Has it really only been ten days since I last posted?  It feels decidedly longer.

Since Thinkey's computer is currently out of commission, I've been posting the majority of news articles.  I intended to do a blog post about MSN calling "The Truth" one of the worst series finales ever, but I gave up that particular illusion today and tossed the article link in with the Broken News items.  (In case you're curious, "The Truth" was my introduction to X-Files, and it was love at first sight.  I intended to defend the finale -- I mean, have you seen the last episode of Star Trek: Voyager?  Believe me, you have no idea how lucky you were to get "The Truth."  At least Mulder didn't inexplicably ride off into the sunset with Reyes, a la Voyager's Chakotay and Seven of Nine.)

In addition to this not-blogging I've been doing, I've also been not-chatting and not-designing.  I hope to be back to my normal activities this coming week, once I finish writing That Fic I Never Should Have Signed Up To Write.  Massive, massive time-suck, you guys.  That's what has been keeping me off XFN: bashing my head off the keyboard, hoping for the 1,000-monkeys-with-typewriters-will-eventually-produce-Shakespeare effect.  So far, no luck.

Once I recover from the writing marathon I'll be engaging in tonight and tomorrow, I'll switch gears and wrap up production on XFN's latest T-shirt.  The hard part is actually done, and it wasn't done by me -- tdevol's husband drew an absolutely wonderful Mulder and Scully cartoon for us to use on shirts.  You're going to love it.

My day started at about 4:00 this morning, which was three hours before I even went to bed.  That was when I heard through the grapevine that Haven had been hacked. From then until 7:00, I was gathering information and updating the site with that.  There was a brief interlude at about 5:30, when my cats were trying to kill each other, and I had to chase down the bully and yell, "And how exactly would you like your ass kicked?" (He never answered, so there was no ass kicking.)

I woke up at 1:00, and the first thought I had was "Coffee. Coffee right the fuck now."  Instead, I had a pile of XFN-related emails to sort through as I ate my granola. Then, right before I left the house, I got a pile of articles to link.

That was 2:00.  Those articles didn't show up until about 9:15, some seven hours later.

I should mention I didn't even get my damn coffee until 4:30.

The fact that I am upright right now is -- I don't even know.  A testament to my stubbornness.

I'm going to make tea and watch MSNBC After Hours.  (I ♥ Keith Olbermann.)

Today, io9 posted spoilers for XF2, naming XFN as their source.  (Be warned: Spoilers for Iron Man and Indiana Jones also appear on the page.)  However, one of their (our?) spoilers was news to me:  Also, that rural house where Mulder is living at the start of the movie? He's hiding out there, because he's still a fugitive.

Um.

I suppose I should probably break that spoiler now, eh?  I mean, really, do you have any idea how silly you look when you get scooped by yourself?  It's just flat-out embarrassing.

In the immortal words of one Kathryn Janeway, "Temporal mechanics gives me a headache."

So does Javascript, by the way. 

EDIT: There seems to be some confusion, but that's what I get for using sarcasm on the Internet.  Allow me to clarify: The above is not one of our spoilers.  It is most likely either spec or misunderstanding on the part of the io9 blogger.

As a night owl (read: insomniac), I have a certain affinity for late night talk shows.  My addiction started back in 2004, when I would hop from show to show just to see who could make the best jokes about the political campaign.  I rarely stuck around long enough to watch any of the guests.  I'm just not that into actors, and it's only by the grace of God that I can identify people like Tom Cruise or The Guy with the Nose.  You know the guy; he was in Outbreak.

I've settled into a routine now, and the only shows I watch regularly are The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.  Oh, I'll turn on Conan or Leno if they're doing animals, but Jon's and Stephen's guests are more my crowd.  I'm all about the politicians, the activists, the news anchors, the authors.  I tend to zone out on the rare occasion that Hollywood types show up.

That's not to say there aren't certain actors for whom I will happily resume my channel-hopping ways.  If David or Gillian makes the talk show circuit for the new movie, I'll be all over that.  I'll probably tape it.  Oh, yes, laugh, you heathens, laugh, but VHS is not dead.  I know; I've tried to kill it time and again, but my parents still insist that a VCR makes more sense than TiVo.  I know I for one can't live without spending twenty-six minutes adjusting the tracking.  Actually, we just upgraded to digital cable, and our VCR won't work with such newfangled gadgetry, so maybe I won't be taping anything.

Anyway, the point is that I'm a big fan of X-Files actors, and they can definitely hold my attention.  I can't get enough of them.  In March, I raided The Daily Show's video archive for all the X-Files interviews I could find.  Sadly, there is one David Duchovny interview from April 14, 2005 that is, for whatever reason, not available on the website.

The others, however, are behind the "read more" link.  Please note that the videos only work for those in the U.S., and, speaking of work, the management does not advise watching them at work.

Contrary to popular belief, I did survive the con.  Chris Carter did not cause me bodily harm after I asked -- yeah, I'm not going to tell you what I asked.  Not yet.  Soon, though.

I'm not being coy.  In fact, I'd love to give you an ETA on my write up, but I'm having some technical difficulties with my round table video.  The video is dived into two separate files, but I'm unable to transfer either file to my computer.  It's delightful, really, because I can't hear half of what Chris says if I play it back on my camera.  He spoke very softly, like perhaps we would be unable to hear him if he let a spoiler slip.

Not that he let any slip.  No, I'm afraid more information came during the panel than during the round table.  For instance, I hear we're getting a kinky sex scene with Mulder, Scully, and Skinner!

...wait.  I'm being told that was a joke.  Never mind.

Completely unrelated, but a few people recently asked for a PC countdown widget.  I am going to get on that, and I'll probably redesign the Mac widget as well.  I can't say when that will be, though.  (Oh, God. "I can't say."  "I'm not going to tell you."  I...I'm turning into Chris Carter.  Now, where's my tan?)  I'll either make it in the next two weeks while trying to put off some other things I have to do, or I'll get to it after May 13, by which time I'm sure everyone will be counting down on actual calendars anyway.

93 days and counting!