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		<title>Christmas at Montezuma Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In Montezuma, Christmas at the beach is like any other day, it&#8217;s Pura Vida! Which means &#8220;pure life&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>You can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p327rXxfFyM" target="_blank">watch this in HD</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m off to Christmas Dinner at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cafe-Organico/69396648642" target="_blank">Cafe Organico</a> and will be listening to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Katherine-Aelias-Band/126717858174-Band/126717858174" target="_blank" title="Aelias Music">Aelias</a> while I&#8217;m there&#8230;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>In Montezuma, Christmas at the beach is like any other day, it&#8217;s Pura Vida! Which means &#8220;pure life&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m off to Christmas Dinner at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cafe-Organico/69396648642" target="_blank">Cafe Organico</a> and will be listening to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Katherine-Aelias-Band/126717858174-Band/126717858174" target="_blank" title="Aelias Music">Aelias</a> while I&#8217;m there&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Family Christmas 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>It was the extended family Christmas celebration today, there were 20 people or so there.  Most of my aunts, uncles, cousins and cousins kids were there.  Just a lot of food, hanging out, playing Apples to Apples, hide and seek and all sorts of other stuff.  It was great seeing everyone and it was at my Mom&#8217;s house (she hasn&#8217;t had the extended Christmas for years!) so that made it even better.</p>
<p>As I was unloading the chairs and stuff from my car, my iPhone reminded me of something else Christmas-ish.</p>
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<p>So I hopped back into my car and drove over to Greenfield Village to catch the Christmas Fireworks!  It&#8217;s only 3 miles from my house, so it was just a quick trip.</p>
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<p>They do a big <a href="http://thehenryford.com/events/holidayNights.aspx" target="_blank">old fashioned Christmas evening</a>, if you&#8217;ve never been you need to go, and they end it with fireworks so I just drove nearby to a place where I could see them.  They do it about six or seven times per season, they&#8217;re still doing it through the 27th of this month (but they sell out, so don&#8217;t wait).</p>
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		<title>Merry Christmas Everyone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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Be nice
Be thankful
Be good

<p>And drive safe if you&#8217;re heading out anywhere!</p>
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<p>And drive safe if you&#8217;re heading out anywhere!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the first three minutes of the 2009 Doctor Who Christmas Special.  It&#8217;ll be on December 25th in the UK on the BBC and delayed a day before airing on BBC America.  I believe this is a two-part episode but I&#8217;m not sure when part two is on, the day after this airs [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/the-end-of-time-doctor-who/">Doctor Who: The End of Time preview</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Here&#8217;s the first three minutes of the 2009 Doctor Who Christmas Special.  It&#8217;ll be on December 25th in the UK on the BBC and delayed a day before airing on BBC America.  I believe this is a two-part episode but I&#8217;m not sure when part two is on, the day after this airs or New Year&#8217;s or &#8230;?</p>
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<p>Direct link to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 5b3LB58WDBo" target="_blank">3 minute preview</a>.</p>
<p>FYI, if you&#8217;re not a fan, the Sigma Ood character might not make too much sense.  And you might not know that this is David Tennant&#8217;s last story which is the reference to his &#8220;song ending soon&#8221;.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000JBWWP6%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000JBWWP6"></a>So this isn&#8217;t a chronology timeline, but more of a viewing guide on when to watch the TV episodes as they tie together with Torchwood.  This is the order I believed they originally aired the episodes and watching them in that order works well.</p>

Doctor Who S1 <em>Rose</em> 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000JBWWP6%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000JBWWP6"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KX51WHF0L._SL160_.jpg" target="B000JBWWP6" alt="Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series Sci-Fi Channel, The" hspace="5" align="right" /></a>So this isn&#8217;t a chronology timeline, but more of a viewing guide on when to watch the TV episodes as they tie together with Torchwood.  This is the order I believed they originally aired the episodes and watching them in that order works well.</p>
