One reason I have a journal is to write down those thoughts that I have when I'm doing my thing during the day. I'll see something on television or hear it on the radio or read it on the web or overhear a conversation. I have my own opinions and I'll think my own little commentary, but then I forget about it. It would be nice to write them down just so I can look back later to see what I was thinking.

At this point my Star Trek campaign has a few parameters sort of set. I still have to open up a line of discussion to make sure all the players understand what my direction will be and to give them a chance to make their own input. Probably not for another couple of weeks, once I've thought this over some more and have read a couple more supplements.

Players start out as cadets in Starfleet Academy, this'll be their final year when they go on their cadet cruise. It's going to be four or six possible adventures a year so there'll be a few cadet adventures, including introducing the campaign plot. Already I'm not too sure what to do with Donald, who only wants to play red- shirts.

Anyway, with six adventures a year, two of which are central to the campaign plot, it'll require about six game years to run through the campaign. This means about thirty six weeks, not necessarily adventures. I'm probably going to continue doing real-time intervals, where one real week equals two campaign months, no matter if we play or not. I anticipate we'll miss one weekend or two in six, which certainly cuts down on the number of adventures I'll end up running.

I cancelled my hard drive order, since it was still back-ordered after more than a month of waiting. That urge to buy it subsided and now I'm once again content to keep going with my computer. The new PowerBooks are coming out next month, these will still be based on the G3 processor, until there is a low-powered G4 processor. So these will be announced January, with adequate availability three to four months later. Chances are if I want a new PowerBook before I go to Europe, it'll have to be this upcoming revision.

Mac OS X Server 1.2 looks quite good, from what I've heard. The Mac OS Blue Box environment is much better and not the processor hog it used to be. Still no serial support. But it has enough ease-of-use features to be almost useful as a consumer OS, which means the consumer version will be special indeed. Certainly something to look forward to.

There are several I want to see, which I can't with my injury. Toy Story 2 and The World is Not Enough certainly, with Sleepy Hollow and End of Days also looking to be interesting. Anna and the King should be good, The Green Mile is supposed to be great. With this weekend shot, lets say, that leaves two weekends before next year and I still want to see three movies before that. That means two in a week, which I'm not particularly fond of since I like to savor a movie, but it's been done before.