Ah darn, I missed Consuela. I have a Farscape question too. I've watched about 8 episodes from the first season now. I like the premise, and I liked one or two of the episodes, but have been kind of meh about most of them. Would people advise me to keep watching, if I am meh at this point (do things get better?) or should I just chalk it up as not for me and stop?

I've been on that Topenga Canyon road. Of course, there wasn't a big rock in the road then.

I've been trying to decide if I can cut my expenses enough to start taking Krav and now ita is tempting me further. I did get a letter offering a discount on the 1st month of classes.

In terms of natural disasters, I think tornados are awsome (in the evoking awe sense of the word). NSM in the death and destruction aspect, but in the raw, concentrated power. Watching a funnel cloud develop is amazing. I like that it is possible to watch this force of nature develop fairly quickly and, more often than not, still have time to make it to the basement. Plus, they do the most random, freaky things. One street away from the house I grew up in a tornado turned one house into a split-level (one half was raised up about 2') and twisted a tree out of another front yard, depositing it in the same place with the roots twisting to a point, and didn't touch another thing.

My favorite tornado story is from some 40 years ago when my high school was mostly destroyed. The front facade was left standing, and where it had said "RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOL" the tornado left the letters "RU IN."

If aurelia wants to talk about designing home lighting, I'm all ears. After all, she's a heck of a lot closer to me geographically than ND. I'd even be willing to shop at the Ikea in Schaumberg with her.

Shopping with Sail? Cool. Just say when, and I'm there.

I was meh on Farscape until somewhere past the half-way mark of watching the first season. I'd say give it another 5 or 6 episodes, Lee.

One of the things that struck me about living in the US was that the weather so often headlined the news. We get bushfires (South Australia is being hit right now, 9 people dead), and the far north gets some crazy weather, but around here? NSM.

In Philly, OTOH, I had ice storms, a hurricane or two, and even a tornado. And Philly is hardly ground central for any of those weather patterns.

Lee, from Consuela "Natter 30: Piss off, Bitches!" Dec 15, 2004 7:47:19 am PST

The first part of the first season starts out a little slow, with a run of one-offs that don't entirely showcase what the show and its cast are capable of. But after about episode 11, it really begins to take off.

(I haven't watched as many episodes as you did, but my response is still pretty similar to yours. I will continue, though, after the semester is over. Which it hadn't done yet. Which is how come I'm not really here).

t Waving at everybody

t *poof*ing away

[Editing to wave especially in the direction of billytea, while poofing. It's not an easy task, to wave and to poof at the same time. However, I had to practice it, so I'm getting, sadly, better at it]

[Editing to wave especially in the direction of billytea, while poofing. It's not an easy task, to wave and to poof at the same time. However, I had to practice it, so I'm getting, sadly, better at it]

We shall call it 'woofing'. No, wait, that doesn't work. Paving? Hm. Bugger.

Hi Nilly! How's things?

Nilly and billytea!

t waves like a madman

waves like a madman

We shall call it 'wadman'.

This isn't getting any better, is it?

I'm just tickled to have company in the middle of the night again.

Heh. And with that, I disappear completely. Sorry about that.

My dinner only just arrived. I ordered it three hours ago. It's now 11 pm.