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<li>Doctor Who S1 <em>Rose</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who Christmas Special 2005  <em>Rose</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who S2 <em>Rose</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who Christmas Special 2006  <em>Donna</em> </li>
<li>Torchwood S1 </li>
<li>Doctor Who S3 <em>Martha</em> </li>
<li>“Time Crash” &#8211; a mini-episode (only a few minutes) from a children&#8217;s fund raiser (BBC’s Children In Need) starring David Tennant and Peter Davidson <em>The Doctor</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who Christmas Special 2007  <em>Astrid</em> </li>
<li>Torchwood S2 </li>
<li>Doctor Who S4 <em>Donna</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who Christmas Special 2008  <em>The Doctor</em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who Easter Special 2009  <em>Christina</em> </li>
<li>Torchwood Radio Plays (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/torchwood/download/" target="_blank">July 2009</a>)</li>
<li>Torchwood Season 3 (Children of Earth) </li>
<li>Doctor Who November Special 2009: Waters of Mars <em></em> </li>
<li>Doctor Who December 2-part Special 2009: The End of Time <em></em> </li>
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<p>If you read on, I&#8217;ll be giving you some spoilers, but I can&#8217;t really talk about continuity without talking about it.  If you watch them in the above order you don&#8217;t need to read on.  </p>
<p>I only mentioned the radio plays since they were just released and definitely take place after season two.  I&#8217;ve listened to the first two <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">and so far it doesn&#8217;t seem significant that they need to take place before</span> they should be listened to before the Children of Earth mini-series (no plot ramifications, but they chronologically take place before the 3rd series).</p>
<p>The Sarah Jane Adventures can be watched any time but after her guest appearance in season 2 of Doctor Who would be best (especially if you don&#8217;t know who she is) and as long as you&#8217;ve started them before the before the end of season four of Doctor Who.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Torchwood-Complete-Season-John-Barrowman/dp/B000VWE5OY%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000VWE5OY"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X8pSXzhSL._SL160_.jpg" target="B000VWE5OY" alt="Torchwood - The Complete First Season BBC Warner" hspace="5" align="left" /></a>Torchwood Season 1 could be watched any time after the first Doctor Who Christmas episode (but before the end of Season 3 of DW).  I don&#8217;t think the other Doctor Who specials (or 2009 DW specials) make any difference to watching Torchwood, at least they haven&#8217;t yet; but you do want to watch them in order just for continuity of Doctor Who.  There are lots of Torchwood references in DW season 2 that might be better if you see them all before watching Torchwood, but I don&#8217;t think these tie directly to Torchwood Cardiff (many were just more hints to get you into the new series).   Later on, other guest appearances make more sense if you catch them in order, but you&#8217;ll probably figure them out, Martha makes appearances on TW and Jack is on DW three different seasons (1, 3, 4) for multiple episodes all at the end of the season. I&#8217;m sure someone will disagree with me on some of the significance of some of the references, but I&#8217;ll defer back to the original broadcast order listed above.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Torchwood-Children-Earth-John-Barrowman/dp/B002BVYBJW%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB002BVYBJW"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qTPu%2BDXDL._SL160_.jpg" target="B002BVYBJW" alt="Torchwood: Children of Earth BBC Warner" hspace="5" align="right" /></a>I think I originally watched parts of Doctor Who season two and caught up on DW season one and saw many episodes out of order and the different actors were distracting, but then I got it all when I finally caught the end of season one and the first Christmas special.  This causes me to mix up Christopher Echelson and David Tennant when I think  back about past episodes.  Also, I think I was watching Torchwood before I watched most of season two of Doctor Who so some of the references came after the fact.</p>
<p>By the time I watched Torchwood, I knew it was the same actor for Jack, but didn&#8217;t remember they were using the same character for him.  I didn&#8217;t even realize it was SciFi at first, the Torchwood pilot seemed more mystical (think of they way the glove worked) until they explained it.  Then I realized it was the same guy.</p>
