I saw Star Trek on Sunday – and it was good.  I loved it.  JJ Abrams manages to make a movie about time travel and space extremely excellent.  I love the reboot – the anything can happen feeling now that the timeline has been altered.  As much fun as it may be to keep track of every little smidge of canon, I find it refreshing to have a clean palette to paint upon.  Surely, the future flicks will have soem retreads of TOS episodes (I’m hoping for “Space Seed,” as I’ve mentioned) but they will be different.  Some may be better.  Some may not.  Dependent as it is on how many sequels are sustained.

Man, I love Star Trek.  Especially TOS.  Admittedly, it is the only series I can watch an episode from and generally be totally immersed in.  The Next Generation does that often enough, too, but it’s movies aren’t as good.  TNG is the Star Trek I grew up on, so I’ll always have a fondness for Geordi an Data, but I still check to see if Spongebob is on.

Star Trek is full of action, excellent characters, and solid references to Trek past (Admiral Archer’s beagle?).  And it’s good.  JJ Abrams good.  I love Abrams’ movies.  Mission Impossible 3 is, to be honest, the only one I’ve seen, but I really liked that and didn’t expect to after MI2.

Anyway.  It is nice to have a Star Trek movie like this, years after the last good one (First Contact, IMO), and for me, after Doctor Who has kicked Trek off “My favorite sci-fi franchise” platform.

In real life, I am working on my science project.  This involves the collection of gas from decomposing organic matter.  Cow Manure in this case.  And it’s a project I am quite excited to get underway.  Methane is going to be produced, why not use it as fuel?  I suppose I will research the question of which is the worse greenhouse gas – CO2 or Methane.  Does anyone know/have a link?

In the reading world, I am re-reading “Bone,” the classic comic as well as trudging through “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins.  I find Dawkins’ message interesting, but it is a bit dry.  I like to have my thoughts shaken up so I can determine what I think is going on.

Zachary continues to be cute.  Although, today I was nibbling his cheek (a game we play called “eat the baby”) and his grip set upon my eye socket.  The sharp daggers he has as fingernails came very close to stripping me of vision, and I accidentily bit his cheek – which didn’t make the situation easier.  After prying his grip from my eyeball and reinserting it, we tearfully embraced and I put him down for a nap.  Babies can be exciting.

I find myself with nothing to do.  Not because I have nothing to do, but because at this time last year I was entrenched at Camp, prepping for the season.  Camp Prep for me was very much an every-second affair.  So I am feeling somewhat undriven.  Which, to be honest, is why I’m updating the blog.  That damn Mafia Wars has been sucking away my minutes.  And I recently noticed the bookshelf is in no order whatsoever.  Fixing!

Rain continues here in Oklahoma.  If we had a rain barrel, it would be full three times, I swear.

And so, I continue typing my abstract for my experiment.  Whee.