ballot received

In Maryland you can check the status of your mailed ballot -- mine has been received :-)  Turns out you can trust the USPS after all!  Heh.

A third day at the condo begins ... yesterday I binged Caprica all day, except it is one of those old-fashioned TV shows with 20 episodes in the season so it is impossible to finish it in one day, and eventually it started to drag, and I went to bed.

I remember watching the first half of it or so, one week at a time, as it aired, except probably via the TiVo.  Yeah, the TiVo was a big part of our media consumption back then.  T kept investing in the latest TiVo consoles ... until he didn't.  We reached a point, especially after K moved out, when we just didn't watch much TV together anymore, and we could stream-on-demand the shows we wanted to watch together.

Also, back then we'd buy the DVD sets!  LOL.  Nobody buys DVD sets anymore.  It felt so retro yesterday pulling out the Blu-Ray player and putting in a disk.  LOL.  Remembering that I was an early adopter of the HD-DVD standard, and felt so bitter when Blu-Ray won the format war.  HD-DVD was the better technology, it should've won!  LOL.  Fucking Sony.

This condo is the land of old technology.  Laptops from 2012-2015, a plasma TV from 2013, an Xbox 360, ... but I like it here.

I had a spot of anxiety this morning thinking about going back to the house, but I don't have to go back to the house today.

T sent me pics of all the pets.  I do love the pets.  And I love T, and I love K, and my life continues to revolve around my job and the people/pets I love.  Even as these all change over time.

Pegasus

Revisiting some top Battlestar Galactica episodes today.

As I rewatch Pegasus (2x10), I'm trying to put each of the ships on the D&D alignment scale.  Pegasus is Lawful Evil?  Galactica is Chaotic Good?

Reading about the music for the series.  I'm back to deconstructing music as I listen to it, pulling it apart into the constituent tracks and loops, visualizing what it would look like in a DAW.  But I'm still treating this long weekend as a sort of mini-solo-MAL, time to relax, more than anything else.

Time to relax.  Hoping the transition back to the house tomorrow morning doesn't feel too much like sub drop.

But I'm OK.  I'm OK.

"Maelstrom" 3x17

The show got trippier later on, eh?

talked with Sir Ben!

Talked with Sir Ben on the phone for an hour, that was cool.

Next weekend I'll talk with K on the phone.  Talking on the phone, what an invention!

such storytelling, so many emotions

Exodus -- BSG 3x3+4

I'd truly forgotten what BSG felt like.

Why am I reliving old media when I'm by myself?  Greatest Hits from Bug's past stuff.

I want to float on others' narratives for a day, for a few days, stuff my brain with your story, make me cry, make me grieve, make me love, make me regret, make me sing and dance and fall asleep exhausted with your spin,

StarTrek: Discovery gives BSG a good competition for best sci fi TV ever, well, there's also The Expanse.  And I love Picard, but to love Picard you need so much backstory, you need to be old like Picard, like me.

There's the business of storytelling, and that warps everything, but sometimes good storytelling survives the filter of capital, makes a profit and makes you cry, simultaneously, fuck,

calm

enough time to self to reach a place of calm, like a still Wisconsin lake, formed by the retreat of long-past glaciers ... I hope it lasts through tomorrow ... why can't the calm last forever, LOL, no, that's why I keep them muscle relaxers around, heh, may need them tomorrow ...

I should talk to family and friends on the phone more often ... talking to Ben was so darn comforting, which is why I asked for it

hey, I can ask for what I need?  and sometimes the universe will then give it to me, but not always,