<p>Update: These aren&#8217;t all relevant for Torchwood, but it rounds out the David Tennant part of the series (although for that I should add the cartoons and Srah Jane&#8217;s Wedding).</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>My post is about using your bank&#8217;s Christmas accounts not only for the holidays but other large yearly bills too.  <a href="http://www.welikemoney.com/2009/01/09/guest-post-save-for-2009-holidaysstarting-now/" target="_blank">So go over and read my post</a> and also check out how Tiffanie and Dave have been working [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/using-holiday-vacation-accounts-for-other-large-bills/">Using Holiday / Vacation accounts to your advantage (they aren&#8217;t just for holidays)</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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<p>My post is about using your bank&#8217;s Christmas accounts not only for the holidays but other large yearly bills too.  <a href="http://www.welikemoney.com/2009/01/09/guest-post-save-for-2009-holidaysstarting-now/" target="_blank">So go over and read my post</a> and also check out how Tiffanie and Dave have been working to get out of debt for the last six months. </p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p>I was trying to come up with something monumental to blog about for this post, but that didn&#8217;t happen so I&#8217;ll give you a quick update on some [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/my-2000th-blog-post/">My 2000th post!</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m still doing this with 2,000 posts all over the last 5 years! Never would have thought it grow on me so much!  </p>
<p>I was trying to come up with something monumental to blog about for this post, but that didn&#8217;t happen so I&#8217;ll give you a quick update on some tech (the new blog site) and a few personal things:
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<li>I&#8217;m averaging more than a post a day, but sometimes I skip more than a few days, so I&#8217;m going to try and post more consistently (and more images with posts).</li>
<li>I&#8217;m really liking WordPress, I&#8217;ve completely migrated all my old posts (from MovableType) to WordPress 2.7 (at least I think I&#8217;ve got all 4,000-ish archive/category/single pages) and mostly updated the &#8220;<a href="http://garysaid.com/about/" target="_blank">about</a>&#8220;-type pages.  I&#8217;ve been playing around with WP for a year and this interface on 2.7 version beats the interface for the previous six months (it was actually better previous to six months ago, IMHO).  I&#8217;ll be posting more about my WordPress transition over the next few weeks (I&#8217;ve been making notes).</li>
<li>Google has done an amazing job reindexing the updated site.  It&#8217;s grabbed a good chunk of the pages and about 80% of the old pages have <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">disappeared</span style="text-decoration: line-through;"> been replaced in the search engine.  I&#8217;ll be posting more about this too.</li>
<li>And I just saw they picked the <a href="http://GarySaid.com/doctor-who-2010-matt-smith/" target="_blank">new Doctor Who</a>, but I&#8217;ll make that my 2001st post :)</li>
<li>I&#8217;m still sick from when I <a href="http://GarySaid.com/where-does-all-the-snot-come-from/" target="_blank">mentioned it last week</a>.  The (medical) doctor thinks it&#8217;s some lower lung pneumonia on the right side so I&#8217;ve just been staying close to home and taking it easy (I&#8217;ll get x-ray results next week).  Sleep has been the worse, I think maybe the drugs are keeping me up, or I&#8217;m just bored.  Hopefully I won&#8217;t be posting more about this!</li>
<li>Even being sick, the holidays were nice and relaxing, exactly what I needed after the last year, I&#8217;d have liked some more snow consistently on the ground, just enough to cover the grass. I wasn&#8217;t sick sick until Christmas so I made it through everything. </li>
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<p> That&#8217;s it for now, I gotta go read up more on the <a href="http://GarySaid.com/doctor-who-2010-matt-smith/" target="_blank">new Doctor Who</a>&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Been getting more and more sick the last few days, but (most importantly) made it through most of the holidays.  The coughing got worse throughout Christmas day but the ultra-bad congestion didn&#8217;t start until nighttime and hasn&#8217;t stopped since.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Himalayan-Institute-Ceramic-Neti-Pot/dp/B000WJIC3G%3FSubscriptionId%3D0PZ7TM66EXQCXFVTMTR2%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000WJIC3G"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fjI6sMjML._SL160_.jpg" target="B000WJIC3G" alt="Himalayan Institute Ceramic Neti Pot Himalayan Institute" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="2"/></a>>I&#8217;ve used my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_2dVL9Srs&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">netty pot</a> over and over; more times than I&#8217;ve ever used it in a day but it just won&#8217;t clean it all out (I use it all the time and I think it helps with my allergies and getting sick).  I&#8217;d like to take a sleeping pill to help me sleep but I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll drown/suffocate in all the mucus.</p>
