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Finally, July is over. A rather cool one at that. According to our chief meteorologist told me it was the third coolest on record. I know I hate summers that get too hot and muggy, but this year I think I would have preferred hot and humid days to the 60 to 70 degree days that we have had so far. I'm hoping that August will bring back some of those 80 to 90 degree days so I can appreciate the cool weather this fall.

My friend Jim sent me the season three Torchwood: Children of Earth mini-series. I was quite thrilled with it, and feel that it's on par with the best of the new Doctor Who series. Not sure how they plan on continuing the series with the way that it ended though.


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Ianto's dead and Jack's running away from his guilty conscience (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy style) by hitching a lift on a passing spaceship, leaving a pregnant Gwen Cooper to hold the ship on her own. It's a shitty way to leave things to be picked up if a fourth season becomes manifest. I've also heard rumors that John "Captain Jack" Barrowman may be heading stateside for a part in...Desperate Housewives. Gack! I suppose you could fill Jack's shoes with Martha Jones, with Donna Noble as her assistant. It's be an all female cast: Eve Myles, Freema Agyeman, and Catherine Tate.

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Jim also sent over two 1990's direct to video BBV Doctor Who spin-off movie series, PROBE and the Auton Trilogy. PROBE felt like an early version of Torchwood with Liz Grant (a companion of the Doctor's from his time at UNIT) investigating Preturnatural crimes and featuring several of the actors who played the Doctor over the years and companions in various roles. The Auton trilogy seems to have had a lower budget that the PROBE videos, but it followed the continuing plots perpetrated by the Autons (one of my favorite Who villians) and contested by UNIT, so I still enjoyed it.

Closer to home, Mike talked me into buying Mercenaries 2 (on the pretense that he would buy Crackdown) so he could get the co-op achievements for the game (ditto for him getting Crackdown). It's nowhere as good as the original, but you still get to blow shit up. It's playable, but I'm also getting lost a whole lot in the plot of the game. Keep it simple, keep it fun!

I've also received all the Fallout 3: Point Lookout achievements, so I'm ready for Mothership Zeta when that comes out this week. Point Lookout was a very good addition to the game, and I was almost sad to have to return to the Capitol Wastelands. However, I know I can go back whenever I want. :)