Pilot's Log

The website that has this "game" is too slow and buggy to let me get back to my own entry.

PS:

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 9, 2013

Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician. As a saxophonist and composer, he was an influential innovator. Unfortunately, he also had an expensive heroin addiction. It interfered with his ability to achieve financial stability. There's a famous story about him showing a bystander two veins on his arm as he prepared to shoot up. "This one's my Cadillac," he confessed. "And this one's my house." I'm bringing this up, Sagittarius, in the hope that it will provide a healthy shock. Are you doing anything remotely like Charlie Parker? Are you pouring time and energy and money into an inferior form of pleasure or a trivial distraction that is undermining your ability to accomplish higher goals? If so, fix that glitch, please.

I keep asking myself why I can't get interested in anything that could make me some money. I guess that's a fatal flaw in my character.

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I took a walking and jogging course, and stayed with it in Florida for a while, but gave up when I moved here because the terrain isn't friendly for it. People cycle here or hike the trails rather than jog.

I did a 1.5 mile time trial in college. Took me thirteen minutes and change.

News today that a crossover movie is coming this Spring from Japan that will bring together ALL the Power Rangers and ALL the Kamen/Masked Riders together for one grand epic...

All of a sudden I want a Tokusatsu costume. Which begs the question...what Ranger or Rider might you see me as?

Another TV series that used to be regularly shown on Retro:

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

Original Premise: A war veteran who became a successful lawyer has the shock of his life when he is diagnosed with a unavoidably fatal--and inoperable--condition. Luckily, it's still in its early latent stage, so he'll be healthy for a while. But his physician only gives him a year or so to live.

"I haven't taken a day off since Law School," the lawyer says.

"See if you can pack twenty years of living in twelve months," his doctor tells him back.

And so the man quits his practice, and goes out into the world on a perpetual whirlwind adventure. He takes on daredevil missions for ad hoc causes, such as smuggling spies out of hostile nations, or testing race cars, or guiding a sailboat out of the path of a hurricane--whatever needs to be done and done NOW. He'll take on any task where the reward justifies--and circumstance demands--the risk of a man's life.

Reimagined: He takes his situation to the Internet. He has a blog, which is virally popular, written under the pseudonym "The Runner". He has a top-of-the-line smartphone through which he gets his assignments. Since he's amassed loads of Frequent Flyer miles from his previous life, he can go anywhere in the world at any time. His readers across the web find missions for him and help him whereever they can. (Since he is a military veteran, this series can be plugged into the NCIS [nee JAG] continuity too!)

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Back when I was a more active otaku I used to joke that we (my friends and I) wanted "Super Dimensional" lives but were probably more likely to get "Rumik World" ones. The problem with the "cool" stories is that they're also horribly dangerous ones. I love Chuck, but would you want to live in a Burbank where if you go to the big-box store for a barrel of cheese balls, you could wind up in a fight with master super spies? I love Criminal Minds, but would you want to be in a situation in which the BAU may be your only hope of surviving? Burn Notice is great--but would you want to live around these characters? Life On Mars...cool, but I don't know the British version. (In fact, my own "Hackett Continuum" was going to have some thematic parallels.)

I know this doesn't answer your question. Let's just say I'm still chewing on it.

I'm still a little tired from all the running done on Saturday and a little worn from the up-and-down weather we've had here. Storms pop up and roll through and break, and then pop up again and roll through.

At least it's not like most Mondays.