<p>But other than the pounding headache, it&#8217;s really not that awful. It&#8217;s not too bad when I sit up, which is why I&#8217;m typing and not sleeping.  I can eat and I&#8217;m semi-hungry so those are good things.   I just don&#8217;t understand where all the snot comes from!  </p>
<p>Hopefully you didn&#8217;t just read this over breakfast&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>So I only thought the <a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/" target="_blank">Santa Radar Tracker</a> was only semi-interesting.  But I brought it up for my cousins kids when I was over there tonight and they went nuts over it (from little kids to a sixth grader).  They kept running in to check out where he was in the [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/santa-norad-radar-tracker/">Santa Norad Radar Tracker</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>So I only thought the <a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/" target="_blank">Santa Radar Tracker</a> was only semi-interesting.  But I brought it up for my cousins kids when I was over there tonight and they went nuts over it (from little kids to a sixth grader).  They kept running in to check out where he was in the world.  The fact that they give you a countdown to the next update even made it more enticing.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve got photos from various sites around the world and some locations have a video such as this one from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (which includes some very mild educational bullet points in the audio).</p>
<p>THEY PULLED THE VIDEOS (MADE THEM PRIVATE), I&#8217;VE REPLACED THE VIDEO WITH A PROMO WITH SEVERAL CLIPS IN IT.<br />
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D7XpqeJyECo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D7XpqeJyECo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Here&#8217;s the direct link to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_j3n0FXo7Y" title="NORAD Tracks Santa - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" target="_blank">NORAD Tracks Santa &#8211; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</a> (and there is a High quality link on that page).</span style="text-decoration: line-through;"></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a little background at the <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/12/tracking-santa-backstory.html" target="_blank">Google Lat Long Blog about the Santa Tracker</a> (and the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/tracking-santa-backstory.html" target="_blank">regular Google Blog</a>).</p>
<p>UPDATE:  At 11:11 PM he made it to the United States.  I like the video from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrUFGzJpoJo&amp;fmt=18" target="_blank">Cape Canaveral, Florida</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p>Be thankful that you get to spend time with your family and friends.  It&#8217;s a time to be nice (so don&#8217;t fight with your [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/have-a-safe-and-merry-christmas/">Have a Safe and Merry Christmas!</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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<p>Be thankful that you get to spend time with your family and friends.  It&#8217;s a time to be nice (so don&#8217;t fight with your family about stupid things)!  </p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re in a place that has snow, don&#8217;t forget to go for a ride and look at the Christmas lights!</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Awful Driving on the Roads&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p>And the weather doesn&#8217;t make it look like it&#8217;s going to get any better any time soon.  That&#8217;s Michigan in the center if you can&#8217;t tell&#8230;</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p>On the other hand it&#8217;s [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/sweets-and-alcohol/">Sweets and Alcohol</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>I swear that I eat more candy and desserts more the last two weeks of December than I do the rest of the year.  Plus it&#8217;s usually mixed with a few drinks.  Not a good mix for my stomach any time of the year let alone the holidays. </p>
<p>On the other hand it&#8217;s really nice to see friends and family!!!</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s back &#8211; Free Christmas Album from Oprah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2" target="_blank"></a>Here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2" target="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2">free Christmas Album</a> sponsored by Oprah.  This is the <a href="http://GarySaid.com/free-christmas-album-from-oprah/" target="_blank">same album from a few weeks ago</a>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss the cover art links too!</p>
<p>Once again &#8211; It says it&#8217;s only available for 48 hours, but I don&#8217;t know when the clock started ticking&#8230;

