catching up

It's been a busy few days for me lately. Guest starring in a lot of adventures has been my friend Jamie, with whom I have done a brunch 'n bitch (our usual Sunday event), gone shopping, seen Wanted and Hellboy II, gone shopping again, gone shopping again, then took a long long walk across the city's waterfront during which time I scorched my feet so bad I couldn't put on socks and didn't go to work for a night.

Ah adventure.

I am just getting ready to go to work tonight; there's chicken on the grill for dinner, the dishes are done from earlier and I have a few moments in which to splat some thoughts out across the web.

I'm getting rid of my Bell Canada land line. I called today to say I wanted it gone and after all their attempts to keep me as a customer failed, we agreed that Tuesday 5 August is the day it gets cut off. I'll be sticking to my cel phone for now, just as there is more media attention being thrown at the health hazards associated with a transmitter right beside your head. I don't phone chat that often anyways, but I will use an earpiece from now on. Truth is, Bell is soaking me for $60 a month for something I hardly use. Oh sure they offered me some package that said it was $20 less a month, but after tax gets thrown back on we're right back where we started. My cel phone is with Bell Mobility but as soon as my contract with them is up (if it isn't already) I am leaving them as well since they're hellbent on charging us up the wazoo for text messages. Rogers looks good. I have my internet with them, why not give them my cellular business.

Jay was just over. For followers of my Doctor Who Viewed Anew blog over at http://www.seansdoctorwhomission.blogspot.com you'll know Jay as my viewing companion for several years now. We're at a point in Doctor Who where all the material is either books or audios so I am reviewing them independently, and to bridge the gap Jay and I are diverting with a BBC sci fi series called Blake's 7 which for all appearances looks like it was made with the money they had left over from Doctor Who. And that wasn't much. But it's a very well-written show, the first season penned by Dalek creator Terry Nation, and for its 4 seasons it maintains itself almost without flaws. The title character, Blake, goes missing at the end of season 2 and the survivors of his quest for justice against the corrupt Galactic Federation are left to carry on his legacy, at the risk of their own lives. With the central character gone and the supporting cast sometimes killed off mid season, the show does not follow a traditional expected format, which is probably why it's that good. The speculation that a new hi-tech remake is in the works based on the success of the revived Doctor Who series is a good and bad thing; the appeal of Blake's 7 lies in how it did so well on such limited resources, and if it gets all jazzed up who knows if it would be the same. And unlike Doctor Who the series would need to be reinvented and retold from the start, because the way it ends there's really no going back.

And I'll say no more about that.

For my dining pleasure tonight, it's a spinach salad with grape tomatoes, cucumber and green pepper. And I just realized I forgot the onions. Damn. And an organic chicken breast sliced and spread on top. Mm mm good. The health program continues, despite how boring my boss finds me when I am not drinking, and tomorrow the adventure in fitness will be to try the Extreme Fitness location at Yonge and Dundas after work, just to see.

Tomorrow will hopefully see a review of the facility in this blog, and over at the Doctor Who blog a further review of material.

That is all.