by sweet and spicy
We're Over Thirty and Obsessed! Just like the title says!

Everyone is welcome to post on the OTOs, BUT keep in mind this is a thread for Adults!
How do you know if this is the thread for you?
- Are the kids finally in bed or at practice somewhere and you need a moment with other Roswell Adults?
- Did your kids leave the nest and you no longer have to fight for the computer?
- You have no kids and enjoy posting with other Adult Roswell fans?
- Are you a mature 'under 30'?
Then this is the thread for you


~ Poem by John aka Noseedough ~


Friendships are the best ships!
Our fun tips are the best quips,
and our pics...they rule the board
friendships are the best
we're definitely obsessed...
sometimes we may be hazy,
but we never do get stressed.
Some jump right in, don't be afraid
say what's on your mind
never fear...we all have strayed,
but fall right back in line.
We love you when you're different,
we love you when you're not,
we are the OTO's my friend,
the best that you have got!

THE PARTICIPANTS.....

Jan 6 Icestorm ~ California ~ Queen of Roswell Dreams /Princess of Music!
Jan 10 Ryal ~ California ~ King of Covina Lurkers
Jan 13 Settled ~ California~Queen Star Magnet/Princess GG
Jan 17 RoswellGirl67 ~ Virginia ~ Queen of Jason's Heart
Jan 21 Crushed ~ Oklahoma ~ Queen of MY computer!/Willing Slave to Max!
Jan 27 Covina Guy ~ California ~ King of Rosvina Spies!
Jan 27 Softie ~ UK, Sussex ~ Shiri's Prince Charming
Feb 02 Groundhog ~ Texas ~ King of Tech Support
Feb 12 Howdy Pez ~ Texas ~ Queen of Roswell Round Robin!
Feb 22 jero ~ Illinois ~ Queen of Campaigning
Mar 02 Spook ~ England ~ Queen of the Spookathons and Summaries!
Mar 08 Tasyfa ~ Canada ~ Queen of Erotica!
Mar 12 teetee ~ New Jersey ~ Queen of the Slaves to fanfic!
Mar 15 Tigereyes ~ Wisconsin ~ Queen of Hopeless Romantics
Mar 17 Silverfox ~ California ~ Queen of Max's Pants
Mar 18 Mrs. Bear ~ California ~ Queen of the Bears
Mar 18 guerinschick ~ Colorado
Mar 19 Podwatcher ~ Nebraska ~ Queen of MegaMax
April 6 Forrestal ~ Texas ~
April 11 Michelle in Yonkers ~NY~
Apr 12 LTL ~ Maryland ~ Queen of Oogy Lady/Swimmer Supreme!
Apr 20 Quinn ~ Vermont~ Queen of Organization
Apr 28 Britfan ~ England ~ Queen of the Fehrian picture hunt!
May 1 Rueben ~ California ~ Queen of Patience
May 5 Nana J ~ Washington ~ Queen Mother of the OTOs!
May 5 tabscoDreemin03 ~ Calgary
May 12 6throck ~ Washington ~ Queen of Animations!
May 18 RoswellMouse ~ Virginia ~ Queen of Roswell Multitasking
May 18 Dommie ~ Missouri~ Queen of Getting Lost
May 20 WildB ~ Florida ~ Queen of Drool!
May 29 lilo666 ~ England ~
May 31 Brown Eyes ~ Indiana ~ King of Afternoon Delight
June 1 Thermuthis ~ Missouri ~ Queen of the 'Belles'
June 9 Mamakin ~ Oklahoma ~ Queen of Hope!
June 9 Moondragon ~ California ~ Queen of Fire Dragons/Official BF 'motherer'
June 21 Tekgirl ~ California ~ Queen of Typos
June 25 Shade of Bronze ~ California ~ Queen of the Countdown!
June 27 crystal505 ~ California
June 29 Lori "SASS" ~ Texas ~ Queen of the Unconventionals!
July 3 HeavyMetalQueen ~ Canada ~ Queen of the Fehr One's Music
July 9 Vicki ~ Nevada ~ Queen of LINKS!
July 10 Gooder ~ Wisconsin ~ King of Movie Trivia
July 11 Watcher ~ Ohio ~ King of poems/Slave to Liz/Shiri
July 31 ukspacie ~England~
Aug 06 Maxi ~ Sweden ~ Queen Of Reindeers And Snowflakes
Aug 10 Old_Candyfan ~ Illinois ~ Queen of the Fly-By!
Aug 12 Hipp ~ Wisconsin ~ Queen of Indecision!
Aug 19 Postman ~ Oulu, Finland ~ Royal Messenger!
Aug 24 cat8myhomework ~ Texas ~ Cat Queen!
Aug 27 Berengaria ~ Florida ~ Queen of Sunglasses
Sept 3 NICK WECHSLER ~ California ~ Hot Towel Boy
Sept 10 RPMDragon ~ Michigan
Sept 18 snorka ~ Israel
Sept 21 Hooked ~ California ~ Queen of Covina Behind the Scenes!
Sept 23 blue angel
Sept 27 Island Momma ~ Hawaii ~ Queen of Aloha/whispering palms
Oct 7 Blessed Child ~ Queen MB ~ OTO Jr. in Training
Oct 19 rox_mc ~ Mississippi ~ Queen of Archives!
Oct 23 Echo ~ Oregon ~ Queen of Dreams!
Oct 25 Vinity ~ North Carolina ~ Queen Vinnocence of the Whip!
Nov 6 Mr_Gandarium ~ New Hampshire ~ Court Jester
Nov 17 PPD ~ Michigan ~ King of the Morning Shift
Nov 24 Mavonne ~ Pennsylvania ~ Queen of Zan Fic!
Nov 26 di m ~ California
Nov 27 Thanette ~ New York ~ Calendar Lady & East Coast Campaign Princess
Nov 28 Iggybehr ~ Florida ~ Queen of the pic/links/Princess of songcaps!
Dec 01 Oceana ~ Ontario, Canada ~ Queen of Behr/Defender of Max!
Dec 12 ~*SparrowsLuv*~ ~ Nevada~ Queen of the nightshift!
Dec 15 behind the tree ~ Canada ~ King 'on' the Mountain
Dec 21 Bigspam ~ California ~ King of the Camera/Slave to Liz/Shiri
Dec 30 JASON BEHR ~ California ~ King of What Ever He Wants!
Dec 30 LuvBehr ~ Arizona ~ Queen of the Desert Temps!
Dec 31 CF ~ Massachusetts~ Queen of Crickets!


