• This post comes to you from Bellingham, WA (a tad farther north, and it’s Canada). I’m on a work trip out here for the next couple days. Had fun getting here today. Got a bit of a late start heading to O’Hare, but got there with enough time to spare. O’Hare was busy enough, but not completely terrible. The (United) flight was completely booked. It was a flight to Seattle airport, and we got off to a rather late start. After backing away from the gate basically on time, we got stuck in taxi mode for a little while, then came to a stop as the Captain announced that they were working on rerouting us to avoid a major storm system heading in from the west. So, after nearly an hour of delays, we took off. We rerouted to the south of the storm, which also added on a bit of time. Ultimately, we landed a little more than an hour late (making if fun for the poor saps who had missed connecting flights). The flight had it’s fair share of turbulence from time to time. Had a nice night landing, with a very neato view of Mount Rainier amidst a scattered cloud cover half way up the mountain. I then set off for the 105 mile drive from the airport up to Bellingham. Got a hybrid Toyota Camry, which is a nice enough rental. Ran into tons of construction traffic departing on the I-5 at 10:00. After 20 minutes in a construction back, made it another 30 miles to another bad construction backup. After finally making it through that one, the I-5 was finally a nice, fast trip. Got up to Bellingham right around midnight. Was starving, so I stopped off at a restaurant for some food. Finally rolled up to the Holiday Inn right around 1:00 AM. Thank goodness for the extra 2 hours (since it was 3:00 Chicago time). So anyway, that’s my current fun.
• The return of Peter Davison as The Doctor on TV screens? Sure, it’s a brief, one time thing, but still very, very cool for us classic Who fans.
• Paul Reubens joins the cast of Pushing Daisies, possibly as a recurring character. I think it’s a great piece of casting, as he’ll be a natural fit for the show. I’ve raved on and on about how much I love the pilot for the series, and I’ll rave yet again. Can’t wait for the show to officially kick off on October 3.
• Speaking of interesting casting, Janeane Garofalo has been cast for the upcoming season of 24. I’m a few years (or “days”) behind on the show, and hope to catch up sometime in the near future.
• Coolness, Google Earth is beginning to expand out into the realm of astronomy. The app has a great engine, and I’m anticipating some excellent work towards expanding the app beyond it’s namesake, the Earth.
• So, Warners is going to tackle (all of?) the Oz books as feature films. Could be interesting.

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