May Day and an introduction

Today being May Day, I took myself and the girls into the garden to wash our faces in the dew. No one at the school bus stop had heard of that tradition, but it's something I've done all my life and although it was a light frost, it was still wet, so we did it.

I was putting laundry away in my bedroom last night when I noticed something. Killer's ear was sticking up and I stopped for the first time in a long time and actually looked at him. Killer is my dog. Toy, ride-on dog, actually. He was given to me on my first birthday, by my cousin Janet which means he's 43 years old, and he's been in my bedroom ever since, no matter where I've lived or how cool I was, heh.

Looking at him now, battered and small, it seems incredible to remember that my brother and I used to both sit on him at the same time and push him along with our feet. I still remember my horror when I got back from a school trip and found that Mum had darned a hole in his side. She'd done a beautiful job, that's still holding him together 33 years later, but it looked so new and white against his fur.

He's lost an eye (don't know when) and his fur is rubbed away to nothing in most places.

His name always made people laugh as he's such a sweet looking dog. One of my uncles named him (at one, I probably wasn't saying much) and I grew up knowing that was his name without it having any meaning. It was a word, a soft word, easy to say, and the joke was never there for me.

Here he is:

( Killer the dog )

Happy Belated Birthday

Happy Birthday for yesterday to kaelana! Let's pretend we just kept celebrating :-)

Hope you had a wonderful day :;hugs you::

Sentinel Cut Scene in Payback

In Payback, episode 2.5, in the trailer before the episode begins, there is, as is well-known and mourned, a clip that doesn't show up in the episode itself.

Blair, right up in Jim's face, all fond exasperation and waving hands, demands,

"Why do you always go after these unobtainable women, who're just lying in wait to break your heart?"

The answer, of course, is that Jim thinks he can't have Blair and so he's... uh, ahem. Never mind.

Anyway, what I got to thinking as I watched it last night was this. That scene, from the setting, takes place when Blair is all jazzed from the car chase, down by the docks. Blair's got his back to a wall, corrugated iron or something at the top, wooden planks at the bottom. So where in that scene was it originally placed and what the hell else was cut as that's the kind of discussion that doesn't just pop up out of nowhere?

Does anyone have a script who can fill in the missing lines or place it exactly?

This is where it seems to be from, using Becky's invaluable transcript:

( cut for length )

Supernatural: Long Distance Call

Going behind the cut...


( episode thoughts )