So pull up a comfy chair and tell us a little sumpin, sumpin bout yourself!


Old Thread

Thank you, Vin. Very appropriate title.

new thread! Thanks, Vinity

to everyone that posted.

I had a nice long lunch at TGIFriday's with Watcher/Traveler today
I had one too many Mudslides

OTOs.

Thanks for the new thread, Vin.

We didn't break 100 today. This is only the forth day in July that it has been less than 100. This is close to being our hottest month on record.

Later....

Thanks guys

Richard~ I hate to say anything but for us it's been better than usual.

Blue Van may be biting the dust front end might be gone. It is 17 years old with over 230K but still we've had Blue Van since Michael was a baby. sad

Plus, I don't want to drive the truck all the time. It's hard to park and I expect it's not the best for the environment.

Maybe you could get in on that "Cash for Clunkers" deal, Vin. Does Old Blue still drive?

Thanks, Vin!

Sorry about the trusty old van. I know how you feel -- my 16-year-old Sentra is dying. I remember paying extra to get air bags because my oldest would be driving in about 3 years -- he's now almost 30.

I'm not supposed to be here by the way.
I'm supposed to be on a plane to Sweden.
Our connecting flight to Philly was X'd and they only alternative booking they could give us would land us in Stockholm on Saturday, and we were going to leave on Sunday, so we CX'd the whole thing -- will try again in the spring maybe.
No Arctic Circle.
No Maxi.

Instead we're leaving in an hour for Seattle.
NanaJ: I hope you aren't leaving for Orcas Island yet. I'll give you a call once we land this afternoon and see if we can work out a time for getting together.

Groundhog: Could you PM me Tum's email? I had it once, but it's buried in some folder. We're going to go up to Vancouver for a couple of days, so I hope to connect with her too.

All that careful planning for Sweden, and now I'm going off with practically no plans in the other direction.

Lori and VG!

Vinity great title! Very appropriate

LTL too bad your trip to Sweden didn't worked out but unarranged events usually turn out to be the best for me. So hopefully, this other trip of yours will be just as good! Have a great time!

Vin, Berengaria, Groundhog, LTL, ~Ilo~

LTL ITA w/ ~Ilo~ about maybe the trip. Something better may come of this either now or later when you reschedule. It doesn't help with the disappointment now though I know. All of that planning and excitement for nothing. I'll say a prayer that you have a great 'closer' trip and that in the Spring you have an even better trip to Sweden than you had imagined

Vinity bummer on the van going on its last legs. I just pray my car holds out. I've had so much work done to mine, but I can't afford payments on a new one.

Groundhog I wish I could share all of the rain we have had here the past few weeks. It rained 3 times in the last 8 hours. Our ground is now saturated so I'm worried about taking on water in my house if it continues to rain like this. If it isn't one extreme it is the other Praying your end of the state gets a good rain fall soon.

Off to check my drains, and head to the grocery store while I can.