Faith Hill, &#8220;Joy [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/its-back-free-christmas-album-from-oprah/">It&#8217;s back &#8211; Free Christmas Album from Oprah</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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<p><a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2" target="_blank"><img src="http://garysaid.com/images/holidayhitsfree.jpg" height="160" width="208" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="20081118 Tows Holiday2 284X218" /></a>Here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2" target="http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2">free Christmas Album</a> sponsored by Oprah.  This is the <a href="http://GarySaid.com/free-christmas-album-from-oprah/" target="_blank">same album from a few weeks ago</a>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss the cover art links too!</p>
<p>Once again &#8211; It says it&#8217;s only available for 48 hours, but I don&#8217;t know when the clock started ticking&#8230;
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<li>Faith Hill, &#8220;Joy to the World&#8221; from the album Joy to the World
<li>Tony Bennett, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be Home for Christmas&#8221; from the album A Swingin&#8217; Christmas
<li>Il Divo, &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221; from the album The Christmas Collection
<li>Josh Groban, &#8220;It Came Upon a Midnight Clear&#8221; from the album Noel
<li>Brian McKnight, &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; from the album I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas
<li>Amy Grant, &#8220;O Come All Ye Faithful&#8221; from the album The Christms Collection
<li>Harry Connick Jr., &#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221; from the album What a Night! A Christmas Album
<li>Aretha Franklin, &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; from the album This Christmas</ul>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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<p>The Christmas Special is traditionally a pretty great episode and takes place on Christmas (or the eve of).  I didn&#8217;t think I was going to like it because I&#8217;m not a big CyberMen [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/doctor-who-christmas-special/">Only 8 more days&#8230;</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Next-Christmas-Special/dp/B001MGUABU" target="_blank"><img src="http://GarySaid.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/doctorwhochristmas2008b-51i9enadytl-sl500-aa240.jpg" width="164" height="237" alt="doctorwhochristmas2008b-51i9enadytl-sl500-aa240.jpg" title="doctorwhochristmas2008b-51i9enadytl-sl500-aa240.jpg" hspace="5" align="left"/></a>Until the Doctor Who christmas special!!!  And I bet you thought I was going to say &#8220;Christmas&#8221;?  </p>
<p>The Christmas Special is traditionally a pretty great episode and takes place on Christmas (or the eve of).  I didn&#8217;t think I was going to like it because I&#8217;m not a big CyberMen fan but they showed a preview of the first 4 minutes and it looked pretty good.  </p>
<p>But, we aren&#8217;t getting a regular season of Dr. Who next year, we&#8217;re just getting a series of specials throughout the year (3 or 4, I think).</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the best quality of the preview, but the one I saw earlier may have been pulled from YouTube (even though I thought it was BBC sponsored).<br />
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<p>On a related side note, The Sarah Jane Adventures will get a third season and will be overseen by Russell T Davies.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In my opinion, you don&#8217;t wear mismatched socks and you shouldn&#8217;t wear mismatched bikini tops and bottoms.  It&#8217;s just weird.  A swirl of a dozen colors on the bottoms and then the top is a solid color (&#8220;but the blue in it matches the blue on the bottoms&#8221;) just doesn&#8217;t cut it for [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/bikinis-are-like-socks/">Bikinis are Like Socks&#8230;</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>In my opinion, you don&#8217;t wear mismatched socks and you shouldn&#8217;t wear mismatched bikini tops and bottoms.  It&#8217;s just weird.  A swirl of a dozen colors on the bottoms and then the top is a solid color (&#8220;but the blue in it matches the blue on the bottoms&#8221;) just doesn&#8217;t cut it for me.   I wouldn&#8217;t wear a blue sock and a white gym sock with a blue stripe and say they match because they both have blue.  They do sell these things in pairs, don&#8217;t they?  I don&#8217;t have much fashion sense <em>but</em> my socks do match.</p>
<p>Did you lose your top and had to substitute a bottom from a different pair?  Or lose the bottoms?  Couldn&#8217;t find both pieces in your size but bought the one part because it was cute?  These aren&#8217;t serious questions but when I get too much of the hot sun I start to come up with bizzaro blog post topics.</p>
<p>The exceptions might be Christmas (red and green) or Halloween (black and orange) or Homecoming (school colors) or something similar, but statistically you wouldn&#8217;t be wearing a bikini on those days.  But since <em>obviously</em> this rule would also include lingerie you can also use the holiday mismatch exemption for that (at least I hope it&#8217;s obvious).</p>
