Geeky as I wanna be...

I'm back. Thanks to all those who wrote asking if I were dead, - I appreciate that you care, but here I am. It's been a weird month, Augusts often are for me since it's the month before I go to Maine and that's pretty much.. all... i think about. And it's hot. And mercury was in retrograde for 3 weeks. For me, astrology is strictly for entertainment purposes (like most things) but it was uncanny how pretty much everyTHING in my life stopped working for me at the end of last week, with the tech betrayal continuing on through this one. I mean.. everything. tv, computer, cable, dvr, vcr, camera... anything with moving parts. The other night as I was bitching about all on the phone, my power went out. 20 minutes later my flashlight died. Alannah goes, "oh yeah, that always happens to me when Mercury's coming out of retrograde." I shoulda known. Damn Mercury.

The other distraction has been my new toy, a digital bridge I snagged off ebay, which has me almost autistically engrossed in digitally archiving all my old media (vhs, Hi8 and audiocasettes mainly). My 1992 "Shop Til You Drop" appearance will now live forever. phew. I had this idea tonight that Danielle and I should get together and record a contestant's commentary as a special feature on the 25th anniversary DVD. Next will be all the awful audition videotapes I used to get when I booked the improv. I really want to screen some of them, but feel sort of weird about turning someone's sad misguided comedy ambitions into actual entertainment. Some are just so genius, though, it's almost not right to NOT share them. hmm..

Stayed home from work today... I'd been feeling "on the verge" of sickness, when you feel like you're just gonna cave to stress, all week. But was really feeling out of it this morning. I suppose being out at BPC til all hours didn't help.

Journaling feels weird after not doing it for a month. Guess I have to ease back.

I've been watching the "Kung Fu" series on DVD. I'm still in awe of just how incredible and ahead of its time that show was. And there's hardly any kung-fu in it, which I love. It's not really an action series at all, but that's how they had to sell it to get it on TV. Really - there's like one 15-second fight per hour episode, and the rest of the time it's eastern philosophy juxtaposed with the old west. Awesome. It was also the first show to use slow-motion action sequences AND the first series to use the convention of the flashback. Tonight I watched the "Alethea" episode with (12 yo) Jodie Foster. It's all about truth and lies and which is which...one of my favorite topics lately.