Poor Watcher is having to drive in all of this rain

Aww! LT that is horrible. Airlines really suck these days and don't seem to care I hope our Vieques plane doesn't screw up {we're booking from DC BTW, dinner perhaps?? Have fun on the other side. Fingers crossed you catch up with Nana and Tum.

Thanks for sympathy on Blue Van. Mechanic is gonna look again to see how much it will cost to fix. We'll pay more than the Van is worth cause we like it and it's my around town car, we haven't taken it for out of town trips in years. And it's a TARDIS I really don't want to drive the truck all the time.

Speaking of TARDIS cars, or not, we did manage to look at the Lexus Hybrid. Damn! That is the worst designed space I've ever seen not to mention it's close to twice $$ what other cars in the class are costing, granted they aren't hybrids. What is with that? I'd think that baby crossover/SUV would be prime for hybrid. Why only the one? Toyota Highlander is hybrid and close to size but DV thinks it's too big for everyday I honestly think it's smaller dimensions than his current car but his current car has a better turning radius. I think we'll end up with a Santa Fe and hopefully DV will trade it in as soon as a good Hybrid in that class opens up. The problem with DV getting a car is he drives them for at least a decade or over 200K. I'm not sure the Santa Fe will hold up for that. It seems sturdy enough but.....

Thanks for the new thread Vinity.

Sorry to hear about your truck, hopefully the mechanic can fix it & it will run as good as new.

Di m- Sorry to hear about your boss being a complete A$$ I am so thankful I'm not working for any company anymore, I do miss the $ but I manage ( sort of) with the disability cheques & housecleanign jobs I have.

I hated my last boss, I told her off for being just that( an A$$) & so she cut my hours ,just like she did the other people, when they fighted with her. & to top it off, I wasn;t too happy to find a manager was like 10 years younger then me & was my boss. Funny we were friends before she worked there, just "people" ( her) changed. always do with boss's eh.

Plus working in the resturant bussiness is such a bad move, I've told all my nephews & neice to never work in one, & if they did, don't stay more than a year at it, less if possible.



Maxi- Thanks so much for the info on Supernatural, I'm now watching season 5 in the rre-runs for the summer, so I'm sorta catching up,

Like I thought "Ruby" was a little girl, now she's a 20 something. werid guess, here.( was that Ruby was the "soul" of the little girl, & then soul went outa the little girl & into an adult.) ???

Was the "J's" both at the panel? What did they say at the Q&A?

So for the smallville panel, Tom was the only one there? that guy form my sopa aopera( is now that cross bow charecter on this show, ) was he there?

Is "Lex" really off the show for good??

sorry for too many questions



LTL- Sorry about your plans for your Sweden Trip. My sister inlaw has been there a few times, & lived there for a year, so she said it's really nice over there, maybe next year you can get over there.

But have a good time in Vancouver, careful about the fires, I hope your not going to be near them.

I would of loved to travel this year, but seems I can't get to go much places anymore,that will take me outa the country, mmaybe some year I'll get lucky.



Vicki, so you thinking of moving back to Ca or SD? Gosh your lucky to be living in a cool city now, but those choices are also great. A lot better then where I'm living...

We have had so much rain this past few months, I'm getting tired ot it really. since I havent gone out tot he lakes & had a swim.



Tek- I'm so happy you had a good time at CC, can you get passes to go every year, or is it just selling tickets every year type deals?



Lori- Awesome time you had with Watcher, & so happy to hear your doing better. You going to see any movies soon?

The orphan was so awesome, what a great "twist" at the end.



Okay still frozen up form the dentist, so I'll go now, pack my things up, maybe read after this, as I;m still upset over this ordeal.



did I tell everyone what is going on this Sat?

Well all week I've been in a mess over this, it's small but it bothered me alot.

So I got a new mattress & box spring, comming on Sat, & then my friend is comming & picking up my old bedroom suite, as I don't have any more "wall space" to put the mattress & box spring in the spare room here.

So I am going to be sleeping on a boxspring, /matress for ??? how long. I can't seem to decide on what to buy for a new bedrrom suite, so sad as I know I hate my little bed I've been sleeping on, for the last 35 years, but for some reason it bothered me. so I'ved been up all nights worried as to were to put all my stuiff off my shelves, & the thought of "living like a student" in my own condo, makes me feel crappy, but I have boxes to still pack stuff into, ect.

I know I should of bought the set after my bedroom suite, but for $315.00 plus free delivery & set up for a double mattress & box spring, it was a awesome deal, that couldn't be put off. just I did this backwards eh? Mom has shown me a set in the sears catalogue to get, but I love the wood colour, but not the "style" I'm so picky eh



okay gonna go get this done, be back later okay.



