dr. wha?

Last night we watched the north american preview of the new Dr. Who series. I used to watch the original when I was a kid and I visited my Dad. I would visit for the weekend and I would watch “The Prisoner” at 12:30 on Saturday night and Dr. Who was usually on Saturday or Sunday too. I remember one time we watched one of the movies (I think it was Dr. Who and the Daleks but I could be wrong). Last year Dan and I also watched Pyramids of Mars which was very funny too.

The new series was a good continuation of the original. The sidekick character was too good looking and the Dr. was too orginary looking, though. And I like the original music better. The cheesy dialogue and plot lines are about the same – plastic manequins come to life, kidnap/eat the boyfriend of the soon to be sidekick (who does not notice until he malfunctions – I guess he had a flat peronsality to begin with!) and the doctor tries to save earth by killing the malevolant plastic intelligence controlling all the manequins with “antiplastic”. Thank goodness for quirky British humor!

In 11 days I will leave for a conference on the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe (on the Nevada side). I have never been that far south before in my life. That part of the world does not seem real to me. Too sunny or something. Maybe it will when I am there …?

I really want to learn how to cook curry and I have discovered that I am not really that good at it. I have tried Aloo Gobi three times now and each time it was ok, but not that good. Maybe there is a spice I am missing still, I don’t know. It is dissappointing. Thank goodness Pushap is near my work!

I have been doing a lot of walking lately. After the Caban à Sucre on Friday Dan and I walked home from Snowdon metro because we missed the bus. This monday I forgot to turn my alarm clock on and missed the last 115 and had to walk to work from De La Savanne metro. Last night we walked to and from Lisa’s house because it was a nice night. I think I will try and do more walking this spring and summer since I am not biking.