Wow!

That's all I can say about the Battlestar Galactica season finalé. I'm very proud of the fact Christine and I resisted the temptation to download the episodes (they were aired in Europe prior to the U.S.) because part of the enjoyment of watching the show was looking forward to Friday nights.

So, anyway, wow! Very cool. Perfect season ending- really makes you wonder where the writers are going to go from here.

I was talking to Thom while we were in Vernal (more about that later) about Battlestar Galactica and he said he was impressed with just about everything about the show, but it just wasn't the type of television he was looking for right now; He's more interested in more "romantic," lore and mythology and not gritty realistic stuff.

I can understand why he feels that way about Battlestar Galactica after watching only the miniseries and maybe the first couple of episodes, but now I find the show has become more about the characters, their religion, and how the characters interact with so-called prophesies and whether they believe they believe their fate is told within them.

New season starts in July. I'm sure it's already going or over in Europe... so more temptation to resist there.

Dino-might!

(How's that for a one-word summary of Vernal, Thom?)

Thursday night, everybody's favorite Pink Floyd tribute and progressive, moody, art-rawk band, Sons Of Nothing played at Club XS in Vernal, UT.

This was originally going to be the opener for a two or three-gig mini-tour that was to take the band back to Steamboat Springs, CO and then to Glenwood Springs, CO, but the latter two shows fell through for one stupid reason or another (and we're sort of glad... well, for Steamboat Springs, anyway). Vernal's only a three and a half hour drive from Salt Lake, so we decided to keep it on the calendar. Plus, Thom worked hard to get the folks at Club XS to give the band a shot and didn't want to leave them hanging after working so hard to persuade them to have us play.

Well, in the end, it was a win-win for almost everyone. There were a couple guys that got into a fight on the patio outside and had to be taken away by the authorities, so it wasn't a win-win for them.

Speaking of the patio, Club XS hosts outdoor entertainment during the warmer months and may have SoN back come June or July. The outdoor stage would let us more easily incorporate the projections into the show (the indoor stage forced us to put the projector screen off to one side) and would give the band a little more room to move around.

This was also my first time traveling with my Treo. It did a good job of behaving like a cell phone should, but once we left Heber City, all the other fancy features like Internet access, text messaging, etc. just up and disappeared. I didn't plan ahead to arrange for any kind of Internet access while we were in Vernal because I had hoped my phone would be all I would need, but it didn't cut it. Fortunately, I didn't need access. Things were pretty quiet on the home-front while we were in Vernal.

I took a lot of pictures of the show and other things related to the trip. You can see those over at the SoN site.