stampede breakfast at my work. It was my first company Stampede breakfast; I went to work for the company after Stampede had finished last year so I had missed out. Nothing too fancy, but it was a free breakfast. That's the best part about Stampede. :-D As for actually going to Stampede, I'm going Saturday with some friends. Mmm, mini doughnuts...
-Next week, I'll have been working for a year. Whoo, go me! I'll probably post more about that next week, but for now, yay, I'm still employed!
-I've been writing a lot while at work lately. Okay, to be more accurate, I've been writing while working. But not writing when I should be working. I type a few sentences then do some data entry, type a few sentences, enter some data, etc. Working at a computer that isn't my home computer seems to help with creativity. Or maybe it's the rampant paranoia that someone might come up behind me and see what I'm writing that's fueling the writing process. Whatever it is, it's nice getting stuff done. If I still have a job come November, I might give NaNoWriMo a try and write during the day while at work. It's probably the only way I'd make a daily writing quota.
-Alan Tudyk's been in town filming a low budget horror movie. A friend of my brother-in-law saw Alan about two weeks ago in a restaurant and we couldn't figure out why he would be here. The local paper had a story about three days ago about the movie, though it was more about how the director is Sally Field's son and how she was in town, too, to watch him direct. This is the first on-line article I've seen about the movie. The article makes it sound like the movie just stared filming but the production has been here for about two weeks now. So I have about another week and a half tostalk run into Alan.
-I heard about the Alien Nation remake Tim Minear is heading up, which is cool for him. I'm too young to remember Alien Nation so I'm indifferent about it being remade. I am not, however, indifferent about Syfy remaking Quantum Leap, which it might, according to io9.com. I've been watching reruns of Quantum Leap for about a year and a half now and I'm somewhere in season four, far enough into the show that I don't want to see a new take on it. Half the charm comes from the actors. This is Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell before they were a starship captain and a homicidal Cylon, respectively. And Quantum Leap was barely sci fi. Sure, Sam travelled through time, but he didn't do it with a flashy time machine and he didn't run around with a ray gun. Al was like the only constant sci fi reminder. The rest of the time, it was just Sam, trying to make right what once went wrong. It doesn't sound like a concrete thing at the moment, thank goodness, but the potential is there. The next thing you know, we'll have this:
Not that this would be a bad thing... ;-)
-Sigh, is it time to watch Torchwood yet?
-Yesterday was the annual Stampede breakfast at my work. It was my first company Stampede breakfast; I went to work for the company after Stampede had finished last year so I had missed out. Nothing too fancy, but it was a free breakfast. That's the best part about Stampede. :-D As for actually going to Stampede, I'm going Saturday with some friends. Mmm, mini doughnuts...
-Next week, I'll have been working for a year. Whoo, go me! I'll probably post more about that next week, but for now, yay, I'm still employed!
-I've been writing a lot while at work lately. Okay, to be more accurate, I've been writing while working. But not writing when I should be working. I type a few sentences then do some data entry, type a few sentences, enter some data, etc. Working at a computer that isn't my home computer seems to help with creativity. Or maybe it's the rampant paranoia that someone might come up behind me and see what I'm writing that's fueling the writing process. Whatever it is, it's nice getting stuff done. If I still have a job come November, I might give NaNoWriMo a try and write during the day while at work. It's probably the only way I'd make a daily writing quota.
-Alan Tudyk's been in town filming a low budget horror movie. A friend of my brother-in-law saw Alan about two weeks ago in a restaurant and we couldn't figure out why he would be here. The local paper had a story about three days ago about the movie, though it was more about how the director is Sally Field's son and how she was in town, too, to watch him direct. This is the first on-line article I've seen about the movie. The article makes it sound like the movie just stared filming but the production has been here for about two weeks now. So I have about another week and a half to
-I heard about the Alien Nation remake Tim Minear is heading up, which is cool for him. I'm too young to remember Alien Nation so I'm indifferent about it being remade. I am not, however, indifferent about Syfy remaking Quantum Leap, which it might, according to io9.com. I've been watching reruns of Quantum Leap for about a year and a half now and I'm somewhere in season four, far enough into the show that I don't want to see a new take on it. Half the charm comes from the actors. This is Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell before they were a starship captain and a homicidal Cylon, respectively. And Quantum Leap was barely sci fi. Sure, Sam travelled through time, but he didn't do it with a flashy time machine and he didn't run around with a ray gun. Al was like the only constant sci fi reminder. The rest of the time, it was just Sam, trying to make right what once went wrong. It doesn't sound like a concrete thing at the moment, thank goodness, but the potential is there. The next thing you know, we'll have this:
Not that this would be a bad thing... ;-)
-Sigh, is it time to watch Torchwood yet?
