Ah well. The best laid plans of mice and men and all that rot. I’d been planning for over a week to get some photos of the recent lunar eclipse and wouldn’t it figure? The skies were cloudy and overcast all flippin’ day and into the evening and so my grand plans were shot to the ground, very much like that satellite gone bad. The next lunar eclipse is said to occur in 2012, so I’ve got to wait another four years. Knowing my luck, it’ll be flippin’ cloudy and overcast then, too. However, it being a school night and all, it’s likely just as well because as the eclipse was to achieve its totality, I would have been up way way way past my bedtime. Hopefully said eclipse will occur on a Friday or Saturday night next time round.

Something wacky was going on with the comments earlier today (thanks for the heads-up, Mike) and I toyed with the idea of changing the theme altogether and actually did for a split second. In the end, though, I just reinstalled this particular theme and although some of my customization was lost with the overwritten files, it’ll be worth having to futz with that wee bit than having to futz with an entirely new theme.

Things have been more than strangely interesting at the factory these past few days; if I hadn’t just spent a couple hours working on my friends’ website and ultimately ending up with a stiff neck and a headache about to happen, I’d share the rather pleasant-but-maybe-there-are-ulterior-motives details…perhaps tomorrow, barring any unforeseen disasters with my taxes.

I’ve also downloaded a nifty little program that allows me to lift audio from any video format; that’s been running in the background all evening - after a few false starts, it should be grabbing the entire audio track of School Reunion so I can edit it down for a handful of choice lines for inclusion in my ever-growing collection of Who audio files. These current files will feature Sarah! Jane! Smith! almost exclusively because…well, just because.

Because I am a dork and I adore her.

Despite the great excitement I feel about this latest incarnation of SCS, I’m really, really trying not to let it suck all my free time in the few precious hours I have between factory and sleep. And although I’ve gotten lost more than a couple times in the sheer number of WordPress themes, I’m determined to stick with the Horsehead Nebula for as long as I can. It’s a fitting theme because of my reawakened interest in astronomy, as long as it’s not too difficult. I’d rather work on getting SCS back to rights, complete with those monster lists of links and the badges and…and…and…I hope I can address that this weekend in between getting my blood taken, working on my friends’ website, answering email, and all the normal weekend events. Next weekend is shot because I’ve set that aside for taxes, although I suspect it won’t take me too long to accomplish.

So, back to keeping my time in front of the computer from taking over any free time I might have. In order to accomplish this, I’ve reached deep into the movie vault and have come back with silent movies filling my hands. The Phantom of the Opera and The Thief of Bagdad are the two most recent viewings, with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde up next. I was all set to watch a silent version of The Scarlet Letter a few evenings ago, so imagine my surprise and disappointment when I figured out I’d mislabeled it as silent and it was in actuality one of those new-fangled talkies! Oh! I was so disappointed, but the telling of the tale at the factory provided many laughs, especially when I said I said I really prefer the silents over the talkies because I don’t sit on my couch and think people are really talking about me in a secret language only they can understand.

I’ll have plenty of new screencaps being uploaded when I’ve got enough to fill an entire CD; they’re all on the Compaq, which has really become my telly of choice and I’ve wasted enough CDs with only a few images on them at a time. At the rate I’m going, it won’t take long to fill it up. I’m finding more things about film that fascinate me, but that’s a post for another evening.