Galactica: The End Is Near

Just read here that next season will be the last for Battlestar Galactica. I’m not that emotionally wrecked by it – not nearly as bummed out as I was when Buffy and Angel ended. But that’s because this show isn’t structure well for an open ended narrative, which is the problem with American TV. No one makes a multi-season closed narrative show that has a definite ending, and then it ends when it is supposed to.  (Well, Babylon 5 may be the exception. I’ve heard it was totally planned out from the get go, but I never watched it.)

At least now I know the producers and writers can plan the show’s last season and finale properly. And, perhaps by fitting all the remaining items they wanted to, we won’t have any “quality lulls” in the middle. (There were a few eps that were clunkers this past season.)

And now I can start saving up to buy the entire DVD set

Sometimes, I am an idiot

It was hot yesterday. My bedroom was close to 80 degrees, and it wasn’t much cooler outside. Plus, it was a little on the humid side. So I decided to turn on the upstairs central AC just long enough to cool the room down a few degrees. I flipped the switch and then headed downstairs to watch TV.

About 6 hours later, because I gave in to playing SimCity, I went upstairs to go to bed. The AC was still chugging but it was now warmer. At first I thought the freon needed to be recharged or something. Then I remembered:

The cover was still on the condenser.

@!#*

I turned off the AC, went outside and took the cover off. It had puffed up from the exhaust air trying to escape, and it was very warm. Frak.

I went back inside, puttered around a little in the kitchen to give the condenser some time to cool off. Then I turned the upstairs AC back on. This time, it actually cooled the bedroom down.

So I guess I didn’t damage my AC…. Or I hope I didn’t. In the meantime, I just used a whole lotta electricity for nothing.

Gah.