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Blah, blah, interrupted sleep cycle. You know the drill. Brain functioning at half capacity.

Of course, that still leaves me better off than most folks, it seems, so that's good.

I've been updating my Tumblr semi-regularly - my New Comics Day posts, my MST3K favorites posts, my 'Bad Movie Night' posts. I may just become a blogger, yet.

Later this month, I'll have the chance to see all of Birdemic, which had a good run at the Smithee Awards this year; I won't be seeing it in its completely natural state, though - it will be with the buffer of comedy provided by the RiffTrax team. Looking forward to it!

Should be arriving from Amazon today, volume 24 - including Fugitive Alien 1 and 2! I am pleased. It also has The Sword and the Dragon, and Samson vs. The Vampire Women - this is a solid set. Basically every one of those is a favorite episode of mine.

Starting watching Community Season Three through the gracious provenance of a friend's Hulu account - knocked out six episodes of that last night. Enjoying that quite a bit.

Is there any better food? I think not.

Birthday dinner yesterday was good, and I have been inspired to actually put together the semi-monthly MST3K viewings I'd been thinking about. So I will get on that.

This week is full-ish, so I think I will be giving Game a Week a pause until next week. (And using this extra time to play more Recettear! I am devious.)

Tonight, I will visit the university's Anime Club for the first time.

Sci-fi game cancelled due to player illness. Only one more potential session before the D&D game it was subbing for picks back up. And I'm okay with that. I had been struggling to muster the time to properly prep for it and still maintain my own Saturday sessions.

So I spent the evening with Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3, and did a little data recovery work on a friend's old hard drive. And watched some Rifftrax shorts.

I am still working on a list of MST3K episodes for mini-marathons, which I plan to start sometime soonish.

At work, we're doing some training on a new ticketing system, so my time's been a little scarce. Should be done now, thankfully. The guy doing the training seems to have really enjoyed Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' movie, because every time he talks about starting a ticket, instead of using the words 'start', 'create', or 'begin', he invariably says 'incept'. This usage is accurate, but pompous-sounding and kind of obnoxious the 6th or 7th time. Word variety is your friend.

My hideous bug-bite welts from the 4th are beginning to relent, under my planned assault that includes two kinds of anti-itch cream, and Benadryl before bedtime. The two that looked liked puffy port-wine stains on my leg have started to break up into a more mottled appearance, which is good.

My current theory on my neck pain is that I am clenching my teeth in my sleep, resulting in TMJD. (Temporo-Mandibular Joint Disorder) I am hoping it will pass like it did last time.

Lastly, I think I may try to do some MST3K mini-marathons with people I know locally. It's time I put my TV and my MST collection to good use. Now I need to think of some themes for the mini-marathons.

I really should decide on a Halloween costume some year. I love the holiday, I'm just lazy, cheap, and indecisive when it comes to Halloween costumes.

Going to go see RiffTrax Live tonight. Mom's in town, so I'm taking her along!

It's time to give up the ghost on Star Trek Online. I like the game. Mostly. But it's not interesting enough that I feel compelled to play often, which is a basic failure in an MMO. It has noble company in the failure bin - World of Warcraft didn't grab me either.

Saw that last night - excellent show as always. And they're doing a Halloween show with Vincent Price's House on Haunted Hill! Ran into sheliakbob and acquaintance there as well.

I have to say, though, my biggest laugh of the night was some of the stuff before they really started. See, the Rifftrax shows precede the main event with movie trivia, quotes, and suchlike - sort of like a normal movie does, except all the movie facts are hilariously fake. It was one of their 'Movie Mistakes' placards that got me - it read, simply :

"The Last Airbender"

Damn, that's cold.

Awesome show. Could've used more Weird Al, but a fun time was had, nonetheless. I was extremely entertained by the callback to Prince of Space.

Quite an enjoyable experience - I'd love to see them do more of those. Especially on an evening with no thunderstorm.

A bit more about Plan 9 and RiffTrax can be found on my Bloggity-blog.

I am pleased that Sci-Fi (or SyFy) has opted to order a second season of Warehouse 13. I am really enjoying the hell out of it.

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