<p>I guess if I wasn&#8217;t traveling alone I&#8217;d have someone to vent about these <em>important issues</em> with.</p>
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		<title>Free Christmas Album from Oprah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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Faith Hill, &#8220;Joy to the World&#8221; from the album Joy to the World
Tony Bennett, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be Home for Christmas&#8221; from the album A Swingin&#8217; Christmas
Il Divo, &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221; from the album The Christmas Collection
Josh Groban, &#8220;It Came Upon a Midnight Clear&#8221; from the album Noel
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<li>Faith Hill, &#8220;Joy to the World&#8221; from the album Joy to the World
<li>Tony Bennett, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be Home for Christmas&#8221; from the album A Swingin&#8217; Christmas
<li>Il Divo, &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221; from the album The Christmas Collection
<li>Josh Groban, &#8220;It Came Upon a Midnight Clear&#8221; from the album Noel
<li>Brian McKnight, &#8220;It&#8217;s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8221; from the album I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas
<li>Amy Grant, &#8220;O Come All Ye Faithful&#8221; from the album The Christms Collection
<li>Harry Connick Jr., &#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221; from the album What a Night! A Christmas Album
<li>Aretha Franklin, &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; from the album This Christmas
<p>Don&#8217;t miss the cover art links too!</p>
<p>It says it&#8217;s only available for 48 hours, but I don&#8217;t know when the clock started ticking&#8230;</p>
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<p>WARNING!!! BIG SPOILERS BELOW!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000JBWWP6%3FSubscriptionId%3D02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000JBWWP6" target="Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series"></a>So it turns out I was right on target with one of my guesses <a href="http://garysaid.com/doctor-who-the-stolen-earth-s04e12/" target="http://garysaid.com/chapters/003088.php?Doctor%20Who">and what I hoped would happen did</a>, they just showed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant" target="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant">David Tennant&#8217;s</a> hand-in-a-bottle <strong>way</strong> [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/i-was-right-with-my-guesses-about-doctor-who-spoilers-series-4-final-episode-journeys-end/">I was right with my guesses about Doctor Who!!  SPOILERS &#8211; Series 4 Final Episode &#8220;Journey&#8217;s End&#8221;</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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<p><center>WARNING!!! BIG SPOILERS BELOW!</center><span id="more-1921"></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000JBWWP6%3FSubscriptionId%3D02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000JBWWP6" target="Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KX51WHF0L._SL160_.jpg" align="right" vspace="2" hspace="8"></a>So it turns out I was right on target with one of my guesses <a href="http://garysaid.com/doctor-who-the-stolen-earth-s04e12/" target="http://garysaid.com/chapters/003088.php?Doctor%20Who">and what I hoped would happen did</a>, they just showed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant" target="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant">David Tennant&#8217;s</a> hand-in-a-bottle <strong>way</strong> too many times this season for me to think it was a coincidence.  They used that hand (hi hand) to keep David Tennant as this version of the Doctor after he regenerated.  And used it for a few other things&#8230;</p>
<p>And amazingly my guess about <a href="http://garysaid.com/donna-nobel-is-the-new-doctor-who/" target="http://garysaid.com/chapters/003085.php?Doctor%20Who%202008">Donna becoming the Doctor</a> came out to be mostly-true.  It was a wild guess and since I hadn&#8217;t seen anyone else talking about it, but it sure felt that way to me.  I wanted to get it in writing so I could get credit for it later!</p>
<p>Now while the above two Doctor items were mutually exclusive, it wasn&#8217;t likely I&#8217;d be right on both but I think I should get at least one-and-a-half points out of two; she was &#8220;a&#8221; Doctor just not &#8220;The&#8221; Doctor.  But with a title like &#8220;Journey&#8217;s End&#8221;, I wasn&#8217;t too hopeful about Donna but it did turn out to be a strange ending for her.</p>
