I’m getting literate… I borrowed some Doctor Who DVDs from a friend, and have started watching the Tom Baker run (Doctor #4) from the beginning.

Lawks, but these special effects are bad.

Errr… SPECIAL. They’re special, that’s it. I wouldn’t want to offend any true believers.

Effects aside, I’ve found that in these first several episodes (#75 through #77 — Robot 1-4, Ark in Space 1-4, The Sontaran Experiment 1-2) the show grinds to a snoozy, boring halt when Tom Baker isn’t on-screen for more than half a minute. The man is simply amazing in this role.

At some point I’ll pick up another Doctor (including the current one — I saw part of an episode, and really liked it) but for now I’m eating jelly-babies.

And I LOVE the music. L.O.V.E LOVE. But I grew up on old-school synth-rock, and know how to play the Theremin.

–Howard

Today I weighed in at 182, which is down 10lbs from my lifetime high in December (aaaand again in mid-January, when I decided to start really TRYING to diet.)

The low-carbing is working. So of course I celebrated today by pigging out on Thai food — Tom Ka Gai soup, Masaman curry, and a bowl of sticky rice the size of my head.

I put on four pounds of FOOD in one day. Yum! But it filled me so full I didn’t eat much of anything else all day long (light breakfast, Thai lunch of doom, low-carb snack at dinner).

Oh, wait… there was that donut. The cutting board was the biggest waste of time — I decided that I was only going to have HALF a donut… at a time, it turned out. But that was right after the Thai food, and counts as part of the same pig-out.

Anyway, I’m back on the wagon now. Here’s to the next 10!

My Dire Troll Blitzer now has green-stuff on him, patching the horrible hole I made in his back while installing the pipe-and-sleeve assembly. Continue reading Blitzer, Greened →

mamaslyth pointed me at a face-manipulation script. Here’s my author-photo from the first two books nicely doctored so I look more like the monkey I feel like.

Oook ook!

(Yes, I turned it into an LJ avatar, too…)