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The whole cast of Smallville was at the panel. See pictures below. I feel so lucky to have been there. It was Comic-Con history. Tom Welling NEVER makes appearances. This season looks amazing too! The producers say Lex is not dead but didn't go into details. I don't think Michael Rosenbaum will be back though.

Are you referring to Callum Blue? He was there and is going to be a great Zod!

We are looking at getting a vacation home in So Cal at some point. We lived in SD for years and truly miss living in Cali.

Click image for larger version.

Yeah, if it's not fixable we'll do that. It still drives and has been insured so it qualifies.

This is too cool Bees in a honey jar Thanks to Neil Gaiman. He does love his bees.

HMQ~ Ruby and Lilith were both demons. They possessed whatever human they wanted. That's the whole black smoke from the mouth coming out. Lilith tended to like being a child "meat suit" I don't ever recall Ruby being a child?

My Pushing Daisies S2 DVDs just came in My heart is all a'flutter in Lee Pace love.

I can't believe my good fortune! LTL is in town--right in Bellevue where I live. I will see her tomorrow!!!!!!!

Sorry about her trip to Sweden, but delighted it worked out this way from my standpoint!

I'll give you a report tomorrow.

Part 1:

Vin, thanks for the new thread. I didn’t even notice that it was time. I was too tired (and I even double posted on the last board ).



Berry, did I miss seeing James at Comic Con? I didn’t know that he was there.

Miscellaneous CC comments about the first day at Comic Con:

Yes, I confess, as I posted earlier, I camped out overnight to get into the twilight panel. But, I wasn’t alone; I had several thousand of my “friends” to keep me company. It got kind of iffy around 2 am when the fog came in and I just had a beach chair to keep me warm. (BTW, it doesn’t work too well as a heater…).

LT, staying up all night wasn’t such fun especially in the wee hours when many people were sleeping and I wasn’t. I seriously questioned my sanity for doing it, but once we got into the hall for the Twilight panel, it was worth it.

We had to sit through a series of 3D presentations by Disney before Twilight/New Moon, but they were pretty interesting. The best Disney offering IMO was Tim Burton showing a wee bit of his 3D film, “Alice in Wonderland.” It looks good (no surprise there). And of course, the highlight was the surprise drop in by Johnny Depp. He said about 2 words – “Tim Burton” but that was better than not seeing him at all. The audience went wild when he showed up.

Robert Zemekis showed bits of his 3D movie, a remake of “A Christmas Carol.” None of us was too bowled over by what we saw. It’s a motion capture animated film starring Jim Carrey who plays several roles in the movie.

We also saw about 25 minutes of James Cameron’s new movie, “Avatar.” It looks wonderful, but I’m not sure if the plot will wow people. I need to see more to decide. It was great seeing Cameron who’s been away from films for several years.

“Twilight” Ahhhh, the panel was wonderful. Kristen Stewart looked so uncomfortable that I think she would have been happy to dig herself a hole and climb into it. She is not a public person. Rob Pattinson wasn’t that comfortable in front of the crowd of 6,500, but he was much improved from his last appearance at Comic Con. …It did appear to be a duel between Rob and Kristen to see who could run their hand through their hair the most… Taylor Lautner was impressive. He handled himself so well and truly was at ease in front of his adoring fans. I swear that kid is more like a 35 year old than the 17 year old he is. He was great answering questions. Ashley Greene did fine in the Q&A. The director, Chris Weitz, was terrific and you could see that all the actors really liked him. He seems like a really sweet guy. The 2 scenes they showed (which are all over the internet) had fans and Great choices!

Remember our many posts about Sci Fi/Sy Fy? Ironically, I ended up sitting in front of the guy who sold that name to the station! He had used Sy Fy as the name of his blog for several years. Someone approached him to buy the name and he sold it for $250,000. Only later did he find out that the purchaser was the former Sci Fi channel. He said he would have held out for a lot more money if he had known that.

I’ll post more later and I try to get some pictures up tomorrow. HMQ and everyone else, f you are eager to see some of the panels for yourselves, try going to YouTube or Googling Comic Con 2009 + panels (and you can insert the name of your favorite show, too). There’s a lot of stuff posted about CC.

HMQ, anyone can buy tickets for Comic Con. You can buy it on their web site ,www.comic-con.org. The trick is to buy them before they sell out. The good news is that you can buy them early and you can cancel and get your money back if you decide not to go. (Just be sure to cancel before the deadline to not lose any money). Comic Con is July 22-25 next year. It’s always in San Diego, California. I buy tickets every year. …Congrats on getting a new mattress.


Vin, True Blood just keeps getting better and better. ITA, I love Lafayette, too. And I was also sad about Daphne betraying Sam. I agree; I think Jason will end up being Sookie’s savior. Michelle Forbes must be having a ball with her role. There are only 12 episodes in Season 2 and the show ends in mid September.

