the alphabetical cd listening (and culling) is up to mid-S. something like 50 or more cds culled so far--unfortunately not all of those sellable to the used cd place

not much tv on of late, though this week is getting it back. only three shows on my list for last week, fourteen for this week... plus apparently the daily show was new last night and i missed it. been watching the second season of scrubs on dvd and serenity with commentary and last night wedding crashers, which i rather enjoyed

on the writing side of life, i recently edited hindsight and sent it to the magazine of fantasy & science fiction. haven't been turned down by them since a year and a half ago, so i got that going for me (not to mention hindsight is one of my better reviewed stories). and, i've figured out a way to fix the end of... well, i referred to it before as my gardea horror story, but it didn't end up much of a horror story, rather a simple travelogue with some highlights of violence. it was called southard, the sands of red, but that title doesn't fit. i'm contemplating calling it when on a caramor.

in other gardea news, i recently created a new map for known bas (that is gardea and the surrounding areas), and had a big enlargement made to figure out where some places are and how the geography relates--been learning stuff about geology and geographical terms and to what they actually apply as i go, making for a more realistic other world). and, i've been setting up my plot for the third gardea book:a bit of a dislocated in time, sci-fi take on fantasy methinks (still under the title carrian way)

also discovered the other night that i know exactly how an old novel idea of mine needs to be written. thing is, i can't write it. it's a bit of a purposely cliched serial killer story, cliched so it can focus on the characters but... ugh, i'm rambling now about something i don't ever intend to write. that seems kinda stupid

anyway, work is boring but doable, data entry and whatnot. life is well enough, movies and tv and family and sex and all, even if the wedding and its assorted get togethers a few weeks back was just a reminded of how antisocial i am... this past weekend's new year's eve party at my sister's house was another reminder of the same. and i'll be thirty by the end of this month, so i doubt i'll be shifting over to being a social animal anytime soon. i'll just make do with my family and my online discussion people--though, come to think of it, i haven't posted much online of late, and i don't just mean here at this little read blog--and my tv and movies and occasional books and my fictional creations. hell, maybe hindsight will get published and maybe i'll qualify for jeopardy for the third time when i tryout again in a few weeks and this time they'll actually call me to be on the show, and maybe i'll come up with a screenplay that can get me that nichols fellowship this year, not that i even made the quarterfinals last year...

hehe, negativity is fun

anyway, my point in all this is who the hell did the subtitles on the serenity extras? i mean, seriously, did they know anything about film in general, about serenity or even star wars for that matter? i mean, what is the millennium vulcan and why was joss whedon thinking about it? were there some indians spelling out the subtitles phonetically in some tiny village or what?

yes, that was my point in all that rambling above. got a problem with that? =]

now, i'm off to watch disc two of the return of the king extended edition with the fourth commentary. and you get along to whatever business you've got.