Monthly Archives: September 2016

I am currently in the process of moving house. I have found an excellent place in a great location and I can’t wait to move in. It will probably be in December or early in the new year before that can happen.

Unlike my last place this one has, so far, no compromises. Every other flat I have seen their is always something wrong. Sometimes the location sucks, sometimes the rooms are too small, and sometimes it needs far too much work doing to it.

This one will need a bit of work but I am in a wonderfully unique position.  I can move in slowly. Since the scale of my last place I have been staying with my parents. And they have said that when I move I can take my time allowing me to get rid of lots of accumulated junk.

Once the work is done I shall get a Roomba and the little robot will keep it clean. Then I’ll just need a robot for the rest of the housework. Where I can pick up a Protocol droid?

Fifty years ago today Star Trek started with the episode: The Man Trap. The anniversary almost passed me by but I couldn’t very well not talk about it could I?

Star Trek, and I’m speaking about it in all incarnations, (Even Enterprise) has been in my life for as long as I can remember. I believe the first episode I ever saw was The Devil In the Dark. I have this vague recollection of walking into the living room and seeing it on our tiny TV. I must have been… I have no idea actually but maybe 5… I remember thinking it looked boring and leaving. At some point I came to really enjoy it. DS9 is my favorite of the series followed closely by TNG and TOS.

TOS looks a little silly by today’s standards. We have surpassed them in several areas of technology, there is sexism, the sets weren’t always the best, and the aliens were obvious men in suits – nevertheless none of that, except the sexism, detracts from the fact that they told some really great stories and, without too much hyperbole, inspired a generation.

Live long and prosper.