<p>(I have to put these things down somewhere ever since I&#8217;ve never truly gotten over that I had <em>completely</em> worked out how X-Men&#8217;s Jean Grey was going to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Grey#Return" target="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Grey#Return">come back to life</a> and I never wrote in about it&#8230;)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000UVV2GA%3FSubscriptionId%3D02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000UVV2GA" target="Doctor Who - The Complete Third Series"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61-AuzFbHNL._SL160_.jpg" align="left" vspace="8" hspace="4"></a><span style='text-decoration: line-through;'>No preview for the Christmas special, I&#8217;m under the impression they are filming it already. So that&#8217;s a little surprising we didn&#8217;t get a peek like the last few years.  Not even a reference to it.</span>  The Christmas special preview was after the credits, more Cybermen, didn&#8217;t notice for sure if there was a companion.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a big Dalek fan, when there&#8217;s a bunch of villains (1,000s) they generally get rid of them with some non-reproduable miracle cure, so I didn&#8217;t like that part of the story-line.   That part was a little bit slow for me, but they had a lot to wrap up too.</p>
<p>All in all, it was a bit of The Doctor dumping everyone off somewhere and him being alone (again). It&#8217;s not like he didn&#8217;t have some choices of a new (return) companion.</p>
<p>But, still, I can&#8217;t wait until the Christmas special!  Unless we get a Torchwood (mini)series before then. Although, I&#8217;m thinking Torchwood is getting Martha and Mickey and that&#8217;ll make a completely different kind of team&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Doctor Who &#8211; The Stolen Earth &#8211; S04E12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Original-Television-Soundtrack/dp/B000KC8O3S%3FSubscriptionId%3D02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002%26tag%3Dgarylapointe-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000KC8O3S" target="Doctor Who - Original Television Soundtrack"></a>Amazing episode!  Should have been a movie!</p>
<p>Can&#8217;t say much about it without giving much away.  But lots of names in the main opening credits&#8230;</p>
<p>BIG Cliffhangers!Sadly, the one thing that I didn&#8217;t want to happen appears to be happening (and I think it&#8217;s happening they way I [...]<p><b><a href="http://GarySaid.com/"><img src="http://garysaid.com/garyssaidlogo2.png" align="left" /></a>Please leave a comment or trackback about <a href="http://GarySaid.com/doctor-who-the-stolen-earth-s04e12/">Doctor Who &#8211; The Stolen Earth &#8211; S04E12</a>, click the tags and categories below for related information or visit <a href="http://GarySaid.com/">http://GarySaid.com/</a> for more posts.</b>
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<p>Can&#8217;t say much about it without giving much away.  But lots of names in the main opening credits&#8230;</p>
<p>BIG Cliffhangers!<span id="more-1916"></span>Sadly, the one thing that I didn&#8217;t want to happen appears to be happening (and I think it&#8217;s happening they way I particularly didn&#8217;t want it to). But it&#8217;s Russell T. Davies, so you never know what&#8217;s going to happen until it&#8217;s over&#8230;</p>
<p>The Doctor&#8217;s hand (Christmas 2005) got some excessive screen time this episode and this season, so there is still hope it might be able to fix the one item I&#8217;m not happy about&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Brilliant Episode!  &#8220;Turn Left&#8221; Doctor Who S4E11</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000JBWWP6%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Doctor-Who-Complete-David-Tennant/dp/B000JBWWP6%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KX51WHF0L._SL160_.jpg" align="right" vspace="2" hspace="6"></a>To make up for not seeing Donna last episode, I think we see The Doctor even less this time around.   And while most episodes just take place in a different time/place, this is more of a a time-travel type episode (my favorite);it&#8217;s another excellent episode by <a href="http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0203961/" target="nm0203961">Russell T. Davies</a>.</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t tell you much about the episode except that we still don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s up with the bumble bees (I&#8217;m starting to wonder if we will this season) <strong>but</strong> we do finally get to really see Rose.  That&#8217;s not really much of a spoiler since Billie Piper&#8217;s actually in the main opening credits!<span id="more-1913"></span>I watched the amazing preview for next week: Imagine a guest star that could possibly be on the show and they&#8217;re probably on next week (or the week after), I&#8217;m so excited!</p>
<p>It seems like there is so much to happen still?  Are they going to have a cliff hanger? (No, that&#8217;ll goof up the Christmas episode).  Continue it in another series?  And who&#8217;s going to travel with The Doctor next series (season).</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>So it&#8217;s Episode 10 (Season/Series 4) of Doctor Who, it&#8217;s pretty much a Doctor Who only episode, Donna Noble hangs back at the spa so we see her about a total of 60 seconds.  The episode &#8220;<a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1208128/" target="tt1208128">Midnight</a>&#8221; is written by <a href="http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0203961/" target="nm0203961">Russell T. Davies</a>, the man who revived the Doctor Who series four years ago and is still executive producer for Doctor Who and does the same for spinoffs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures (occasional writes episodes for both).</p>
