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Poor Richard III, slighted again.
Aug. 6th, 2005 01:16 amWelp, the news on the car is that the heating coil broke and cracked the radiator. So we're without a car until Monday...well, actually, my brother's bringing up my truck tomorrow (today?), but we won't get my parents' car back till at least Monday. And of course there will be no driver's license test until at least Monday, and much more likely Tuesday. So it's looking like I won't be leavin' on Wednesday after all - it's much more like to be next weekend that I leave for Iowa. x_x
(I'm kinda glad I hadn't got the truck yet, because if I'd been able to leave - as originally planned - on the 1st, my parents would have been driving back from Iowa yesterday, and there's not much between Iowa City and KC. So major car trouble like this? Would have been BAD.)
Anyway, my brother's coming up tomorrow, which will be nice. And I'll also have A CAR! :D
...in completely unrelated news, I'd like to recommend to everyone the new PBS/BBC series (well, new to the U.S. anyway?) Battlefield Britain. (It shows here at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays. Official site is here.) It's a really fun series about British history, and specifically about major battles in said history. It's a father-son team - Peter Snow the newscaster and Dan Snow the military historian - and each episode is about a major conflict in British history. The first episode, the week before last, was about Boudicca and her conflict with the Romans, and this week's was the battle of Hastings in 1066 (which ended the Anglo-Saxon age of England and begun the Norman age). And apparently future ones are going to include the Spanish Armada, Culloden, and the Battle of Britain, as well as some lesser-known battles.
(Though I've got to admit, I do find it kind of ridiculous that the War of the Roses doesn't even get one episode. WHERE'S THE YORK/LANCASTER LOVE?)
They do some fun and somewhat crazy stuff, like Dan standing in front of an entire polo team running at him to give you an idea of what the Saxon infantry must have felt when facing the Norman cavalry, or going up against a team of riot control officers with their shields to give an idea of the Saxon shield-wall's stability. They also do kind of cheesy yet kind of fun "reality" bits, with actors playing random historical peons giving an improvised first-person account of their feelings and opinions from time to time. Overall, it's a really fun show and I recommend it.
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celeb_letters2u is worth a visit. Just because.
(I'm kinda glad I hadn't got the truck yet, because if I'd been able to leave - as originally planned - on the 1st, my parents would have been driving back from Iowa yesterday, and there's not much between Iowa City and KC. So major car trouble like this? Would have been BAD.)
Anyway, my brother's coming up tomorrow, which will be nice. And I'll also have A CAR! :D
...in completely unrelated news, I'd like to recommend to everyone the new PBS/BBC series (well, new to the U.S. anyway?) Battlefield Britain. (It shows here at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays. Official site is here.) It's a really fun series about British history, and specifically about major battles in said history. It's a father-son team - Peter Snow the newscaster and Dan Snow the military historian - and each episode is about a major conflict in British history. The first episode, the week before last, was about Boudicca and her conflict with the Romans, and this week's was the battle of Hastings in 1066 (which ended the Anglo-Saxon age of England and begun the Norman age). And apparently future ones are going to include the Spanish Armada, Culloden, and the Battle of Britain, as well as some lesser-known battles.
(Though I've got to admit, I do find it kind of ridiculous that the War of the Roses doesn't even get one episode. WHERE'S THE YORK/LANCASTER LOVE?)
They do some fun and somewhat crazy stuff, like Dan standing in front of an entire polo team running at him to give you an idea of what the Saxon infantry must have felt when facing the Norman cavalry, or going up against a team of riot control officers with their shields to give an idea of the Saxon shield-wall's stability. They also do kind of cheesy yet kind of fun "reality" bits, with actors playing random historical peons giving an improvised first-person account of their feelings and opinions from time to time. Overall, it's a really fun show and I recommend it.
Also,
celeb_letters2u is worth a visit. Just because.
