Life In Motion (Or lack Thereof)

Yo, yo, wassup, my peeps! Just wanted to report in, ya feel me? I took my previous blog down. You know.. the rant about the unfriendly, unsociable, stuck up, "too good for lil ol me" snobs? I figured the people whom I was addressing would never read it, so I deleted it, and PMed the people in question, to tell them personally what unfriendly, unsociable, stuck up, "too good for lil ol me" snobs they really were. And I feel a whooole lot better. Even if I get kicked off or banned..hey..what is life without a little danger, huh? I laugh in the face of danger. Ha-Ha-ha! (See?)

Anyway, sorry that I haven't been comunicating, especially with my new X-Files friends (Wasssuuuup!). Had a few things going on. Still no job yet, but...my wife Patti just greeted the arrival of her sixth grandchild. He is a healthy beautiful little boy named Malcolm Landon Mazar. His Mother , my step-daughter, Jessica arrived saftely back home a year ago, after four years in Iraq. So we are doubly blessed.

Patti had an accident with the car last week. Coming home from work about a mile from our house on a rainy night during rush hour, the car slid out of control, missing about five oncoming cars (I don't know how she wasn't hit), and hit the curb hard. She wasn't hurt, and it happened on a side street instead of the 30 miles of high-speed freeway she travels each trip, so I thank God for that! Damage was minimal, but even minimal damage can be expensive. Impact with the curb totaled the drivers side tire and rim, and threw the allignment out of wack. Just to make the car drivable again was 450 dollars...for that! Dosen't sound like much, but when you only have a hundred in the bank, it's a lot. Can anybody out there say.."overdraft"? I knew you could.

On the television front, we can no longer afford to have the Sci-Fi channel on our lineup, so I can no longer see the one current program I love, Battlestar Galactica live as it airs. Arrrrrgggghhh! I've missed the last three episodes, and I'll have to watch them via an internet stream. Speaking of which, the ruling just came down (it's been a rumour for months) that the episode this Friday will be the last new episode until at least January 2009! OMG! I was hoping for Fall.. but 2009?! How sick is that?!! Fans are betting that this weeks episode before the break will contain the Big Reveal... who of our beloved characters is the Final Cylon? I don't expect them to find Earth until after the break, but it means the rest of the journey will damed sure be plenty interesting. The show has been a very rewarding viewing experience. Having been not too crazy about a re-imaganing of one of my favorite childhood shows at the beginning, it didn't take long for the show to prove me wrong. Many twists, turns, dramas, and mysteries..handled in an intelligent, thought provoking , and realistic manner...which is rare for any show these days..but realistic, for a sci-fi show? Yep. It's been so much fun watching there guys change and grow...and that includes the bad guys. The lines between human and Cylon have inched closer and closer together, especially this season..that the terms good and bad aren't really applicable anymore. But after this reveal..it's going to be a long wait until January.

Usually, I don't complain too much about not being able to afford going out to the movies. Ticket prices, and concessions are ridiculous anyway, and the movie has to be a real big screen only event to make me pay that kind of money. But so far...I'm not going to get to see Iron Man or Indiana Jones...which sucks, big time. Especially Indy. I have been waiting for sooo long for Ford to put on that Fedora again. For a while, I didn't think they'd have a script ready until he was in an actors retirement home! But now it's here, and I can't see it! Whaaaaaaah!

My hope is that my financial straits will be better by the time my next big release comes out...X-Files II: I Want To Believe. Due in July, this is another one I doubted would make it. This beloved show was almost DOA in it's last year, back in 2002, as far as most fans were concerned. The upcoming release has re-stirred the fandom pot, and I and my wife are re-watching the series to get caught up. She's watching most of them for the first time, and having a ball doing it! I can't wait!

Some of these forums on here are sooo dead, particularly the one for Star Trek, the original series. I'm trying to stir up some life on there through some strategy of my own. If you're a fan of Star trek, and on my list, check out my new thread there. I really want to see how many people actually visit the forum, and then try and exchange ideas on how we can bring it back to life.

That's all for now. Life beckons, so I'll talk at ya all later. Holla at a brutha!

Peace,

Ted