seven more sleeps to go...

'Twas a week before Christmas, and all through the house, not a person was stirring, not even... Well, ok, maybe I've been stirring a little. But it's only been good natured ribbing. Nothing more, and certainly no sarcasm...

It's been a flat activity over the last couple of months to watch Stargate episodes on DVD together—we've polished off the 21 or so first season episodes, 42 minutes each, and are currently working our way into season two. We may not have a TV in the house, but don't think we're completely inoculated against small screen entertainment. In this programme our intrepid heroes, lead by Richard Dean Anderson (formerly of Macgyver fame) make their sarcasm-powered way across the galaxy, with an obligatory “With all due respect, sir” to a superior officer at least once an episode. Tonight though we took a step back and watched Nick and Hayley's new DVD of the original feature film (in glorious iMac widescreen action, of course!) It was interesting to see the same characters, almost all played by different actors, and the similarities and differences between the two. Nick and I (who'd seen the movie before) and forgotten a lot of the detail, particularly how much of the technology and underlying story they introduced in the movie. It was interesting to see the differences too, most notably a distinct lack of sarcasm (replaced by just being jaded for the most part) and not a single, “With all due respect, sir” in sight. Like me, must be trying to be on the “nice” list rather than “naughty” list in time for the end of the week.

Speaking of which, yay it's almost Christmas! And Bronwyn and I think we've finally got every present sorted, and have nearly every single one wrapped and under the tree (or, or course, dispatched appropriately). Bronwyn continues her usual tradition of refusing to label gift cards to stymie the curious. Ah, tradition.

It's late. Time for sleep. Let me finally, however, welcome to the blogosphere Tim (husband of my previous supervisor Nancy)... Today Tim's cats have been building a particle accelerator... my kind of blog!