Vin, sadly, I didn’t hook up with Maxi at Comic Con though I found out from reading her posts that we were at some of the same panels – like 24. O Well. Maybe she had so much fun at Comic Con that she’ll go next year and we can hook up then. I tried to make it to Neil Gaiman’s panel, but the halls were so full and the lines to get in them so long, I was afraid to leave the hall I’d camped out in to catch his panel which was in another room. ….Sorry about the bad news about the funding for Michael’s classes. …I’m afraid you’re right about SS. They is no way that the baby boomlet’s contributions will cover the cost of the SS .payments for the all-too-many Baby Boomers. Plus, government types keep trying to siphon off the money from SS so that there will be even less than there should be.

LT, say “hi” to Softie for me and encourage him to get his pixels over here for a post or two, please. … on the mass firing of IT people at your job. That’s awful. …About the CC handicap thing. I was in a car accident last year and injured my back which still is a problem. My doc gave me a temporary handicapped placard which I showed to the peeps at Comic Con. They put a stamp on my badge which gave me some extra privileges and made it easier on my back. I still managed to mess it up more anyway while I was there. …Sorry your plans to go to Sweden got cancelled. Have fun in Seattle with Nana.

Spook, I have a feeling the reason that LT's IT co-workers weren’t given any notice is that TPTB were worried that with their knowledge and computer savvy the IT types might do something to mess up the ‘puters, the server or the network. Paranoid thinking IMO….

Spook, good luck on finding the additional funding you need. I hope there is a monetary windfall in your future. ..And what’s up with mothers/midwives hoarding the umbilical cords of the newborns? Is someone getting to them before you can?

Tuesday night’s RVP[b] was great, but the ep, "White Room," had me

QUOTE(Groundhog)

In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Aww, that bought back so many memories of Cream. Thanks for posting the lyrics, [b]GH.



Oooh, Vicki, that would be so cool if you moved here. Think of the trouble we could get into Hehehehe. …I’ll do some research about the Paley fall preview.

Vin, the “cash for clunkers” deal sounds great. If you do have to replace your blue van, I hope you qualify for the CFC. Good luck on your car hunting. It’s one of my least favorite things to do ever. Feh on car shopping.

Di, sorry your boss is such a pain in the A$$.

James wasn't at Comic Con, Tek. I posted a notice that showed that the Marvel Hero's Squad (it's a cartoon series about to air) was bragging about the great voice talent they had and they made it sound as if there panel might include James (who is voicing Mr. Fantastic) ...his fans hadn't heard anything about it and doubted it. We now know that some of the other voice talent was there...but not James.



So breathe, you didn't miss him.

to all

OTOs.

LTL PM sent. I hope you see Tum and find out how she is doing. Say "hi" to Nana.

We actually got some rain today. The first in many weeks. Not much and we need more. The lakes are dropping fast. 97 today. This is still going to be the hottest July and summer on record for central Texas.

OTOs.

Here's a tune I like very much. I was telling Vin about it recently. This was played at the end of James Cameron's documentary Ghosts of the Abyss about the Titanic. Lisa Torban - Darkness Darkness. I thinks it's really haunting.

Bye again...

I might look like NanaJ/b], but I'm [b]LTL in disguise. NanaJ brought the welcome wagon to our hotel room (Bailey's Creme figured largely in this), and brought her computer with her. But we found out our hotel charges outrageously for Internet access, so we hit the local Starbucks.

It's been wonderful catching up -- and she's going to made me an Adam Lambert convert yet!!

I'm turning the controls over to her now.

What a greeeeaaat surprise for me to see LTL and meet her husband this trip!!!! We will have dinner tomorrow night before they take off to....not completely decided yet. But we wanted to give our OTOs a shout out!

NanaJ and LTL. Have fun!

Nana/LT have lots of fun. You know, we really do need to have an OTO party like we talked about a while back.

Richard I love that song. Thanks

JM must have been doing something big to miss CC. Doesn't he like that kind of con?

New barn help starts tomorrow. Fingers crossed he's good at building. He seems very sweet and we certainly share a tool obsession. Anyway, he's an early riser so I need to hit the bed. He'll be here in 7 hours EEK

I don't think James is too busy. Right now he's been at home uploading videos of his son playing some original songs he wrote on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesMarstersa...l/1/7GkfIz00tWQ


They just posted a song (Movie 9), this one with an intro by James!

http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesMarstersandSon

All

Maxi et al - thanks for the details on the Torchwood panel. I haven't watched the YouTube clip yet - it's next on my list. I can imagine that JB did probably try to distract from that man that shall not be named though. If he was anything like the commentaries he does on the DVDs, he's like a one-track "I love me and don't care about the fans" record. I no longer listen to any commentaries he does He irritates me! But, until the last Torchwood, I had thought he was doing OK there. Why would he want Jack to suffer? Jack has a history of having suffered - a lot - in his lifetime! He doesn't need more...

