Continued.... From Sept. 21...


The ICBM that I saw flying over Las Vegas


I don't know if any of you have ever seen an ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) but they are incredibly cool, or amazingly freaky, depending on if you know of their launch ahead of time or not. I was just minding my own business, had just come back from dinner with my friend Jen, and I looked up in the sky. There was this bright glowing trail of gas (or what looked like gas) heading up in the western sky. This little light broke off from it and headed up even farther, only to explode in a puff of white powder (that resembled a flower). Jen and I were freaking out. Well, I was freaking out. I thought it was the end of the world, or WW3, or some other sort of catastrophe. We rushed inside her apartment (after taking a very bad picture of the whole thing) and I called our local police department. They said that it was Vandenburg Air Force Base in California tasting their ICBM's. Now, you'd think, in times like these, that they would warn or at least try to warn us about what we might see in the sky. I ended up calling Vandenburg AFB the next day to ask them exactly that. The public relations guy said that they do a press release when they are dealing with and "unclassified" launch to most of CA and the surrounding area. I told him they should add Las Vegas to the list, because everyone who had never seen this before was freaking out. Here take a look at these pictures of what I saw that night and tell me that you wouldn't be thinking twice about what's going on.




Update on "The Boy"


Well, things are going really well, really really well. He's just the best person ever. I'm in gush mode. We have so much in common, and he's very accepting of how different I can be sometimes. By different, I mean strange. Well I am a Feica, need I say more?




The 15th Aniv. Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Convention (Sept. 27, 28, and 29, 2002)


Here I go again! This time I'm off to Pasadena, my favorite city in the US! I'll only be able to go on the Saturday and Sunday, but I'm really looking forward to it! I've never seen Patrick Stewart (Captian Picard) in person before, I might faint like a schoolgirl at a New Kids On The Block concert (and yes, I did see them too.) They are going to be auctioning off a visit to the Enterprise set at this con. God help my credit card! But thanks to an early birthday present from my loving Mom and Aunt, that dream might be a reality. We'll see.




School: Why my Physics teacher sucks, and why Physics teachers shouldn't suck.


I was taking one class this semester, a class that was a basis for my major and the teacher absolutely blew donkey balls. All he did was take over-head projector slides with the graphs from the book on them, and read what was written underneath the graphs. I could have done that at home. If I wanted someone to read a text book to me, I wouldn't have paid them $225 to do that, and that's basically what he did. So screw that. I can't learn in an environment like that. I got my money back for the books and I'm working on getting my money back for the class. If any of you go to CCSN, do not take Wilson for Physics. You hear ME! Spread the word.


So that's it for now. I'm sure I'll have more after this weekend. Smell ya later...
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[9/21/2002 2:17:38 PM | dee tox]


Hoser

I haven't written in here for a while. Alot has taken place, I think. I'll try to put together in chronological order what has been going on. I might go off on tangents though. Just a warning. Oh yeah, lets do a list for points to come!



The Slanted Fedora "Party" Sept 6,7 and 8, 2002

Heather's Wedding (Oct. 6,2002)

The Enterprise Season Premire (Sept. 18, 2002)

The ICBM that I saw flying over Las Vegas. (Sept 19, 2002)

Update on 'The Boy'

The 15th Aniv. Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Convention (Sept. 27,28 and 29, 2002)

School: Why my Physics teacher sucks, and why Physics teachers shouldn't suck.




The Slanted Fedora "Party"


This was a party that was planned instead of the huge convention that they were planning on having before Creation had theirs a month earlier. He had to scale it down, due to several factors. Many of the actors did not want to fly around Sept. 11, the convention a month before was a huge sucess and not as many people bought tickets for the SF one, and probably because Dave Scott (owner of SF) is not a very organized man. There was no admission to this convention, it was on donation basis only. There was only about 500 people there (usually you can expect 5000 at a big con) so access to the stars was great. Who was there you might ask? Armin Shimmerman (Quark from DS9), John DeLancie (Q from TNG), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher from TNG - Duh), Robert Picardo (The Doctor from Voyager), Ethan Phillips (Neelix from Voyager), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi from TNG), Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir from DS9), Jerry Doyle (Garabaldi from B5), Walter Koening (Chekov from TOS), Nicole DeBoer (Ezri Dax from DS9), Garrett Wang (Ensign Kim from Voyager), Casey Biggs (Damar from DS9), Aron Eisenburg (Nog from DS9), Andrew Robinson (Garak from DS9), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar from TNG and maker of the documentary "Trekkies") and several other various Star Trek and Sci-Fi stars. Oh! I almost forgot J.G Hertzler and Robert O'Reilly (Martok and Gowron respectively, both from TNG mainly) hosted Klingon Karoke. That's where several stars got on stage and sang. The most interesting moment was when Walter Koening dressed up in bonnet and an aprin and sang a sappy country song. Talk about random. It was bizzare. I had several pictures taken with various stars like Wil Wheaton (which there is a story behind, but just bare with me, I'll get to it), Alexander Siddig (hottie), Andrew Robinson, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, and the guy from Farscape (Sorry Sally, I don't watch it, but I sympathize!).


