Inconvenient canon

The Impala is an automatic. I thought for sure it was a standard. But upon actual examination it's not. WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY? hrmf. That ruins my double-entendre. *grumps* (though humorously they use both 2-door and 4-door versions of the car, so there's actually canon for both, though I think the 2-door version is the preferred. So I don't have to waste time having Ben crawl in through the front, thankfully. He can have his own door.)

And while I'm whining - I guess I now have to figure out what to do with all the BSG characters who aren't really being featured in the BSG/B5 xover. Like Lee. He was still CAG in 3.5 until he quit for Baltar's trial right? But I have too many people in the scene as is. He'll have to wait. *grump*

I do like how he and Sinclair parallel each other, in a sense. They're both pilots, who get forced into command positions and do them well, and then leave the military to pursue a more political path because of their own idealism (ok, so Jeff gets forced into that, too, but it's the right thing to do). Sinclair's got a messiah-thing on him that Lee doesn't, but they're still similar in some ways. Boy would Sinclair HATE how the strike in Dirty Hands played out, huh? lol. Though I suppose Lee probably SHOULD parallel Sheridan more, what with their eventual civilian positions, but, hm. What say you?

Speaking of, ah, you people. *shakes head* Picking political negotiations over trash compactors. I love you, but you're CRAZY. ;P

New Year's approacheth

We started taking down the decorations today. We packed all the ornaments (except the one kiddo put it in his dad's pocket and it went through the wash. It didn't survive...). So I have a tree that only has lights right now, and the rest will go out tomorrow. Everything always looks so bare and dark for awhile when it's all down. *sigh*

"Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" is one of the worst holiday specials I've ever had the misfortune to sit through half of. There's a 'musical chairs' song. no, really.

So, by popular demand or something close to it -- I'll post a chapter of "A Shadow on the Pattern" tomorrow and then a second one after that. Part of the first I've already posted in a comment, I think it was, so it won't be new to everyone and I feel kind of bad about that and also I want to get to the more fun part. All this is stuff I skipped, and there's more cool stuff later, so it's hard to go back to and fill in, honestly.