Seeing a movie on someone else's dime

So a few days ago, I registered for free tickets for a preview of Serenity.

( They want me to post this thing describing the movie, so I am. )

I didn't watch the original series (Firefly) when it was on, but saw it afterwards on DVD and liked it. annathepiper saw the actual movie in rough-cut form a few months ago and has been doing the "must not talk about spoilers!" dance on and off ever since, so this'll be a chance to solve that problem. I'll write up no-spoiler impressions later. I'll post my impressions of it after, like I did with the new CGI Captain Scarlet, which I loved.

In other news, yesterday was unbelievably gorgeous and I hope we have a zillion more like them. Sadly, there's only ONE (1) weekend left of the farmer's market this year. I am sad. But it was a nice weekend (particularly Sunday) and a nice walk, and a very good end to summer, assuming we don't get much more of it. (The NWS is suggesting a mild winter, which would be nice, but the Canadian equivalent actually posts the probability of accuracy at this distance out and for almost all regions, it's no better than chance. But hopefully!)

Also, stellar's jays have found the corner squirrel feeder and there has finally been some rotating-corncob-feeder fun. Not as much as there would be for squirrels, but, well, it's not yet really fall, even, and most of that will probably be over winter.

And finally, in stupid fannish tricks, I've started typesetting a fanfic novel I found online into actual proper book form. I feel very dum. But it's fun, and everybody needs a hobby. Why I think I need yet another one I'm not sure, but there it is. It's a nice little project and I'll post a link to it when it's finished - the author's email addresses still work and one have them has already gotten back to me and (thus far) approves. I hope she likes the sample PDF I sent her of the front cover through chapter two.

Lots of politics to post. I'll get that out today, probably this afternoon.