This weekend was a rare conjunction. Most of my friends were out of town and I had the weekend off. This is the first time in over a year that I have not been on vacation and have had an entire weekend to myself. I decided last week that I should contact my friend Mandel and try and hang out. I met Mandel many years…
October 15, 2006I like the new remastered Star Trek the Original Series more and more. A couple of shots in ‘The Devil in the Dark’ of the mining colony stuck out at me, but the space work on ‘The Naked Time’ really was seamless. I haven’t watched this week’s episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” yet, but again I presume it won’t have too much…
October 9, 2006Apologies for the lack of updates this month, but I am finally getting some time to sit down and write. This past weekend, I celebrated my fifth anniversary at Disneyland. I remembered when I started that it was just a simple job to bring in some income while I looked for a better job or realized my dream of traveling for a living. As the…
October 9, 2006I finally got around to watching the TOS episode “Balance of Terror” which was the first episode that aired over the weekend with the new special effects and the re-mastered opening theme. What worked: The seamless integration of the effects. Had I not seen the episode the hundreds of times that I have over the last 20 years since I started collecting episodes, I never…
September 19, 2006Two Mousecars! The left is the one that I won in 2005 for Trainer of the Year for Tomorrowland Attractions. The one on the right is the one presented to Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters for 2006 Disneyland East Side Attraction of the Year. This is the only time the two will be together as the Attraction of the Year goes to permanantly live at the…
September 13, 2006For the first time since the 50th Anniversary Spectacular started in May 2005, we finally have an off-season at the park. I never thought I would make it since it seemed that the people just kept coming and coming. Actually, this past summer was nice – I think because it was a normal summer. I look back on the first few summers I spent in…
September 10, 2006As I was noodling around on my laptop, I discovered breaking news that the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin is dead. Apparently he was off the Great Barrier Reef near where I was in October when a stingray barb went through his chest killing him. The first thing that went through my mind was that it could have been me swimming out on the reef. I…
September 3, 2006CBS announced this week that they are going to release a HD Version of the original series of Star Trek. I have mixed feelings about this since I am a big fan of the original crew. I have seen what the new FX could look like with the classic show (In a Mirror, Darkly from Enterprise and Trials and Tribble-ations from DS9) and I think…
August 31, 2006