Weekend Update

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 Doctor Who - Journey to the Center of the Tardis. Basically a Clara episode where we don't learn much about her, but she does come across some interesting things while she is being chased through the interior of the Tardis. The pool, the library, that telescope thingy that killed the werewolf in that one episode. She also finds a book called "The History of the Time War" and learns the Doctor's name, only to have it erased later. Grrr.

 Community - Troy and Abed do the whole swapping bodies bit like in Freaky Friday. It has its moments.

How I Met Your Mother - Damn I wish Lilly would take the job in Italy and be gone forever.

Movies - Of all the Pixar movies, The Incredibles is my favorite. Reminds me of happier times when things were all about family. My oldest daughter is so Violet, and my youngest is very much Dash (for a girl). Unfortunately there is no Elastigirl in my life anymore. As awesome as this movie is, it hurts to watch it sometimes.

Books - Finally got Homeland, and promptly finished it in one day. Yeah, I read like that. It was a continuation of the book Little Brother. Within the first 50 pages there were references to The Pirate Bay, torrents, X-box and Doctor Who. And yeah, Will Wheaton makes a character appearance. Unfortunately, the book left me with a feeling of non-closure. I wanted the evil bitch to pay, but she got off the hook again. Double Grrr.

Sports

Braves - Went to Colorado and took two out of three (after having a game cancelled because of snow), and then got swept in Detroit. They have played just two home games in the last three weeks. Scheduling sucks. Finished the week with a record of 15-9, which is still good for first place.

NFL Draft - The draft finally happened and all I was concerned about was where my Bama boys were going and who the Falcons would pick. Well the Falcons didn't "wow" me, but Alabama made some noise in the first round with three straight picks (9-11) with CB Dee Milliner going to the Jets, OL Chance Warmack going to Tennessee and then OL DJ Fluker picked up by San Diego. The rest of the draft went like:

• RB Eddie Lacy, Green Bay Packers
• LB Nico Johnson to Kansas City Chiefs
• OL Barrett Jones to St Louis Rams
• DL Jessie Williams to Seattle Seahawks
• DL Quinton Dial to San Francisco 49ers
• TE Michael Williams to Detroit Lions
• DB Robert Lester to Carolina Panthers
• DL Damion Square to Philadelphia Eagles
• OL Carson Tinker to Jacksonville Jaguars

Considering just a few years ago, Bama had not one single player drafted at all, Nick Saban is worth every damn penny he is paid (maybe more).

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Weekend Update

 

Audio/Video/Telly

 

 Doctor Who - Hide. Finally an episode worth a damn. Turns out the whole ghost hunting thing was just so the Doctor could talk to the psychic lady and ask her about Clara, who said she was a normal girl. She earlier warned Clara about the Doctor saying he has ice in his heart. And what was that circle he drew on the ground? Those statues in that room kind of freaked me out too.

 Community - Christmas episode? Yep. The air date for these episodes were pushed back several months. Cool how at the end they went with that whole alternate timeline thing again. Annie is still so yummy.

How I Met Your Mother - Finally a new one from them. Lilly and Marshall slightly bore me. They've beaten that whole Lilly is the horny band geek from American Pie for way too long. We never got to see the "redonkulous" body of the wedding planner. Maybe soon!

Movies - So if you know anything about me, you know I have a lot of free time right now so I find myself watching old movies for inspiration or whenever one pops in my head. One of these was The Mist. Not usually my type of movie but I saw an article where it was called the predecessor to The Walking Dead. I'm like whut? So I watch it and one of the main character is Andrea. And oh look there's Dale. Holy crap that's Carol (did she always have short dikey hair?)! Funny that all of them were in the movie and ended up in a series together years later. And I never connected Andrea with Marita Covarrubias from the X-Files! Wow, the things you learn...

Music - I added some music from Peter Schilling and The Cars, and a ton of 80's singles from some compilation albums. Yeah, I was basically trying to re-live my high school days.

Books - Finished Little Brother by Cory Doctorow in one day. Looking forward to the next book Homeland, if it will ever show up in the mail.

Sports

Braves - The Braves split a two games series with the Royals in which their 10 game winning streak was snapped. Then they went to Pittsburgh and apparently didn't like the cooler weather there. They lost all three games. Their record is now 13-5, still good for first place in the NL East.

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Weekend Update

 

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 Doctor Who - Cold War. So yeah it's another character (ice warriors) from the distant past kind of episode. It was okay but I want to know what the deal is with Clara. It's like they've forgotten to even tell that story. And what happened to the Silence? I guess I had gotten used to the whole large story arcs as a season unfolds but this just seems a lot of stand alone episodes that don't really move the story along in any kind of way. I've been very underwhelmed so far.

 Community - Puppets. We got a puppets episode. Nuff Said. It's always something fun and different. Bravo.

Ben and Kate - Started watching this due to a recommendation. Ben is kind of annoying in a stupid way, but Kate is the real treasure here as she tries dating and starting her life all over after having a baby at a very young age. Not that that reminds me of anyone.

New Girl - CeCe is freaking out over her soon to be (Indian!) wedding, because she has never seen her fiancées  penis. So it's up to Nick and Winston to get a pic of it for her. Yeah. It goes about how you would expect.

Movies - I was reading about some movies in production and came across the best news of all: they are making Isaac Asimov's Foundation books into a movie. This reminded me of another movie which was closely related so I went back and watched The Adjustment Bureau. Awesome stuff.

Music - I added some Snow Patrol after a conversation with a friend.

Books - I am re-reading (again) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Great book about a high school kid that hacks a lot of ordinary items in his school/life that gets him in trouble once he disagrees with the "establishment" over recognition software that tracks everyone like Stalin. Looking forward to the next book Homeland, if I can ever get the book club web page to work.

Sports

Braves - The Braves started off the week by sweeping the Marlins in three games. The big test was then going to Washington and playing the team everyone thinks will win it all this year. The Braves had something to say about that as they swept them also 6-4. 3-1, and then a 9-0 clobbering. They currently have the best record in baseball at 11-1. Go Braves!

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