I think the fact that they defend by saying it's down to the writers to decide does say that they realise they upset a large number of fans, and are just digging their feet in, but also trying to subtley smooth the waters. After all, without fans there are few viewers, and without viewers, there is no renewal.... It doesn't pay to totally ignore the fanbase's opinion. They might not care over all, but they have to care about smoothing ruffled feathers. Their biggest mistake though, I think, is forgetting that sci fi fans are both very intelligent (in general) and very rabid. They care more than most fans do...


I'll stick with Torchwood, but not because of that man. That man has lost my respect for him. I think I'll avoid anything he does in future, that isn't Torchwood.

LT - Sorry your trip to Sweden was cancelled, but it sounds like Plan B is working out well

Vin - over here, it seems to be the kids that aren't academically gifted that get forgotten. They cost money to support, so you have to practically draw blood and hack off a limb to get the support they need

Can I just say, I want more Dresdan NOW! I've only got half of Turncoat to read and then I'll be devoid of Dresdan and I'm not sure I'll cope!

Pip and I went to York again yesterday We love going there We managed to avoid our favourite haunt - the Castle museum - and decided to visit lots of little museums and houses instead that we've never visited before. And I now know why... we couldn't find one of them - despite a map! After hours of trudging (and finding another house we didn't know existed, but was great to visit) we finally found what we had been seeking. We'd literally walked past it 3 times!

We're going back in a few weeks to walk the walls and visit the Castle museum. Pip has decided it's not a trip to York if we don't go to that museum!

Hi there OTOs!

Greetings from beautiful downton Dallas!

Hi Lori!

Nope ... I guess I out-ran the storm ... no rain!

Enjoyed our lunch ... I too probably should've stopped after 1 LongIsland Iced Tea ...

Hi HMQ!

Yes ... The Green Arrow aka Justin Hartley was there ...



Hi Vin!

Too bad about Ole Blue!

Joss and Eliza at the Dollhouse Panel ...

And which is which? the signs are confuzzling me.

OTOs
Just passing through - I've been lurking rather than posting lately.

I don't watch many of the shows you talk about nor know who most of the celebs at comic con are But I must be odd cause I really liked Torchwood Children of Earth I didn't mind what the characters did cause usually I'm not really a fan, but this mini-series was excellent I enjoyed the cynicism about goverments and the fact that it left issues un-resolved. I just wish they had killed off Gwen as well as she is the only character I don't like. Hopefully Torchwood will return with a completely new cast next time

But then as I have said before I'm not really a sci-fi fan - just Roswell and Dr Who

I'm currently really enjoying a BBC show called Desperate Romantics about the pre-Raphelites. It is another show that I know on one level is really bad (very trite with actors using contemporary dialogue in a costume drama) but on another level it's really enjoyable and stars Aiden Turner (the British actor not the American one) who was in Being Human!

LTL hope you holiday is great despite the last minute changes.

spook I love York - and that museum - it's ages since I've been there though.

to everyone else on holiday - enjoy youselves.

I'm off to visit my parents in Scotland tomorrow. Hoping for some good weather and not the constant rain we've been having lately.

Hey, OTOs --

Plan B is indeed working out well. I'm going to see Tum tomorrow!! for the first time in person!

Spook: You've got me hungry to go bacl to York again.

More later!

Hey Janetq If you are interested I can prolly have to set up with True Blood or anything else we chat about.

LT~ Glad it worked. DV was horrified you had to cancel the other vacation. Give Tummy a hug for me and tell her to stop in and see us and Behrfanny also if they are still in touch. At least now we're all past the Behr/Fehr/candy/dreamer days {and into the Twilight/or not}

New kid working barn stuff was pretty good. He did a good job on the new stuff and redid the whole days work of last guy. NOT quite as fast as I'd be but I think he'll get faster once he's used to my tools and where they all are. IN checking last guy was even STUPIDer than I had even guessed.

LTL glad your west coast visit is working well. Give Tum a big hug. Send me a PM about how she is getting along.

Vin the cash for clunkers is about to run out of cash already, unless they extend it. You can check online somewhere to see if your car/truck qualifies. You might need to move quickly.

Well, I mailed back my Nielsen surveys today. I got selected about nine or ten years too late. I did put down in the comments that I watched a couple of episodes of Roswell off DVD with several of my friends, in a reference to the Roswell Viewing Party on Tuesdays. More of y'all need to join in. What a shame there isn't much good on TV these days, especially during the summer rerun season. For you True Blood fans, I listed that. I don't really care about the story but usually record it and playback at 2x or 3x fast forward unless there is some T and A. Which there usually is.

