In good hands.

At the end of this season/series, Doctor Who reboot guru Russell T. Davies is stepping down after four years, there's going to be a one year set of mini-series/specials, and then in 2010, a new head guy takes over. Stephen Moffat. He's a writer on the show, and has done the following episodes:

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
The Girl in the Fireplace : 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; nominated for a 2006 Nebula Award
Blink : nominated for 2007 Nebula Award for Best Script; nominated for 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

Notice any trends? Yeah, they pretty much rock. He excels at the effects of time travel, character continuity, drama, horror, and comedy, all at once. Over the last two weeks, the BBC has shown his contribution for this year: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.

O. M. F. G. These were just brilliant - absolutely brilliant. You do not want these spoiled, so I won't. Just... wow.

I can't wait to see what happens when *every* script has his fingerprints.

In good hands.

At the end of this season/series, Doctor Who reboot guru Russell T. Davies is stepping down after four years, there's going to be a one year set of mini-series/specials, and then in 2010, a new head guy takes over. Stephen Moffat. He's a writer on the show, and has done the following episodes:

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
The Girl in the Fireplace : 2007 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form; nominated for a 2006 Nebula Award
Blink : nominated for 2007 Nebula Award for Best Script; nominated for 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation

Notice any trends? Yeah, they pretty much rock. He excels at the effects of time travel, character continuity, drama, horror, and comedy, all at once. Over the last two weeks, the BBC has shown his contribution for this year: Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.

O. M. F. G. These were just brilliant - absolutely brilliant. You do not want these spoiled, so I won't. Just... wow.

I can't wait to see what happens when *every* script has his fingerprints.

I think we're ready.

AC units were put in the windows Friday night before it got too hot. Yesterday in the 93deg heat, we let the house warm up to see just how bad it would be with the blinds and windows shut, and the new light-blocking drapes up. It peaked at 86deg, at the ceiling (where the indoor/outdoor weather station console is at). Not too bad, really. But then it *stayed* at 86deg until we finally relented and turned on the AC at midnight to get it down to 78. It's not too bad today, we'll see how it gets when the temp hovers near 100 in the coming week. (78 on the AC units means that the bedroom is about 78-80, and the living room is about 78, while the study and kitchen are... well... the weather center still says 85 in the kitchen. It's just enough to take the edge off. (Now if there was something we could do about the damned *NOISE*...)

On a related note - we have a funky layout - while we have the third floor apartment, our door is on the second floor, and then there's a stairwell that comes up the middle of the unit into the central landing area. This landing has a railing around the huge hole in the floor for the stairs to come up. Problem in the summer: cold air falls. Which means that we have a huge well of air that's about 70deg doing us no good, but helping our neighbors, and any cool air from the AC units flows into that hole, as its the lowest point.

So today ginkgo set up a fabric wall around the bannisters, and a fabric 'gate' at the top of the stairs, so we'll have an additional 2.5' of cold air around our feet. We'll see how it works. :)

I think we're ready.

AC units were put in the windows Friday night before it got too hot. Yesterday in the 93deg heat, we let the house warm up to see just how bad it would be with the blinds and windows shut, and the new light-blocking drapes up. It peaked at 86deg, at the ceiling (where the indoor/outdoor weather station console is at). Not too bad, really. But then it *stayed* at 86deg until we finally relented and turned on the AC at midnight to get it down to 78. It's not too bad today, we'll see how it gets when the temp hovers near 100 in the coming week. (78 on the AC units means that the bedroom is about 78-80, and the living room is about 78, while the study and kitchen are... well... the weather center still says 85 in the kitchen. It's just enough to take the edge off. (Now if there was something we could do about the damned *NOISE*...)

On a related note - we have a funky layout - while we have the third floor apartment, our door is on the second floor, and then there's a stairwell that comes up the middle of the unit into the central landing area. This landing has a railing around the huge hole in the floor for the stairs to come up. Problem in the summer: cold air falls. Which means that we have a huge well of air that's about 70deg doing us no good, but helping our neighbors, and any cool air from the AC units flows into that hole, as its the lowest point.

So today ginkgo set up a fabric wall around the bannisters, and a fabric 'gate' at the top of the stairs, so we'll have an additional 2.5' of cold air around our feet. We'll see how it works. :)