<p>The conversation is cRaZy and and has a bunch of people talking and no one listening and when they are, they aren&#8217;t paying attention.  It made me think of a David Mamet story multiple times, the conversations seemed so much like that of Oleana and other things he&#8217;s written, if you don&#8217;t know what I mean I&#8217;m not sure how to explain it.  It was an interesting episode, if you watch the show you&#8217;ll see what I mean, if you know agree with me please let me know.  Actually, it was a great episode, but it certainly wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;regular&#8221; episode.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=0563486430%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Stone-Rose-Doctor-Who/dp/0563486430%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="The Stone Rose (Doctor Who)"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515WRI-eVvL._SL160_.jpg" align="right" vspace="2" hspace="4"></a>Oh, and Rose shows up on the monitors again. No big surprise there&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got some spoilers (labeled with &#8220;SPOILERS&#8221;) but I&#8217;m going to talk about the next 3 episodes: previews, rumors and conjecture (<em>some might consider the next few paragraphs spoilers too</em>, so stop at any time).  Generally Doctor Who seasons have 13 episodes and several times that last story has spanned the last three episodes (even if you didn&#8217;t realize there was more to come after episode 11) and generally the final episodes aren&#8217;t too much of a cliff-hanger since the Christmas Special (actually broadcast on Christmas between seasons of the show) has generally been meant to sort of stand on it&#8217;s own.<span id="more-1911"></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=044654082X%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Secret-Diary-Call-Girl-Belle/dp/044654082X%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="Secret Diary of a Call Girl"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41hgPX0t%2BvL._SL160_.jpg" align="left" vspace="2" hspace="4"></a>Obviously at some time in the next few episodes Rose Tyler will return, we&#8217;ve seen her trying to contact The Doctor since the beginning of the season.  Since I&#8217;ve heard that next episode is the opposite of this episode (not much of the Doctor) maybe it&#8217;ll be sooner than later.  I&#8217;ve heard nothing about who&#8217;s going to be his companion next season (is Bilie Piper too busy with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=044654082X%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Secret-Diary-Call-Girl-Belle/dp/044654082X%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="Diary of a Call Girl">Secret Diary of a Call Girl</a>?).  But many months ago (I try not to listen much) I&#8217;ve heard that Rose, Donna, Martha, Capt. Jack Harkness and Sarah Jane Smith (maybe K-9 and Mickey too) will reunite to save The Doctor but that could just be a big rumor; I&#8217;ve seen nothing in the previews (they tend to give things away at the end of the Christmas previews) nor heard anything lately.  <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=1843172895%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Anything-Goes-John-Barrowman/dp/1843172895%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="Anything Goes"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZUkanTirL._SL160_.jpg" align="right" vspace="2" hspace="4"></a>But I&#8217;m pretty sure that John Barrowman (Capt. Jack) mentions that he&#8217;s in season 4 in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%3FASIN=1843172895%26tag=garylapointe-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=/Anything-Goes-John-Barrowman/dp/1843172895%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002" target="Anything Goes John Barrowman">Anything Goes</a> so I&#8217;m assuming at least his part is true.</p>
<p>Also, we&#8217;ve never gotten much from the multiple times that they&#8217;ve mentioned the bees have disappeared from Earth (early 20th century), I&#8217;ve no clue what they are going to do with that.</p>
<p>SPOILERS &#8211; In this episode, Midnight,  it really illustrates a really disappointing thing about the human race is we&#8217;re so stupid.  No one wants to say &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; and no one wants to be the person that disagrees with the whole group, especially when it&#8217;s easier to agree with the whole group (especially if someone shouting you down). As the viewer you&#8217;ll see it, depending on how <em>clever</em> you are depends on how soon, but you&#8217;ll see it.  The sad thing is because of peer pressure they almost sacrifice the wrong person and instead even more die.</p>
<p>Eh, I probably had more semi-spoilers in the speculation paragraphs than I actually did in the one with this episode spoilers.</p>
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