LEANNA

So it's my 1st vistit ever to this site and i am hooked. i heard how amazing firefly was, along with the huge fanbase it had, yet until i bought the complete season out of the blue one day, i couldn't have imagined how much i was missing out on. Everyone seems really pumped for Serenity's release, but it makes me nervous to think it mightn't make it to the Australian shores. Maybe i'll have to go to America for it - honestly if i wasn't a poor uni student i would in a heartbeat. is that obsessive?

SMITH

Thanks oldfan45 and CosmicFugitive for helping me discover the wonderful world of the Blog entry! Now that I know we can write pretty much anything in here, I'll be making good use of it! I've beén checking out the rest of the site and it just makes me so darn pleased to read that there are others out there who get excited about things like Batman Begins and Star Wars... Funny, I ususally recieve blank looks when I talk about the genius of Frank Miller or how disappointed I was with Akiva Goldsman's take on Gotham, but here you actually get an intelligible reply! Thanks for making me feel at home!

MIKELOSAURUS

It's been a while since I've dropped by here, but was reminded again by the Browncats boards where I lurk more regularly. Last time I was here I'm pretty sure there wasn't any blogging. I'd say there's not much to tell, but I guess that depends on your point of view! I've just come back from a weekend of geekery, debauchery and gaming up in the Midlands and now back at work feeling the aftermath. Got to pretend to be a Roman Legionnaire (Neverwhere), a Narn special forces agent (B5), a WWII superhero (Godlike) and Winona Ryder (don't ask). Plus my own game went pretty well and it was fun to get everyone dressed up like cowboys (pics available on request). :D Currently keeping a beady eye on Ebay. Not only am I entirely addicted to buying stuff I don't really need, but since the Sat night party at Starfury: Serenity is Jedi themed, I am of course on the lookout for cool things to wear. How sad am I eh? ;)

WILLOWY

Hey gang, who's in charge of updating the site? The front page hasn't changed in months! Still the same photos up top, still the same Reaver poll to the left, etc... Doesn't anyone care about it? Please! We need some fresh photos, and get that morbid 'raping & murdering' poll outta here! It was in poor taste to begin with, don't see why its still there.

FALLENSKY

There really is nothing quite like the feeling one gets when flying, be it as PIC, (Pilot In Command) or just a crewmember. Hell even just a passenger... though I think the feeling is more complete if you're part of the process. As I've mentioned elsewhere, during the summer months, when I can, I ship out with a C-47 (DC-3) that occasionally flys the Airshow circuit from the Fargo Air Museum. I do this for a few reasons. A: Airshow's are friendly places. Food is usually ok (if expensive) I get a free bed for the night.... and B: (The most important) I get to go flying. Something I don't get to do enough of. My dad's a pilot, and while one day, when I finally plunk myself down and DO the work, I will be too, right now I'm just a crewmember. Some would say passenger, but thats not correct. Passengers fill seats. I'm the guy making sure the coffee urns are full, we have all our passengers onboard, all the luggage is stowed (you'd be amazed how much baggage you can get into the baggage compartment of a C-47, and thats before you start loading stuff in the aisle). Before startup, I'm the guy who makes sure the props get turned (to get a little oil moved around in the engine before start, and also (and more importantly) to check to make sure we don't have a hydrolic lock up.) I pull the gear pins just before start up, and watch the start up, (To keep an eye on bystanders... radial engines have this sound that just attracts them... but more then once I've had to grab a kid who could have run smack into a spinnin prop. And walk a wing, if we're taxiing through tight sports. After that I climb onboard, latch the door, and get ready for a ride. If I'm lucky, I'll probably even get some seat time pointing the beast through the air. It ain't fast, and its not overly fancy (No AC, but we have vents and heat, and at 10,000 feet or so, you don't need AC) but it gets us where we're going. And every now and then we get visitors while we're up there. Sometimes its other folk heading to the airshow we're going to, and just feel like meeting up for a bit of formation work enroute. (We don't do much work, we just keep flying... they gotta do the work moreso then us, we're slow, they're relatively fast.) We've had F-16s and -15s come down for a peek, though they can't stay long, we cruise barely above stall speed for them more often then not. Such is the life enroute. But its comfortable. Not many other places can you stretch out a sleeping bag down one side of the plane and take a nap. Once your at destination, I'm the first guy out the door, to do the whole process in reverse. I also run most of the tours. Its work, but its not hard work, and while I'm not paid, I always figure I'm compensated by the flight time. Its a good arrangement, and its fun. Now, I could tell you what I feel, when I'm pointing that bird around the sky, or standing way at the back so I can feel the tail come off the ground first... but its a little different for everyone who enjoys flying, but its definately a joy. And for those of us out there who know that joy... well, there's just nothing quite the same. Its not better then somethings, or worse then others, its just different. Its freedom, I think, in one of its most base ways. And as Mal would say "Its a good day" because he got paid, and more importantly, they're still flying. Fly well fellow skydwellers, and long fly our favorite Firefly. ~FS