Cindy, re: your BSG question-- no, it's not. It's just a planet they stumbled across when one of their scout ships got lost during an FTL (that's faster-than-light) jump. It was the first one they've seen since the 12 Colonies were attacked by the Cylons that could support human life, and so the human survivors voted for the presidential candidate (Baltar) who would let them live there instead of continuing towards Earth, which is what Laura Roslin, the acting President, preferred. They'd been hiding in the nebula that surrounded the planet for a year before the Cylons showed up at the end of last season (what the recap ep didn't tell you was the reason the Cylons found them--Baltar's weakness for the Cylon model Six [the leggy blonde] caused one of that Cylon model to set off a nuclear device that drew the Cylons attention).

Kitchen counters are clean. Once the sink is dry, I'll Scrubbing Bubble it--my lord, that makes stainless steal gleam. Is of magic.

But first I'll finish off this cup of tea in front of the TiVo, I think. And maybe do some prep work for the private class I'm giving after kettlebell tonight. Private classes bartered for massage therapy never looked so good.

Aren't you all terribly excited?

I don't want to remain unemployed long, but right now? I absolutely adore it. I like being home (and awake, which never seems to happen on the weekends) when the afternoon light hits my bedroom. It really makes me love LA, and makes me love my apartment.

And I don't quite dislike my life either.

I think the scenes you saw are probably 90% of the total screentime it's gotten.

Yeah, I was going to say this too. It's not really a "mythology" kind of show. (Some of the characters are more religious than others, which comes into play every so often on a personal level, but it's not what drives the show.)

I feel like an asshole. I went to meet a woman to buy a toy from Craigslist. It was $20. I took $30 out of the ATM and went I met her, I handed her the money and loaded the toy. Then drove away, oblivious that I had handed her a $10 instead of a $20.

She emailed me acting all indignant and mad (naturally). But I gave her my mobile number--why she didn't call me immediately so I could fix my mistake is beyond me. Now I have to mail it to her.

I bet she called me every name in the book on her drive home.

Eh, when you make it up, you make it up. I felt like ass when my neighbors exchanged $10 for quarters and I thought it was a $5 bill. I was all cheerful, fleecing my elderly neighbors on fixed incomes! I didn't realize for a few hours, and when I did I went over falling all over myself. All was forgiven (actually, I think they were more confused as hell than anything.)

ita, glad unexpected unemployment is treating you so well. Enjoy the time pursuing stuff that makes you feel good.

I don't need the show to be about their connection to earth and earthly things. I just dug that there was a question of whether or not Earth is a myth. Somehow, that drew me in. And that some of Earth's own myths survived made it better. Prior to that, I assumed they were humans of earthly origin, but didn't know why they were in space or anything else (or if they were human-like life forms who originated from other planets) or what I was into. Knowing they're earthlings so far away from home that they don't even know if it truly exists/existed, (and the fact that they've looked for earth) made it click for me. They're not just astronauts.

ita, have you been doing this all sans headache today? or just in between headaches?

I had a productive lunch today: bank, library, bookstore, food, and a national mounument.

Now to motivate getting a thing or two done tonight.

The not-having-to-spend-all-that-time-at-work is definitely the best part about unemployment.

I just want to say, I'm pretty sure whatever happened here earlier was not my fault, but I do need to remember to renew our domain(s).

OK, there's a woolite carpet cleaning ad. It seems like a singularly goofy device. Functional, sure, but goofy and nothing a brush and a spray bottle can't do. But its slogan: "Squeeze, rub, groom and done."

I don't have a particularly 12 year old bent. But ....butbutbut!@!!