New TV

My new television showed up on Friday. Of course working 33 hours over the weekend resulted in little time to enjoy it. But yesterday my son and I spent a little time relaxing on the couch and watching the new television. It's great, like being at a movie theater. Now I just need to finish hooking up the speakers and I'll be set.
I started training for crown, and discovered I'm much farther from in fighting shape that I though I was. I went to a large tournament in New Hampshire a few weeks ago and my endurance was okay, but I'm not sure I was doing as well as I need to against the top level of fighters. And that's who (in theory) I'll need to beat to win crown. Well, there's an event at the end of March in New Jersey that I think I will use as my next benchmark.
On a work note, I may have a line on a job running camera for a local minor league baseball team over the summer, but I'm not sure how that will work with my SCA plans. Winning crown comes with certain implied responsibilities, one of which is activity level. More production work is more money, which is good, but with a new baby scheduling may be difficult, after my wife's maternity leave is over that is. And I'd really like to get into running camera for sports teams, but baseball games are all the time and I think it's the weekday afternoon games that will end up giving me problems. I wonder if they have a cameraman rotation, or if they expect you for every game. I guess I'll try and get the job and then find out.
I'm sure everything will work out, I guess I just want too many things and I'm not really willing to choose which one to give up on. It's very disressing, like trying to walk around with 3-D glasses on.

New Project

First I'm going to try a new project, a comic book. I really didn't grow up watching a lot of movies, I grew up more with television and comic books. And since making television shows would require a bit more crew than I have access to I'm going to take a shot at a comic book. My goal is to put three pages a week up here. I'm cheating with the first three and counting the cover as page one.

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On the second subject, fall brings new network television. There's lots of good shows out there and more than a few guilty pleasures (I'm a fan of the sitcom, almost any sitcom).
The best part of television right now is the amount of science fiction show that are being aired. But it's frustrating at the same time too. Because the only way science fiction works is if you don't violate actual known science. The best show right now is Fringe, very good storytelling and a trust that J.J. Abrams knows how to build an intricate conspiracy without stooping to stupid writers tricks. Like what X-Files devolved into. The show that's frustrating me the most is Heroes, a combination of bad science and lack of trust earned by using some of those stupid writers tricks at the beginning of last season. Plus they also pushed one of my hot button science issues, that humans don't use 100% of their brain. We do use our entire brain by the way. But It's nice to see science fiction taking a place in popular media. And though I still miss Journeyman from last year there's plenty in the middle between Fringe and Heroes to enjoy: Eureka, Knight Rider, Lost and Chuck to name a few.

That's all for now, I'm off to watch some television.