Agh! My state is burning down. (again)

How did I not know this was happening today? O_o Okay, so Ordway isn't very close, nor Carbondale, but Fort Carson is quite close. As in, just south of town close. As in, what do you mean the smoke plume was visible from downtown Colorado Springs? I didn't notice it. How did I not notice it? My apartment faces south. Okay, the other half of my apartment building blocks my view, but still...smoke plume. And it isn't as though I spent the whole day inside. Did my exploding shower throw me off that much?

And this does not bode at all well for fire season. If we're burning down in April, what is summer going to be like. Great. So much for seeing much of my parents this year.

Good gad, though. All three of these wildfires sound bad. The entire town of Ordway evacuated? Okay, it's not a big town, but still - yikes. Two dead. Town evacuated. 7,100 acres burning. Not good. The Carbondale fire is a lot smaller, but it doesn't sound like they're having a lot of luck getting it out. And there are a lot of little communities and such in the area, so that's not good either. And the Fort Carson fire is unpleasantly close to home. One person dead and the news is really unclear about whether they're making progress with it. Great.

At times like this, and only at times like this, I miss Iowa. Iowa does not burn down every few years. It just has the occasional tornado. Then again, it doesn't have mountains and isn't Colorado. *sigh*

Denvention (Worldcon)

It's not until August, but I'm already beginning to think I'm out of my mind for going. I mean, it's Worldcon! The sci-fi convention! And I'm going by myself. And I'm going because I want to meet my favorite (living) sci-fi author. Never mind that if I do meet her, I'll probably say something brilliant like "Blurbleglupflurbian."

But, at the same time...it's Worldcon! The sci-fi convention! Lois McMaster Bujold is guest of honor! They're holding it in my state! So the tickets and the hotel (and getting there by public transportation on acount of not wanting to mess with a car in downtown Denver) cost an arm and a leg, so what? It'll be awesomely amazingly cool!

When I stop hiding under my bed at the thought of going to Worldcon by myself. Never mind wandering around downtown Denver by myself.

Yeah, I'm winning the of two minds award over this. Bouncing between "Eeek!" and "Woohoo!" for the next fourish months probably isn't entirely healthy. Ah well. Wooooorrrrrrlllldcooooon!!!!!

I was bored (and suffering from temporary stupidity, apparently) so I watched the movie I Spy. Now, I've never seen the 60s television show the movie was (loosely) based on (I don't like Bill Cosby because of his attitude toward children...long story.), but my parents watched it, so I know a little about it. And what I know about the television show is what irked me about the movie. You see, the television show was more enlightened, racially speaking, than the movie - at least in premise.

In the show, Cosby's character was the experienced spy - his cover was as trainer to Culp's less experience spy, who was posing as a tennis star. In the movie, Eddie Murphy is a boxer, and not any kind of spy, who is supposed to provide cover to Owen Willson's spy. Gee, great, from experienced spy to boxer, that's really a step forward. Not.

Now, the movie was also boringly predictible, but it was the changes in the characters that left a bad taste in my mouth. -_-