I ended up deleting the Torchwood miniseries without watching after reading all of the comments here and elsewhere. I just couldn't get excited about watching it. I only watched two or three episodes of this last season before deleating the whole folder. I wanted Sci Fi, not slash. I'm done with that show. At least Doctor Who will be back.

Second day with a little rain, and temps not so high. But the humidity is really up there now so it's almost a sauna. _O_WELL.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

The House of Representatives acted to put more $$$ into the Cash for Clunkers program today


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090731/ap_on_...XNlYXBwcm92ZQ--


Still probably a good idea to act quickly. I did...and am no longer driving a 96 Taurus.

I thought I would log in after arriving back home from our vacation with a line from Jack Kerouac, On the Road.

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."

Bere good deal on getting a new car. It's time the regular folks start benefiting from the government programs. Not just bankers and auto manufacturers.

I don't think the signs were printed on both sides ...but, you'd think they'd maybe check!

WOW on the cash for clunkers being on, then off and now on. I hope we can decide in time to use the Blue Van. It will be sadder to take it to the dump. We drove DVs first car to the bad place and he cried.

I think the CC place cards do have names on both sides. I think Joss nad Eliza were just being funny.

Awww Sullivan and dad. that boy can really play.

I would post Neil Gaiman's response when he was interviewed by EW people. He think's it's time for Vamps to go back underground for a couple of decades.

Vicki, Ken, Wild, and any missed

Nana and LTL glad you met up and are having a great time

Groundhog glad you had more rain

Watcher glad you missed our rain. It was a doozy.

Berengaria thanks for the links Glad you were able to get a new car

Vinity glad the new help in the barn is working out.

janet have fun in Scotland

Spook glad you and Pip had fun at the Castle museum

I have fallen in the bad habit of taking long naps and I will really regret it come Monday

A quickie check-in from Stockholm. The bad weather that stopped LTL from going to Sweden caught us too, and normally I would have been home Thursday evening. We ended up spending two nights in NJ, off which we spent the first at Newark. Bad weather. Bad. Currently waiting for my connecting flight!

Been trying to read and catch up some but my brain is too fried to co-operater properly so a simple will have to do.

Maxi

It's rained so much here that my yard is squishy up to the ankles
Praying I don't take on water if the rain keeps up.

Hey OTOs.

Maxi :fingercrossedsmilie: you get home safely now. Poor dear, rest.

Lori~ I'll take some of the rain. Add prayers you don't get squishier. We've had some but we're still crunchy grass. Must have been prefect growing weather up upstate NY, the Timothy hay is coming glorious. Best I've seen in years.

We've had a big day today. Got up at daybust headed to Raleigh, were the first customers at the Good Feet store. We all have hurty feet but DV and Michael are horribly flatfooted. We've done Orthotics for them { I refused those horrible hard custom insoles } Honestly GF did more assessment than the Foot Doc did. The insoles were a little more than the Foot Docs horrors { I think cause insurance covers some $$} around $300 each but they are lifetime guaranteed. If they break or start giving trouble they'll redo us. Michael will get his replaced for growth for $50. Then Michael and DV got shoes that were $200 each but I think it will help Dv's legs. It's worth the price if we hurt less. Problem is we WAY over used the new stuff today so we'll all be sore tomorrow.

Then we ate, then we looked at more new cars. Turns out the only car that will qualify we're looking at is the Highlander and DV is sure that is too big. Blue Van qualifies if someone is getting a tinier more fuel efficient car. I wish someone could use it, it will break our families heart to drive it to the junk yard.

Then Harry Potter in IMAX. Very cool 3D stuff. Much more detailed and intense than last movie but not as much of it. Only 3D for the first bit of the movie. As for as the movie itself, special effects were amazing but storyline was only very so-so. And I hated the last book so I'm not even sure we'll see the next one.

B congrats on the new car.

I'm missed SO to people Sorry, horribly tired. Heading to bed at 10:30

Ugh, so sorry you had to stay in Newark so long. I am originally from South Jersey, and most people who have been to the Newark airport tell me they will never again go to NJ. It's a whole state, people!

My staycation is officially over. Go back to work at 9am tomorrow

OMB! Maxi! I can't believe the weather devils caught you too! What a drag to be stuck in Newark!

We had lunch with Tum today -- she looks fantastic. She said to say hi to all. More details later -- we're sitting in an Internet cafe in Richmond, Vancouver, with about 30 kids playing games. A leeeetle noisy!

Maxi bummer about weather. I hope you get home ok.

LTL I'm glad you got to meet Tum in person. I was never able to but spent a lot of time talking to her on messenger years ago. Glad she's doing good.