Now for the Wil Wheaton story. I'm not sure if I mentioned that I met him at the Grandslam 2002 in March. Well, I had bought one of his "William Fucking Shatner" T-Shirts and brought it with me for him to sign. He signed it, "Wil Fucking Wheaton," which was pretty cool. So I decided to wear the shirt to the convention to see if he would remember me. So what does he say when I walk up to his table? He yells out and points, "Hey! I know you! I remember that shirt!" and he shook my hand and we talked for about 5 minutes (while there was a line forming behind me). Of course, we talked about how he's going to be at the TNG con at the end of the month because of all the traffic to his website. So then we had our picture taken, and he asked me my name. When I told him he said that he was going to remember me. I was thinking, "Riiiiight, whatever dude..." SO... later when I met up with Brandon *sigh* we were walking past his booth and he yelled out, "DeeDee!" So I went over there and we chatted some more, and his assistant asked me to run a quick errand. So I did and we moved on. Later on in the evening, during the picture session, Wil called me over again to show his wife my shirt. Then we all had another picture taken with the "rock" horns, it was pretty cool. So we'll see if he remembers me at the next TNG con. I don't want to seem like a stalker, I don't really know him. There's just so much that I want to talk to him about, he's got such a knack for creative writing, that he just draws his readers in.





Heather's Wedding


Heather is one of my best friends, and she's getting married on Oct. 6, 2002. That's just over 2 weeks away, and I don't have an outfit yet. It's going to be a Pagan ceremony, with various other middle eastern aspects to it. She's having two "priests", one male and one female to represent the God the The Goddess. I can't wait, it's going to be so beautiful. The guy she is marrying is really just the "bomb" yo. James is too cool. The two of them are going to have a beautiful life together. If there was a template from which all couples would base their marriage, theirs should be it. Loving, kind, silly, random, funny, open. Pure bliss, those two have it.




The Enterprise Season Premire


Well, I loved it! There were a few scenes that made me cringe. Ex. When Archer gives his "humans are like gazelles" speech. That was almost as bad as the "Some kind of .... Directive" speech he made it "Dear Doctor." But T'Pol speech about how flawed the Vulcans are gave me goose bumps. It was so cool to see her get on humanity's side for once. There is a real bond developing between T'Pol and Archer. And getting to see Daniels is always a treat! He is just the coolest person in RL. I spotted him in "Galaxy Quest" a couple of weeks ago when I watched it again. I wonder if he knew how closely his future career would mirror that particular role. Getting back to Shockwave, Part II; I only had a couple of questions. Did Daniels really go back to his century when he tricked Silik into bringing him back? Since when was Silik such a spineless wimp, whining about not being able to contact the 'Future Guy'? How did Archer break that spook apart and pound that metal into slices that were, "no bigger than a mm thick?" Maybe they were counting on that fact that most of the USA would not know how thin a mm is, and wouldn't think twice about it. But being the anal ST fans that we all are, you'd think the writers would know better, or maybe they just don't care. I'm not sure if I like the way Trip is developing, he's always just pissed off and yelling at everyone all the time. He needs to calm down, and stop being such a stereotypical redneck. He's still cute as a button though. Reed had a pretty small role this time around, but he did a really good job at playing the "I'm getting beaten up" part. All in all, good episode. We'll see about next week, where we learn that T'Pol's grandmother was on earth during the 50's or 60's.




Well as luck would have it, I have to get back to work. I'll finish those other points tomorrow...

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Spaghetti

So Brandon made me dinner last night. Not warmed up some food, but actually made pasta sauce from scratch. It was the best stuff I have ever tasted in my life. And yes, Tara, I had Spaghetti ring! I ate too much though, and got heartburn, but what are you going to do? I also tried some Superfood this morning. It's this organically grown powder stuff that can be used as a meal replacement. Of course, I had it mixed with freshly squeezed orange/grapefruit juice. It was ok. Not something I'd order if I were at a restaurant, but it gave me the energy I needed this morning to get my ass out and about. I'm going to a BBQ with that boy tonight, so I can hear stories about his antics at his previous job. Should be interesting to say the least. ***smile*** Oh dear, there goes the smiles again.