Yatta!

For a day where I expected to be fuzzy-brained and lethargic, I've been pretty darned active. I also feel awesome. Let's hope my little brush with ether-based cleaners on Sunday blows over painlessly... I've always known that one of the best things for me to do after an exposure like that is to exercise as vigorously as I can in fresh air until the detox wave hits, and I've certainly been doing that.

( What I did today: )

( My new toy )

RIP, Nicholas Courtney

Nicholas Courtney, 'Doctor Who' actor, dies at 81

Brigadier Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was the longest-running character outside of the Doctor himself, I believe, and met the most incarnations of the Doctor; it wasn't his role to start with, but he gave it life. The Brigadier met every classic Doctor but the Sixth on screen, and in canon he met every one of them through the Eighth.

Nicholas Courtney also wrote three memoirs, "Five Rounds Rapid", "A Soldier In Time", and "Still Getting Away With It". I guess it's time I picked up at least one. He was quite a character himself.

I had a feeling for the last couple of months this was coming, but it still came as a bit of a jolt. I don't know anyone who didn't like the Brigadier.