A ragtag punitive fleet...

Thanks to mainly to Jeff's efforts, our solarium is now free of moving boxes! Now we have to figure out what to do with that room. Helpful suggestions from friends have ranged from a mini-greenhouse to a cottage-y reading room to installing a hot tub. We're both leaning toward a reading room with some houseplants; the small room gets a great deal of light, though it's chilly in the winter.

Speaking of winter, where did spring go?!?



Anyway, one of the boxes we unpacked contained some old books from my childhood, like the Battlestar Galactica Photostory pictured at the top of this page. This memorable piece of literature dates back to 1979, and was based on the original Battlestar Galactica movie in which Lorne Greene played Adama, Dirk Benedict was Starbuck, and Richard Hatch was Apollo.

Hey, and that's an excuse for me to re-post a great photo that Gary Ehrlich took of me jamming with Richard Hatch at Marcon about five years ago!



That's Richard Hatch on the left; he now plays Tom Zarek on the new Battlestar series. A fellow named David is in the middle and I'm on the right. I never had a chance to chat with Richard but Rand tells me he's a nice guy, easygoing and approachable.



Does anyone out there remember the original Battlestar Galactica movie and series? I used to watch the series on television in my childhood, but I seem to recall I lost interest somewhere near the end. I tried watching Galactica 1980 but hated it.



My brother, sister and I were all big fans of the original movie and series. When I browsed the first page of the photostory book, I realized I could still almost recite the intro text from memory: "There are those who believe that life here began far across the universe with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Taltecs, or the Mayans -- that they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilization of Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive far, far away, amongst the stars."

I suspect that I'm not the only one who can still clearly remember how those words were recited in Lorne Greene's regal (and Canadian, eh?) tones, the dramatic rise and fall of key phrases. If only other childhood experiences (like say, my history lessons in school) had claimed equal share of my longterm memory.

Jeff and I both immediately noticed the typo on the last page:



"PUNITIVE" (instead of "fugitive")?!? Someone obviously wasn't paying attention in the proofreading department.




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