Monday, December 23, 2002
Getting a slow start today. Now that the DSL is up and running, I'm trying to streamline my hard drive, getting rid of software I never use, upgrading stuff I do use, and making the switch from Netscape, which hardly seems to work with anything these days, to IE5. This is my first entry written in IE and it's a bit odd. The letters are HUGE. I wonder if there's some way to adjust this . . . hold on . . . there, that's better. Text zoom. It still looks very strange, though; I suppose I will get used to it, in time.
Yesterday I did more than 2,500 words on the introduction to TFoC, writing until early evening. This would count as my new record for Most Words Written In A Single Day, but as I said earlier, it doesn't feel quite right counting non-fiction. And, mostly, this is non-fiction. As non-fictional as I can make it without boring myself (and everyone else who has to read it) silly. So, the total word count on the introduction now stands at 7,767 words . . . and it's still not finished! I have to find the end of this thing today. Hopefully, it won't go past 8,500 words and I can be done by three or four this afternoon. This is an introduction I'd thought would only take me a day to write.
Farscape News: Starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, the Sci-Fi Channel will be rerunning the first eleven episodes of Season Four in succession, as a lead in to the last eleven episodes of Season Four, which will begin airing on January 10th (I'll be in frelling San Francisco at SpookyCon, of course; surely someone there gets SciFi). So, the Farscape Chain Reaction runs Christmas Eve Day, from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. (EST). Here's a schedule of the episodes:
8:00 AM "Crichton Kicks"
9:00 AM "What Was Lost" Pt. 1 - "Sacrifice"
10:00 AM "What Was Lost" Pt. 2 - "Resurrection"
11:00 AM "Lava's a Many Splendored Thing"
12:00 PM "Promises"
1:00 PM "Natural Election"
2:00 PM "John Quixote"
3:00 PM "I Shrink Therefore I Am"
4: 00 PM "A Prefect Murder"
5:00 PM "Coup By Clam"
6:00 PM "Unrealized Reality"
The SFC will also rerun the most recent three eps of the first eleven of Season Four (yes, it is confusing) - 4.09, 410, and 411 - on January 3rd.
So, this is a good opporunity to catch up with the show and avoid another dose of It's A Wonderful Life.
If you're entirely new to the show, here's a primer that will help orient you a bit:
http://home.attbi.com/~whitestarphoenix/primer_color.pdf
Unexpectedly, the SFC has moved Farscape back into its 8 p.m. (EST) Friday night time slot, where it should have been all along. As Producer David Kemper pointed out in a recent interview, it's a rather odd move, considering they have no intentions of continuing the series after the end of Season Four. The move to a 9 p.m. time slot was responsible for the small ratings drop in the first place, which the network used as part of its justification for cancelling the show. There are rumors that the move back to 8 p.m. may be cause for hope, hope that the SFC is still open to the possibility of renewing the show if it the final eleven episodes of Season Four do well in the ratings. So, please tune in tomorrow if you have the time, and keep an hour open Friday nights.
Off to work . . .
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