…and we pick up our program on Saturday night, already in progress.
Saturday night a good number of folks headed home, but Rusty, Simba, and Sirius (along with my mom) crashed at our place, and Linnaeus, Jaycee, Nyuni, and Erin crashed over at Roho and Genet’s place. The lot of us met up for brunch at our old standby, Las Vegas Restaurant in Antioch. After a pleasant meal, I took Mom back down to O’Hare so she could catch her flight home, then returned to our place, where everyone else had gone after brunch.
The afternoon and evening were full of games and fun. We played Cranium (which, as usual, was about 30 minutes too long), then some TransAmerica, as well as some Lupus in Tabula. Throw in noshing on leftovers and an occasional break to watch “Ace of Cakes” and you’ve got a lovely day with friends. I went to bed at about 11:30 PM, leaving Rusty, Linnaeus, and Dan to play a few more games of TransAmerica; Dan came to bed around 2 AM.
Monday we had set aside to do absolutely nothing. Paul had gone home after the game wrapped up, so Rusty was our only guest, which was fine – he’s family, so he qualifies as a low-maintenance houseguest 🙂 The day was spent pretty much just lazing around in the living room. Dan got up at about 1:30 PM, and we munched a bit on still more leftovers. I got curious and after asking a few questions, I downloaded the client and now, heaven help us, both Dan and I are on Second Life.
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Here is Dunc McMillan. Theoretically, he’s an anthropomorphic Siberian husky. I may need to work on a better avatar. |
And here is Dunc sitting with his partner, Takaza Guffey. Isn’t Takaza just the cutest thing? |
I don’t see getting too involved in Second Life much more than I am involved on FurryMuck, which is to say as a glorified IRC client. But hey, it’s there and maybe I’ll have fun with it. We closed out the wonderfully relaxing day with our new Monday habit, since Heroes has gone away for the summer: Doctor Who. We’ve had all of the second season sitting on our Tivo for quite some time, so we’ve started watching those, beginning with last night’s “Christmas Invasion”. Hmm. David Tennant is no Christopher Eccleston, but he’s definitely growing on me…
So that’s our Memorial Day weekend. Now we can start worrying about other fun stuff, like Anthrocon, and FRAC, and MFF, and all the usual stuff! 🙂
David Tennant is no Christopher Eccleston, but he’s definitely growing on me…
I was actually going to bring some of The Doc over Saturday, but I didn’t know where anyone was in the series, and I do so hate spoiling.
Give the bloke some time. He’s barely in that episode, to be honest, and it’s not the best written stuff in the universe. By mid-season he’s really hitting stride–wait for The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit (Eps #8 and #9) and The Girl In The Fireplace (Ep 4) for him to really shine.
For a large part, Series 2 was pretty duff. I’m far happier with what I’ve seen in Series 3, but that’s not exactly something you can TiVo, now can you? 😉
The Satan Pit was pure, classic Who in every way. Even so, I don’t care much for Tennant as the Doctor. Eccleston was almost as quirky and perfect for the role as Tom Baker was. Tennant is rather more reserved and stuffy, qualities I don’t care to see in the Doctor.
I’ve seen everything from season 1 and 2. Not seen 3, because Tennant didn’t excite me too much so I’ll wait for it on SciFi channel instead of Bittorrent.
I could argue the point, but one of the most basic tenants of Who is that not everyone likes every Doctor or companion. I don’t dislike Eccleston, don’t get me wrong in that–he was bombastic at times, very mood-swingy, all of that.
It may stem down to my preferences in Doctors in general: as much as I do like Tom Baker, I’m every bit as much a fan of Peter Davison, disposable cardboard companions aside (Matthew Waterhouse, that means you, lad) and daft scripts ignored (who green-lit Timeflight or Earthshock, anyway?). Tennant seems to be channeling much Doc 5–calm, reserved, humbly wise in most cases, and often times very unsure of himself.
Season 3 is a -gratuitous- improvement over Season 2–Smith & Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Gridlock, and 42, and Human Nature are strong eps, personal opinion of course. The season closers look to be big-bangers, moreso than Army Of Ghosts+Doomsday apparently.
Word of advice to anyone involved: avoid Wikipedia, the BBC Doc Who site, or the IMDB. ALL have ep spoilers, even for eps that haven’t aired yet.
Ah! YOu have a werewolf from the Werehouse! Nice stuff.
Give Shockwave Yareach a howl next time you are on. 🙂
When I get my computer hooked up again, I’ll jump on. I’m going to be making a second character handle, until I fix all the characters that were broken on my main account.
Well, sorry to have to disagree with everyone here, buy my mate and I both agree that Tennant it the hottest thing to happen to Dr. Who since Tom Baker. I mean, he’s smart, sassy, witty, and oh so ubercute. I’d take a trip with him anyday. And, if you’ve seen the parody that’s on YouTube, he even looks good in drag. And did I mention he’s cute?
Nice avatars… so is Second Life much more than a glorified Muck client, or does that pretty much sum it up? The screen captures I see sure seem seductive, but I figure it’s mainly people chatting about work and so on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just even Furry Muck had so much more potential than what panned out in practice. Years ago, I would wonder around the Muck from time to time and explore room after room that someone must have spent a lot of time building, but that was always empty, from as best as I could tell. I’m still waiting for something that gives me full immersion in to a 3D world that has smell and feel, too. 🙂
One of us! One of us! (chuckle). Seriously, welcome to SL. I’ll probably see you both around there at some point.