Idle

I don't really have time for idle days, but after sitting six hours in the car yesterday and the project work finally over I really needed one. (There was a huge traffic jam yesterday on the bridge coming to Portsmouth, it took us over an hour to do the trip that will normally take about 30 seconds... I'm not kidding.) So while Dragon was sleeping I watched couple of episodes of Stargate SG-1 I hadn't had time to watch in past couple of weeks.

Sacrifices was a nice enough Teal'c episode with Jolene Blalock (Enterprise's T'Pol) guest starring for the second time. It's a shame, really - you'd hope that she could do more than one character but unfortunately Ishta is just a version of T'Pol: a bit hot headed but proud and afraid to show her feelings. Still, I kind of like the feminist Jaffa movement plot, and I hope something will come out of it. Endgame should have been a cool episode, and it started out as one, but unfortunately the impact of "millions of people dying" was not felt in any way. Yes, at one point Carter looked a bit worried and unhappy, but generally they all took it pretty well (except ok, maybe Teal'c but he was there). In fact the whole attitude was very un-Stargate, they usually take these things much more seriously - but even O'Neill just shurg it off basically declaring that he'd rather have his friends back than save all those people. Disturbing.

Later on when Dragon woke up we watched some Stargate Atlantis, but these episodes didn't exactly shine with their brilliance either. Home was ok episode for what it was, one of the most used storylines in science fiction: aliens kidnap the heroes and put them into an environment that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike their home. They start suspecting and break out and blah blah. Not bad but not great either. The Storm had much more promise, and even ended with a cliffhanger as it's the end of the summer season. I like the idea of a hurricane that covers fifth of the planet and will wait to see how Major Sheppard will rescue the party from the hands of Genii. Some interesting stuff here, and I have to say that just finding out new things about Atlantis (the city) will carry an episode some way.

Rest of the day, mainly more idling, talking on the phone with Chu... But I also managed to do the only thing I really needed to do today which was making a list of stuff that we want to give away... mostly functioning stuff that has no or very little monetary value like toasters, microwave owens and like.