the music's started I try not to think

I had a very uneventful weekend. My half-hearted cold turned into full-blown misery, so I spent most of the weekend lying on my bed watching Buffy and drinking Vitamin Water. I did manage to get out Friday night and head over to human_typhoon & dippy423's place, where I ate Chinese food and thablueguy began the process of assembling the armor he's making for me and actually fitting it to my person. I am, if I have not mentioned this before, really super psyched about this armor, which continues to look more and more awesome. I'm starting to think I like playing more than I like staffing, which is ultimately unfortunate, as I have my doubts about Legends being as good this coming Spring as it was this past Fall.

Battlestar Galactica was new last night, and good, although my affection for the series has plateau'd somewhat. I don't get nearly the same geeky butterflies in my stomach feeling from BSG as I do from say, Doctor Who or Heroes (which is back tonight, huzzah!) Anyway. The supposed cliffhanger from December's episode resolved more or less as expected, and as ever teasing hints about plot development failed to bear any fruit whatsoever in the form of actual revelations. The Starbuck/Apollo tension that was theoretically brought to a crux will also apparently be serving as the A-plot for the coming episode, but I don't have any special hope that it will be resolved in a meaningful way either. I'm not as bitter as I sound, I just wish they didn't feel the need to stretch things out so damn much. It seems like things only happen on this show on the seasonal scale, as if I could watch one episode in four and know just as much about what's going on. Not that I ever would, of course, because I'm addicted.

Also it causes a little bit of cognitive dissonance that the Cylons I had been referring to in my head as the "single-run models" have subsequently been semi-officially termed the "final five." I suppose that appellation is more mystical-sounding, as well as being shorter, but its less descriptive. I got completely used to the term I made up in my mind for my own discussions, and having to relearn it as something else is a minor irritation.

On an entirely different note I bought the Eberron corebook from Amazon.com via Christmas gift certificate. It shipped this morning and should arrive by the end of the week. It was largely purchased on a whim; I've thought the setting was cool ever since I first perused it, and was struck recently with a yen to pore over a sourcebook containing just that sort of well-developed 'fantasy with a smidge of horror for good measure' world. The trouble is that since Eberron was first released in 2004 Wizards of the Coast has annoyingly gone ahead and released supplements for it, in their usual money-grubbing fashion. Some of these can obviously be ignored but others (Races of Eberron, Magic of Eberron, Faiths of Eberron) have the unfortunate distinction of looking both interesting and useful. So this is my appeal to the D&D nerds in the crowd: are the ancillary books worth buying?