Random Thursday thoughts.

- Should move down to the office for various software tests *looks totally energetic* /irony Doing it.
- Should mow the lawn, since it's sunny for once :) Postponed, since the ground is rather frozen.
- Should phone my Smart trader for switching to winter gears. Done: appointment tomorrow at 15:30.
- Also cleaned the upper bathroom and all floors that have to be wiped. Go me.

Should come up with a good idea to unstuck RC sequel#5. I have the material to make it an okay-story, but I feel there's something lacking. Hm.

Anyway, I'm such a hopeless McCoy fangirl at the moment, it's only right to put a nice picture of him up - "here's to you":


And link of the day - to the Heroes' persiflage "Zeroes" *G*

Oh, and the single worst thing about Quinto being Spock is that I badly miss Sylar's extraordinary creepiness in Heroes. Sigh sigh.

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I started reading Shake Hands with the Devil. The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by the Canadian general Romeo Dallaire who had been the commanding officer of the U.N. peacekeeping mission during the genocide. I'm on page 33 of 522 and already totally impressed and intrigued by his backstory. And I'd like to cite something he writes, because it's so interesting in regard to e.g. considering a (young) Kirk.

[from page 25, paragraph 2 (about an almost-war situation in Quebec 1970)]
As a young lieutenant, I had 41 soldiers under my command. If I gave the order to shoot, I could not let my men sense the slightest shiver of doubt in my belief in the rightness of that order. Any uncertainty on my part would communicate itself to my men; any hesitation on their part would result in chaos and innocent casualties. In a nanosecond I had to be able to set aside deep personal loyalties and put the mission first. I spent many hours wrestling with this issue before I could put aside my loyalty to my roots and wholeheartedly embrace my loyalty to my nation. I had to connect to a deeper commitment, past friendship, kinship or ethnicity, to absolutely believe in the rightness and justness of my path.