With my work hours going up I haven't had time to write journals or experience stuff to write about (I haven't seen a movie in a couple of weeks). Eventually I'll get used to the workload and be able to get back to a sort of normal life. But admittedly I was goofing off way too much the last few months so I won't have as much time as I once did.

Let's see what's new. I got a raise of about 9% of my total salary. Not bad because we get pay raises twice a year and each pay raise is supposed to be based on the last six-month salary. So my effective raise is 18% which is quite a bit. That only comes out to an extra $200 a month after taxes and all my other payroll deductions, which is not that much but may be enough to stabilize my finances. I continue to buy too many things on eBay, as well as eating out a lot and in general spending a lot of money rather freely.

Speaking of which, I finally placed my PowerBook order. I got my new credit card two days ago. $5000 with six months of 0% interest. So the next day I charge $4900+ on it for my PowerBook G3/500 plus RAM, a hard drive, mice and keyboards, serial port and, as long as I had a bit of extra money, an Airport card and Base Station. I should be getting all the stuff within the next week, then I have to put it together. I wanted to get the new Apple keyboards but they're only sold from the Apple Store and there's a 45 day delay -- way too long for me. I did get the new Apple Pro Mouse, which is optical. Sure it's only one button, but it will work on Apple computers without 3rd party extensions and it looks nice and has better optical characteristics than other mice.

I started taping Remington Steele. I had forgotten that it had lasted a little over four seasons so it'll take me 4-1/2 months to tape it all if I don't miss any episodes. Pax is showing it mostly in order, although occassionally they show an episode out of sequence, contrary to what they say on their web site and to what it says on ClickTV. That's annoying. I guess I saw most of these episodes because I haven't seen one I don't remember, although I've only taped a dozen episodes.

Mile High Comics was having one of their 30% back issue sales, so I decided to buy something from my childhood and got all the Booster Gold comics that they had, which is about 22 of the 25 issues. Booster Gold was one of the first comics that I bought for myself and it had a hero who was in it for the fame and fortune rather than for some overgrown sense of truth and justice. Booster still was a good guy, but he tended to look at the PR side of things too.

I also bought most of the old Marvel version of Battlestar Galactica, which only ran 23 issues. A week later I bought most of the Maximum Press version of Battlestar Galactica comics. Maximum Press was a Rob Liefield company and most of these issues seem to be his stories and art. I'm not a fan of Liefield, who is not a good writer and draws his heroes with these huge biceps. The BG comics are no exception as he decided to change all the vehicle designs and the looks of the cylons (he couldn't use the likeness of the actors, so I can forgive that).

Actually, I was surprised when I read the latest Wolverine and saw that Liefield is doing the stories now. Who knows how long that's been going on. At least the story is not half bad, so maybe he's finally improving. I suppose I shouldn't be so hard on someone, since I'm usually rather non-commital. But I saw Liefield interviewed once and he came off as an egotistical young adult who thought he was the greatest thing since Chris Claremont. Claremont by the way is back on' the X-Men doing stories. Just goes to show you that I don't pay that much attention because I didn't notice any change in the comics.