Just caught The Fifth Element on TV. One of my favorite siffy movies. Art deco Sci Fi. I recommend it.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone.

OTO's

Michelle and Nosee: The song that Jeffster(from the TV show Chuck) sang is sung by Queen and is available on iTunes. It's called Flat Bottomed Girls. Gotta Love CHUCK!

Apparently Tek carried her swag gathering over to the hotel maid cart from the convention center at Comic-con.

click for the bigger picture.....


Nosee: What was the name of the online store where I got my Supernatural CC t-shirt from. The one you order from all the time.

People are actually saying that? Wooha. Stupidity on their part in my opinion - you cannot judge a particular area based on impressions from the airport in my not so humble opinion. NJ is actually another one of the places I 'really' want to visit properly one day, partly because I love the music from there (Jovi and Bruce in particular, and I would love to go to a show with one of them there in their home state one day), partly because a good friend of mine lives there, and partly just because I want to see the state itself too. Let's just hope I'll be able to afford it sometime.

Sorry you have to go back to work.

Oh, I am thrilled to hear you got to hang out with Tum. I really miss having her hang out here with us. Do you know if she (or are any other of you??) in touch with Behrfanny??

Yeah, thank you. I was so pleased when I managed to get a ticket for the first flight availble from Stockholm. Yay.



You too, have a great one.

Chuck is great.

So is Queen. One of my favourite bands of all time. And I am still I never got to see them live. Sorry Paul Rodgers, as much as I love your voice - and I really do - I cannot stand listening to anyone except Freddie singing Queen songs. The only exception would possibly be the We Will Rock You musical in London, I have it from people I trust musically that it is an awesome musical so I would love to see it one day.

Have a great day all

OTOs

I just finished watching Torchwood: Children of Earth. I had been spoiled that Ianto gets killed. After they killed off Tosh – a fave of mine – and Owen, I wasn’t surprised that Ianto died. Is Gwen far behind??? Is RTD looking to hire a whole new cast? I did hate that Captain Jack sacrifices his grandson….. Has there been any word of a new season of Torchwood? I depend on the OTOs and Vin in particular, to keep me updated on Torchwood news.

Text Message Warning. I got 3 text messages that were “phising” texts. Two were from the same “company” notifying me that my “card was deactivated.” The text gave me a phone number to call to “activate” my card. I called my cell phone carrier (Verizon) instead and they were most helpful. The text never specified what kind of card was deactivated. The other fraudulent text message was a graphic from Harbor Finance Company. The title of the text message was “Alert.” I reported that one, too. Both companies do exist; I check the web for their home pages and both home pages had warnings about people hijacking their companies to phish for info.

Who’s watching the BBC’s Being Human? I caught the first 2 eps. The show hasn’t bowled me over, but I do like George, the werewolf. I think the show has done right by his character so far.



Well, there sure is a lot of T&A on TB… It adds to the “spice” of the show. There does seem to be a lot less this season, though, since Jason has literally “found religion.”

Ken, thanks for upping the literary quotient on the OTO board with a little Kerouac.

Vin, Berry & Nosee, I noticed that on many panels, some of the panelists at CC playfully switched their name cards just to be silly. I guess they figured that the fans knew who they were by now.

LT, how cool that you got to see Tum. I was glad to read that she’s looks so great.

Maxi, sorry you had such a rough time getting home.

GH, ITA. I spent a lot of time chatting with Tum on Messenger, too.

Vicki, re “that” pic: I was leaving some swag for the maid in her cart. Didn’t you notice? And speaking of Queen’s "…bottomed girls” … I have pix… and I’m not afraid to post them.

The air con stopped working with the temp outside at 91............it has been it has been 15 years since we have been without air conditioning during the summer.


How many of you remember seeing this as you drove across country?

The Queen
Of Hearts
Now loves the knave
The King
Ran out of
Burma Shave.

to all

Heading to work tomorrow to unpack and arrange the room.

Back to nursing a day long headache

Burma Shave sayings...what a hoot!


http://www.hugsandsmiles.com/burmashave/

LTL - So you saw Tum! She has a wonderful personality. I enjoyed meeting her and am sure you did, too. How was the border crossing? Hope you are now enoying Victoria, BC. If you can, try for a tour of Buchart Gardens. Check out an early evening visit. I believe I went once at this time of year and there was a musical free performance and you saw the gardens in the light and at the end of the performance you saw it lit for night viewing. Beautiful!

Hurray for internet cafes!

We are still running 90 degree temps. Next week we will be on the water and the forecast is showers. Phooey. Seafair hydroplane races and Blue Angels today. Everyone was delighted as it was a perfect (except a bit hot) day for this event on Lake Washington.

Anyone watching Merlin? I have enjoyed the few episodes I have caught.